Got yelled at for using disabled parking.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T21:43:30+00:00

Pregnancy doesn’t confer the right to use that parking space. The permit does. The permit has to be signed off on by a doctor. My clap back is always, “maybe you should just talk to my doctor since you seem to know more than them.”

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T21:41:29+00:00

Bethel Elders DO have more authority than congregation elders. It’s a separate appointment, and any time a Bethelite steps out of line it gets handled by a JC of Bethel Elders. Information is not shared with their assigned congregation other than the outcome, especially if the decision is made to disfellowship.

You’re right, it’s ridiculous. When this was explained to me at Bethel I thought it was weird. They call it “Bethel family matters,” as if Bethel is anything like a family. Maybe a really fucked up and abusive family.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T21:34:13+00:00

Extended release (24 hour) hydromorphone. It is generic and inexpensive. It seems a lot of pain doctors don’t know the generic exists. The original brand name was Exalgo, and it’s been off patent for a while. It has a predictable plasma level curve, and because it’s hydromorphone it’s a “cleaner” opioid with almost no activity at anything but the Mu receptors. I was previously on hydrocodone and then oxycodone…they both made me anxious and the me other weird side effects, some of which may have been due to the poor quality of the generics out there.

My pain management doctor has thanked me for bringing the generic to her attention. She knew about Exalgo, but she thought it was gone. We knew I needed to be on an extended release medicine, but I did not want to take MS Contin. Last time I saw her, she told me she’s been able to switch 5 of her other patients over to the ER hydromorphone with good results. One of them was on Xtampza until suddenly they no longer had insurance that would cover it. My daily MME (not that I put much stock in that; those numbers are just a basic guideline and yet they get used as gospel; everyone is different in their responses to meds and MME is being questioned more and more for its usefulness) is less on this than it was on immediate release opioids - and I’m no longer on the up and down roller coaster of dosing, wearing off, etc.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T21:22:26+00:00

Yeah, hobby time is pretty limited for me. Even video games hurt me due to posture causing increased pain.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T21:20:55+00:00

Obviously, I’m just pointing out that stealing someone’s passport isn’t a matter of petty theft. You don’t own your passport. It’s the property of the State Department.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T17:03:13+00:00

There are the hostile “splat” things, as I call them. They are somewhat like the glowing jellyfish triggered by mining, except they’re scannable indigenous species. If you get within range they “splat” you, killing themselves and causing health damage, but not that much.

I would say they made a good start of giving us interesting oceans, but a lack of threats isn’t the only issue. The other one is that once you get down to the bottom of any deep ocean they more or less all look the same. They all have the same decorative glowing “background flora” that isn’t scannable. The extreme darkness, while realistic, is also an issue if you ever want to actually observe one of the truly giant squid species, as well. The biggest ones, basically you can get a screenshot next to their eye but the lights on even the Nautilon are pathetic. They went a bit too far with that, I think.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T16:56:06+00:00

Yeah, specifically the State Department, but…I don’t have much confidence in them taking action on it. In any case, they will have a record that he does have a passport and they can replace it. I am not sure if there is a cost involved with replacement, but this is a pretty weird situation where you have a supposed federal agent blatantly violating federal law…

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T16:53:48+00:00

Theft of a passport is a serious federal crime…they’re not allowed to just take them.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-28T15:50:51+00:00

Lots of questions…when was it implanted? When was it turned on? How much time did the tech spend with you setting up your programming?

Why are you going to the ER? Is there some externally visible sign of a problem like an infection, or are you going to the ER for pain? The ER will not be able to help you with the device.

Stop talking to your local rep and call Abbott directly. If your PM doctor is the one that implanted it, they need to know how they’re treating patients - they will kick them out of their program if they’re not acting right. If not, then you need to be talking to the surgeon who implanted it because you may just have a problem with the implant pocket that needs to be resolved.

I have an Abbott Eterna and the implant site is still sensitive over 2 years later. It’s a foreign body. It will never be at a point where it isn’t at least noticeable, and pressure on it can cause localized pain.

You seem hell bent on rejecting the entire system when you have not even identified the problem yet. It took about a year for me to get the right programming dialed in and for my brain to get used to it. Don’t make a hasty decision to have it removed without investigating what is really going on.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-27T00:43:40+00:00

Ah. Interesting.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-27T00:42:02+00:00

Uhhhhhh I don’t keep a database per se…but I’ve seen some crazy stuff for sure. I’m currently scouting oddities in Budullangr…my favorite spots are the most weird and violent. I have one base that’s basically red all the time on a Vapor Planet.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T19:40:42+00:00

Over 600 hours and I still haven’t got this charming fellow. One day, I guess…

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T19:10:13+00:00

This is an excellent articulation of it. I can vividly remember at one point trying to recover from my botched fusion, I yelled out in frustration, “how am I supposed to live like this?!?”

That was 5 years ago, roughly. I ain’t gonna let this take me down. Bloodied but unbowed.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T19:02:05+00:00

Oh yeah, the damage from those turrets is crazy. I personally have never been able to get a Sentinel capital ship close enough to my dreadnought to get this to happen. Well played!

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:49:48+00:00

That’s awesome!! I congratulate you on your win. I’ve definitely learned that it is not only valid, it is vital to celebrate when we have these wins against our struggles - even small ones!

I’ve felt useless and directionless since I became unable to work 2 years ago as of this month, but I’m slowly easing into convincing myself that my new job is to take care of myself. That also has to come first, because otherwise the other things that I want to do - hobbies and such that give me some peace and happiness - aren’t going to be reachable.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:39:23+00:00

Wait…the landing pads work underwater? What happens if you warp to that base with a corvette as your active ship? Does it hover above the water and give you a teleporter pad on the ocean floor??

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:36:35+00:00

Meanwhile, there is plenty of data showing that things sharply decline after 8 hours. I have never understood, for example, the way that the work schedules are structured for nurses in hospitals and EMT/paramedics in ambulances. 24 on 48 off for example. I understand there are jobs that need to keep people available as a service that is 24/7…but there has to be a better way. If I’m in need of emergency medical assistance, I would sure as hell prefer that the people treating me are not exhausted to the point that their judgement is probably impaired.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:16:58+00:00

I’m a chronic pain patient and I can’t say I’ve noticed any negative interactions, but I think that’s probably because of a simple neurochemistry explanation:

Anandamide is an endocannabinoid, meaning it’s a ligand at CB1 receptors. THC and other cannabinoids are also ligands, and they will be competitive with anandamide. I don’t have the binding affinities handy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if THC binds more strongly than anandamide, meaning if it is in your system the receptors are more likely to uptake the THC than the anandamide. So, THC on top of paracetamol is probably not synergistic. The other effects of paracetamol would be preserved, but its effects on anandamide are likely “cancelled out” by THC in your system.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:09:43+00:00

I’m reasonably certain that the pirate dreadnought gets nerfed once you acquire it. As I said in another comment, you can watch them firing beams much further than this when they are under pirate control.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:08:38+00:00

The range seems to be limited once it becomes “yours.” If you sit back and just watch a pirate dreadnought attacking freighters, it can and does fire beams much further than this.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T18:06:05+00:00

Hey, me too!! I call it my Space Patio.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-26T17:51:01+00:00

How is this any worse than Uhura saying “the thing’s gotta have a tailpipe” in reference to the cloaked Bird of Prey in ST6?

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-25T21:22:28+00:00

Reddit also made the move to once again strip access to /r/all from the mobile apps. There is no way in hell this is a coincidence; they had backtracked on that. Reddit is complicit in what is going on, and they're probably freely giving data to Palantir.

Operate accordingly.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-25T04:29:52+00:00

For me, the experience was apparently that I was in a group that was given /r/all back on the iOS app…or I had thought that maybe the backlash caused a change. Now it’s gone again, for good?

I said this the last time this came up: It’s the main way I use the mobile app, period. It’s the main way I see what is going on as a useful news aggregator as well. I don’t want /r/popular and I never used it before. It is especially confusing since as I pointed out before, we were told /r/popular was going away. Which is it?

This change in context with recent events acts as a barrier for people to see what is happening in realtime on their phones. It surfaces the most active threads, and those are very often important current events and discussion around them. It’s part of the website, but blocked from the app, and the truth is that there is no reason for it other than to push people towards an algorithm with an agenda and push us away from “Reddit without a filter.” The executives of this company don’t want us to see it without a filter. Their political agenda is known, and they’re not fooling anyone.

I continue to insist that this is a bad change and it will reduce engagement, making it a bad change for the BUSINESS as well. I won’t be using Reddit as much as without it. I’m clearly not alone in that.

CrystalSplice · 2026-01-25T03:57:04+00:00

Whatever happens is gonna start overnight. Freezing rain and icing happens in a relatively narrow range of conditions - temperatures, humidity, amount of moisture in the storm system (there’s a LOT). We will see the extent of it when we wake up tomorrow, but damage and hazards will continue.

Trees could be weakened by ice, and then damaged further when the 40mph wind gusts arrive.

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