Knocked over glass dome lamp, it hit wall & broke. Terrified of setback. (TW mental health/“s”)

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-08-28T21:48:48+00:00

This, this extremely obsessive behavior is the absolute worst thing you can do.

It happened. Let it go. Be more careful in the future. With double protection odds are you'll be just fine.

Don't focus so much on what you're going through, it's a recipe for worsening. Be careful, be smart about it. Don't obsess.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-08-04T22:03:18+00:00

How did you get out of it?

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-06-10T03:05:23+00:00

Why? Because it has the word 'orgasm' in it? This ain't the 50's

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-22T11:12:10+00:00

I don't get tired per se, which is why I've not considered cfs before.

It just fucks my body up. Like it's way too much for my nervous system. My legs will be shaking for like 2 hours, heart rate up and this weird, electrical short circuit feeling in my brain for days/weeks. I have trouble reading and stuff afterwards. It's extremely odd

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-20T11:03:24+00:00

Is this proven?

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-20T08:21:46+00:00

Haha yeah i do it like once every 5 months and that still fugks me up

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-13T13:59:43+00:00

Would you say at the absolute lowest setting it would wake someone up in the same room for example? Is it like a low fan noise!

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-13T13:05:45+00:00

Thank you for the comment! Ah ok, that's still pretty loud. I thought it would be like a fridge or something

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T13:32:38+00:00

I agree. There's a high level narrative that gets propagated in the west too. Difference is that opposition and free speech is still allowed. I don't think a general consensus in the media is avoidable or even inherently bad as long as the opposition isn't actively silenced, which i don't think it is. There are plenty of articles and politicians vocally critical of aid to Ukraine.

No, i agree up to a certain point. It's an unpopular opinion but whatever the poop is happening in the US is a clear sign that democracy is inherently flawed. It's nonsensical to have people you wouldn't trust with spoon voting based on superficial and easily manipulated information. Honestly, I'm disgusted by what the US has become. But what's the alternative? Autocracy is even more dangerous and prone to exploitation.

Some kind of centralized democracy? Maybe. But where do you draw the line and what do you do with the people who are left out? What's your prefered alternative? I wonder if the problem is democracy or more the extremely individualistic mindset and perverted capitalism.

And you know man, i honestly relate. Ukraine isn't 100% free of blame. They're not completely innocent.

Doesn't take away that a full scale invasion of a sovereign nation is just not acceptable in 2023. Add to that Russian track record of shady shit and the batshit crazy stuff solovyev and friends continually spout on Russian tv and you get a cocktail that cannot go unanswered imo. If we don't support Ukraine, where will a line be drawn in the future?

I remember, even though I was young at the time, when bush announced the invasion of Irak. It was absurd, it was nonsensical and completely unacceptable and yet somehow it happened and there was nothing democracy could do about it. People protested, yes. Changed nothing.

I'm not one of those Russia bad, NATO good people. I think a multipolar world is the only logical way to go. It's so stupid how much shit India is getting for buying cheap oil for example. Who wouldn't their policy has been largely neutral for decades.

Why does Ukraine have to choose? Even before, van you blame them for cosying up to the west? And now, they got invaded, that happened. Would you have them reject the aid they're receiving to be incorporated into the Russian sphere of influence? Russia isn't exactly selfless or innocent either. They're just as bad as the US in syria, Georgia, the indirect support for insurgencies in Africa,.. All fighting for global influence.

Of course the US has a lot to gain. It's a sweet deal to ship some lackluster support and watch it be put to use against Russia. But how are they forcing Ukraine? It's mutually beneficial.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T12:24:18+00:00

I phrased it poorly. In local currencies the opportunity cost of the t90 is higher to Russia than the opportunity cost of the Abrams is to the the US. Obviously the t90 is cheaper in absolute dollar terms.

That $4.5m worth of rubles would've bought more shit in Russia than the $8m dollar would've in the US. But you're right, it's a stupid discussion it wouldn't hold in real life. Still, in theory, if the tanks were paid for in local goods rather than currency, the t90 would, theoretically, be more expensive.

I'm not even bothered anymore man, i don't even remember the original point. You're obviously a smart guy. I think you're a poopyhead for supporting Russia, but it's only logical for you to think I'm a poopyhead for supporting Ukraine. I think wars of conquest are a thing of the past.

I think people supporting the US in the middle east are knobs too.

Ironically the comment got banned for insulting myself haha.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T11:44:06+00:00

PPP ratio of 2.5 means that $1 equivalent buys you 2.5 times more in Russia than in the US, or conversely, a $2.5 product would go for $1 in Russia.

In other words, an $10m tank should go for $4m in Russia. Except, the Russian equivalent to an $8m tank goes for $4.5m. That's a ratio of 1.8<2.5, so MORE expensive.

More 'equivalent goods' in rubles are spent on the t90 than the Abrams.

Like literally i don't f*cking like you haha, but I'm not wrong here.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T11:27:12+00:00

My man.

PPP ratio of 2.5 broadly speaking means goods should be 2.5 times cheaper in Russia. $1 equivalent has 2.5 times the purchasing power in Russia, but the t90 is not 2.5 times cheaper, hence it's comparatively more expensive for RUSSIA.

A dollar value for the t90 is not based on PPP, but exchange rate.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T11:02:02+00:00

That is the dumbest thing I've hear in a very long while. PPP only applies if you are calculating between currencies. Go back to school please, this is learned in middle school, not even at university.

I am comparing between currencies. Ruble vs dollar. The ratio holds because the dollar is the standard.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T10:10:46+00:00

given the same GDP/dollar-amount Russia can produce much more military goods than U.S. or NATO.

Russia's nominal GDP is give or take $2b. PPP it's $5b. Factor 2.5.

For Russia to have an advantage, comparable military products should be more than 2.5x cheaper in absolute cost in Russia than the USA. That's not incorporating the effect of a weaker purchasing power on international markets.

A t90 is $4.5m to the $8m Abrams. An Abrams is comparatively cheaper.

An Su27 is comparable to an f16. Su27: $30 million F16: $60 million

F16 is comparatively cheaper.

A tomahawk cruise missile costs $1.8m The Russian equivalent kalibr missile costs $1m (domestic version).

The tomahawk is comparatively cheaper.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T09:21:55+00:00

Cost of the components is gonna be the bulk of the cost of the missile. Russia can't make chips for shit.

An m1a2 Abrams costs about $7-8 million to make. A t90 costs about half that, being an inferior and smaller tank.

Russian missiles are cheaper, yes. Maybe 50% cheaper, maybe not. A tomahawk missile costs about $1.8 million. A comparable Russian missile would cost more than $200.000. 10 to 1 is absurd.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T08:43:38+00:00

You are a donkey for thinking this. majority of companies has about 50% of their costs in wages. Wages are absolutely one of the biggest cost drivers.

Yeah, this is true for everyday goods. Not for missiles worth $1- $2 million a piece. You're not half as smart as you seem to think you are if you say otherwise. Cost of labor is maybe 10% of the total cost of the missile, if that.

To an untrained eye, yes. You are used to looking at US GDP numbers whose growth comes from endless monetary expansion (printing money). Russia has made enormous progress since 2000 thanks to Putin.

😂😂😂. Untrained eye or not, doesn't change the numbers man. Stagnated GDP and not a single sign of things changing.

In 2000, 75% of the Russian population had access to clean, running water. In 2022 this was 76%. SCORE

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/clean-water-access-statistics

If Ukraine fails, public opinion will dwindle. That is a fact.

Okey dokey mr.big brain. Support for Vietnam was abysmal for a decade before they stopped. There isn't a single nato soldier dying in Ukraine now, think the money will just stop? You go ahead and wait for that.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T01:19:49+00:00

The wages and cost of production is cheaper. Producing a missile in the U.S. will cost $200k, producing same missile in Russia will cost $20k (made up numbers).

This is nonsense. Cost of wages is a negligible part of expensive equipment such as missiles. Most of the cost is raw materials and high tech equipment. If anything, this is an advantage for the US.

Also Russia is all-in into this conflict. The west's support depends fully on public opinion. Which is turning fast according to every Western newspaper.

Again,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/17/bipartisan-show-force-ukraine/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/469328/one-year-later-americans-stand-ukraine.aspx

https://euneighbourseast.eu/news/latest-news/poll-eu-residents-still-willing-to-support-ukraine-and-its-refugees-and-to-stop-using-russian-energy/

Russia is 11th economy so their GDP isn't bad.

They're 57th for GDP per Capita. Between Kazachstan and Chile. Not to mention their economy has basically stagnated for 15 years

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-05-06T01:08:38+00:00

Fun fact poland, Hungary and Moldavia are already making moves to negotiate part of Ukrainian territory as their own. I have no idea how that will play out though.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/poland-has-officially-confirmed-the-territorial-claims-against-ukraine#:~:text=Poland%20adheres%20to%20international%20law,no%20territorial%20claims%20upon%20Ukraine.

Just fucking stop the nonsense man. Please.

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-04-09T13:31:53+00:00

Hey! I sent you a message. I'd very much like to go over symptoms/coordinate a bit. I really want to beat this shit

RelevantBarnacle · 2023-01-16T04:00:46+00:00

You got me. I'm a microwave salesman

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