Because an informed population will see what's happening with our current government as a sham. It's like our current president wants us to go back to the era and power of a certain former president...

Under blackout threat, Wikimedia to hold talks with Indonesia Jakarta had threatened to block Wikipedia over rules the firm says departs from human rights norms. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"A blockage of Wikipedia in Indonesia will “deny the fourth most populous country in the world access to the largest free knowledge repository”, the statement [from Wikimedia] said."

That's the point. The government wants to keep us uninformed.

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I get it's protocol and better safe than sorry and all. There were several times when the pharmacist in the back prepped the wrong meds and the one on the counter caught it.

But ma'am I've been in this hospital for six hours and I just want to go home.

I've always found it funny, bc I'm delirious from waiting for hours, that the pharmacist has to tell me what meds, when I'm supposed to take it, and how much, when I've pretty much been on the same cocktail of meds for months, maybe even over a year.

Culture, Religion, and Capitalism: The Lack of Consumption that Celebrates The Act of Consumption With the fasting done during Ramadan, the month has made food that much more important. The act of not eating or abstaining from certain…

We're roughly halfway through Ramadan, a month that I somehow both dread and look forward to at the same time.

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How do you mourn someone you don't know personally but had a huge impact on your life?

You learn something new everyday! Thanks for this, will definitely look into this more

Thanks for the info! Didn't know mixed state was a thing. Definitely will look into it more

But it would be really fucking nice to know which is which, so I know how to deal with it properly.

The answer is probably, like most things, complicated.

Look, most of the time I'm pretty stable, but the meds don't completely get rid of the episodes; they're just less invasive to me being a functional human when they do happen.

But then I just sat for like 4 hours straight, completely forgetting about lunch, to write a 1.5k-word story, which is usually more in line with my creative, aka manic, episodes.

I don't do that when I'm depressed.

So which is it?!

The thing (for me) about being BP2 and medicated is that it's getting harder and harder for me to tell the difference between a manic episode and a depressive one.

For the last couple of days, I've had this sadness, and I haven't eaten much. So I thought, here we go, oncoming depressive episode.

Because her laptop broke*

Never thought I'd have to explain to my 65 year old mother about the SSD shortage.

The repair cost was too high and at that point might as well just get her a new tablet.

And to imagine, they were going to just throw it away! I haven't counted the exact cost of all these magazines, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reached four digits

The story behind this and the piles of NatGeo magazines:
My aunt recently passed, and since her husband passed years earlier, her children thought it was finally time to do a proper cleaning of their house. They gave these, my uncle's collection, to me.

Just want to share something cool. This photo, often referred to as The Afghan Girl, is one that most if not all photography students have learned.

I have seen it many, many times, but I never thought I'd see it in the flesh, as it was first meant to be presented to the world.

I played a game I swore I would never play. I hate how much I enjoyed it. A review of the game, my history with Harry Potter, and, surprise, a discussion about the phrase “The Death of the Author.”

The thing about having consumption being the theme of what I'll work on this year is...don't start with playing The Witcher 3! I had the first draft of this written at the end of December, but finally, here it is. #videogame #deathoftheauthor

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Indie devs should avoid 'most indie publishers' says Manor Lords indie publisher Hooded Horse: 'The vast majority of indie publishers are predatory and opportunistic' "People can hate me for this if they want."

I was only in game development for a very short time but it was long enough to know just how true this is.

Y'all, the amount of times my boss complained about the publisher... (which doesn't exist anymore btw which is very telling.)
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*but also another caveat, it's not perfect and the waiting is super fucking long and the doctors and nurses should be paid more but I'll take my free meds with 5 hours of waiting rather than pay half my paycheck every month thank you very much

*also, bonus fact, my meds are covered under national insurance. Yes, this "third world" nation has better universal healthcare than some supposed "first world" country.

I was sick and tired of taking this cocktail of drugs when I felt fine.

But that's the thing. The meds are the things that MADE me feel fine. Today was just another reminder that yes, taking all these pills is annoying, but without it, it's more annoying.

Have you watched that episode of the One Day At A Time reboot where Lupita threw her meds away because she thought she had her depression under control? But actually she doesn't?

I've been feeling that way recently. I'll skip a dose here, a dose there...

I've been taking meds for my bipolar 2 for the past year or so. I've forgotten taking them every now and then but not like yesterday.

Yesterday, I didn't take any meds at all because I was too distracted playing Witcher 3. Today I had a panic attack for the first time in around a year.

A 47-year study reveals when fitness and strength start to fade A long-running Swedish study has followed adults for nearly five decades, uncovering when physical decline truly begins. Fitness and strength start slipping around age 35, then worsen gradually with a...

As someone who started regularly exercising last year BECAUSE I turned 35, this is kind of depressing. But at least the research also shows it's not NOTHING. Even starting late, I'm still improving my overall health.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Now back to the elderly Chinese women I saw in Singapore. There's probably some truth to the not giving a fuck as almost all of them had very short hair, aka easier to maintain. But aging also had an effect.

Isn't the human body so interesting?

Now I'm in my mid-thirties, and it's gone full curly in some parts, a mixture of 2C and 3A. Even the parts that I keep short, around 10 cm, are already curling.

In my early twenties, I mentioned in a conversation with my friend about my 'straight' hair, and she looked at me weirdly. I studied myself closer in the mirror, and yeah, she was right. My hair had some wave to it, a 2A-B. It's just that I had been cutting it too short that the wave didn't form.

But as I grew older, I noticed it happening with my hair. Looking at photos from when I was a kid, I had straight hair, probably a 1B or 1C on the texture scale. I remember my hair would get so poofy after my mom cut it into a bob,

I first suspected this when I was living in Singapore. I noticed many elderly women of Chinese heritage have curly hair. I don't think I've ever seen a younger Chinese woman with curly hair. Now it could just be that elderly mentality of who gives a damn and not straightening their hair anymore