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12h ago

[proposal] new norm: link to related posts
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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago
ty! obviously it is intending to carrying the arguments from prior posts and pretending otherwise is just passive aggressive. shit posting pride
too bad you are agreeing, it is nonconducive to the minor strugglesession that could potentially dig this in. probably need to repost regarding someone who'd hate it. without drama and conflict could anybody notice?? I hope so.

12h ago

Cuban coast guard kills 4 gunmen on US-flagged speedboat

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

🔻 probably due to being interesting. 🔻 no rules against reposting here.

12h ago

Cuban coast guard kills 4 gunmen on US-flagged speedboat

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

🔻 yes more please 🔻

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13h ago

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16h ago

I sleep to much .

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 16h ago

Right, so if you can plan to stay awake for 30h than you are not plausibly having a fatigue issue. It would be impossible with some of the health issues proposed in this thread. Quite abnormal even without those. But naturally you will sleep a lot after. if sleep wake is averagely 16h:8h (2:1), that gives 30h:15h approximately. So I am not finding it strange to sleep 19h if you are keeping hours like this.

It is an issue with circadian rhythm. Things that could help if you have the discipline for them are

exercising or doing physical labor heavily during the day (this is really helpful IME)
refraining from screens after certain hours; or refraining from specific known stimulating activities like games socials chats sexstuff tv news whatever
eliminating or strictly scheduling stimulant chemicals (only drinking 1 coffee before noon etc); don't forget to consider nicotine
- if prescribed stimulants take exactly as ordered
- consider adjusting if dose to be shorter acting or to have longer acting in the evenings (some people need stimulants in the PM to help them sleep!)
sleep hygiene
set a bed time on a 24 hour schedule and go to bed at that time every single day; establish bed time routine (treat yourself like a child)
CBT for bedtime / wake up habits (I haven't tried this one but I am considering)

But I am guessing if you plan for a 30h waketime, there is some reason for that too? Work demands? Plans stacked up to not allow sleep? So you must decide if this is your lifestyle that you are doing, or if those underlying reasons can/should be modified. Because you cannot expect to have such long wakefulness without long sleeping. About 1/3 time is normally spent sleeping. Some people more and some people less.

17h ago

Anti-zionism reading group Week 4 - Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd - Chapters 4-5

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 17h ago

Good I will read it.

I'd be sad if I wrote a book and a discussion only had agreeable comments. Especially a book like this that is seemingly intended to change minds.

I know for me, when I know the target audience is someone more lib or right wing than I am, I will tend to gloss over political issues of weak analysis because it's sort of required to sacrifice one point to make another. In order to not get bogged down. Like "this is fine" or "good enough".

So I guess the question is what standard --- if any --- should be applied? What is this book for in this context? Is it for us to sharpen our understanding, or are we reading it so that we can say we read it and tell someone else to read it? Which is really how I felt.

1d ago

I sleep to much .

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

I have slept for >24 hours after being awake for 2-3 days. To whatever extent that is a problem, the awake is equal problem as sleep. So you should do the chart thing I said to at least have a grasp on the situation. If you are 20h/20h then you are sleeping avg 12h/day which is way less severely abnormal than 19h/day. "8 hours" is a kind of general guideline --- middle of the bell curve. There are people at the tails of the bell. 4 and 12 hours. But it isn't just that you need more sleep, it's that you also need/take more awake. Most people do not stay up for 20 hours by choice! So all these things people are saying about fatigue are not it; if you were fatigued this would not be possible. Obviously if you stay awake for a long time, you will sleep long to compensate.

The issue is the whole cycle not sleep. Work, drugs/meds/substances, physical activity, socializing, screens, food, sex, noise, light, temperature, habits, extrinsic demands + innate temperament are all potentiially contributing.

1d ago

I sleep to much .

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

so clarification, you slept for 19 hours, does that mean you were awake for 5/24 hours prior, as others are assuming? if you are literally sleeping 19h/day x 7days each week, that's different.

1d ago

I sleep to much .

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Not bad advice. early morning meetings, actions, pickets and other plans will test your body's resolve to stay sleeping.

But--- running on adrenaline to counteract depression might work for some, not all. It might shake up the internal as well as external status quo. Eventually, there is adjustment and back to homeostasis.

1d ago

Anti-zionism reading group Week 4 - Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd - Chapters 4-5

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Ya I did think of giving it to someone else to read. "Here, maybe this'll help your fucked up brain." could consolidate if really close already. I liked the "Jewish settlers stole my home. It's not my fault they're Jewish" article/chapter when I read it before. It was useful to see someone articulating fearlessly in a way that was palatable to libs. But not sure how much more the book adds compared to that, except for repetition, which could be useful in some case I suppose. I'd be more likely to share the article than the book.

I am wondering why nobody has anything bad or critical to say of this book. It is all praise. performative? Or too mushy to claw into? Difficult to engage with discussion. But I don't know what else there would be having never done this before. So maybe this is par.

2d ago

I sleep to much .

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

one thing I have done in my endless struggle with sleep is to track how much I sleep for a week or two. i think paper is best but if you use computer instead make sure it is something you can easily look at in entirety. make a grid with 7 days across the top and 24 hours along the side. then color the blocks to indicate sleep or awake. you can also add more detail like "trying to sleep/wake", work/school, exercise, drinking/drugs/caffine, alone/social time, whatever. but just sleep and awake is useful because you can count the sleep blocks and average out to find out how much you actually sleep. and see the overall pattern visually.

i was very surprised to find out I actually sleep about 8-9 hours per day. over the years I have done this and it is consistent through various lifestyles. my body just have a lot of inertia. once it is in one state it will keep going. physiological difficulty switching tasks.

i have various wake up strategies when I need to wake up. i have never found a way to force myself to get up at a certain time "because I should". like you I will simply do whatever is required to disable the alarms and go back to bed.

after years and years of struggle my preferred option is to arrange my life to allow flexibility. i think other people are able to overcome this so it is worthwhile to try. if not already done you could look into medical causes like thyroid, sleep apnea or other disorders, mentalhealth depression neurodivergence. could also investigate melatonin which is a pretty benign drug (when used as directed) which is indicated for this kind of problem. it is available without prescription in a lot of places.

anecdotally, I have been told by many people that a surefire way to solve this problem is to have a baby.

6d ago

Imagine being a monarchist and this is Your Guy

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 6d ago

I think my mom had the same purple dress when she was pregnant.

6d ago

Imagine being a monarchist and this is Your Guy

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 6d ago

Just raises questions about the toothbrush.

7d ago

[Dark Onion] “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.” - the mother of a child in South Carolina who got measles encephalitis.

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 7d ago

There was a story from texas measles outbreak where the parents said the same thing, I swear word for word. Obviously they are being inoculated (ironically....) very well. Would love to know how this is being done.

7d ago

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 7d ago

Normally if no citation can be produced for a claim, the thing to do is remove it, because you don't need to make a claim about anything and the supposed point of Wikipedia is to have an assemblage of knowledge that has proper citations.

I don't think that is actually the case. I recall they have some sort of guideline along the lines of "something is better than nothing". ^{citation\ needed}

7d ago

The new owner of Zorro Ranch is turning it into a "Christian Retreat".

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 7d ago

new boss same as the old boss

7d ago

Coffee with a LGBTQ cop [Not the Onion - r/Milwaukee link]

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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] @hexbear.net 7d ago

This kind of ?affirmative action? or ?representation? serves to demean the groups being used as tokens. To look at and read your post, it is 3 women in positions of power coolly discussing the torture of 1 completely powerless man. It kind of gives the impression that women are running the show, both on the side of incarceration and the controlled opposition puppets. While obviously all these women and many more are complicit and active, ICE is not in fact a female-originated project.

It's so shameful to allow oneself to be used like this, to obscure the real orchestration and beneficiaries. But we've only to look to israel to see how effectively ~100% of people can be captured towards evil ends, if the correct social/material environments exist. And they can find ways to fit any innate trait that might seem inherently oppositional into supporting the projects of oppression. Since it is 100% in that situation, I see no reason to think that you or me or any of us are immune.