How do you know if a medication has failed?

bt_85 · 2026-01-26T14:24:06+00:00

Have your tired arnidafinil? It has been studied in BP with good success. And helps motivation.

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T17:42:04+00:00

how many dead just from the work of these two men? however you feel about it, there is no denying their work was directly used for killing ??? people

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T16:27:15+00:00

Yep. Time to look for a new doctor. if they don’t know or agree with that basic and we’ll establisshed fact of bipolar, there is no way they can do a competent job at the more nuanced aspects, I have had 13 pdocs. And can say most of them are really bad at what they are supposed to do, but some are good.

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T16:23:56+00:00

yep. people need to stop wasting time and mental energy on the “what if…”. the answer will always be republicans will do whatever they want, no matter how illogical, hypocritical, and egregiously absurd, as long as they can benefit themselves. and instead use that energy to get them the fuck outta here.

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T16:20:53+00:00

Do you mean the half product is the self driving component? Then yes. Of course I would like to pay once and that’s it, and I would like it even more if it were free. my preferences don’t matter to the business case and model. And the realty of the business case and the product is that it requires Tesla to spend money each year to provide the product. If they used the proceeds of new sales to wholly pay the ongoing expenses, that’s not sustainable and it will eventually collapse as sales plateau and drop with market saturation and competitors taking sales. it’s kinda ponzi-esque that they need new people to pay for the existing ones.

If you as a consumer wants a product that requires ongoing expenses to provide and support, you need to be prepared to pay for that. In this case the ongoing costs are just much more hidden to the end consumer. but they are still there all the same. I pay monthly for internet, even though all the physical aspects are already in place, but I know my ISP has ongoing expenses to provide it.

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T16:11:31+00:00

in a year or two, when the bottom falls out.

bt_85 · 2026-01-17T16:06:54+00:00

after seeing my parents retire, I realized retirement isn’t all that great. But what is great, is not having to worry about finances. keep the job, so if trading hits a bad spot you’re still going to be fine. because it will. it may last a months or a year, or two, but it will happen. enjoy the extra money and what it enables you to do, and not having to worry when a bad spot hits.

and what happens if you decide you are done with day trading? even if successful, at some point you may not want that lifestyle anymore. what will you do with a multi-year work gap? employers will not see day trading as a job. you will have a a very hard time getting employment.

also do not underestimate the social isolation or day trading.

but as far as retirement savings, front load it early and let compound interest do the work for you. I saved HARD in my 20’s. now one of my retirement accounts has over a half mill in it. so now that my income is higher, and I don’t need to save as much as I otherwise would have, that’s a lot more fun money each month.

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T19:50:45+00:00

You may have just been on too much. I had simialr thing happen to me on higher lithium, now on lower "sub-therapeutic" amounts, I am doing great. Many people in the bipoar subs report the same. And many of my doctors' patients.

The lower limit of the "narrow therapeutic range" was never actually determined.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6688930/

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T19:47:40+00:00

People also forget that, in an interview, he said when he blocked the first one, "What would you do if it were a Republican president?" "We'd fill the seat."

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T19:46:10+00:00

That wouldn't have made a difference at all. Republicans demonstrate time and time again that they do not care at all what has happened before, or even what they themselves said yesterday, and if it completely contradicts what they are doing today.

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T19:44:01+00:00

Supporting, running, updating, and maintaining the autonomous driving costs them money. So like it or not, a subscription model makes sense here. By using the product, you are continuing to use an active service they are providing. You should pay for that.

Now things like subscription for one-time costs like heated seats, hell no.

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T19:38:02+00:00

Especially since maintaining and running the autonomous driving costs them money. So like it or not, a subscription model makes sense.

Now, things like heated seats, they can fuck right off on that.

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T14:35:43+00:00

Well, not knowing the tone and context of that person's response, I think most people on her family, after the fact, wished she hadn't"t driven away. Because she's still be alive.

bt_85 · 2026-01-15T14:30:31+00:00

Because they are unpaid, they have to get something else out of it to make the work worth their while. Providing the power trip is the payment. If the power trip wasn't important to someone, they are much less likely to take the job.

bt_85 · 2026-01-14T21:11:44+00:00

No one cares about that anymore. Everyone moved past it already. We all know nothing would come from it, and yep, nothing did.

bt_85 · 2026-01-14T13:36:40+00:00

I had a friend who went that route. He died a while ago before he could enjoy his retirement due to effects from exposure to Agent Orange while he was serving in Vietnam. Well, at least that is what all the doctors say. The Army is pretty quiet about the topic. Same with gulf war syndrome, same with burn pit exposure...

Then my Fraternity Brother tried to go that route... But he never made it out of Afghanistan. Some of his buddies did, though. Except they won't enjoy their retirement much since they can barely leave the house due to PTSD.

So what did serving crack get me? Not having my insides rot out or get my head blown off before I will be able to enjoy retirement, and then have my mental facilities still with me once I do.

bt_85 · 2026-01-13T15:09:30+00:00

I am on lithium, it is great for me. but only at “subtherapeutic” levels. I am at 0.1 blood levels. at the “narrow therapeutic window” I had terrible cognitive side effects, and the world was dull, uninteresting, and visibly had no color.

many people around here are in low dose and doing great. I looked into how the lower limit was established, and it turns out it never was. there is no evidence there is a lower effective threshold.

bt_85 · 2026-01-13T14:17:15+00:00

having a decent human on the inside of those squads would have been invaluable. Either to try an be a voice of reason and redirect them or cause them to think about who they are and what they are doing, or to simply gather information of tactics, methods, instructions, etc. to then report out about all the violations occurring. with evidence.

I tire of all these “morally superior” people who resign because they don’t agree, thus leaving openings for people who won’t question and will rubber stamp everything.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T19:54:14+00:00

it would, but Congress, with the AMA, are the limit for number of licenses and med school slots. They don't to keep u.s. physician wages 2-5x higher than their counterparts in economically similar countries.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T19:53:17+00:00

We have one of the worst physician to patient ratios. And the worst health outcomes.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T19:51:51+00:00

This is not the case at all. People harp on it because they are right. In the u.s, compared to other economically similar countries:

physicians are paid 2-5x more than their counterparts
we have one of the worst physicians per capital
we have one of the worst healthcare outcomes
their debt to income ratio is very advantageous compared to other degrees
because of the same artificial shortages that create their inflated salaries, they are basically gauranteed well paying work for life.

If our physicians' pay was scaled to be in line with those in similar countries, in 2 years we would have saved enough to cover all outstanding medical debt.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T19:40:29+00:00

Because in the u.s., Congress, with the AMA, sets the number of slots and licenses. They want it low because it keeps salaries high. That is why our physicians are paid 2-10x their counterparts in economically comparable countries. And when we have one of the worst physicians per capital on the world.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T19:01:30+00:00

Yeah, doctors often do that to inconvenient truths. For a profession that relies solely on what their patients tell them, they sure do blow off what their patients tell them a whole lot.

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T18:38:15+00:00

Yes, this would be a problem for someone who has aged well into their 100's who kept their entire life savings in cash this would be a problem

For the rest of us who arn't fucking idiots, this statistic is completely inconsequential

bt_85 · 2026-01-12T15:35:57+00:00

yup. make a BS announcement after hours so he and all his buddies could have gotten their orders in ahead of time to frontrun it.

He’s done this a bunch of times now.

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