I was permabanned for a metaphorical post. Two weeks short of 15 years. Oh well, I found Lemmy and haven’t skiped a beat and it’s WAAAAY nicer here. Like Reddit was before 2010. Fun, friendly and laid back.

Welcome to the party!

Bingo!

The rats are leaving the ship before it sinks.

“The FCC is not an independent agency,” Carr said.

Translation: “I’m Trump’s bitch…”

It’ll be awkward at the start, but a good therapist is primarily someone that listens without judgement and after a time, will offer suggestions on how you can address the issues bothering you.

They’re not generally cold and calculating, that stereotype is decades out of style.

What you’ll find is a space you can talk… and before you go in, ask YOURSELF what your end goals for the therapy are and make a list of the points and ask the therapist if they can be realisitcally achieved, but don’t expect a direct answer for that at first. The therapist needs to get to know you and your issues a bit first.

Ultimately, all of it will be down to you, and no one else.

A good therapist - be it a psychiatrist or psychologist (I prefer the latter) will get you to see what is holding you back and center you ON you… not in a narcissistic way, but see the whole person - good and bad - and learn to work to open yourself to change.

Remember, it will take some time, and the changes a therapist makes are in getting you to see your own strengths and weaknesses and how to avoid the pitfalls that people often put up in front of themselves when trying to better their lives.

Guilt, trauma, self-doubt… that shit is real and the best therapy gets you to see where the baggage lies and to let it go.

The therapist you find may be awesome and you click instantly or they might not. If not, don’t give up, move on to another person as every therapist is different and has different approaches to getting you to open your head to yourself.

I was in counselling for years as a teenager and it really helped me cut through my own insecurities and stop me doubting myself and got me the courage to leave home when I was 18 - with rocket boosters on, even though it sucked BIG TIME for years afterwards. (oh how it did!) It was all on me and I turned out ok in the end.

Therapy is a process, the main thing is to not bullshit yourself about any given situation, no matter what.

As to privacy, HIPPA laws still apply, and there is also nothing stopping you from asking about how robust their privacy controls on patients data are. Ask for paper copies of the records for yourself, that way you can have them accessible at a later date w/o having delays as the older records are fetched, if you need them. You DO have that right.

Am married hen of 33 years…

There are no downsides whatsoever!

If you two are in the relationship for the long haul, keeping the sex fun and interesting is perfect. This is how relationships last. No hangups, no insecurity (sounds like you’re doing just fine with that…) just fuck each other silly into the mattress, the sofa, the kitchen table… wherever!

It’s not about what you’ve got, it’s about what you do with it and YES, enhancements are totally fine. Go be the sex-beast you are and have fun!

Mad props to you kid!

I’ve been dipping into the Department Store Christmas and alternating it with Tiki Time!

Love somafm!

There’s a special place in hell for people that hateful.

Trump won because he ran against 2 women.

Biden was inevitable because of how shit Trump’s policies were and that the public was in real pain from the 2017 Tariff and trade war…

Once the Democrats had tipped the economy back onto it’s feet and were digging the country out, the pain subsided and the sexism reared it’s head again.

That the Democrats couldn’t see the most basic sexism working to Trump’s advantage, is breathtaking. Any serious male Democratic candidate would have beaten Trump last year, but no… We got touchy-feely women-power at the same time the online spaces were poisoned with gender identiy wars and it torpedoed ANY chance with a female candidate.

Will say one thing, the conservatve right knows how sexists think and for sure they leveraged men’s rage to the detriment of everyone.

Your anger is precisely what Trump is looking for. Don’t give it.

It’s rage-bait attention seeking done by an insecure, immature man.

Get past it and just pivot to it being an old man in the throes of dementia.

(…which it is…)

THAT will piss him off, as his father, Fred Trump, went down HARD from the disease. It’s Trump’s existential terror, if what his niece, Mary Trump, has said about it is true. So far she’s been 100% accurate.

“Grampa Dementia” is following in his dad’s footsteps. Poor Donny can’t help himself, it’s the disease, after all, doing the speaking for him…

That is all.

Oh look, Grampa Dementia is at it again. At least the hired help hid his car keys so the roads are safe.

“When pressed, Instacart later admitted it does manage pricing for Target on its platform and runs pricing experiments to determine how much more it can charge on top of regular prices…”

This is why I wrote a few days ago that it is critical for people that are having a hard time affording food to never use a middleman to buy it.

When the economy is rough, the corporate sharks will feed.

Buy your food with cash in hand in the store. Otherwise you can be eaten.

Oedipus, a former Boston DJ and musical director for the now-defunct WBCN 104.1 in Boston, has been running a Christmas Eve radio show since I was in high school. (over 40+ years) The playlist is exquisite with some songs for Christmas I have never heard before and since. Here’s a Spotify link that someone built that is a selection of songs he’s played over the decades…

…BOTH sides need to stop this madness or it will never end…

Isaac and Ishmael. It’s been going on for thousands of years. Old, old family squabble, it is. :(

One of the men was named Naveed Akram, so take of that what you will.

Am thinking this was a bit less Wehrmacht related and a bit more Gaza…

…but yeah… obligatory fuck NAZIs just so no one misunderstands my point.

Not bad… People think Reagan famously said back in the 80’s that it was essential for the workers to not give up their arms, when it was Marx. Nice that you’re keeping up a long tradition of mis-attribution WRT Reagan.

Godspeed my good man!

I’ll find a nice planet and build a base in Creative Mode in No Man’s Sky.

Have a save file editor for my build game, so I don’t have to grind to get the fancy parts and I can just relax and settle in and let my imagination fly.

I used to have that game. It’s a good one. As the article infers, the cover fits perfectly.

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I finally am allowing myself to take some down time for my own sanity. It’s weird how slowly a work ethic can tale over your mindset and the next thing you know, you’re putting in 24- 25 days in a row of work and are burnt out… Rather than be frizzle-fried by Christmas, I decided to stop now and actually enjoy the holiday. This is a first, and it’s been a long time - too long - that I’ve allowed myself to relax.