It’s a miracle drug but only if you’re a lizard person. You need that zeta reticulan biology for it to work.

I’m seeing $1900, but guessing $2500+ once the scalpers get to scalping. I don’t intend to buy one, but I hope those assholes get fucked over.

As someone with a few disabilities that used to frequently deal with sanctimonious bullshit like this, all I can say is: Jesus fucking Christ.

That’s what you get for not setting up system recovery.

My dad died due to COVID and one of the dipshits we hired to help load his stuff into a moving truck kept going on about how incredulous he was that anyone would die from “the flu”. These people, they are not intelligent.

I’ve been under the impression they’re trying to speed run both.

How about we rearrange a little and try Joe Rogan Juice? Joe Juice for short. It makes your immune system swole.

And too foolish to learn from the experience of others. Personal experience isn’t required if you develop wisdom. Americans, wise? Naaah.

And this is why Americans are still in their hole.

“Vote blue no matter who.”

Every time I hear a (typically well-off, middle-aged white person) say this, I experience something that’s rare for me: I actually want to strike them.

I like how the wording may imply that being sober that particular day might be in contrast to other days.

It took a second before it clicked. Nicely done.

Exactly. I was hired into one job with a decent salary plus a 10% bonus, paid quarterly. Pretty exciting, right? What I wasn’t told until after I started was that bonuses were on a freeze for the foreseeable future, at least for a year. Next job!

Offer our trans people on the altar of “family values” for our Lord Beaver Cleaver demands a blood sacrifice.

Agreed, the debt hawks were just there to gather votes from fiscal conservatives. Then they privatized programs and cut taxes for the wealthy, claiming this would help the government reduce debt, knowing the average American wasn’t really paying attention to the results.

So much of American politics is pure theatrical bullshit and politicians get away with ridiculous behavior because the American people are, as a whole, mind bogglingly stupid.

I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don’t know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.

I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite not being a scientist and having no idea what our many beige boxes do.

If I may offer some 100% not a doctor or medical advice, resistance training is great for EDS in my experience and that of others. The only thing to be aware of is it WILL hurt for awhile. I go to a gym that has a full complement of exercise machines (free weights + hypermobility = easier to injure) and started lower body exercises on the lowest weight, a whopping 10 pounds. I’m gradually working my way up but am taking it really slow. I’ll eventually move to light to medium weight free weight exercises, but not for some time. The hypermobility in my knees and hips has significantly decreased and I’ve regained a fair amount of flexibility (hypermobile folks tend to get tight muscles as we age since we use them to stabilize our joints).

In the United States, portion control means not spilling your portion as you fill up your entire plate.

I have a couple of chronic conditions (Ehler Danlos syndrome and mast cell activation syndrome, woooo) and see pushback against meditation and exercise from other EDS/MCAS people so, SO much, but they work. Really well.

Some do have major issues starting exercise. No one expects someone with severe hip instability to do leg presses or a patient with CFS to pick up jogging, but there’s almost always something you can do. My arms and shoulders are a mess, so I started upper body exercises (tricep extensions, curls, etc) with a 6 oz can of tomato paste. Four years later, I’m up to five pounds! You just have to use some problem solving skills and do what you can, when you can.

CFS is a bitch for exercise, I used to “have it” until we found and treated my underlying cause.