This makes sense! I do think if someone is carrying enough love for Withers' tits that they think they can keep a community active for a while on their own, they should go for it, though.
The traditional art community was just one person posting most of the time for ages. They aren't doing that anymore, but that one person got it established enough that it still gets regular activity. Even if it hadn't worked that way, there's still a cool archive of artists I can go back through.
Concentrating on my breathing helps a lot, along with simple distractions.
The big help, though, was anti anxiety drugs. It was amazing, after being at war with my brain for most of my life. It was like - I'd have a bad thought, feel it in my gut, try a distraction, have it fail, have the thought again, on and on until i genuinely broke out or my emotions escalated to panic and it stopped in the post panic numbness.
With the medicine, the physical reaction petered out. I was able to use other methods like thinking "ok, so you fucked up then. you were a child. you deserved compassion from the adults around you" etc and was actually able to let go and move on.
Unfortunately, it's the kind of role that'll attract predators, even though I'm sure most of the people involved just want to do good. Like teaching and abusers and nurses and serial killing, etc.
Ask your community members, maybe?
I lean towards "go for it! block away" but I come from a different internet culture than reddit so could never mod anywhere similar. You might get better advice from someone who's spent more time in these spaces.
To me, It seems like chronic downvotes from nonmembers could mess up your comm's discovery. And is mildly annoying. Not terrible, but I don't think they need to be evil to get a community block. If you do it too much, your community might stagnate and people might start a new one. Oh well! Good luck to the new guys, imo. You might end up on PTB and get harassed. Always a risk as a mod, unfortunately.
Put "frequent exclusive downvotes from non-members gets a block to increase likelihood of community discovery by people interested in this content" on your profile. I mean, if you talk with your community members and they agree it's an issue.
In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.
“She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”
Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.
Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they'll still outright call her "evil."
There's a limit to how carefully you can word things to protect its meaning from people determined to read it in bad faith. I have it too - the desire to be long winded to preemptively protect myself from misunderstanding. But there's a risk that we'll turn everything we say into long blocks of soft useless mush. There's no precision precise enough to be safe.
We have to, I think, decide to write for people willing to reach for us when we hold out a hand. There are enough willing to try that any general misunderstandings can be clarified with conversations other people can read if they want to understand. If enough of us are willing to do this for each other, it might be possible to build spaces where people who slap that outheld hand away don't have to dictate conversation. And maybe we can both be less wordy.
Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now
That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I've always got that worry
Is this something that's relatively fool proof to do? I'm very good at imagining disasters. That's the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.
Probably the first step is to do your best and wait to see if your feelings even out after a couple weeks. Distractions are key (videogames? binge watching shows?), since this isn't a long term thing. If you're sure you're past that period, I can think of a few general suggestions.
The first is to get a doctor who's willing to carefully test other meds with you. There's this day group at the hospital near me, and when a friend was struggling to find meds that worked, the group was useful because they had medication specialists. when the friend tried out ones that could have bad side effects, he was being watched very closely to make sure he was safe. But attentive, diligent healthcare would solve a lot of problems, wouldn't it? I get not everyone can have that. There might be a med out there that doesn't fuck you up in other ways, though.
Vigorous exercise helps some people. Art's a big one for others. Talk therapy, group therapy - being willing and able to experiment to find what works is a big one.
It's really tough to give specific advice, since the cause can be so personal. I know a trans guy who is way less angry on T. That's not useful universal advice, but it shows how your answer might be individual and need digging to find.
I'm somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.
They know it's trump's fault but they voted for him so they have to say biden was just as bad for the economy to justify their decision to themselves. That's my theory.