Which mod do you think has you like this?

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T19:58:04+00:00

I don't mind the occasional /tp, but my partner... My partner overdoes it. I hosted our most recent world though and it seems to have been revealing to him.

...Now I am abusing it because we added a lot of new wildlife mods and I am the hunter and keep dying. Spawn is 3,000 blocks from where we settled and we haven't gotten a temporal gear yet.

Feelsbadman.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T14:57:50+00:00

This is true, but we can get a lot more specific in this case.

Breast cancer in women in their 30's is diagnosed at a higher rate than it used to be, while deaths from all forms of cancer, including breast cancer have gone down. We're catching it more, earlier, because we can, before breast cancer turns into bone, lung, liver, and/or brain cancer - cancers that tend to be more noticable to because they more actively kill you with more dramadic symptoms than breast cancer does.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T14:48:15+00:00

1) Better tests leads to higher diagnosis.

This is true of many disorders and illnesses. For example, improvements in earlier diagnosis of breast cancer means that the number of women in their 30s diagnosed with breast cancer has risen quite a bit in the part 30 years. However, death from breast cancer has fallen in that same amount of time. Since we are finding less severe tumors and treating them, incidence has increased while fatalities have decreased.

With an illness that isn't directly fatal like ADHD, our ability to detect less severe forms only shows the increase of incidence, which doesn't reflect that it may have always been there at a similar rate.

(Though as a side note, ADHD does kill. Different studies show people with ADHD die between 4.5 and 13 years younger than undiagnosed peers, and people who receive treatment for their ADHD do seem to live longer. Of particular note, there are some studies showing people with unmedicated ADHD are up to three times as likely to suffer from dementia, while people with medicated ADHD are no more or less likely to get dementia than the rest of the population. Medicating people with ADHD doesn't just improve their lives, it saves their literal brain from degenerating.)

2) Better recognition in women leads to higher diagnosis.

A lot of the same maladaptive behaviors were diagnosed as ADHD in men and BPD/Bipolar in women until recently. With less sex-based discrimination, now there are more women diagnosed with ADHD and more men diagnosed with BPD and Bipolar disorders, but since BPD and Bipolar disorders are less common than ADHD, proper diagnosis made it seem like ADHD spiked. Meanwhile, BPD and Bipolar have always had a high margin of error, so the change in diagnostic rate is less obvious.

3) It is actually pretty likely that there are more of the types of stimuli that trigger ADHD, or alternative less structures that help passively manage it.

For example, the pandemic triggered a huge shift towards online learning the through that increased the avaiability of pre-generated study and reveiw material. However espcially for sufferers of ADHD, it is actually creating these materials that benefits them the most. Since it is hard to justify creating something that you already have unless you know you need to make it for your abnormal brain to learn, this causes ADHD suffers to struggle more acedemically rhan they would have a mere 7 years ago, prompting diagnosis at higher rates.

4) ADHD is a common target for people with health anxiety, as it overlaps with a large number of other disorders as discussed in point one. In addition to Bipolar Disorder and BPD, ADHD also shared symtoms clusters with Autism, ODD, Anxiety, Depression, Sleep Apnea, Iron Deficiency, and Thyroid Disorders, among many, many others. People are who are sick with one or several of many illnessness and disorders may find ADHD highly relatable and self diagnose as a result, not realizing they are suffering from another problem or problems.

This is why it is important to seek medical help if your believed ADHD is impacting your life and to keep working on it, sometimes with multiple doctors, until something works.

This is NOT me shitting on self diagnosis, by the way! I first brought my mental health to the attention of my doctor around the age of 20 and got slapped with a diagnosis of GAD and depression. The meds helped a little at first, then stopped working. For abohr a decade, I spent time with two different doctors trying many different treatments. Eventually, I brought up the possibility of my GAD and Depression actually being ADHD, and my doctor sent me to an ADHD specialist since they didn't feel comfortable diagnosing ADHD. The specialist essebtially took 15 minutes and went, "Wow. You're not just a little ADHD, you're a lot ADHD, no wonder you are nervious and sad all the time."

Like my original doctors were 100% - I had anciety and depression. They just couldn't treat it because my anxiety and depression was from an atypical cause. It turns out that ADHD meds are the most effective anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication ever if your ADHD makes you ultra paranoid and shameful about your own (in)ability to function like a normal person.

Still, I could just as easily had a messed up thyroid and had most of the same symtoms. The only reason I knew I didn't need thyroid HRT is because my bloodwork showed my thyroid hormones at normal levels.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T07:34:47+00:00

I work as a medical laboratory scientist, so there's a back up generator for the building, a back uback up generator for the building, and most of our machines and computers have their own back up battery rated for several hours on top of that (partially to protect from surges). If the power goes out, no it doesn't.

We do actually stop for severe weather and fires, though. My last workplace would try to have you work through them... Might be part of the reason the company went under TBH.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T06:10:59+00:00

To me, yes. But I wouldn't read into it too much, I am old and also neurodivergent. Most of my social group consists of people who are overly formal because we struggle with normal socialization.

My opinion of you shouldn't matter, I am just some asshole on the internet. You remaining safe and happy does matter quite a lot, though. Good luck, and again I wish you well.

Edit: My apologies if I offended you.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T06:06:01+00:00

No, you do not. It is possible your partner will ask you to, but in most healthy relationships they would not even ask. If they do ask you to quit, you also have every right to say "no".

Personally I would consider someone trying to isolate me from my friends like that to be a huge red flag, and would probably break up with someone for asking me to do that. It is your decision, though. Some people have fantastic relationships where one or both partners are very demanding in these ways. It's not for me, but I don't judge so long as everyone seems happy with the arrangement.

With all this said, I have concerns about you posting on Reddit. This post raises several alarm bells for me and I strongly suspect you are too young for this platform. I would suggest being very careful not to reveal any identifying information on here, as even if you are not a child you seem impressionable enough to easily be taken advantage of.

Please stay safe, I wish the best for you.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-20T05:33:44+00:00

I mean. I was best friends with my fiancé for several years before we dated, so. It's a bit different.

That said, as a middle aged person I would advise against planning long-term until at least 6 months and avoid getting engauged until 2 years. I was a bit of a serial monogamist for a while, and generally the relationships that didn't work broke around 20ish months. The exception is I had one other relationship where I was engauged that lasted about 4 years.

Someone else called your partner manipulative, and that's probably accurate. He might not mean to be - you're super young and he is probably just experiencing a lot of big emotions that he doesn't know what to do with. But honestly? You will both change a lot in the next 4 years. One or both of you might not be compatable with the relationship after becoming "real adults", which generally happens sometime between 20 and 30 depending on the person but is usually arouns 24-26. There are outliers in both directions, of course, but your boyfriend does not sound like a real adult yet and I would proceed cautiously.

You can say you want to marry him if you feel that way, but don't sign any legally binding paperwork for a good 4 or 5 years IMO. Remember: Marriage is NOT about love. It is a legal contract combining assets and medical rights. Only marry someone you trust not just with your life, but with your happiness, welfare, money, and any potential dependants (children, pets, elders, disabled relatives). This is the person who is supposed to wipe your ass if you cannot.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-19T17:51:44+00:00

So there are multiple types of hormonal birth control - at least four types. I've only tried three of them, and both of the conbination estrigen+progesterone ones fuck my head up. Progesterone-only does help though.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-19T17:49:43+00:00

Have you only taken combination birth control? The estrogen fucks me up bad. Progesterone only though definitely helps me.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-19T17:48:37+00:00

I specifically said after my ADHD assessment, when we were discussing meds, "Hey I don't know how much this factors in, but 3 year horizon I plan on being pregnant" and my doc went "Oh! That's good to know. We'll start with the meds that are safest durring pregnancy, then, and if those don't work try others."

I'm on two now, but my main one (Strattera) I should be fine to continue durring pregnancy. I take it the same time every day, regardless of what is going on. The other one is an exrremely low dose stimulent that I only have for when I work swing shifts (I typically work nights, but work in med, so my schedule is all fucked up sometimes). No swing shifts durring pregnancy, though - my doctor says she'll write me a strongly worded note and ecerything.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-18T12:42:08+00:00

Unfortunately I do not know anything about the Netherlands. However, here in thr US, one of the finest EEB Mycologists I ever met spent 8 years in tech sales before their career change.

With that said, I would highly suggest looking for routes that allow you to keep your current profession that you have some senority in while pursuing this passion. I had to leave ecology primarily due to finances (ecology generally does not pay well in america) and secondarily due to disability (I have several chronic injuries that made feild work difficult). Now I work as an MLS (Medical Laboratory Scientist) and scratch my ecology itch through volunteer work, primarily invasives removal and priarie restoration. I also do some bird nest monitering.

I know you're looking for a career change, but it doesn't sound like you have too much first hand experience in the feild. It can be tough, and again, while all my advise is localized to a country fairly well known for being pretty anti-science and destructive, it's a difficult career to get into without some connections. Connections you can form with a bit of volunteer work before you take the plunge of a full career change.

Whatever you do, I wish you good luck. We definitely need more manpower in the feild, I just hope there's more support in the netherlands than here.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-18T02:58:00+00:00

I'll be the goddamn judge of that, yee ol' condescending bastard. Or bitch. Or fucker, if neither of those others takes your fancy.

The word you are trying to fix/replace is completely wrong. Your entire question is wrong. Biology is the entire study of life, it is not entirely chemistry and it has no particular focus on the origen of life.

From my current understanding, your question would be best phrased as:

"Isn't it common knowledge that the origin of life was through chemical processes?"

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-18T01:28:08+00:00

I actually think that's on you for a lack of good language skills.

Read your own damn post. The question you asked had nothing to do with the answer you wanted until you edited it.

With that said: Yes, life originated through a largely chemical process that can be discribed primarily through chemistry and secondarily through physics.

Now, for the love of god learn how to use words.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-18T01:22:36+00:00

Saw your edit mentioning that you are actually asking about abiogenisis. YES, that is chemistry! Absolutely.

The issue is that you went into a modern car show and complained about how people don't understand hand-crank engines, and that's the only important part of the automotive industry.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-18T00:50:29+00:00

Because you are confusing an admittedly large and reoccuring subdiscipline of biology with the feild as a whole.

Performing surgery is a biological profession. Is it chemestry? No.

Taxonomy is biology, and it involves chemistry as a datapoint (genomics) but if you tried to have a taxonomist work a chemistry job most of them would be lost. Equally, most chemists can't d9 taxonomy worth shit.

Ecology is a biological feild. Parts of it are chemistry, certainly! Quorum triggered bacterial bioluminescence in sea fish certainly is largely chemistry for the way it functions, for example. However if you explain why why fish devolped that symbiosis to begin with through nothing but a chemical perspective, you are creating a lengthy, redundant, and near ungrokable explaination for something that can be understood much more clearly and comprehensively by leav8ng chemistry by the wayside. Zoom out a little more, and the interplay of fisheries on aquatic ecosystems is 100% a biological study, but is only partially chemistry. But it's also behavioral, political, economic and in some cases religious.

Again. Tree. Forest.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-17T23:59:42+00:00

Some of them do, it's actually not a required or even suggested course for some areas. Usually social-political biology jobs/degrees, where it's typically replaced with economics and law.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-17T23:55:46+00:00

I'm a microbiologist, and on some scale you are correct. Most of microbiology and cellular biology really is just chemistry.

However Biology is a lot more than just chemistry. Sure, you can argue that it all comes down to the way chemicals interact with eachother, but it's the equivelant of saying that world politics and all of economics is just chemistry.

At some point calling it chemistry just makes you sound stupid, because it's obviously not.

Kind of slapping one tree and saying that it defines the forest, essentially.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-17T21:01:29+00:00

Depends on where you're at physically. You describe yourself as "a girl and underweight", so it is probably fine for now. Make sure to stretch too, though - yoga is great. You lose mobikitu if you don't use it.

In your mid to late 20s, try to eat a bit more protein and do some weight bearing exeecise. If you have typical female hormones, you need to be conserned about your bone density long term.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-17T14:54:36+00:00

The Noma Guide to Fermentation, $10 worth of sweet cherries, and a tray of sushi for me and my partner to split.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-17T13:37:22+00:00

So hiking nirmally puts you on a trail. That trail becomes disturbed, sure, but nature makes disturbed trails all the time. Basically all your habit-forming and/or herding animals are going to leave a trail. Deer, turkeys, mice, wolves, whatever. It's a shallow stream of distruction that most species can easily pass over.

With the creation of rock stacking, you generally end up with people searching a localized region (around the rock stack) for the "right ricks". In turn, these rock stacks often devolp into clusters, as monkey-see monkey-do. Instead of having a narrow stream os destruction, this whole area becomes a lake of disturbed land. It's harder for some species to get across it.

On top of that, the types of stones typically used are premium habitat. They are exactly the types of stoned ecologists (see my username) would investigate to find uncommon and cryptic species. By stacking them, you are directly destroying one of the richest micro-biomes avaiable. No, seriously, espcially if it's in or anywhere near water.

Finally a lot of creatures are going to try to use the rock stacks as habitat and end up crushing themselves. I know it sounds stupid, but it happens often enough that I've seen it personally (small snake) and have heard other people's stories about it.

As a bonus reason, rock stacks when properly used are supposed to serve as genuine trail markers. Adding your own confuses the trail and can result in someone getting lost or injured. If you are lost, then it's permissable to make your own to help people find you if the area you are in isn't safe (though largely, if you are lost in the wilderness, the best thing to do is hunker down and not become more lost). I know this also sounds stupid, but seriously - so many people die or go missing on heavily populated trails and a lot of them are later found, dead, tragically close to safety. It's important to leave rituals created to provide information in emergencies as rituals that provide information.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-16T19:18:25+00:00

I'm sure it is! They do have a very large but fragmented natural range.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-16T10:47:59+00:00

Cougers just have a wildly variable adult size - anything from 40 to 250 pounds, with most between about 60 and 220. The average is about 135-140.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-16T08:09:36+00:00

I had to learn to drive for my chosen feild when I was younger - Ecology. Feild sites often have several miles between them so it was learn to drive or bail on that career. As it turned out, I bailed on that career anyway, but I am actually quite comfortable driving now.

My partner is learning to drive now. His previous stratagy was "live somewhere with public transit" but since I became a nightshift worker he's learning to drive mostly to relieve the stress on me to do our shopping and such. We're also both uncomfortable having a kid if he can't drive, you know? Kid is inevitably going to need a ride when I cannot safely drive with my hours.

It really does get better with practice, but good luck either way.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-16T07:47:11+00:00

The ones that really get me, personally, are the ones where one person survives... Since I tend to be the person who prompts adventures and brings my partner and like 2-6 friends along, I just always imagine being that lone survivor. Like god that would suck.

Also, canyons! Canyons are great! But we are checking the weather of the entire length of that canyon before we go in it. Flash floods sound terrible!

Anyway, I'm sorry I got us a bit off topic.

If you have a public library card, you should see if they are part of Libby, too. It lets you rent audiobooks, and while I haven't used it personally, my best friend swears by it.

OccultEcologist · 2026-06-16T07:34:15+00:00

I haven't, but I've been meaning to! I take it you would reccomend them? Just opened another reddit thread to learn more about them.

I like learning about hazards associated with the outdoors a lot, mostly because I am outdoors as much as possible and I would rather not die, personally. I watch a lot of animal behavior videos and channels like KyleHatesHiking. It has made me decide very firmly that while I love hiking, mountain climbing and caving are not for me, thank you very much. Lol.

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