🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@clacke

Very happy to see the positive turn around. Reading article now.

@alysonsee @louis

@sim

Its hard for me to respond to that because i wasnt there, we just have your opinion. While i completely believe it is an honest opinion you hold, its still tricky on a few accounts.

For example if i take everything at face value then it sounds like you just had some really shitty doctors. From what I know of UK healthcare that is no surprise your system is horrific and you will have a hard time finding qualified doctors in general.

If that is the case that is not an argument against psychiatry it is only an arguments against unqualified psychiatrists. Which i agree are likely to do more harm than good.

The other side of the coin is that depending on the nature of your mental health its hard to gauge what sort of mental health issues you have and if that prevents you or not from being objective about your own treatment. Not saying this applies to you, I dont know you. But it is common for many with mental illness.

I once helped someone I cared about who as he got older developed Paranoid Schizophrenia rather severely. When untreated he couldn't sleep, believed people were beaming thoughts in his head, telling him to kill himself, i would often find him just crying in his room alone due to all the stress.

Despite this he refused treatment of any kind. He felt everyone was part of some grand conspiracy, doctors, me, everyone, so he naturally refused. Ultimately i told him the only way i would continue to help him is if he was getting treatment, otherwise he had to go back and live with his parents. This was enough for him to seek his treatment and take medication.

The thing is on medication he gave me a huge hug and cried as he told me how much happier he was and how grateful he was to me for forcing it on him in his otherwise incoherent state. Thing is after a few weeks he told me he was stopping the medication as he didnt feel he actually needed, he thought he was healthy again and the meds just "made him tired". So he went off of it and back to his old self in a few days.

The thing is when he isn't on the meds he would say things that sound similar, that it was all horrible and just part of the torture and "mind games" of the conspiracy. Despite the fact that clearly when he was on it and rational he felt it was helpful.

Long story short its hard to know without knowing someones mental health history if that may not apply or not.

@alysonsee @clacke @louis

@gladicouldnthelp

I just spent a Dutch summer where there is literally a few hours of dark and its not even night technically but twilight.

After a summer of near perpetual light I **wish** I had half a year of darkness. In fact I would LOVE it. Biking int he middle of the night is my favorite.

@clacke @louis

@clacke

I dont know the facts here so i cant say for sure. But if you can show that there is more stigma (perhaps by showing a low prevalence of seeking help when you need it) then I'd say its a fairly rational argument. I dont doubt this is the case, just haven't confirmed it.

@alysonsee @louis

@ofillustrations Are you willing to do special requests that are outside of the genre (but not style) depicted here, or are you strict in your offering?

@snder

That would be essential. Any shooting range would insist on it in fact.

@mngrif

@rvlobato To be fair forrest fires are both good and healthy for forrests. They also increase their ability to produce O2, both good things.

@snder

If you ever get to philly you will be more than welcome to shoot my AR-15, but i am extremely safety conscious.

@mngrif

@snder

Dude lives in kentucky, If anyone knows how to properly and safely handle a gun while drunk it is him. We were never in any real danger.

@mngrif

@snder

Oh did I? pssshh

@mngrif

@snder

and by that i mean he is an actual deer whom I met in the woods and trained to use mastodon :)

@mngrif

@snder

Sander, meet Mike, a very old and deer friend of mine. :)

@mngrif

@dansup There is air in the can, but the can is also in the air. So its air of can of air :)

@SuckMyDick I'll be there :)

@SuckMyDick Just give me the frequency. I have all the licenses and equipment for it. I can cover the whole HF spectrum :)

@SuckMyDick How do I subscribe to your newsletter?

@clacke

Sorry for the quality of this thread :(

@SuckMyDick

@steko@octodon.social

Yea i could see that. I dunno it is a trend on facebook to do this. I figured he was either mocking that trend on facebook or sincerely engaging in it. I'm undecided.

@dansup

@dansup This statement is confusing to me on a few counts

1) Who or what is Pleroma here? We all know it is a piece of software, but it is not a person, I dont even think its an organization. Are you saying this to all the people and organizations that use the software, or to the people who donate their time to write it or what?

2) You cant legally put something in a public space and declare it private and confidential. Perhaps what you meant to say is that you retain the copyright on all your material and do not give permission to reproduce. That would be valid and your right, but it does not guarantee you confidentiality or privacy.

3) even if all of this was legally valid how would you expect this to work? You cant just make a statement in a black void and see it as a personal EULA. If pleroma did decide to take your info unless you put a copyright notice like this directly attached to it how would they ever even see it or know this statement was made.