Applegate said that while everyone in her life was relieved, her reaction to the news was that she was "not happy at all," noting, "You don't get misdiagnosed and then all of a sudden I'm better. I haven't gotten better, Jamie. If anything, I've gotten worse in some ways. So I'm back at square one, that I don't know what's going on with me."

From the USA Today article. I gather this is really common reaction for people with chronic or progressive illnesses, when they find out they don't have the terrible thing they were misdiagnosed with. Like, everyone else is all "yay! no MS!" and the person who is still experiencing the symptoms that led to the misdiagnosis is like "ok, but I'm not suddenly healthy, and now I have to start over." You can at least plan things when you know what you have.

Her symptoms sound really bad, too, and if there's a treatment for what she does have, she's not getting it.

I wonder how many workers stopped drinking liquid for the whole day, and who are going to have lifelong medical issues from that, who won't be able to directly connect it to this job later once those problems start popping up?

Yeah, the last thing I remember about pillowfort is their security issues, and I hang out on Tumblr (a space it was designed as an alternative for). People weren't recommending it anymore after that, like they used to.

I tried it out before then, but it didn't hit for me. I've tried a million alternate ljs and tumblrs, so that says nothing about its quality. If you go on social media and no one wants to talk with you about what you want to talk about, it seems like a waste of time and effort.

It's a shame when independent projects like this close down, but if not enough people stepped up to help when help was needed, burnout was inevitable, and burnout can only be ignored for so long. Better to close it down like this than in a more dramatic way.

The type of people who went on pillowfort might actually be interested in fediverse alternatives. They'll reconnect on dreamwidth, probably, and post where they can be found. If Wafrn has what pillowfort users want and, more importantly, if their friends from there want to try it out with them, it could be a healthy boost of furries, lady fandom nerds, and lgbt+ people to the fediverse.

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Yeah, that sucks! Good luck :(

If successful, samples of dust, soil and rocks from Phobos will arrive on Earth in 2031.

There's the article I remember! Those blurry snake images really stuck in my brain.

You know, I don't think of myself as afraid of snakes or even anxious around them, but looking back I remember certain things that might have created some wariness.

I remember going out to play in the spring and family warning me to leave any snakes i saw sunning themselves alone because they were confused and slow (and thus more dangerous?) when they were colder. And my mother telling a story about a snake coming towards me when I was very little playing outside, and her sweeping in to grab me. I could have absorbed that wariness, and it's just in my brain now. I think they're kind of cute, honestly, but maybe my grandmother transmitted her phobia to me while babysitting with stories I don't even remember.

I was curious if many people would mention having a non-reaction like yours. Brains are so interesting!

This thread made me remember a story my own mom told me about seeing a snake heading towards oblivious-toddler me and how she reacted without even thinking to yank me away. Mom action hero vs snake moments!

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lol, yeah, that was a predictable outcome.

Speaking about the mine, Errol told Musk biographer Walter Isaacson: “If you registered it, you would wind up with nothing, because the Blacks would take everything from you.”

Hmm...exactly the guy to prove someone isn't racist.

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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

It feels like companies like this eventually become vehicles for like 5 people to make lots of money. You can't let go the guy making these mistakes - lining his pocket is the purpose of the company! It'd be ridiculous to fire him! Unless some of the other 4 people making money decide he's keeping them from lining their pockets.

Unfortunately, it's the kind of role that'll attract predators, even though I'm sure most of the people involved just want to do good. Like teaching and abusers and nurses and serial killing, etc.

“I have been trying tell all you ‘men’ that our kitchen pantry is empty with spider webs, our house has been ransacked, the windows and doors are broken and busted, and the greedy rich bastards have twisted your minds into a sick state that you all continue in the two party toxic political system that acts like college football playoffs yet is burying you and your children and their children and their children in a pine box in a shallow grave,” Greene continued.

Hmm. There's a degree to which it feels like she's shoving canned goods from the pantry out of sight into her purse while she's saying this, but I do agree with her basic point here. Especially the way parties are treated like football teams.

This is the second worm found in this guy...

For unexplained reasons, the [first] worm was not identified, and he was not treated with anti-parasitic drugs after the discovery.

I'm trying to imagine pulling a parasite out of a guy and not even wondering what kind it is.

Have trouble buying that they hit the ice agent without evidence considering how often they've been proven to lie about shit.

Make a game that doesn't sell? Laid off. Make one of the best-selling games of the year? Would you believe it, also laid off.

It's a waste to try, with these companies.

Chatgpt is awful for people who have delusions.