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Hilariously she looks more like the cat version of J. Jonah Jameson to me :3

I gotcha, well if you have any other questions I’m glad to answer as best I can :) I hope it does help tho. I haven’t been in the hospital for a while so maybe my advice isn’t great but if you’re interested:

Depression for me felt like a narrowing of perspective. At that moment everything was how I felt right then. It was how I always felt and how I would always feel. Essentially I felt like life had always been awful, and would always be awful, because it was awful right then. Everybody is different and has different reasons they’re struggling, so I’m not trying to make blanket claims too much, but I think it’s safe to say that change in life is inevitable. Sometimes the best we can do is hang on and wait for the next change.

I’ve been in a psych ward before, albeit around 5 years ago and in a different state. To preface, I don’t want to freak you out, just want you to have an informed choice.

I’ll not sugarcoat it, it’s meant to do one thing. Keep you alive. Everything is built around doing that at a low cost. Your insurance may or may not cover a stay. If you’re voluntary they’ll probably still bill you. Involuntary can depend on the circumstances but they usually still bill your insurance. Apply for financial aid if you can.

Stay time will depend on the state, but for me in Idaho, it was usually one of two options. Suicidal people or people with shorter term issues like a bipolar episode will spend about a week in a short term ward. Not much to do. Shared Tv room, some books. You will not keep clothes with strings, belts, etc. no phone. They will likely not give you any meds you don’t have an active prescription for. Because it’s meant to be short term, and meant to keep you alive long enough to stabilize, they will probably want to try new or different doses of meds while you stay. They can try things faster than you could at home because you’re essentially monitored 24/7.

They will likely search you. It’ll usually only be initially in a room with a couple people (more than 1 is for accountability’s sakes, if they don’t have another person by default I believe you can ask for another person in the room).

Longer term stays usually require some kind of court hearing where you’d go to state and that’s pretty hard to do. The state hospitals are usually pretty busy and so you really only go there if you can’t care for yourself at all, or you’re so actively suicidal that you’re still like planning things out after a week or two. Even if you’re on the path to state that can take a couple weeks at a short time term place and feeling better will get you out quick in that case.

You might see your doc once on the day you arrive and again once a week. You mostly interact with nurses or nurse assistants. All the staff I interacted with over quite a few visits were decent people who wanted to help. I know that isn’t true of everyone, they’re human after all, but I think most of them do want to help.

They aren’t going to have many options to shave, at the short term facility I’ve been to you could ask but it was kinda a pain and it had to be approved and yes you’d be supervised with a razor. This depends place to place tho.

Transphobia is a real issue and yes I did experience some. Staff aren’t trained for trans people specifically but they do see a lot of us. Lets say I met a lot of trans people in the psych hospital. Mostly suicidal. Imagine that. Staff can be hit or miss with name and pronouns, especially if you haven’t changed name or anything. Usually a reminder is enough, if not mention it to a head nurse or even your doc. Most places will accommodate changing name where they can, it’ll vary from place to place.

If somebody is a jerk to you, transphobia or otherwise, ideally staff will step in. Anytime anyone was shitty and I mentioned it they separated us where they could, and that usually resolved things. That will depend on how much space the facility has too. Staff was never outright transphobic. At worst they were ignorant and when I mentioned a preference or frustration they fixed it as possible.

Food was pretty fine. I’d describe it as a step above school cafeteria depending on the place. They accomodate allergies pretty well, and usually have some kind of option. So like burger or sandwich or chicken, but the burger option is always there, and they have like chips and sides and stuff, and cycle the chicken or sandwich options.

The biggest thing I’ll say is that they exist to do one thing. Keep you alive, get you stable, get you out. So it will probably feel like a lot of lost privileges and rights, and a ton of scary meds or changes. They aren’t trying to torment you, but because they deal with everything from suicidal to drug addicted to completely out of touch with reality, you’re essentially given the trust level of a toddler. No sharps, no strings, no doors, no locks, no electronics, etc. It sucks, but it does the job(short term). A week is long enough to try new meds, or restart old ones. Long enough for a manic episode to fade, or a suicidal phase to pass. You still come back and have to put the pieces back together afterwards, but if you simply need a place to fall to pieces for a week, it lets you.

TLDR: (sorry im horribly disorganized)

• They likely won’t let you do DIY HRT inside but I don’t have personal experience there.
• Some places let you shave, likely supervised.
• In my experience I was only searched initially when I first went in.
• For me, staff was at worst ignorant and changed when I asked, some patients were bleh, but staff separated us where they could.
• Food was fine, not amazing, they did have some choices and they catered to allergies pretty well from what I saw, always had some alternatives.

Sometimes…

Sure it’s not every person but now people know that they could be pulled aside and that could be more than just a wanding or patting down, but a series of strangers digging into the device that most people pour massive amounts of their life into. It’s pretty fucking fair to warn your citizens that could happen, and its very fair of them to decide it isn’t worth the risk.

I’m American. Don’t fucking trust us. Our country is rapidly sliding down the slope to fascism, I hope we figure it out, but don’t fucking trust us. I know people here who wouldn’t bat a fucking eye at invading canada. Not many, but they exist. It’s just a shrug and a “well I’m not military but whatever trump says goes so…”

I think of the meme of somebody driving a piano through hordes of pedestrians to this song in GTA

This feels like a conspiracy theory. How many people would be in on the grift? How many do you think could know before it leaks? Opsec clean baybee.

What’s the real benefit? A distraction? Flooding the zone doesn’t require the president’s greatest supporter monetarily speaking to call him a pedophile online. Is it meant to somehow increase traffic for them? Because I never went to Twitter, I just saw a lot of screenshots. How much can you really earn from a boost in user activity on twitter? It’s not really a financial cash cow right?

I think it’s as simple as the two worst people you know finally realized they couldn’t fit both of their egos through the door today and shit finally hit the fan.

Jokes on you, I’m technically food right now!

The reason I mention AI is because the article talks about AI tools to predict accidents as well. I also googled Openpilot and this is from their wiki page.

In contrast to traditional autonomous driving solutions where the perception, prediction, and planning units are separate “modules”, openpilot adopts a system-level end-to-end design to predict the car’s trajectory directly from the camera images. openpilot’s end-to-end design is a neural network that is trained by comma.ai using real-world driving data uploaded by openpilot users.[34]

So uh. It might be AI

Also it seems openpilot requires hardware for the cameras and stuff, they aren’t going to strap third party cameras to cars to sell new. They’d have to implement the sensors in the car itself, and doing so would cost more than nothing.

Its kinda depressing that the takeaway they seem have here is “we don’t always have enough time for our family, but luckily Alexa can pick up the slack 😌”

Instead of “society pushes us to spend less time making meaningful connections and more time relying on services that cost you money or privacy”

Somebody’s toddler is going to eat rocks after AI tells them it’s safe, especially if you’re giving your kids unfettered access to the internet, which is what Alexa is. You’re just hoping Jeffy moderates good, when you and I both know rules and restrictions for an LLM are very hard to enforce.

I’m all for better safety features but perhaps an easier, cheaper, and more likely to succeed option to use is city planning/enforcement and change of current regulations. For instance, closing the loophole that lets car manufacturers ignore safety and emissions rules for “light truck” classified cars, which at this point is most of the oversized SUVs and pickups.

Alternatively having safer options for pedestrians and cyclists would help too, like having separated bike roads, and pushing highways and stroads out of residential areas and reclaiming city space for pedestrians. Public transit investment also helps reduce the number of drivers, which helps traffic and safety too.

I don’t hate the idea of these extra AI tools like emergency braking being required or at least encouraged with stuff like safety ratings, but I think it’s going to be very hard to get that implemented anytime soon considering you’d be fighting consumer interest(higher cost cars) and companies who don’t want to have to make or license AI tools.

Edit: also the current regime in the US is more interested in de-regulating things to the point where I can get a happy meal wrapped in asbestos with a nice lead toy. So uh… Good luck

Cheddar attacking his stick toy, it has little sushis on the string that he loves to bunny kick :p

This kind of advice isn’t about making you feel bad it’s about trying to help it not get that bad in the future. It’s easy to get dehydrated without realizing it and that can and will kill you if you aren’t careful. It isn’t a callout it’s a PSA :)

Yeah I agree with the other comments, domes are deceptive little shits to print the underside of. The layers tend to be undersized for the previous one as you get higher, and you quickly go past a reasonable angle for printing. At that point the rings you print are likely just barely touching the previous layer, and you get those separated rings that just get worse the higher up the dome you go.

6 weeks isn’t very long, and if you’re just starting your likely on a lower dose as your doc ramps you up to whatever level works.

I’d talk to your doc or whoever prescribed you the meds about dosages and what your levels are, they usually monitor with bloodwork to try to get you in the normal ranges, and if you have concerns they will usually work with you to try to get the results you want.

But yeah. i didn’t really notice breast development for a good few months(partially due to my weight too at the time), and they didn’t really stop growing for a few years. It was just a lot of very slow growth over time.

I don’t mind if we skip that step personally

I think he probably has dementia. It makes it easier to have him do stupid shit, easier to influence, but also makes it harder to stop him once he fixates. Also easy to manipulate can very much backfire.

Soon they’ll all be falling over themselves to appease the mad king. I hate this so much.

I really hope we actually give Ukraine full fucking support. They deserve it.

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They do have an option to turn it into a 2 door 5 seat SUV style setup so that’s something.