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Host a meetup of any reasonably-large online community somewhere. I'm part of a gaming community of about 300 members, mostly from around the US, but also there are members on every continent except Antarctica. We have people in China, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, all over Europe especially central and western, but also in Russia, etc. We do one big meetup every year in Texas (and a couple smaller regional ones in Europe and Australia), people come from all over the world for it, so it'd be a great way to spread something like that. it does have its downsides of course: these are gamers so they're generally not outgoing types, it's a small group so it'd be easy to back-trace if you caught it quickly, etc. But it's a lot more reliable than just spreading disinformation online in the hopes that it gets noticed and acted upon.

Let me just say right up front that any pain you have that's anywhere near the black-out level is extremely not normal. And I say that as someone who has lived with chronic lower back pain for 20 years (of varying severity, from 'Huh that's kinda uncomfortable' to 'holy shit it's time to take all of the meds and lay down.' I've never been anywhere near black-out levels of pain, the most I've gotten is back pain so bad it makes me sick to my stomach. Go see an orthopedist, they will find the source of the problem, and then probably refer you to a physical therapist and/or pain management specialist.

Oh I know, I'm just pointing out the irony.

The reddit admins got a little fashy for my taste. i got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi probably didn't deserve to go to prison for what he did, they called it inciting violence. The ban was lifted on appeal of course, because it was bullshit, but not before I was then given a permanent ban for circumventing the temp ban with another account. It, too, was liftedo on appeal because it, too, was bullshit (I was on reddit for 14 years and never even made a throwaway, much less other accounts in general), but by that point I'd had enough.

Also it's very not the same, as you will learn if you spend some time here. I find people are generally friendlier and a lot less hostile here.

Health insurance exists for medical emergencies; vomiting and chest pains are signs of a heart attack which, I dunno where you're from, but where I'm from that sounds like a medical emergency to me.

I get that the US healthcare system is bad and exploitative and absolutely leaves people in crippling, life-altering debt. But one fucking trip to urgent care is not going to render you homeless unless something is very seriously wrong with you in which case see also: being dead also sucks pretty hard.

Yeah, same. I didn't know any better so when I moved from reddit a couple months ago I made an account on lemmy.world because it seemed to be the largest and most active instance, and then had a bunch of people in leftist subs tell me that was a bad plan so I made a .ml account too.

Depends on how loosely you define 'with celery' - I like celery in soups, especially with chicken-based soups, but that's not really something you can just grab a stick of celery and dip into or whatever.

I am a disabled American in my 50s, I have dealt with serious medical issues my entire life, including the ones that have made me unable to work for the last ~15 years. Please tell me some more of these wild-assed assumptions you've made about how little I understand about healthcare in the US.

I am a disabled American in my 50s, I have dealt with serious medical issues my entire life, including the ones that have made me unable to work for the last ~15 years. I understand the healthcare 'system', such as it is, far too well. But you know what sucks worse than being broke? Being dead.

Firstly, I am a different person adding to the discussion.

My apologies, I didn't notice the different name.

Secondly, you do have the ability to look into things beyond what you are directly given by others.

The ability, certainly. The time or inclination, not so much. Sorry, if people can't be bothered to do the legwork to support their own arguments I'm certainly not going to do it for them; if you're going to cite me a source to back up your argument the evidence you claim is on that page should actually be on that page, not buried in some link halfway down it.

and you downvote.

Actually I didn't downvote; I almost never downvote unless the comment is trolling or being a shitlord or whatever.

So something tells me you aren’t actually interested in learning anything here, just burying comments you don’t like.

What I'm interested in learning is why the person who replied initially thinks evolutionary psychology as a field his racist, because that was the initial - rather extraordinary - claim, for which I have yet to see any evidence. I am not at all surprised to learn that a scientific field (especially one within the field of psychology) has critics, and while I'm sure those criticisms are valid and interesting, it's kinda beside the point.

Selling elevator keys.

The high school I went to was an old building that was built like a prison (seriously, look at that thing), it's 3 stories plus a basement (and the smoker's area - this was in the 80s - was out back from the basement), so I routinely had to go from basement to 3rd floor for classes. it sucked. The school had an elevator, but it was key-operated, and they only gave out keys to kids who actually needed it. I faked a knee injury to get a key and it was great not having to climb 4 flights of stairs. But after a couple days I noticed other kids were always waiting around for me so they could ride the elevator with me and such.

Thus, a brilliant idea was hatched: I went to a locksmith's shop and got 10 copies of the key made. Whenever anyone wanted to get on the elevator with me I would offer to sell them a key for $10. I sold out by the end of the 2nd day and word was beginning to spread. I went to a different locksmith and got another 10 keys made, but only sold 7 of them before somebody ratted me out. Still, $170 in my pocket less a couple bucks for the copies for 2 days of 'work' seemed like a pretty sweet deal to me, even if I did have to go back to climbing the stairs again.

The funniest part is through one of the classes I took I had been invited to join some kind of 'young entrepreneur's club' and they kicked me out when I got busted. Seems like I was doing things exactly right for that sort of crowd, I guess the lesson learned there is getting caught is the problem, not doing the thing that gets you caught. :P

Here's some general life advice: if your body (especially your heart) starts doing things it shouldn't be doing you should probably talk to a doctor. You have insurance, this is what it's for. Hit up your nearest urgent care.

Edit: I'm gonna go ahead and add this because I've now had two people tell me how ignorant I am of the US healthcare system: I am a disabled American in my 50s who has been dealing with serious medical problems my entire life. I understand the 'system' far too well. But I'm gonna state what is apparently an unpopular opinion in this community: being dead sucks a lot worse than having medical debt.