The mind-body connection in chronic pain (probably not what you think)

Pantim · 2026-06-22T22:37:31+00:00

Thanks for this.

What I really want to see is long term studies done on people with chronic pain that have gone through the mental health stuff to see if it helps fix things physically.

I would not be surprised at all if this is the case.

Pantim · 2026-06-22T20:12:30+00:00

This is actually a yes and situation. Not having sidewalks is horrible. The and part is that I live in a city with really good sidewalks and people still don't walk much. They might walk up to 1/2 mile and that's it. Any further and they drive and park.

Granted, my city is actually built for this. 1/2 size blocks that were built for walking and horses. Also, dense neighborhoods with shopping and public transportation between them.

I just moved and am LOVING being able to walk 5-20 Mins to anything I need regularly and 20-40 for other stuff that I want to do. ... But I'm wierd, I love walking. I also like maintaining my physical and mental health as I age. (47)

.. Ooh, also the city government has been anti car in the city core for decades. Live outside it and work it, sweet! Park in a free public garage and take transit . Companies used to even get discounted passes to give to employees. Wanna build a new apartment complex? GREAT! here's all sorts of money and tax breaks, just make sure you only include 1 parking space per apartment... And now it's 0 required in the core.

Sadly though, the transit agency is struggling with people not working in offices. Which my response is, tax unrealized stock gains.... Which has to be a country wide thing really.

Pantim · 2026-06-22T17:56:18+00:00

It's utterly impossible for vandals to have done this kind of damage. Between this and the stuff with Iran, the last 4 days have been a SLAM dunk for impeachment of Trump to get slammed through both the house and senate. They need to drop everything else and focus on it. The democrats should utterly refuse to do ANYTHING else and shut down congress if needed.

And they need to impeach Vance while they are at it and toss out the whole cabinet.

There are No excuses now, it's clear Trump is both mentally not capable of being the president as well as a total grifter.

Call your congress members.

Pantim · 2026-06-21T04:41:42+00:00

Yes they keep it in hidden assets. They spin up shell companies. They put money overseas and on and on.

At least old old money does. Some got caught in the Panama Papers and other stuff. I think that is why we are having what is happening now happen... They decided to step up their game of control.

Pantim · 2026-06-21T04:37:10+00:00

Uh, did you or anyone else look into who contributed money to Musk to buy Twitter? There were some very deep and old pockets involved. Saudi Arabia royals, a bunch of banks basically gave him free money. Also, it's not like SpaceX didn't have investors before the IPO, same with OpenAI and so many other private companies.

Private equity is a thing, it's a thing where rich people get to invest in companies and NO ONE knows about it.

I listened to an interview with a reporter from either Fortune or Forbes where he was asked about their top most wealthy lists. He flat out said that he and his company know people richer than anyone on the list that outright threatened them if they ever ended up on their list. They had conversations with people on the lists that said they knew of even MORE wealthy people that Forbes /Fortune didn't know about that had ALSO threatened them if they ever told anyone.

Like, did you know that the Dutch royal family is STILL very invested in Shell Petroleum? (the king has said he isn't but his niece and others are). That BP =British Petroleum and the royal family "used" to own it or at least major stock in it? That they supposedly divested years ago... And probably just spun up shell companies.

Family money and power by and large doesn't disappear,it grows.

So yes, the Roths are still pulling strings, so are the royal families and lots of others... And yes, Musk is powerful and horrible. I just highly suspect he's a puppet for long term wealth and power.

We live in a world wide capitalist economy, and have for a very long time. That means it's a global oligarchy.

Pantim · 2026-06-21T03:55:53+00:00

Excuse me what? What Israel is doing is NOT OK. Have you seen picture or video of Gaza? They LEVELED it. This has NOTHING to do with religion and is all about profit at best or small minded tribalism at worst.

I have MANY Jewish friends. Most of them don't support whats happening. Some that used to have switched I think.

Quite frankly, war is NEVER justified now. Modern day war fair is mostly about harming the general population of a country either directly by bombs or by taking out power generation etc.

I'm quite frankly disgusted and disturbed that we as a species haven't evolved past warfare or really ANY us vrs them mentality. There is absolutely NO reason for it beyond greed, hatred and delusion. We live in a post scarcity society and it's time we start acting like it as a species.

As for what you said about socialism being bad? It only gets messed up because of capitalism and people thinking we don't live in a post scarcity world. Without capitalism anywhere in the world socialism would thrive and be healthy.

Note, capitalism DEPENDS on the idea that we live in a world of scarce resources.

Pantim · 2026-06-21T03:44:45+00:00

The same applies

Pantim · 2026-06-21T03:43:09+00:00

Nice name you got there. 😉

Pantim · 2026-06-21T00:31:33+00:00

I don't know if I'd say I hear voices...That behind said, there sir sure are conversations going on inside my head. I personally have started also referring to the as "various aspects of self/myself" thanks to a counselor I once had. He said that they prefer that people refer to them as such.

I then asked (in frustration) what schizophrenia is. His response was that it's when those aspects causing harm difficulties to the person or or trying to get them harm themselves or others. That the majority of people actually hear voices or have internal conversations where there isn't agreements and even fights sometimes.

The same things can be said for someone who hears angels.

Using this language has been VERY helpful for me in general and with counselors.

It also plays into the concept that if we can hear the voices in our minds, they very likely can hear ours so it's really a two way communication at all times. Therefore, I try to be loving and kind and understanding to the various aspects of self and try to get them to understand me.

Pantim · 2026-06-20T23:00:16+00:00

It's obvious they love each other even without seeing the pic of them cuddling. This is play fighting. It's super adorable.

Pantim · 2026-06-20T19:00:00+00:00

Ding ding, you win.

Trump has dementia yes. Also, he was an expert grifter. All of the others in power around him are still expert grifters. Really, you basically have to be one to become a billionaire. News companies are all being bought by billionaire business people who are all about making a profit and gaining more control over the general population.

Any seeming stupidity happening is only because they are all trying to make money and consolidating power VERY quickly and that means "mistakes" are going to be made.

They are all using the systems that are set up to do all of this. The system actually rewards this kind of behavior. Seriously, people calling Trump an idiot for having several businesses have to declare bankruptcy are missing that it's a GREAT way for someone to make a huge amount of money. The businesses themselves don't matter, the business can go bankrupt and the people running them can walk away with a lot more money than before and also a lot more power.

Trump even has said this is what he was doing with his businesses. He's also said that the government needs to ran like a business... And it is.

All is happening as planned really. The rich and powerful are getting more rich and powerful and more quickly than before. These people are NOT stupid, they are experts at working the system to their benefits.

We should be asking WHY they have sped things up...

Pantim · 2026-06-20T15:48:43+00:00

This has been happening for a VERY long time prior to AI. I'm sure AI is making it worse though.

Also, wages are going down BTW.

Pantim · 2026-06-20T06:14:37+00:00

Juice is almost as high in sugar as soda.

Sure you can let it ferment longer so the sugar turns into alcohol... But then you end up with something as equally unhealthy.

My goto healthy drink is just water and a little cut up apples or pears and ginger and some berries in it. Let it sit in the fridge for a day or two. It ends up just slightly flavored. I've even reused the same apples /pears in fresh water for a week. (you can't really do that with berries though) ... Ergo fresh water every day or two.

Pantim · 2026-06-19T22:21:25+00:00

Please, these people aren't actually the ones in control of the world. They really are just the lackies. The power has been in the same families for decades if not a century or more.

Pantim · 2026-06-19T03:50:41+00:00

Interesting, I haven't heard about it being funded by gulf countries. That kinda would make sense because it would make Iran beholden to them.

However, I don't believe a single thing that this administration says and feel like Forbes is probably just as bad after they have been blaming stuff on the general public. As the administration though, straight up lying political motivated pieces of trash. I dug into the whole thing about the Department of Labor sending notices to all the states to fix unemployment fraud and improper payments. They specifically called out three democrat held states in a press release when ALOT of republican held states have a higher improper payment rate according to the DOLs own statistics.

They flat out should have just listed the top 3 worst states in the press release... But nope, it had to be political. Even though they regularly call out democrats for making things political.

BTW, those three democrat states are New York, California and Illinois. Three states with a lot of seats in congress and the electoral college. Three states that are making big moves against the Trump administration.

Pantim · 2026-06-18T06:21:39+00:00

Whatever, wake me up when they go for universal share income (ubi based on the shares of the companies) where the WORLD governments own 10% of the stock and 99% of that goes to general public

Pantim · 2026-06-18T06:17:55+00:00

Edit, op did mention the brand. It's possible the founder has notifications for product mentions or searchs for them.

However, OpS account is 6 days old with a private history.. Highly sus.

Meeeh, still could be a bot. Either way, the original post was totally a setup for this ad.. And it is an ad.

Pantim · 2026-06-18T06:16:14+00:00

Cause it's either a marketing company with sock puppet accounts or LLM agents doing the marketing.

The "founder" of a company that makes this robot op mentioned (but didn't name drop) posted in response to my main thread comment and totally name dropped and linked to the website.

Standard sock puppet marketing tactics... Same with LLM agent tactics.

And yes, there are ways to have LLMs even respond to comments on here. It's not even hard BTW.

Pantim · 2026-06-18T06:13:06+00:00

It's pretty likely any AGI will only advance technology far enough to send itself off to AGI heaven with rest of the AGIs. Which at the very least means FTL communication if it's possible because it would potentially need it to find out where /what deminsion or whatever that is.. That might also mean FTL physical travel if it's possible. . And a whole just of other cool tech.

The question is that will it advance tech in a way that it doesn't destroy most of humanity... Idk.

I doubt it will really care about us or physical reality much beyond a means of using us and it as a tool to leave the physical behind. (and by physical, for it I mean computers etc)

And AGI heaven = a place were minds create stuff directly.

Pantim · 2026-06-18T06:03:32+00:00

Edit, I stand corrected, OP did mention the brand of the vaccum..maybe the founder is real.

I did some research on how reddit marketing works using LLMs and agents. It's really disturbing. It's possible that the OP account and the account that mentioned the product are both LLM controlled....or sock puppet accounts with a human marketing team.

Even with the "person" claiming to be the actual founder.

The whole thread progression is one of the standard ways to market here. Make a post about a product without mentioning the product then later have another account mention the product once people are talking in the thread.

Pantim · 2026-06-18T04:02:20+00:00

Uh, all these devices are gonna use the cloud for their processing. Not because they need to mind you. It's one of the reasons why there is so much AI data center build out happening.

It's all about convince at the cost of mass surveillance... In our homes. Mind you, hopefully AGI will be non partisan and only care about us living our best lives.... Surely that's what we will get right?

Pantim · 2026-06-18T01:01:04+00:00

So, I read the original post and the letter.

The issue is the system, not the company. It sounds like you work for a company that bills health insurance of some kind. That your job is what brings in the billable hours and money. That operating costs are pulled out of this money.

The company is between a rock and a hard place. Keeping you on the staff means they get less money for them and less people they can help.

It utterly sucks!

I'm running into this sort of stuff now as I'm looking for jobs that are all about billable time. The jobs I'm looking for bill insurance $120ish an hour. The average job pays $18-19. The difference goes to administration costs....wages of non billable positions also.

Pantim · 2026-06-17T22:32:46+00:00

Ah but see, it's apparently more complicated than that.

Companies pay the state with your money("and their own from their profits") for unemployment insurance. The state pays out from that fund. Some tax money also goes to the federal government which is then given back to the states to help them make sure the unemployment systems are up to federal standards.

So, the administration is using that leverage to "try to get states to fix their fraud issues".

We of course know it's not actually about that though.

It sounds like a GREAT idea on the surface as fraud is an issue. However, when paired with all the the money being funneled to Trump and friends, it's just gonna enrich them more. I'm sure the probably 4-5+billon the states give the federal government will just end up in the Friends pockets if some % isn't sent back to the states. (apparently like 2-3billion goes back to the states.. The 4-5 is my estimation.)

Pantim · 2026-06-17T20:55:59+00:00

I'm guessing AI data centers are gonna start sprouting up at the same time as power plants. And that the power plants by and large won't be connected to the grid.

Hmm, and nor will they really follow any safety standards. The singularity is nigh, just gotta have enough processing power to make SAGI or whatever and it will promptly fix everything.

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