MystikIncarnate

I wish I could find a union job.

Such a thing is a myth in IT support jobs.

I did a software update for a service on a system recently. Little did I know that the updated software requires Python 3.9+, and I had Python 3.8.

Took me over an hour to get the stupid program running again.

I feel like this today. I was laid off.

That's a matter of what people are buying.

There's plenty of ways to vape that reduce waste.

I'm very against disposable vapes. Using a refillable vape is a good start, but some of the most waste-free methods are basically banned due to child resistant packaging laws for vapes.

From what I understand, most of the hospitalizations in the USA from VALI, were actually from these bathtub THC vapes.

A bunch of people pointed at popcorn lung and diacetyl, which I am not aware of any cases of that additive creating any issues for anyone at any time. Since it could, the industry stopped using it anyways.

Most of the people involved in the social media campaign where VALI patients would hold up a sign that reads something to the effect of starting an anti-vaping thing, are basically all from vit E acetate.

Afaik, that didn't end up in the news, since they just don't do follow ups because they're not sensational enough.

This. And the last I heard was that the levels required to cause "popcorn lung" with dicetyl additives in vape liquids was much higher than what you should reasonably be exposed to by vaping it.

The industry as a whole still moved to alternatives regardless.

At least the legit/legal places did.

Yeah, but that doesn't make for catchy headlines.

So far the "negatives" for vaping is almost always something that already happens for smoking, but it's overshadowed by the fact that smoking via combustible products is carcinogenic, and "gives you cancer".

Anything that can be said negatively about vaping, is generally 100x worse with smoking, plus, smoking gives you cancer, so......

Long story short: vaping is less bad than smoking.

This does not and should not imply that it is good for you. It is simply less harmful.

Yeah, this "study" feels a lot like "science finds that the sky appears blue" right up until you get to the nic free stuff. The heck?

I'm curious to say the least.

I too would like to see the nic salt differences.

Check your home for carbon monoxide.

The meaning behind the trolly problem has been entirely eroded at this point.

There's a saying that stuck with me: "feelings are never wrong".

Your feelings are a fact of your continued human existence. Unless you're a psychopath or sociopath (or whatever) and you literally don't feel, your feelings simply are.

From there I determined that feelings can be inspired incorrectly from a given happenstance. While you may initially feel offended by something that is said, it's neither necessary to continue being offended, nor is it necessary to always have that reaction to that given happenstance. Accepting yourself as you are is vitally important in restructuring who you want to be.

This is all borderline cognitive behavioural therapy. Training yourself to be the best version of you that you can be. I've been dabbling in CBT techniques for most of my life. I wasn't aware that it was CBT when I started working on myself in this capacity, but I've recently learned that a lot of the techniques I've been using to better myself, and increase my agency and control over my own mind and emotions, is used in CBT.

I would agree that some thoughts are not controllable. We all get intrusive thoughts and impulses that we choose whether we want to act on them. Whether that action is to open your mouth and speak those thoughts aloud, or type them out, or to take action based on those thoughts.

The thoughts and actions you describe I understand to be system 1 thinking. Aka, thinking fast. There's a great book on this called "thinking: fast and slow" which covers the ideas. Basically system 1 is your "fast" thinking, heuristic/instinctual/"muscle memory" systems. It's your "knee jerk" reactions and your first thought on something. System 2 is your contemplative and analytical systems, aka, "thinking slow". System 2 can educate system 1, which is how we form habits and "muscle memory"

System 1, we have little immediate control over since the majority of our sapience is fully embedded in system 2.

I would agree that there's a nontrivial number of people going around under only the learned behaviors from system 1, and doing very little analysis of what's happening by utilizing system 2.

I agree.

If I may ask, did you feel the need to post this because you felt that I was portraying the opposite, or are you building on the point?

I'm hoping it's the latter, but if it's the former, please tell me what I said that made you feel that way. I'm always trying to improve my communication.