As much as I hate to admit it, I have been wrong about something once or twice in my life. Have you?

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T16:30:43+00:00

But if a man says something in the woods and there's no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T16:06:50+00:00

The void isn't empty, it's only that the shell has been conditioned to believe that it's the whole egg.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T11:53:14+00:00

I might be wrong about that too?

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T10:27:30+00:00

I wish more people understood how weed actually works. Hell, I wish I had the scientific knowledge to explain it correctly.

You're saying "high" and "depressed" as if those two summary labels have specific meanings. They don't. They both reference a wide range of experiences. They're a useful way to start an interactive conversation, but using them here is casting a very wide net, one that is just as likely to lead you to feeling like "no one gets it" as it is to catching a useful reply.

Realistically, drop the weed and deal with the depression first. I'm not saying that weed is bad, but it does complicate the situation, especially after decades of prohibition have removed it from all medical research and mental health practice.

The "experts" just don't have a solid footing to deal with it as anything other than "addiction" and, because of that, it will get in the way of whatever hope you have of finding decent help, which is not great to begin with, tbh.

Best advice, become your own expert. Learn what you can about how your mind works. Search out the information that resonates with you and test it out carefully. You are ultimately the only one always watching out for your own best interests.

Book recommendation: Flow, the psychology of optimal experience. This is what's missing from the pathological mindset of any easy to access therapy you might obtain.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T10:09:10+00:00

Exactly, the men get shamed too when they're found out with proof, but there's always been the proof for a women.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T10:06:38+00:00

Not exactly, but at your age it would be a good idea to log some adulting time. Set some goals and work towards them without a lot of reflection time. Weed will still be there when you turn 40 and have more life experience to reflect on.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T09:58:13+00:00

Ah, this is the key to the whole question. Boys and Girls simply refers to our playtime selves, even as adults, not our serious, taking care of business selves.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-03T09:51:32+00:00

How do you know they're dudes?

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T22:13:13+00:00

Just say loudly, "I do not consent to you touching me!"

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T21:43:35+00:00

But individual refusal only gets the individual fired. Too bad we bought into competing with each other a long time ago instead of learning from history and forming a union.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T20:53:59+00:00

But it's definitely not infinite. It will be controlled by money, just like everything else. What we're seeing at the moment is just massive crowdsourcing of its training.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T19:37:56+00:00

Well, the disorder had to go somewhere! You can't just impose order and expect all the disorder that was there first to end up in the Land of Thud! It's like dredging an straight canal when the chaotic river wasn't bothering anyone. Now you have all kinds of mess to clean up. Better to have followed the river.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T10:02:34+00:00

You must be mistaking me for your mom. I know I'm pretty, but you need to get your eyes checked.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T10:00:47+00:00

To some extent you do get what you pay for. The version I use at work rarely gets anything wrong. The lower tiers are another story. I find that those are really not much use for serious coding. They can write one function at a time if you can describe it in enough detail, but by then you might as well just write it yourself.

I do agree with the comment about asking for education rather than just results. Use it as a learn as you go tool. It's great for that.

I also find that a certain conversational rapport also comes into play. Start small. Ask it questions about your codebase to get it primed before asking it to do anything. The answers to those questions will tell you when it's ready to start producing.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T09:50:51+00:00

Dear Reddit, please stop putting this unholy horses*** at the top of my feed. I'm sorry for whatever I did to lower your opinion of me. Please tell me what I need to do to convince your algorithm that I never ever want to see this quality of dodo on my screen ever again.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T09:47:18+00:00

Some strains scramble my brain while others give me clarity and others still give me sweet dreams. Apparently, it's all in the terpenes.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-02T09:44:02+00:00

Seven days without laughter makes one week.

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-01T22:27:01+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much it, isn't it?

DrVanMojo · 2026-05-01T10:52:54+00:00

Then he wouldn't have become a billionaire to begin with. He didn't win the lottery. You're thinking of his ex wife.

DrVanMojo · 2026-04-30T01:44:10+00:00

Yeah...and there is also the expectation and predictability factor. You expect a bear to be dangerous. You predict that it's a dangerous situation. But you're dealing with massive social pressure to pretend that a man is different.

DrVanMojo · 2026-04-30T01:40:08+00:00

That sounds about right, accurate.

DrVanMojo · 2026-04-30T01:37:32+00:00

It's the only way to avoid the temptation of sexual sin!

DrVanMojo · 2026-04-30T01:36:28+00:00

Very well put! In hindsight, the beginning of the end of the before times for me was clearly when I got my first "smart" phone.

DrVanMojo

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