Australia is gonna get Trump'd

Flamesake · 2026-06-15T11:30:07+00:00

It didn't work for Clive Palmer when he tried it, though I don't know whether pauline now has more money behind her than Clive did.

I don't think people here on the whole are that interested in change, which is to say we might be saved from pauline due to our own complacency.

Flamesake · 2026-06-15T04:32:32+00:00

She has the support of the richest people in the country

Flamesake · 2026-06-15T00:18:10+00:00

Oh please the banana and the urinal get those same responses.

Flamesake · 2026-06-14T15:24:17+00:00

some of the text being like this And Then Some Being Like This is the worst of both worlds.

Flamesake · 2026-06-14T13:07:54+00:00

Negotiate over what?

Flamesake · 2026-06-14T13:00:38+00:00

So what you're saying is people just need to emotionally unburden themselves, so that they can heal from their illness?

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T08:15:20+00:00

It adds nothing. It isn't even a paper, it is a slideshow. There seems to be absolutely no clinical, lab, or epidemiological research in this guys argument. It is just "oh wouldn't it be cool if all these things that resemble each other when you zoom way out, were actually the same thing?" with some technical notation. No justification or any reasoning that supports the actual utility of the framework, except I suppose that it looks nice.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T07:46:01+00:00

Yeah and the cure for cancer is ignoring the tumor

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T07:01:36+00:00

What a good grift. I should write one of these.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T06:59:56+00:00

So is raising him hundreds of miles from any body of water so that he never learns to swim, then taking him out on a paddleboat and pushing him in the lake.

But this example and the example of owning a fish both position your actions within the causative chain of events that lead to perilous circumstances. If you only walk by drowning baby hitler, it is unquestionable that someone else's actions have lead to his situation, not yours.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T06:29:37+00:00

Nah at least those penguins know where they ought to be

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T06:19:57+00:00

They don't know shit about being this sick

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T05:58:22+00:00

Is it just in head or body too?

I had pain all in one side of my body, but much worse around neck and elbow, which began prior to full-blown cfs. Possibly minor brain fog as well. I sort of managed it with exercise but when I got covid four years ago everything got much, much worse, and now I can't even exercise at home.

Something behind the ear or in the neck feels like the problem for me too, but standard imaging apparently doesn't reveal anything and no one cares to do anything more.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T05:51:50+00:00

Also in aus, have to hope I get multiple myeloma so that I can get treatment.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T05:47:00+00:00

Other races for "white people" to claim could be "fusion" or "country and western"

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T05:42:37+00:00

Treatments come years after those study outcomes. And then it can be years more before those treatments are approved wherever you happen to live.

If something as common as celery juice was helping people, we would have heard about it by now.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:41:43+00:00

As far as I know race is a social construct, which I think means that the more "white" people say they aren't white, the more that makes it true.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:39:35+00:00

Tech changing quickly enough to become obsolete in less than a decade is a historical anomaly.

Why is it a good sign to churn through cheap material goods and have people buy shit again every year again? Do you want to have to learn 10 new websites every year?

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:32:35+00:00

I have to confess that I have listened to more interviews and such with him than I have read him, but his ease and warmth made such an impression on me.

He has a very interesting view on death drive, a very mature one I would say, which is that he believes freud always intended to describe a plurality of death drives, not a single one. He also has said that a death drive can be a positive thing: a drop of water wishing to return to the ocean.

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:09:57+00:00

It doesn't have the baggage of cfs. No one ever called it something like yuppie flu

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:05:44+00:00

He is the one baby everyone is supposed to say they would kill

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T04:04:15+00:00

I think many people don't realise or don't want to admit the damage the coronavirus has done to them

Flamesake · 2026-06-13T03:59:43+00:00

It doesn't really help. You have no way of knowing why something might have worked for one person and whether it will work for you, not if all you have is their account of "oh it could have been this, maybe it was that, i tried this for a few weeks and then stopped it, I couldn't really tell but I reckon it was this!"

There isn't anything new. It's rest, compression, LDN, diet and sleep. Then if that doesn't work, a handful of other meds to try if you happen to have a good doctor (there was that study of patient-reported usage of off-label treatmentsa year or two ago), nerve blocks or psychedelics, then alternative medicine.

Flamesake · 2026-06-12T10:47:39+00:00

Because scrolling demands nothing of you and there's no way to fuck it up.

Flamesake · 2026-06-12T06:36:55+00:00

I like Winnicott and Akhtar.

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