This has to be someone on a government grift right? Some construction company must be getting favours.

The cancer 'virus'? Some cancers can be caused by viral infections, but what specifically are they talking about here?

I appreciate the thoughts. With how little these drugs are understood, it's no wonder that they help some people and do nothing (or make the situation worse) for others.

Nobody wants to be lectured to when they're in a dark place in life, so I won't tell you what you should do, but for me, the takeaway from that whole experience was that circumstances change, often in ways you can't expect. If somebody had told me back then 'Just hold on, things WILL get better.', I never would have believed them. It's so difficult to see things EVER changing when you're in that kind of situation, but life changes whether you want it to or not, and sometimes it will throw you into new situations that will alter your perspective.

Stick around and I can guarantee you things WILL change for you, not necessarily for the better at first, but sometimes you need to hit rock bottom before you start making your way back up. That's certainly what happened with me.

I'll pray for you in the meantime, friend.

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has suffered from this particular withdrawal symptom. That's exactly how it feels, a weird rushing sensation that radiates from my head throughout my body. How long were you off the pills before that subsided? It's hard to pick a time to quit because my work requires a significant amount of concentration and I can't be losing focus like that.

It is shocking how little doctors know about the medicines they're prescribing people. I think it's basically a flow chart for a lot of them; 'If A then B'. You would hope that the brightest among us might have a LITTLE intellectual curiosity, but I think the past few years have proved that is wishful thinking.

Be careful with these things if anyone ever suggests them to you, guys. I was prescribed citalopram back when I was a depressed teenager to try and get me out of the rut I was in, and they DID work in a certain sense. They kept the intrusive negative thoughts out of my mind for long enough for me to focus on personal improvement, and that naturally helped me get out of the rut I was in.

The doctors will tell you that they are not addictive and there is no danger in taking them long term, however that has not been my experience. I am married now and have a successful career, and my day to day mood is much better than it was back then. Over time I have managed to wean myself off of the pills, but if I don't take at least one a week, I have these awful head rushes that make it hard to concentrate. Perhaps when work dies down a bit I will make the effort to push through the withdrawal symptoms and finally rid myself of them.

Overall takeaway with SSRIs: They CAN help SOME people, but they can also get you hooked if you're not careful (despite what the doctors will say). They are definitely way overprescribed.

I'm in the UK and I was watching youtube on the TV last night so no adblocker, and I kid you not, there was not a single white person in any of the ads I saw. They were 100% black. My wife (who is American) asked rhetorically 'Are we in Africa?'.

It's so blatant even my normie mother has started complaining about it.

Wow what a brilliant idea, that will definitely not escalate things...

Man, this cyberpunk dystopia blows...

While I disagree with a lot of what you said, I'm not going to get into an argument about the other points, I was just mystified with the way that you framed getting married as 'Everyone renounces their family for their new life with their wives and kids.'

'Renounce' implies abandonment, rejection, formally declaring oneself as separate from. I don't think 'everyone' does this when they get married, In fact I think it's a very unhealthy thing to do.

You could argue that a man owes more allegiance to his wife than the rest of his family after he is married, but 'renouncing' them? Why?

You can see why I am confused by your statement, context of the royals aside.

Huh? What a bizarre take. Healthy families have multiple generations of people working together to raise the kids. It's so helpful to have an extended family around to help out. Renouncing them to run off with just your wife and kids sounds like making things artificially harder for yourself for no good reason.

Merry Christmas you guys!

While I agree with you in spirit, automation remains a long-term problem for everyone. Even if your particular industry can't be automated, society as a whole is going to have to figure out what to do with the growing mass of unemployed people who are literally incapable of doing high IQ jobs. Importing huge numbers of additional low IQ people from the third world is only going to accelerate this problem.

The high IQ rugged individual can only 'adapt and survive' for so long while society falls apart around him.

Please tell me there was some kind of protective layer over the painting at least

I mean it kind of accurately represents the GAE, of which the United States is only one part of. I've thought for a long time that the rainbow flag is the actual flag of the empire writ large. The US flag is provincial at this point.

Huh, I guess this is what kids watch nowadays instead of TV? I guess it's not as offensive as it could be, even if it is just a big ad.

'Needs to go'? How do you plan on doing that, exactly?

We do? I must've missed the memo...

As someone who lives in rural England, you would be forgiven for thinking the invasion isn't happening. It's a small country, but it's not THAT small. I have noticed a slow but steady trickle of detritus from London into my nearest city, but the town I live in is still 99.9% native. How long that lasts is another question.

ft. Dante from the Devil May Cry series

It's just a struggle session under a different name.

I recently played the Fire Emblem Warriors game that came out on Switch and generally enjoyed it, but I think that's only because I was already invested in the characters from playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The gameplay itself does get a little repetitive, but I think it's suitable for a spinoff game.

I remember listening to a podcast about this some time ago. There's a whole network of banking operations run by the usual suspects down in South America who finance these trips with extortionate interest that ensures the illegal alien is on the hook whether they make it to the USA or not. It's a self-sustaining economy.

What a bizzare take.

Trash fight!

But you have to portray and promote the ideal to give people something to strive towards, even if they will never reach it. It's like following the example of Christ and being free of sin; impossible, but something we should strive towards regardless.