The US and Israel are frequently wrong on matters of morals and ethics, so I don’t consider that to be a good reason to compromise my own moral compass. Human rights are for every human, regardless of whether or not you like or agree with them.

I can see it being a safety issue in this case. If a woman is in an abusive relationship, having the charge show up as “Door Dash” on their credit card statement could be a lot safer than a charge from a pharmacy.

I’ve also used Door Dash to buy things for my friends who live several states away. Or using Door dash to get things when you’re sick and don’t want to leave the house and get other people sick is reasonable. There are quite a few non-lazy reasons for using Door Dash (but it is a certain amount of laziness most of the time).

Given that various articles are talking about soldiers “rationing” their food, I don’t know that they are being fed adequately regardless of whether they’re getting a variety or if they’re stuck with the least-eaten MREs.

Even so, they don’t deserve to starve. Food is a human right, and MAGA idiots are humans too.

It’s really hard to pin down because of inconsistencies between manufacturers. I’ve had patients that got pellets and had no effects whatsoever, and some that got way too much because it dissolved too quickly. It also kind of matters who is implanting them and if they know what they’re doing. (Pro tip, chiropractors and naturopaths do not know what the fuck they are doing.)

The problem with pellets is that they can release the hormones at uneven rates as they dissolve because they aren’t perfectly homogeneous. There’s also a chance that your body rejects it and forms a fibrous capsule around it that prevents it from releasing the hormones at all.

That is indeed the gun going off. It looks like there’s a flash suppressor on there, but higher-resolution versions of the clip show the gas blow back from the bullet firing.

No, that was a negligent discharge. They are actually walking around with their fingers on the trigger and the safety off.

Well, I’ll just take this as an excuse to get food from some of my favorite places in St Paul.

Yeah, I have him on Patreon, but I want to see the whole thing when it’s done. He had a couple side videos on Patreon about Oreos that nearly amounted to a cookie crash out that were very amusing last year.

Look, the man is making feature-length films about rabbit holes he never expected to find. The “Roblox OOF!” video was supposed to be about 10-20 minutes, but then he found the Tommy Tallarico absurdity and just couldn’t leave that part out.

IRL? H. Bomberguy

In fiction? Deadpool.

Honestly, a lot of bisexual and pansexual men and masculine characters are pretty well adjusted in part due to the fact that they are comfortable with who they are as a person and know what kinds of things make men attractive. Way too many men these days have a completely warped idea of what other people find attractive in men and toxic masculinity is built on a framework of those misconceptions.

No, it’d be the Orange Cube.

It was so zoomed in and cropped that I thought this was one of those weird corner scenes in a Bosch tryptic.

But occasional use for moderate pain is quite reasonable and people should not be afraid to take medications at the doses and frequency listed in the instructions. For those with liver or kidney problems, listen to your doctor about what medications to avoid and what to use in their place, but don’t suffer unnecessarily.

Taking these meds once in a while is perfectly safe if you don’t have preexisting organ damage or dysfunction.

It’s quite hard to actually overload your liver with the artificial sweeteners unless you are drinking literal gallons of zero sugar pop a day or eating nothing besides artificially sweetened foods. The stuff is used in such tiny concentrations that someone would have to deliberately seek out overdosing on this stuff to get the same effects as the experimental animals are getting (because the experimental animals are being fed pure sorbitol in doses that no human could reasonably consume.)

That’s the problem with articles like this is that they don’t emphasize that they are only seeing this in animal models and they don’t disclose just how much of the stuff they had to give to the animal for the negative effects to occur. It’s also a bad study because it doesn’t account for the differences in the physiology and biochemistry between humans and zebrafish, nor does it account for the confounding factors in humans. You know who drinks and eats a lot of artificially sweetened things? People with diabetes and people who are trying to lose weight. These are people that are likely to already have fatty liver disease and the sorbitol didn’t really have much to do with it.

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The headline (and the article for that matter) are very sensationalist and I don’t think they’ve presented this in a balanced way. They are discussing how sorbitol behaves in zebrafish with limited data presented on human biochemistry, and they discuss it in a vacuum without quantifying the amount of sorbitol it takes to cause a problem. Yes, any substance in excess can be harmful, but the amount of sorbitol in food compared to the amount of high fructose corn syrup makes it the substantially lesser evil. The artificial sweeteners are vastly more potent than actual sugar, so you don’t need very much of it to get the same amount of sweetness. High fructose corn syrup is used in massive amounts in food and is much worse for you on the scale that either substance would be consumed.

The headline (and the article for that matter) are very sensationalist and I don’t think they’ve presented this in a balanced way. They are discussing how sorbitol behaves in zebrafish with limited data presented on human biochemistry, and they discuss it in a vacuum without quantifying the amount of sorbitol it takes to cause a problem. Yes, any substance in excess can be harmful, but the amount of sorbitol in food compared to the amount of high fructose corn syrup makes it the substantially lesser evil. The artificial sweeteners are vastly more potent than actual sugar, so you don’t need very much of it to get the same amount of sweetness. High fructose corn syrup is used in massive amounts in food and is much worse for you on the scale that either substance would be consumed.

I don’t think this will be a conversation you will be able to have with him, but it’s probably something you need to have for yourself for your own sanity. There is the adage that “your mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility”, that I think is very applicable here. I know that the manifestations of his mental illness at this time are damaging your quality of life, but I think that you are suffering additional, semi-self-inflicted harm by internalizing any amount of responsibility for his behavior. It is a bit like intentional cognitive dissonance, but I think you would benefit from divorcing yourself of any sense of responsibility for fixing this situation.

There are some good suggestions in this thread about strategies for set cleaning times with reference images of what each room is supposed to look like, and to some extent, mild parenting techniques to get some sense of order in the house. If I were in your shoes, this is the list of things I would try to implement:

• Set deadlines for cleaning tasks

    - ("dishes must be done by PERSON by end of DAY" or "living room must be clean of personal items by 10PM every night)
  

• Make a list or a calendar on a whiteboard in the kitchen

    - (columns for days of the week with check boxes for needed tasks and written communications instead of verbal)
  

• Clear delineation of responsibilities

     - ("you make the mess, you clean it up" or "wash/put dishes in the dishwasher immediately when done using them or before bed that night")
  

(The strategy for dishes can be variable, I just feel like dishes are a good example for figuring out household responsibilities.)

Also, make it clear that his actions are harming you. It may feel dramatic, but it’s true. And I think a way around the bluescreen issue is to write a letter explaining your needs and how his actions are affecting you. I would recommend hand-writing this because it will appear more personal, and be less easily dismissed. Putting it in writing makes it so that he has a physical object to refer to when his mind tries to edit out the uncomfortable thing. But still give him the letter in a conversation. I would start it with saying:

“Hey ____, I’ve tried to talk to you about this before, but I don’t think I’ve been communicating with you in a way that works. There’s some things going on in the house with your cleaning habits and behaviors that are really messing with me and it’s putting me in a bad place mentally to have the common areas this messy all the time. I know these conversations can be really overwhelming for you, so I wrote this letter for you to read when you’re ready. Please come talk to me after you’ve read it so we can work out some strategies to make living together more comfortable for everyone.”

This is my advice from having had difficult roommates and friends that don’t deal with their mental health, and from the perspective of a medical professional. I’m a medical student, but I’ve done a lot of work with mental health and substance use disorder patients and I always try to work with folks to find strategies that work for them to improve their quality of life. I see medications as an adjunct to building accommodations for oneself, but I always emphasize that the medications are exactly the same as medications for things like high blood pressure. For some folks, there’s a physiologic dysfunction that you can’t “life strategy” your way out of, and you just need to get the chemicals in your brain to behave properly so you can function.

(This ended up longer than intended, sorry for the essay)

Normally I would agree with you, but OP is living in the environment created by the roommate’s symptoms. This is obviously uncontrolled or, at best, extremely poorly managed mental illness and it is not reasonable to expect OP (who is this person’s roommate, not explicitly a friend, certainly not a family member, and definitely not a partner) to sacrifice their own wellbeing in deference to this person’s dysfunction.

OP obviously has empathy for this person, but is clearly at the end of their rope, and your pontificating and language policing from the outside doesn’t actually help OP or the roommate in any way. I work in medicine, I deal with a LOT of mental health patients, and your comment here doesn’t read as any kind of advocacy for people suffering from mental illnesses, it just reads as virtue signalling or sanctimonious tone policing.