You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.

But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.

It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.

Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.

If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).

This is my favorite reply everyone else can go home.

Tbh I think creating new terms just muddles medical records over time because now when you go into a field you have to learn not just a disorder, but also everything it’s been called throughout the last 50-100 years in case you’re going through the records of a patient older that 50-70 years old. I think the public needs to be better educated on these things. And when they keep doing it anyway that just kinda is what it is. That said there’s definitely room for phasing out diagnoses and replacing them with entirely new ones that differentiate or combine what we currently know as our knowledge of them evolves.

First of all I love this question. My suggestion is that you shuffle a deck of cards, flip them over and note their exact order, then shuffle again and note the order again then keep shuffling and checking the order until the deck resets to the original shuffled order. It’s gotta happen eventually, but it might take you a while. In fact a lot of people have studied that very specific problem and there’s actually really good odds that every shuffled deck you’ve ever held has been the only deck of that order in history. So, yes, it almost certainly has happened somewhere, but good luck finding it.

Nah. Might be a botany student finally connecting those last few neurons on this subject.

I’ll just go back to modding morrowind LOL

Here’s my rec from AliExpress. Modern shape and color but a lot of classic imagery still. This one sort of as well. You could then pair either with a more traditional RWS deck for her to compare the imagery too. I wouldn’t fuss too much on getting a guide book. The internet has a wide range of interpretations to draw from. Wikipedia even has a pretty good set of pages on all things metaphysical and I find that it approaches them from a pretty grounded place as spiritual traditions without placing a lot of weight on them as truly divinatory or anything.

Depends on what you call a mistake. I was interacting on ich iel a while back (I don’t speak German but the meme had clear meaning as a fellow nurse) and they said chat gpt had almost perfect grammar but that it translated “median basillic vein” as the “median basil vein” (like the herb).

My rec was gonna be the biddy tarot since it’s a modern / inclusive version of the rws which is some of the most common imagery used in themed decks so if she decides to get a Pokémon themed deck or whatever later the imagery will translate well (I have a cat meme deck and an emoji deck in addition to my traditional rws deck). Comparing the imagery across themed interpretations of the RWS is FASCINATING and has taken up a significant part of my last two years. The biddy is about 2x what you’re asking though so let me see what else I can find…

Not up close and personal but it was enough.

They actually care whether or not shit is sterile. Oh and the thing somebody said about surgeons. Ewww.

Well if it’s a prompt injection to fuck with llms you don’t want any users having to read it anyway, vision impaired or no.

Yeah at this point it’s a place to keep my resume and certs and for correctional staffing agencies to semi-regularly offer me a lot of money to join the prison industrial complex. It’ll probably be the only place my experience is applicable when the mental health system finally fails for goodsies. I thought about ACT once upon a time but tbh I like more acuity and somehow at the same time can’t handle the idea that one of my patients could have a gun (kind of related; I like being able to be nice to very sick people but you need a very controlled environment to do it safely). And that’s assuming ACT is even still a thing at the end of all this. My coworkers are already talking about how much the detention centers are offering but then will mention (in the same conversation), that as black women, they hate driving through that part of the state. This is the worst timeline.

Lmk if there’s any I might like

Ok I got home where I could just open the media folder and look at the backlinks so here’s all the songs I have and the concepts they’re linked to:

• 9 to 5 by Dolly parton: Queen of Wands
• Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen: The Chariot
• The Eye of The Tiger by Survivor: Five of Wands
• Independent Women by Destiny’s Child: Queen of Pentacles
• Lonely by Three Dog Night: Numerology of the Number One
• Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley: As stated, the Knight of Cups
• Stronger by Kelly Clarkson: 9 of Wands
• Sweet Victory: 6 of Wands
• Won’t Back Down: 7 Wands
• and you’ve just reminded me to add A Horse With No Name by America to The Knight of Wands.

I can send you the obsidian Notebook but I’d have to pack it up somehow. It’s merged with a complete audio textual version of the Christian Bible though since there’s so much overlap in the traditional rws version of the imagery at this point (and my own cultural background meshes well with that). Like the death card links to the bits of revelation with the horsemen.

Fun fact: my digital notebook of esoteric spirituality practices has songs peppered throughout and Never Gonna Give You Up is on the Knight of Cups tarot card. My virtual tarot deck rickrolls you lol.

Or you could go Buddhist and consider “good” sensations to also be suffering and make it your goal to escape from all of it entirely. I’m kind of an inverse gnostic these days. I’m hyped to be a rock again someday. Or maybe a nice pile of dirt.

Except for Wednesday at 11pm when I have 36

Actually now that I think about it yeah why don’t they put them in like Montana and Alaska and stuff honestly you could build residential blocks up against them maybe even.