Very well put. I too have dysthymia. And unfortunately that “long-term functioning depression” can and does last for years on end. Not to mention that you can also suffer bouts of normal depression on top of the dysthymia depression. Double whammy, as it were.

But yes, I’m pretty sure (at least for me) the only way that I seem to be able to produce dopamine involves food; the junkier the better, but healthy food is not the same. It’s probably the sugar that does it. I’ve noticed the longer I go without eating sugary foods, the worse my moods get.

That video explains it very well. Thank you.

I mean yes, change is hard and takes time and happens in sometimes-unnoticeable ways, but come on — throw me a bone and let me have something immediate to help keep motivating me toward the long-term change. If it were as simple as “keep doing it every day”, don’t you think I’d be doing that already?

I imagine that people like this have always felt this way to some degree. Maybe because it was a different time back then, or maybe because they were younger (and thus more concerned with peer pressure), they were silent. Now they feel emboldened; for whatever reason. It’s like Pandora’s box: it’s been opened, and even if you close it, it’s too late. It’s out there now.

I saw this yesterday at a kids soccer game:

Hebrews 6:18 “it is impossible for God to lie”

You have to consider the source for statements like that. I’ve always asked the question — and of course never got a real answer — that if we all agree that man is fallible (regardless of how pious you are or aren’t), and man wrote the Bible, then how could we ever trust the Bible to be correct?

To put it another way, if the Bible is “the word of god”, and the Bible was written by sinful men, then it would be akin to listening to your favorite music through a piezoelectric speaker. A lot would get lost in translation; and probably the gaps would get filled in based on the level of intelligence and desires of the writers.

Good grammar matters. “He” could be referring to God, or Judah. I would imagine any Bible Thumper would suggest that it refers to Judah, because there is no way that the Bible would suggest that God has limitations.

This only could’ve been better if this was a picture frame a phone of the monitor with the screenshot open in whatever the default screenshot app is for the is.

Back in 2016 (wow, almost a decade now…) I got a job with a group who used Word docs to email instructions on how to update your code with their changes. For example, “In file xyz.php, go to line 123 and replace <code> with <code>.”

One of my first tasks was getting that group set up with git. But I will never forget that was their best way to version control code… in 2016.

Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.

Don’t you mean our basic stinks?

Ok I’ll stop.

I wanted to make a fart joke.

But I like your balloon explanation. That makes sense to me.

Would a fair, albeit crude, analogy be like when I fart and the gas forces my butt cheeks apart (the expansion between two objects)? (_|_)💨

1. Yo mama so fat that not even light can escape her gravitational pull.
2. Yo mama so fat that our galaxy revolves around her.
3. Yo mama so fat that when she last farted, they called it the Big Bang.
4. Yo mama so fat she’s expanding faster than the speed of light.

Is that any different than the idea that every decision that could ever be made, is made, but has branched out into another universe?

Honest question: if “nothing is faster than the speed of light,” then how could the universe be expanding faster than the fastest thing?

Just don’t forget to wash your hands after.

ITT: HOW DARE YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I THINK YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO?!?

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I agree. OP is so pretentious and arrogant for not wanting to see posts they obviously don’t care about. How dare they not care about the things you and me find important? It’s just so irresponsible of them to have a different opinion of what they want to spend their free time viewing. Some people!

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there’s there’s nobody there. You’re sure you heard someone, but there’s nothing, except you.

Second worst nightmare unlocked. Imma go cry now.

I really shouldn’t feed the trolls, but eh, I’m learning a lot rebuking you, so maybe somebody else can benefit from your ignorance as well:

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