This is a side blog, as @mmd-ask-italy Is my main, as it is a askblog, i didn't want to invest it with new fandoms i might get into. So I use this. currently DCA/Tsams obsessed
so glad that dan and phil are pushing back against the idea that the phandom is the reason they went on hiatus like seeing Dan go "no I DID love you I was also just dying inside" is so healing fr
There's a Chinese meme that the Yellow River doesn't need rituals to present sacrifices because if it's hungry it'll come onto the shore and eat the sacrifices itself.
#some netizens also say chinese people like unification because only a powerful unified dynasty can survive the yellow river and sometimes #also the chang jiang when they decide to flood and change directions and kill and displace millions #also only large dynasties have the resources to do hydroengineering to try and control the yellow river #yellow river be like: if you don't hydroengineer you die #but if you do you might also die heehee #“we call these our mother rivers not because they are gentle but because we are too scared” tags on above post
The Great Lakes are uncaring, don't care whether you live or die, ambivalent, pay no attention to you.
The Yellow River cares. Deeply. About you, specifically. And your death. And being the cause of it. It notices you and your intentions. You've been warned. Exercise your hubris accordingly.
Something nobody told me about caffeine is that you can get withdrawal symptoms when you stop taking it
Like
I went from consuming NO caffeine, to slowly escalating to around 150-300mg of caffeine a day to keep up with sleep issues, to suddenly stopping cold turkey when I flew out to the middle of nowhere and couldn’t get more and it was straight up a solid 5-6 days of thinking I had the flu
Nausea, spins, major fatigue, and some seriously heinous headaches
It was so bad that after two weeks without I swore I’d never pick up an energy drink again and made an appointment with a doctor to fix my sleep issues
Like. Not to be all “oooooh your body is a temple” but if I knew quitting CAFFEINE had similar effects as running out of my prescription meds I might have been a bit more careful drinking it in the first place
And don't get me wrong, I love drugs. I think they're rad. I think there should be fewer barriers between most drugs and adults using them.
However, something that I think is fundamentally immoral is giving someone a drug without telling them:
That it's a drug
What the full possible effects of the drug are including side effects
What the withdrawal effects are like
And society treats caffeine like it's not a drug. We act like it's not a stimulant. We sell it on street corners. We sell in schools, to children.
We don't tell you what the withdrawals are like. We don't even acknowledge that there will be any, even though they can be severe.
In addition to what OP listed, other possible withdrawal symptoms include:
Hand Tremors
Anxiety
Irritability
Brain Fog
Low Mood
Insomnia (yes, counterintuitive as it may seem this is common withdrawal symptom)
Muscle Pain/Stiffness
Caffeine is a stimulant drug that causes physical dependency quite rapidly. The withdrawal symptoms can persist for days to months.
I reiterate that I think drugs are cool. I'm drinking a caffeinated beverage as I type this. But I feel strongly that we should treat drugs like they're drugs. We should not pretend that the legality of a substance negates its status as A Drug™
This is another place we hide all the "nobody used to have ADHD" people, like yeah, sure, nobody had ADHD because they used to self-medicate with a pack of cigarettes and three pots of coffee a day! It is maybe actually safer to hand out the regulated and dosed amphetamines to people who need them!
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Honestly, at this point, if you're still bitching about AI but not moving to open-source and nonprofit software/tech/services, you deserve it. Shut up or stop using it. Those of us who've put in the effort to switch to non-evil tech are sick of the purposeless whining.
I've been nicely letting everyone suggest open source on this post because it might genuinely be useful to someone but because you've decided to be a condescending little bastard- this might be a hard concept to grasp, but some of us actually have jobs. Some of those jobs also provide us with computers equipped with an OS we have zero say over, to use software we also have zero say over. Kindly get off your high horse and suck my dick.
As someone who has worked in IT for the past 17 years, I'd also like to say that there is often a higher barrier of entry for open-source software / operating systems when it comes to technical knowledge and ability, and those who can't jump that barrier still deserve to not have AI programs installed on their devices without their knowledge or consent. Someone who struggles with Windows is not going to be able to just hop into Linux, especially when they probably have other things going on in their lives and don't have the time to sit down and learn a brand new operating system. Someone who doesn't even recognize that there are different browsers, much less open-source ones that aren't Chromium forks, isn't going to be able to seek out one they can both a.) safely download, b.) install, and c.) use instead of the shortcut they know as The Internet.
And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.
And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.
Companies like Microsoft and Google sneaking AI software into devices and software without the consent of those using the software or devices is wrong. It's invasive and raises major security concerns. People should not have to learn entirely new operating systems to escape this nonsense. It's an unreasonable expectation, and it fails to hold companies like Microsoft and Google accountable for their malicious behavior.
Okay, I remembered this pose from Tea/Anzu in the yugioh anime, and it just felt like Such a sun pose, and I wanted to draw it for ages, so I finally made a screenshot and used it as a base / reference. You can't tell me, Sun is not gonna be the best at duel monsters though!
also orrignal image because i think it is suchs a fun pose
@storytellingbadger Nexus in Celestial Phenomena hitting his head against the door frame.
Been wanting to draw this scene for ages. Which only increased when his updated design came in. Maybe at a later date i have time to do him digitally. But i loved how this one turned out for now.
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