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  1. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I read an article recently that, if true, blows a lot of stuff out of the water. I wish I could find it again so I could look to verify it, but the gist of what it was saying was that the coronavirus indicated signs that it was some kind of chimera, with the spike protein from one virus attached...
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    Mental Health services

    I increasingly think the point of therapy is to create a dependence on the therapist such that the client keeps coming back more or less forever.
  3. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    It does sound rather like a news update from George Orwell's "1984", along with concepts like "he who controls the past controls the future, he who controls the present controls the past". It's interesting to see how misinformation, such as the theory that the Wu-flu escaped from a Chinese...
  4. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Got another run in this morning while my wife was out grocery shopping. I started out feeling very strong but by the end felt like the heat was getting to be too much.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    I shaved 9 seconds off my personal best for a 5k this afternoon. I pushed my pulse higher than I really wanted to take it but for the last 200 yards or so I just wanted to cover the ground. Then I got home and spent the next half an hour dripping sweat.
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    Mental Health services

    What's really fun is when you get into the concept of anosognosia. It's a common symptom of certain mental illnesses and causes the individual to not believe they have a problem at all. Of course it's hard to persuade someone to take a medication if they don't believe they are ill. The fun...
  7. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Went for a walk in the woods today. It's been a while and some days I like some solitude that walking the roads around town just doesn't provide. The roads around here are usually all but deserted but there's something about the woods that's different. Curiously a 4.7 mile walk that went up and...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Curiously it seems the reason I wasn't sleeping might be because I had too much blood in my caffeine. Last night we had friends around for dinner and my wife offered coffee. My first thought was to decline on the basis if I drink coffee too late it's likely to affect my sleep, but then figured...
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    Mental Health services

    I have to wonder how many people would take the stronger pain meds, or take the prescription and then sell it on the street. Many years ago a family member was taken to the emergency room with excruciating pains. In the triage area they gave him morphine to dull the pain but as soon as he was...
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    Mental Health services

    Some of these drugs can have really nasty effects. I've read about cases where people who didn't have depression were given antidepressants, which caused them to have what looked like manic episodes which in turn prompted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and stronger medications. One thing I find...
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    Mental Health services

    ... and when many psychotropic drugs come with black-box warnings of side effects that include suicidal and homicidal ideations it isn't encouraging when doctors reach for the prescription pad as a first resort.
  12. tango

    on abortion

    I suspect part of the problem is that, as with most other groups that are large enough, there are some within the group holding views that are sufficiently inconsistent that it makes it easier to mock the entire group. It's a hugely intellectually lazy approach but it's easier to knock down a...
  13. tango

    on abortion

    Tone may come across in the spoken word. In the written word tone as perceived by the reader may or may not bear any resemblance to the tone intended by the writer. I don't recall using the term "murderer" in the context of abortion. Calling use of the term disrespectful and condemning is a...
  14. tango

    on abortion

    Lots of good points in here, although ending with "I didn't think so" turns the whole thing into little more than a sanctimonious rant.
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    Pro-life

    Genocide is a form of murder. Not even close. If you really want to go to silly places like that, how about abstinence? If you want to argue that birth control is a method of genocide you'd have to argue that every person who isn't constantly having sex is equally guilty of genocide. I have...
  16. tango

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Another night of truly dismal sleep (if it can even be called sleep). I'm not sure why I've struggled to sleep the last couple of weeks. At least today I managed to sleep later than normal and get at least some rest. I went for a walk with my wife around town - I had tentatively planned to go...
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    Mental Health services

    My concern with mental health is much like my concern about physical health. If you get into the clutches of a "pill mill" doctor there's no way of knowing where you'll end up, especially if you get stuck with mind-altering medication. "Intervene early" is great in theory but the last thing...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Went to a yard sale today. I don't normally bother with yard sales but this one was hosted by a lady we know from craft shows, and she was also selling some of her crafts. We picked up a couple of pieces, although at least one is going out again as a Christmas gift. Then this evening I went for...
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    Water

    Probably more than strictly necessary, it just means the one-time cost of running another PEX line to the bathroom is offset by ongoing savings in not filtering the water that literally gets flushed down the toilet. Depending on how accessible everything is I may end up saving the unfiltered...
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    Pro-life

    I wouldn't worry too much about things like this. Had Jacob stopped at 11 I'm sure God could have figured something out. Let's not pretend God is some kind of half-witted putz who would have spent however many thousand years wringing his hands, his plans for the New Testament thwarted by Jacob...
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