This is why healthcare in the US sucks.

• A wealthy person will have a 24-hour hotline to connect with a nurse or doctor (immediately or through return call) with access to their medical history who will help them figure out what to do.
• A moderately well-off person will have a web/phone interface where they can send a message and someone will return their message in a day or two.
• Everyone else has to make a gamble: do I spent money to try to figure this out? Do I risk spending money and then it turns out to be nothing? But what if it’s something and it’s more expensive later on? What will my insurance pay for? How do I find someone that’s reliable, but also inexpensive? All of this causes stress which makes things worse.

In your case, think of anyone who knows your medical history and who you can ask questions of. The doctor who prescribed your anxiety medications - can you call/message them and ask them? The pharmacist who dispenses the meds - can you go/call and ask a question about your medications? Some pharmacies also have nurse / clinic stations, too. If you have any kind of medical insurance, check out their web page - a lot of them have set up tele-medicine offerings recently. If your job has an HR department, this is actually one case they can be helpful; an HR person in my company helped me figure out what health resources I had access to, based on my plan. Finally, if you haven’t been getting annual checkups, you should start thinking of doing so (especially as you get older), and ask them how you can contact them to ask questions like this.

Good luck fam, I hope it turns out OK for you.

Apparently there’s a man in Virginia who will lend you his entire family, but only if it’ll help take away their rights.

His dog, apparently smarter than every Republican voter in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, refused to have anything to do with it.

“You’re not my sidechick, you’re my control condition!”

Go to the same restaurants at the same time under the same conditions (i.e. how recently you ate another meal, day of the week, the weather, etc.) but with a different person and see if you still feel ill. Vary the conditions until you find one that correlates with your illness. Then try altering that condition.

If you feel ill under all conditions then see a doctor. In fact it might be good to make a doctor appointment anyway.

Anyone who reviews for the major publishers is part of the problem.

A bare bear on a bear, bairn.

Boogie Woogie Wu - Insane Clown Posse

I usually agree. HOWEVER… I woke up this morning, opened Lemmy, and saw this post:

And I was like… is this a shitpost? Edgy? A joke? Ironic? Skibidi? Is this what skibidi is? I honestly couldn’t tell.

Naturally, the best approach is to register on Day 1, party until Day 10, then finish the class in 4 days before the 2 week trial ends.

hmmm you may have a point. I guess I was thinking of barbarian in terms of:

People of towns and cities take pride in their settled ways, as if denying one’s connection to nature were a mark of superiority. To a barbarian, though, a settled life is no virtue, but a sign of weakness. The strong embrace nature—valuing keen instincts, primal physicality, and ferocious rage. Barbarians are uncomfortable when hedged in by walls and crowds. They thrive in the wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or grasslands where their tribes live and hunt.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/9-barbarian

In the context of embracing nature and thriving in the wilds, it seems like a barbarian would have more cause to use their teeth.

Ok fine but WHERE IS THEIR CAT?!?

But imagine a barbarian bit a DM, and then some guy who hit the gym a lot and could lift as much as the barbarian bit an identical DM. I maintain that the barbarian would do more damage, due to a lifetime of e.g. breaking bones with their mouth, gnawing the bark off a tree, etc.

I’m not looking to get married, but keep in mind it’s a Barbarian bite. So the biter’s half-feral and accustomed to gnawing on raw meat.

“Swords to ploughshares”

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world might be a better link to use.

They set up a system so they can pay less to their workers, AND get their customers and workers to blame each other for it. They’re scammers, not terrorists.

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

Not quite the same, and it sounds kind of hellish, but check out Polyphasic Sleeping.

Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world…