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Stultus Maximus posted:A Current Event. Decorator urchins!  I came across one off the NC coast a few years ago, they've got little suckers that extend out past their spines that they use to hold on to their shells.
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CainFortea posted:Is this where you become like those aliens from tng that only speak in memes? Only it's tiny screen grabs from that PM magazine? It really is incredible that that turned out to be the most prescient episode of the entire series. Chowdown and Dorner, at the Deid
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Midjack posted:We look for things. Wrong aliens! Though the Pakleds showing up in Lower Decks was fuckin hillarious.
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CainFortea posted:Wrong aliens! Oh you meant the Dathon, speaking first guys.
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Midjack posted:Oh you meant the Dathon, speaking first guys. There was a while there where people were using the image of Dathon but putting other memes as the text and I loved every one of them but can't ever find them.
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I know this isn't the 'correct' thread, but it gets the most traffic from inside and outside GiP, so I'm asking here. Does anyone have recommended resources for living with chronic pain?
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bulletsponge13 posted:I know this isn't the 'correct' thread, but it gets the most traffic from inside and outside GiP, so I'm asking here. Are you on the GIP discord?
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bulletsponge13 posted:I know this isn't the 'correct' thread, but it gets the most traffic from inside and outside GiP, so I'm asking here. I am seriously interested in this too. I've gotten to the point where I'm looking at traveling to do the ketamine infusions.
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Hekk posted:Are you on the GIP discord? Kinda- I have access, but it moves way too quick for me to really keep up. I've been fighting being reasonable about this for a long time, but I need to quit pretending. I'm just tired of being tired, yo.
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I hope when the inevitable dark GWOT movies come out, they use the Vietnam movie cliche and use the most popular songs from the period. The apache footage set to Sk8r Boi is gonna be hysterical.
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Have your doc put you in for a consult with a pain specialist- there’s things and ways other than just opioids to deal with all the different types of pain and those are the docs that know these things. Never ask for narcotics. Even if it’s indicated and your hurting just ask for help with the pain, medication or therapy for the pain, but never just straight ask for the narcotics. You might get prescribed narcotics if you take this approach and the doc thinks it’s appropriate. If you ask for narcotics you won’t get narcotics. Directly message me on Discord, I’m in there as Shimazu (original, I know). I’ve been down this road and after a lot of work and therapy with a pain specialist all I need for pain is aspirin and gabapentin. My primary care docs heart was in the right place but to her it went: Broken vet in serious pain, load up the opioids he shouldn’t feel pain. And I thought that was working until I realized I was dependent on the drugs now, and they were just masking pain. Pain doc squared it all away over about a year. But I had very quick results after an unpleasant opioid detox.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I hope when the inevitable dark GWOT movies come out, they use the Vietnam movie cliche and use the most popular songs from the period. Nah, it's all going to be Drowning Pool and System of a Down.
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Wow, TIL https://twitter.com/TroopsinContact/status/1331756163319406592
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I don't take opiods. Even when I did, they never stopped the pain, just made the edges a little dull- even the fentanyl I had for a time. Now I just smoke weed. I saw pain specialists at the VA, but they didn't seem to have much to help. I was just hoping to have some more to read about it.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Nah, it's all going to be Drowning Pool and System of a Down. bulletsponge13 posted:I hope when the inevitable dark GWOT movies come out, they use the Vietnam movie cliche and use the most popular songs from the period. Generation Kill covered this pretty fantastically I thought lol
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Eason the Fifth posted:Generation Kill covered this pretty fantastically I thought lol I mean at one point Ray Person is literally pissing on the side of the road in mopp 2 while singing Sk8r Boi
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bulletsponge13 posted:I don't take opiods. Even when I did, they never stopped the pain, just made the edges a little dull- even the fentanyl I had for a time. Now I just smoke weed. I saw pain specialists at the VA, but they didn't seem to have much to help. It's probably going to persist no matter what you do or are prescribed. Weed is a distraction the vast majority of the time. Yeah, there are legitimate anti-inflammatory properties to it, but the science isn't solid yet. Most of the time I take 1-2 800mg motrins a day. Having constant back problems, nsaids are actually somewhat effective. Tramadol was the last "pain killer" I took and it had meh results. Also the VA is generally going to ask or find out from a urinalysis if you smoke weed, so they're going to hesitate to hand you opiates anyhow. They don't quite understand that opiates are a thing a lot of weed smokers actively avoid. 14 years of telling them no opiates outside of an emergency or surgery, only walked out of the ER with percocets maybe twice in that time. Didn't even get them when they yanked teeth.
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Bulletsponge, I've found some pain relief in cannabis and talking with a therapist who taught me how to relax my body so I could help tell my mind to stop feeling the pain so much, but that takes some concentration and practice and is only so effective e: I'm dealing with chronic pain from arthritis in my shoulder and knees, and pain in my shoulder that has been pretty constant in my shoulder after two surgeries. Stretching and doing yoga helps a bit, too, but that isn't going to be very helpful if you're in so much pain you can't do anything UP THE BUM NO BABY fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Eason the Fifth posted:Generation Kill covered this pretty fantastically I thought lol I watched this when it first aired with my dad, who went to Vietnam. He appreciated the singing and even remarked "Anything to pass the time".
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Eason the Fifth posted:Generation Kill covered this pretty fantastically I thought lol Yeah, they did. The soundtrack will be 80% female pop, Drowning Pool, 2 Korn Songs, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Dashboard Confessional.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I know this isn't the 'correct' thread, but it gets the most traffic from inside and outside GiP, so I'm asking here. Hey, as everyone else has said there are a lot of options. I go to a acupuncturist regularly through community care from the VA. It's not curative and there's a lot of pseudoscience but it feels good and relieves my pain for a bit. The VA will also prescribe massage therapy. I also have a TENs and Alpha Stim, both variants of electrical stimulation. Stretches through yoga, Tai Chi, or whatever you decide help a lot too. The VA here has classes for both but I do it on my own or through the local parks and rec. The VA also sent me to aquatic therapy through community care which was great. I also cosume a lot of cannabis, which has mixed results for my chronic pain.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I don't take opiods. Even when I did, they never stopped the pain, just made the edges a little dull- even the fentanyl I had for a time. Now I just smoke weed. I saw pain specialists at the VA, but they didn't seem to have much to help. I have been through the pain management at the va. I was on Dilaudid for a lot of years, now I just take 1200mg of gabapentin three times a day two different muscle relaxers and a few other things three to five times a day. at least I'm aware and cognizant of the world and my existence away from the opioids. But it just hurts all the time.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I hope when the inevitable dark GWOT movies come out, they use the Vietnam movie cliche and use the most popular songs from the period. It's 100% going to be intentional. The intended effect is to hammer home that teenagers who like things sign up for the horror show. The main difference will be that some movie will illustrate the time divide by highlighting the music that the invasion forces liked versus the OND and etc. kids liked.
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In news that should be a surprise to nobody, the mayor of Denver is a hypocritical piece of poo poo: https://www.9news.com/article/news/...2e-c84dd6f7acf1 In a just world he would resign, but lol, that's not gonna happen. Also, holy poo poo dudes, the federal government totally abandoned ALL OF US. People are literally starving and the president is celebrating the magic number going up. Wild times, WILD TIMES.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Yeah, they did. The soundtrack will be 80% female pop, Drowning Pool, 2 Korn Songs, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Dashboard Confessional. Sounds accurate; I’m a civilian but nothing gets me in the mood to kill more than Dashboard. I saw them play live a bunch of times during my wasted youth and walked out of one of their shows when I had a realization that I actually hated the band
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Duzzy Funlop posted:There's nothing inexplicable about it. The anthropomorphic republican talking duck shouting “liberals” over and over except it’s saying “Amerikaner”
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:The anthropomorphic republican talking duck shouting “liberals” over and over except it’s saying “Amerikaner” 
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bulletsponge13 posted:I don't take opiods. Even when I did, they never stopped the pain, just made the edges a little dull- even the fentanyl I had for a time. Now I just smoke weed. I saw pain specialists at the VA, but they didn't seem to have much to help. If its specific areas like knees or back or joints, pain management shots can be very helpful. It's basically numbing agent and steroids, and if those work, they can burn the nerve that's causing you pain. That nerve grows back in 6 months to 2 years, but while it's gone, you're pain free (or at least significantly better) in those areas.
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Heads up, on Tuesday the Supreme Court will be hearing a case about child slavery involving Nestle and Cargill where the plaintiffs are people who as children were trafficked into Côte d'Ivoire and forced into labor on cocoa plantations. Being as it's 2020 this surely will end well and justice will be observed. https://www.justsecurity.org/73387/...ew-of-the-case/ e: hosed up my legal words
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bulletsponge13 posted:Yeah, they did. The soundtrack will be 80% female pop, Drowning Pool, 2 Korn Songs, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Dashboard Confessional. Miss my Bosstones tshirt
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:The anthropomorphic republican talking duck shouting “liberals” over and over except it’s saying “Amerikaner” To be fair he's right, the USA electing a tinpot fascist to the highest office in the land has energized fascist movements in a lot of countries, because like it or not, when America does something, everyone takes notice. That is the legacy of America (beyond the legacy of American imperialism) for the foreseeable future. If it's possible to put the fascism genie back in the bottle it is going to take decades, and America has likely forever ceded the top spot it created for itself in the world order. It's going to take a long time for the fallout from this to become wholly apparent, but yeah, there's no going back to pre-trump times. Even if America never again elects a fascist, his little four year stint has created decades of future problems for the entire world, if not derailed the slim loving chance that humans could prevent their own extinction via international cooperation. Of all the times to embrace isolationist xenophobic tendencies (without actually embracing isolationism because lol the US still has bases in 70 countries), this was probably the worst. orange juche fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Heads up, on Tuesday the Supreme Court will be hearing a case about child slavery involving Nestle and Cargill where the plaintiffs are people who as children were trafficked into Côte d'Ivoire and forced into labor on cocoa plantations. Being as it's 2020 this surely will end well and justice will be observed. Looks like it’s going to come down to the meaning of a law from 1789?
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hobbesmaster posted:Looks like it’s going to come down to the meaning of a law from 1789? Yeah the Supreme Court is going to say US corporations aren't responsible for child slavery if the countries they're getting goods from don't outlaw child slavery or something.
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hobbesmaster posted:Looks like it’s going to come down to the meaning of a law from 1789? I'm not a law talking guy but it seems that way
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I exhausted everything before getting them (e-knees) replaced. When RFA stopped being effective, I did Phenol Ablation. I've had one shoulder reconstructed, waiting until after COVID to get the other. Nerve damage in my back, with three areas of compression; hip joints hurt all the time, but it's just wear and tear. Same in every joint, with significant scar tissue in ankles and wrists. Arthritis in most my major joints, with my hands having the worst of it. ("You look like you boxed for years"). My body is that first car, that beater that you couldn't afford to replace, but couldn't afford to keep fixing. Just tired of something always hurting. poo poo is ungood, yo.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/supreme-court-coronavirus-religion-new-york.html?referringSource=articleShare Well, a bunch of fervently religious people are going to be meeting their maker sooner than they thought I guess. Feel sorry for the sensible folks who are going to get hosed by proxy though.
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