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Title is sardonic.
Praxis instead of demagoguery.

The "No Shit September" challenge!

Parttakers:

• must refrain from shitting for a whole month (at least),
• can take a single cheat day, when they can take a single shit,
• must be extremely smug about taking the pledge,
• must tell everyone they're taking part of it.

People who fail the challenge must change their profile pictures on all social media to the shitter wojak. Those who succeed can move onto the "No Oxigen October" and "No Nut (as in food) November challenges. The challenge is done in order to raise awareness of colon cancer.

To know more about how shitting is actually unnatural, bad for your health, was made up by plumbers to both control you and sell you toilets, all while shit retention is opening your shit chakra thus leading to you acquiring psychic capabilities please watch a Chinese doctor's YouTube video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cfWM0BC_4

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/59306211

I am VERY opinionated about a lot of things. I often wish I could just sit back and not be so staunch :(

I’ve been off work in April. I’d been struggling to do anything, even the simplest of tasks and eventually everything ground to a halt. It’s usually pretty bad during winter times, but some years it’s particularly horrible. I was diagnosed initially as Bipolar Type 2 as the issue seemed to be a cycle of long downs and ups. Then I got an ADHD diagnosis and the medication helped with the ‘brain fog’. But it didn’t solve everything. After awhile the task initiation problem always reappears. My doctors often say it’s depression and increase the anti-depressant medication I’m on. Sometimes you get a temporary bump in activity a few weeks later but it never really goes away for good.

A recent trip to the northern summer where my symptoms mostly alleviated suggested it’s likely a co-morbidity between Seasonal Affective Disorder and ADHD. I’ve started light therapy which is helping a little, but I still feel stuck.

The attached image is my ‘model’ for how I function. Currently, at the start of Spring, I feel the same as I did late April when I left work. This makes sense accordingly to the model. But it feels like the uptake in energy during the summer is masking this task initiation problem rather than being a ‘cure’ for it. Every time the energy dips below normal it reveals how much I’m struggling.

I’m sick of this. I just want to go back to work. Summers are great – I go running, eat healthy, get creative, fix up the house. Every other season is rubbish.

This is more of a rant than anything else, but any advice would be appreciated. Other than saying ‘just start small and do the task’ that is. I’ve been given that advice way too many times to no effect.

Today’s game is some more Old School RuneScape. I finished the Goblin Diplomacy quest today and started on the Slayer quest stuff. That’s what brought me to the giant pig monster thing above.

The game makes you do a lot of walking. It’s an interesting perspective. I’m someone who every once in a while will try and play a game without fast travel, but here I’m definitely feeling the lack of it. I had to make a 5 minute walk 5 times for the Goblin Quest for example to finish it. It’s tedious, but I will say, making me work for it has given me an understanding of the land I’m not sure I’d have otherwise.

Speaking of said creature, with all the walking the quest had me do it was amusing to essentially have the game throw one last walk at you. The creature spat acid in my eyes, and that knocked me out. Because of that I had to backtrack all the way back to the creature.

And you want to know what I found out? I’m not even a high enough level to kill it. I tried to get a few strikes in but it knocked out 2/3s of my health so I ran away. I guess I found my next major goal before the dragon slayer quest as I’d like to complete as many quests as I can.

This is a second time now in the last couple of months that my openSUSE Tumbleweed server has become inaccessible over the night with the terminal printing over and over:

BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45080, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45081, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45102, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45103, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45106, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
...
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
...
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45128, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45138, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0

Both times a restart seemingly fixed everything, as in the computer booted up normally and my services started up and seemed to work just fine.

I ran

btrfs scrub status /

UUID:             redacted
Scrub started:    Tue Sep  1 09:26:40 2026
Status:           finished
Duration:         0:02:36
Total to scrub:   495.58GiB
Rate:             2.96GiB/s
Error summary:    no errors found

and

smartctl -a /dev/nvme0

smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-7.2.2-1-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB
Serial Number:                      redacted
Firmware Version:                   4B2QJXD7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            redacted
IEEE OUI Identifier:                redacted
Total NVM Capacity:                 4,000,787,030,016 [4.00 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       2.0
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          4,000,787,030,016 [4.00 TB]
Namespace 1 Utilization:            733,311,033,344 [733 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            redacted
Local Time is:                      Tue Sep  1 10:01:48 2026 EEST
Firmware Updates (0x16):            3 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x0055):     Comp DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x2f):         S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg Log0_FISE_MI
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     82 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     9.39W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     9.39W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
 2 +     9.39W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0       0
 3 -   0.0400W       -        -    3  3  3  3     4200    2700
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4      500   21800

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        45 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    2%
Data Units Read:                    36,634,591 [18.7 TB]
Data Units Written:                 88,390,637 [45.2 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 173,217,468
Host Write Commands:                2,664,966,303
Controller Busy Time:               19,920
Power Cycles:                       30
Power On Hours:                     9,824
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   15
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Temperature Sensor 1:               45 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2:               47 Celsius

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Logged

Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
Num  Test_Description  Status                       Power_on_Hours  Failing_LBA  NSID Seg SCT Code
 0   Extended          Completed without error                9824            -     -   -   -    -
 1   Short             Completed without error                9824            -     -   -   -    -

which dont seem to show any errors. The SSD writes are quite high though. The SSD in question is under two years old, and acts both as a boot drive and a data drive for my data.

So is my SSD cooked? What troubleshooting steps should I take? Or is this a warranty case? (The data is backed up alredy.)

Thanks in advance!

"All God's Dangers" Published (1974)

Sun Sep 01, 1974

On this day in 1974, the life story of Ned Cobb, a radical black worker in the American South who served more than 13 years in prison to keep his farm, was published under the title "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw".

In 1969, author Theodore Rosengarten came to Alabama to search for and interview surviving members of the Sharecroppers Union, a radical union that helped both poor black and poor white farmers fight back against an exploitative system of agri-business. When Rosengarten sat down to interview Ned Cobb, then 84 years old, for this purpose, his memories became the book "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw".

Cobb was the fourth of more than twenty children of a father who had been enslaved. Ned left his father's house to begin sharecropping on his own at the age of 19. Realizing that the men needed help, he joined the Alabama Sharecroppers' Union in 1931.

In 1931, when the Communist Party arrived in Alabama, Cobb was impressed with them because he was saw the Party defending the Scottsboro Boys, nine young black men accused of raping two white women.

In December 1932, a sheriff tried to take the home and livestock of one of Cobb's friends. Cobb defended his friend and in turn was involved in a shootout in which he was wounded and arrested. Cobb was sentenced to thirteen years in jail.

Cobb was offered parole if he would agree to give up his farm and relocate to Birmingham. Instead, he served his full sentence and, after release in 1945, returned to his farm.

Cobb was one of the most successful black men in the highly Jim Crow-ed county and lived to the age of 89. He was also one of few former sharecroppers to be able to pass on property and a means of making a living to his progeny.

• Date: 1974-09-01
• Learn More: www.nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Labor.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

WARNING: This thread WILL contain unhidden spoilers for this entry. Because this re-watch is in a slightly-subjective chronological order and not in production order, please refrain from talking about the content of other episodes or movies in this thread. If you do, please put that content inside spoiler tags. Some people here may be watching Star Trek for the first time.

#69: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 16 "The Mark of Gideon"

Written by George F. Slavin & Stanley Adams, directed by Jud Taylor.

Stardates 5423.4 through 5423.8 (January 2269)

"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." - Commander Spock

The Federation has finally been allowed to send a representative to Gideon, a very secluded planet that wishes to become a member world. They have requested Captain Kirk, specifically, so the Enterprise has been dispatched. But when Commander Scott beams Kirk to the designated coordinates, he never arrives in the council chambers. Commander Spock immediate begins investigating the Captain's disappearance while the Gideon Council play bureaucratic games with him. Meanwhile, from Kirk's perspective, he was never left the transporter pad. Except now he's the only person aboard the ship. The transporter room, the engine room, the bridge, are completely empty, until he finds a young girl wandering the corridors.

Originally released: 17 January 1969

"The Mark of Gideon" on Memory Alpha (mirror)

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Guess I'm fucked. Shit!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51382231

The "No Shit September" challenge!

Parttakers:

• must refrain from shitting for a whole month (at least),
• can take a single cheat day, when they can take a single shit,
• must be extremely smug about taking the pledge,
• must tell everyone they're taking part of it.

People who fail the challenge must change their profile pictures on all social media to the shitter wojak. Those who succeed can move onto the "No Oxigen October" and "No Nut (as in food) November challenges. The challenge is done in order to raise awareness of colon cancer.

To know more about how shitting is actually unnatural, bad for your health, was made up by plumbers to both control you and sell you toilets, all while shit retention is opening your shit chakra thus leading to you acquiring psychic capabilities please watch a Chinese doctor's YouTube video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cfWM0BC_4

Army secretary Dan Driscoll has handed his resignation to Donald Trump, the White House said on Monday, becoming the latest high-profile figure to depart the defense department.

The army official, who is second in line to defense secretary Pete Hegseth, had reportedly been eyeing an exit from the Pentagon amid apparent friction with the secretary.

“Secretary Driscoll has been highly effective in advancing President Trump’s agenda to Make America Strong Again at the Department of the Army by providing outstanding leadership during historic military operations, restoring an emphasis on readiness and lethality, assisting with negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and more,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement to the Associated Press.

The resignation comes after months of turmoil at the defense department, which has seen numerous incidents, from leak investigations and budget issues to the ousting of several senior officials including the army chief of staff Randy George in April. In June, the army’s commander of its forces in Europe and Africa, Gen Christopher Donahue, unexpectedly stepped down.

A bunny in a small red plane flies through the clouds. They see a glowing, five-pointed star hanging on a fishing line. The fisherman is another, presumably bigger bun who is fishing while sitting atop a fluffy cloud

Source: Bluesky