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One time I needed to move from a daily pill to an injection for one of my meds, but by the time we got the prescription and emergency appointment, the pharmacy either had just closed or was about to. Mind you, I was inches from a crisis, like, I was honestly thinking if I couldn't get on the mend that night I was going to need a hospital. Then insurance decided they didn't want to pay for it. Thankfully the doctors were willing to give me a free sample, so I was able to get the injection that evening. It was a rough night, but I was getting better. Also insurance ultimately did start paying, but not until I had used all the free samples they were allowed to give me.

So you'll invite the underrepresented, marginalized folks and share a loving community free from private property; everyone sharing everything freely? Of course we'd like them all to believe in Jesus, but we won't hate them if they don't or try to shove it on them either.

We are this close to entombing our presidents in a golden throne and worshipping them for millenia.

I have a vague memory of a spaceship. Maybe i was firing a laser? I remember it being hard at first, but I Got Gud, and as an adult people are impressed with my typing speed.

Eh, it was already there. Lots of racist and eugenics ideas swirling around mew age beliefs.

I like these, but as a sometimes manically inquisitive folk I love the last one a lot.

To be fair, I have had some issues like my screen not displaying anything all of a sudden using Arch, but I think that was more NVIDIA's fault. Adding a boot parameter ended up fixing that.

The main hospital I've been to I don't think is actually religious-themed, but I find myself distrusting it anyway because I live in small-town, Midwest. My psychiatrist doesn't know I'm queer because I fear his reaction. The hospital assures you that they will not discriminate, but it has "My I don't discriminate shirt is raising a lot of questions the shirt should answer" vibes. Also I have a fairly stigmatized mental illness and have had inpatient stays because of it, so I definitely don't trust them having seen that side of them, but I feel that applies to pretty much any hospital. Long story short, I don't really trust hospitals in general, not just religious ones.

I would be a little careful calling all these things narcissism, though. Narcissist personality disorder is a real thing, and people have no control over that. The harm these people cause to other people is not a result of mental illness, but as you said, a series of systems that discourage treating people like people and more like commodities.

Getting real academic larp vibes from them. I'm not exactly an expert, but something feels very wrong.

Yeah, this article definitely gives me the impression that this person doesn't know what they're talking about. Hyping up how the parents feel shame for yelling and completely overlooking the shame imposed on the kid? In fact, completely overlooking the kid altogether?? The only time they mention doing right by the kid is in context of doing right by the parent. But yeah spanking is just wrong: getting angry and hitting your kid seems like it has a different term associated with it. And yelling fails to effect positive change, and easily causes negative impacts. This reads as someone trying to justify old-fashioned (and almost always wrong) methods using new-fashioned ideas of authenticity and avoiding shame.

"You're a medical anomaly, you really need to stop trying to challenge god!" Beautiful writing!