the thread about nothing...

[sneeker]

sorry but 20 years is a long time. if the people there believed that the U.S. troops would stay there forever, I guess they are partly to blame and their so-called established government. I feel for them in some way, but in the end, they have to stand up for themselves. they could have prepared themselves.

 

[daruma]

sorry but 20 years is a long time. if the people there believed that the U.S. troops would stay there forever, I guess they are partly to blame and their so-called established government. I feel for them in some way, but in the end, they have to stand up for themselves. they could have prepared themselves.

from the political thread:

lying liars

 

[Grine]

bruhh with that gown they wear, just spread your arms n legs...Like one em flying rats and hover to the ground.....
srs omg, that is fd up!!!!

Throbe, Serwal, Izar, Shalwar Kameez (proper name of the attire)

It’s made out of cotton or linen. Air flow right through it.

Not like how you see in the movies

 

[Grine]

sorry but 20 years is a long time. if the people there believed that the U.S. troops would stay there forever, I guess they are partly to blame and their so-called established government. I feel for them in some way, but in the end, they have to stand up for themselves. they could have prepared themselves.

Hard to see who’s to blame.

Here’s the agreement that was made:

 

[daruma]

 

[Belgium]

Congrats on weening yourself down. Stay strong.

You're a good dude for being there. Good for her to have someone who knows what she's going through.

Was she ever talking meds for her depression?

Yeah Amy's been prescribed an anti-depressant the whole time I've known her and regularly sees a psychiatrist. Despite my repeated suggestions, she never told the psychiatrist about the suicidal thoughts issue though. She's also currently seeing a doctor for the cocaine addiction; she "thought that would be sufficient [to stop the coke addiction] but apparently not."

My friendship with her (she's lesbian) is very much mutually beneficial, not just me being there for her. She was the first person I actually told about my on and off opioid abuse for the past ~6 years. Aside from my doctors and my mom, nobody knew. I've disclosed it to everyone now but only one friend said he kind of suspected it but wasn't sure, the others had no idea and were surprised/shocked.
Online I've never had any issue being open about myself but outside of that I was a very closed book. I've become a lot more open now all thanks to her, which eventually led to confronting my opioid abuse by disclosing it to everyone around me and hopefully stay on my prescribed dosage this time. There's a bit of an issue in the fact that I need a certain amount of opioids for my chronic pain to be tolerable. It's basically like a recovering alcoholic forced to drink a couple beers every day and somehow manage to not relapse.

On top of the pre-existing issues, Amy now also has to deal with the reality of her brother very likely being a serious drugdealer given what she found in a secret stash at home during cleaning last week. Her brother is currently away on vacation. If it was just weed she'd be fine with it but she wants to turn him in to the police if she can find conclusive evidence that he's dealing much worse drugs. In that stash she found a bunch of loose unknown pills, a strip of the same opioid I take, €7000 cash, some ketamine, 3 syringes without needles and a tub filled with something that looks like salt, which she assumes to be GHB.
I agreed to her request to help her investigate and spy on her brother but she's still hanging on to the hope that the situation isn't what it looks like and that perhaps the cash came from his real estate business and the drugs are for personal use.

 

[davinelulinvega]

We can't blame both USA to be in Afghanistan AND to leave Afghanistan. People criticized both decisions. It reminds me Saddam, I'm not an expert but if I'm correct when he "died", if he really died, because I don't know what to think about this, it has been really quick for extremistes to take power. There are a lot of dictators that are appreciated by people, not because they are good people, just because they are not as bad as other ones. So from our point of view they are far from good people, but if you kill them the ones who would lead the country would be no better...

EDIT : It's like chosing between corruption or fundamentalism...

 

[eracism]

Football fans

 

[sneeker]

Yeah Amy's been prescribed an anti-depressant the whole time I've known her and regularly sees a psychiatrist. Despite my repeated suggestions, she never told the psychiatrist about the suicidal thoughts issue though. She's also currently seeing a doctor for the cocaine addiction; she "thought that would be sufficient [to stop the coke addiction] but apparently not."

My friendship with her (she's lesbian) is very much mutually beneficial, not just me being there for her. She was the first person I actually told about my on and off opioid abuse for the past ~6 years. Aside from my doctors and my mom, nobody knew. I've disclosed it to everyone now but only one friend said he kind of suspected it but wasn't sure, the others had no idea.
Online I've never had any issue being open about myself but outside of that, I was a very closed book. I've become a lot more open now all thanks to her, which eventually led to confronting my opioid abuse by disclosing it to everyone around me and hopefully stay on my prescribed dosage this time. There's a bit of an issue in the fact that I need a certain amount of opioids for my chronic pain to be tolerable. It's basically like a recovering alcoholic forced to drink a couple beers every day and somehow manage to not relapse.

it's quite difficult to be honest. I have known people with chronic depression and it's very real, drugs does help but more as an escape from reality and predicament. there has been a lot of debate what is causing it, hormonal/chemical imbalance. as of the moment, there is no real cure. psychiatry do help some time. the problem more likely is to find the cause of the problem or the trigger. again, it is difficult to determine but the only suitable way is diversion which can change from time to time.
I'm one of those that don't believe that drugs is a cure but rather a way to mask an existing problem and also can become a part of the problem as well in the long run. in your case, is different as you are using it for pain management though I don't agree with the use of opioids which is highly addictive.
I was quite dependent on pain medications some years ago when I was still very active with gym work and sports. though the thought of cirrhosis got me taken a back and might as well deal with the pain rather than mess up my liver. I have been pain meds free for a couple of years now and only take pain meds when necessary like during a visit to the dentist or had the covid shot or really bad case of fever.

 

[sneeker]

We can't blame both USA to be in Afghanistan AND to leave Afghanistan. People criticized both decisions. It reminds me Saddam, I'm not an expert but if I'm correct when he "died", if he really died, because I don't know what to think about this, it has been really quick for extremistes to take power. There are a lot of dictators that are appreciated by people, not because they are good people, just because they are not as bad as other ones. So from our point of view they are far from good people, but if you kill them the ones who would lead the country would be no better...

EDIT : It's like chosing between corruption or fundamentalism...

in short, a necessary evil. in the case of trump, it would be the opposite. that is a hitler in the making.

 

[sneeker]

from the political thread:

therefore, we should be blaming the Republicans. of course, they will always find a way to twist the narrative and blame it to someone else that is not Republican.

 

[Belgium]

it's quite difficult to be honest. I have known people with chronic depression and it's very real, drugs does help but more as an escape from reality and predicament. there has been a lot of debate what is causing it, hormonal/chemical imbalance. as of the moment, there is no real cure. psychiatry do help some time. the problem more likely is to find the cause of the problem or the trigger. again, it is difficult to determine but the only suitable way is diversion which can change from time to time.
I'm one of those that don't believe that drugs is a cure but rather a way to mask an existing problem and also can become a part of the problem as well in the long run. in your case, is different as you are using it for pain management though I don't agree with the use of opioids which is highly addictive.
I was quite dependent on pain medications some years ago when I was still very active with gym work and sports. though the thought of cirrhosis got me taken a back and might as well deal with the pain rather than mess up my liver. I have been pain meds free for a couple of years now and only take pain meds when necessary like during a visit to the dentist or had the covid shot or really bad case of fever.

I had a depression once for about a year back when the onset of my chronic disease started and forced me to quit nursing school just as I was almost recovered from having half of my right lung removed. I went to a psychologist but I only started to feel better about a month after I was eventually prescribed Zoloft. Two months later I was cured and back on my feet, no issues since then. Anti-depressants don't work for everyone but they certainly can be effective. There was no substantive change in the months of going to therapy before I got the Zoloft so I can confidently say the medication played the biggest role in that combination.

And yeah I wouldn't recommend opioids in any situation really aside from a few days after a surgery or after every other alternative has failed to treat a chronic pain issue. Before I was prescribed my opioids, the doctors had me try out all kinds of NSAIDS and alternative non-opioid painkillers like Lyrica but none of those made my days tolerable enough so eventually I was prescribed Tramadol as a last resort.
Opioids are obviously very very physically addictive but it's also easy to see how someone would also very quickly, perhaps even quicker, become mentally addicted to them. There's no feeling quite like opioid euphoria, it is absolute blissful heaven and that's a huge part of what makes them so dangerous.

 

[friscostylez]

what's our record looking like after WWII

 

[Belgium]

what's our record looking like after WWII

Korean war: W
Vietnam war: L
Gulf war: W
Afghanistan: L
Iraq: stalemate
Syria: ongoing

 

[tr1ll]

I just learned who Lauren Boebart is. Wow.

 

[Grine]

 

[Grine]

marikomorose

 

[had pants]

 

[marikomorose]

marikomorose

This an internal issue only the ppl over there can solve. She's gonna have to grab a gun & put a bullet in these ppl's heads.

 

[c flyness]

 

[Bronson]

wat

 

[Grine]

This an internal issue only the ppl over there can solve. She's gonna have to grab a gun & put a bullet in these ppl's heads.

Doubt that’s going to happen any time soon because of lack of money and support.

 

[art vandelay]

A elderly veteran came into my job today to inform us of his “girlfriend” being trapped in Dubai without access to her money. So, this “girlfriend” is active duty Army, according the photocopy of her id that she sent him, she is an E7 “Sergeant”, which didn’t sit right, when asked how long this “girlfriend” was trapped in Dubai, dude said she was stationed there 6 years. When asked how he met “girlfriend” dude said the Internet. Asked if he has sent any money he responded “plenty” as in multiple thousands. I legit felt bad for dude because he has gotten fleeced.

 

[daruma]

 

[crazy ebw]

Gah dang that's relevant today.