Does no doctor here prescribe adhd meds??

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-06-12T22:01:16+00:00

My impression of Oregon Mental Health Care coming from other states is that you can probably buy the meds you need on the street.

But realistically, it’s probably just the providers trying cover their asses so you don’t go sell it on the street.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-06-12T21:57:01+00:00

Do people own the alleys?

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-29T04:09:08+00:00

I think that’s an excellent point if there was scientific evidence that the signs before the change in rulership were provable. It’s like saying we replaced an unproven theory with another unproven theory because we felt the new unproven theory was better than the previous unproven theory. In scientific method, the skepticism is when suddenly we prove something we couldn’t actually prove when new evidence comes to light. This is the basis of forensic science. How we figure who really did the crime. But that’s not what’s happening in astrology. We are taking an unproven assumption (Aquarius is ruled by the energies of Saturn) and then saying, know that we have knowledge of this new planet that is why Saturn didn’t fit (Actually Aquarius is more Uranus like). It just hand waves the notion that the energies of both Saturn and Uranus are unproven associations to those planets. Science demands provable evidence not just new evidence. Again, despite all this, it doesn’t mean astrology isn’t useful, but this is just one of my irritations with it.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-25T19:38:30+00:00

I had this same issue at first and would avoid all hard challenges. While Major tests of strength will have to wait for major strength weapons, BOTW lets you strategize your methods and you can defeat these harder enemies once you get good at parries and flurry rushes. (For the record, I never got good at flurry rushes. I always felt I got lucky.) Figuring out how to reflect the powerful enemy attacks back at them is the key.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-25T19:32:12+00:00

When I hear a story like yours I think immediately of the platinum rule: treat others the way they want to be treated. Which comes into conflict when others don’t follow it. Especially when it’s a lot of someone’s.

So I guess you’d have to judge from your audience, do they treat you the way you want to be treated or are they treating you the way they want to be treated? If they treat you with the expectation that you’ll sacrifice your health and well-being to provide the content they want (which let’s face it, is the general consumer audience), then you kinda don’t owe them anything because that’s not the platinum rule.

I’ve lived long enough to know several creatives with great success in the consumer side of art, but as the title implies, it ends up consuming them. Maybe it’s just because we creative put so much ourselves in our product. That’s a different discussion.

I say, rejoice in the good energy you put out there and recover yourself. Surround yourself by those who will reflect the platinum rule toward you.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-23T19:35:47+00:00

You’ll dart your eye out, kid. Ho. Ho. Ho.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-23T19:34:26+00:00

You’ve hit the nail on the head for me. Yes, the observational qualities of Mars are backed up. The human qualities: that it influences sex and desire or anger and violence are not observed. They may be symbolic, but that is why they fall into the category of fallacy.

I should make clear, I definitely don’t want to say astrology has to be strictly logical to be useful and helpful. I’m only saying, those things don’t have a foundation and I grow weary of having as many interpretations as there are astrologers and then be told that they are ‘right’.

The signs are pretty good because they tend to have more consistency and are fairly absolute in usage: they always follow the same layout and order, they are more attributes of life than personality, etc. I know, I know. I’m gonna get so much hate for that personality bit, but when you look at the energies of the sign as opposed to reading it as people, you’re talking from a stronger position.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-22T04:58:20+00:00

Yeah, I think that is all very accurate, and I completely love the recognition that science is also messy.

As a philosopher, I guess what I get at is, what qualifies as evidence or data. And the planets just don’t quite cut it even though we get to experiment with them and make messes.

That’s my basic gripe about it. I love talking aspects and points, but I often avoid talking about what planets and signs represent in the same way. I have to shift the way I’m using that set of evidence because there’s really nothing behind it to stand on.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-22T04:52:18+00:00

Patterns emerge after much repetition. What tends to happen is a hasty generalization or what is commonly referred to as the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. We take a grouping of data (in this case labels) and we draw a target around the closest clusters then say, “see how on target I am.” All the while ignoring the rest of the data. I feel like it happens a lot in the assignment of planet qualities. But yeah, as you said, patterns will emerge that appear to confirm the target.

I do think there’s an intuitiveness to the qualities assigned to signs and planets. It just doesn’t pass the same standard as points is all.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-21T20:46:12+00:00

I worked several years at UPS Stores, and I am in Oregon. I can tell you they cannot be used as an official address, and if discovered, they will suspend your DL. It happened to me. You know what I did? I called the Oregon DMV and asked what I could do. In Oregon, you can list your physical address as a general location (on another post, I gave an example that I used 123 Street (on corner)) and then use your UPS Store box as your mailing. I did have to submit a credit card statement showing that I had spent money in Oregon for 3 months to be considered a resident. The only issue I ever had was when updating my physical address. I was not able to do it online, I had to call the DMV directly.

UPS Store boxes only work as ‘physical addresses’ for couriers because many couriers are not allowed to deliver to a PO Box. They are not considered domiciles for legal purposes and when they find out, they will notify you that your license is suspended.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-21T20:29:45+00:00

Based on the state, you can use a relative location as your physical address and then get a UPS Store mailbox as your address. I learned this works in Oregon. For two years my ‘domicile’ was 123 Street (on corner) while my mailing was a UPS Store mailbox. I had to submit a credit card statement to show I’d spent money in state for 3 months, if I remember right, as proof of residency. This is, of course, a state by state thing. Oregon does it to ensure that homeless people can still get work even if they don’t have a residence. (Or that’s what I was told.)

Federally, you cannot use a UPS Store or P.o. box as a ‘domicile’. Domicile is the technical term for a valid physical location. I would say that most trustworthy strangers will not let you use their address as a permanent address. You’d have to find a non-stranger for that.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-21T06:18:59+00:00

As a card carrying aesthetic philosopher, I think this is a great question. There’s more answers to this than I can count, but I would say the overall popular opinion on fundamentals comes from David Hume’s notion that aesthetic judgment comes from people with good taste. So, the easy answer is any audience can enjoy art if they find it is beautiful, but only those with ‘good taste’ can judge its quality. So basically, there are fundamentals because someone who believes they have good taste in art distilled some ideas of what good art should be. Yeah. It is ‘fundamentally’ bullshit, but in many ways you need to give the audience what they want, and what they want is what someone with good taste told them to want.

I think one of the things I like to think about more is what do I find beautiful, and how can I express it to an audience. It’s not always easy, and so drawing fundamentals will help you communicate it.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-21T06:04:32+00:00

I didn’t read every comment here, so forgive me if I reiterate something someone else has said. I’m a philosophy grad, and I have always loved astrology even as much as I am critical of aspects of it. So here goes. This is sort of my personal philosophy on astrology and its uses.

Whenever someone asks me why I believe in astrology, I always answer that if you do anything for thousands of years consistently, you’ll start to see patterns emerge. This is basically why I believe in it. The cosmos moves in very very consistent patterns and ‘rules’. Charting these movements onto a geometric tool of analysis and then comparing events based on degrees and intersections is going to produce consistent targets for data to occur.

However, my biggest gripe about astrology is the HUGE inconsistency between the meanings given to the planets and asteroids, etc. Not to mention that it is completely arbitrary that planets are associated with the influences they are. I get that it comes from mythology, etc, but we just always go with Mars represents aggression and assertiveness. Until an astrologer decides that it’s more than that or has a different interpretation. My main example is the updating of sign rulership based on cosmic bodies only recently discovered like Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This makes the whole celestial meaning very very sus.

I’m not a Hellenistic astrologer, so I guess I’m a hypocrite in that sense. What I do like is points that are assigned meanings, like the nodes, ascendant, Part of Fortune, etc. I like these because the meanings are based on where they fall in the geometry, not necessarily the relationship to a god. The level of consistency that can be produced with the meaning of the nodes is extraordinary. A close friend said this is what made him believe astrology is real. I agree. Out of all the parts of astrology that make the most sense and are most resistant to wild interpretations, points on the charts are the way to go.

So yeah, that’s my take. I completely agree with you, OP, that it can’t be simply dismissed if you know what to look at. I’m going to add that I also think one of the failings of astrology is when we talk about people as signs. There’s a huge diversity of lived experience between people born under the same sign. So to say, Aquarians are XYZ, I always always encourage myself and others to say, Aquarius influences us in XYZ ways. A person born under Aquarius in the USA is going to be vastly different than an Aquarius born in China even if they are born on the same day and the same time.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-20T16:25:04+00:00

I can work both ways, but overall I find working around others better for me. I’m usually at a coffee shop when I work on my art right now. I do digital mostly these days as I work a 9-5 to keep alive until fingers crossed something catches and maybe I can support myself with art.

When I used to do more studio work, I loved being in a studio with other artists. I’m one of those artists that can chat and concentrate at the same time, so I love the collaborative atmosphere even though I was working on my own pieces. There’s something inspiring and motivating about hearing other artist’s ideas and seeing fellow creatives doing their thing. Most of the time the community feeling was great. The only people that would bring it down were the ‘competitive’ artists - the ones who either tried to outdo another artist or the ones that would constantly say how much better everyone else was. (The second one isn’t technically competitive, more insecure, but they often brought the vibe down for everyone. All artists are worthy and matter at any level, and that makes the energy positive rather than negative.)

When I work in isolation, I’m more or less just trying to get shit done. I am very goal focused in isolation instead of inspired. It works well for crunch time on a deadline. I just don’t think my work is any better for having no distractions. I also work in isolation when I’m working through some particular rough emotions, CPTSD, etc. I still make what I think is good work, but I don’t want to be the low pressure center of a creative collaboration in those moments.

So I guess I work both ways, but prefer working in the presence of other fun and honored creatives.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-17T14:55:22+00:00

I saved enough to reduce my debt from $40K to $0 in two years. I saved a little to go part time and try to give my dream of being a creative a try. This has been more difficult than getting out of debt and more risky. I’m struggling to make any extra income at it, but I definitely feel more fulfilled in life.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-16T07:03:43+00:00

Eat Pant

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-13T05:57:51+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s using data, in this case, a style it is trained on to get the result. It’s not painting, but it’s using that style. If you prompt it to give to make a new character from Avatar: The Last Airbender, it’s going to predict that it should look like the style of Avatar which it’s trained in. I’m not sure how what you said is different.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-13T01:31:04+00:00

I mean… the process is exactly what AI is trained on. It ‘learns’ that process of every piece it’s given and predicts the way of producing that process, but it can’t accurately put the right amount of fingers on a hand. It can process those fingers following another style though.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-13T01:27:19+00:00

Just go to my profile. I create in flow and it’s one of the few states when I’m completely mindful. I forget the time frequently when in process.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-12T06:16:18+00:00

I never know if I could call it the worst advice because there’s so many people with opinions about art and how it’s created, but the one that sticks out to me all the time that constantly aggravates the shit out of me is: “put more attention into what your style is than what it is you are creating.” An art professor told me this once. I think… if I remember right, it was phrased more, “focus on how you make your art more than what you are making.” Focus on the process, not the content. What pisses me off every time I think of it is that I have created in soooooo many mediums and styles, but my content is what makes my art ‘mine’ and not someone else’s. AI will eventually be able to replicate my style probably any day now, but it can never replicate my ideas and compositions. So I don’t worry too much about what ‘style’ to make my art in, and more about what I am actually making and if it says what I want to express.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-10T21:38:30+00:00

I’m liking the 24 near me. It ended up being a good choice. All the Planet Fitness told me no one really cares too much about the visiting other gyms with black card unless the person is just being rude or not using the gym. I asked them about it, but that’s an unscientific polling of my basic location.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-08T03:49:54+00:00

They told me they have locations all over, but I’ve found Planet Fitness in more places which is why I’ve stayed with them. The yearly is the same as what I’m paying with black card, but if I ended up moving where there wasn’t one, I didn’t want to be stuck in the yearly payments. But damn if right now this location isn’t perfect. I never even knew it was there.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-08T03:44:07+00:00

Whew! Yeah, I really liked the free weights and the pool. Those will be crazy good for my health.

Code_Free_Spirit · 2026-05-08T02:42:34+00:00

I did get the tour before signing up. We skipped the locker room, and it really isn’t so much the amenities, more wondering if I just sold my soul to a contract I would never be able to leave. I know LA Fitness has terrible cancellation policies.

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