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Honestly a heated bidet is better. Now I’m not saying give up bathroom breaks - smoke a J in there, or go wander in a park for a while. But my bunghole only appears when there’s an oscillating jet of 100* water ready to blast it spotless.

The animal welfare committee has concluded the most humane way to coke up the fish is for the researchers to also do a few bumps so they feel like it’s a party.

“Supreme Court to rule for industry, against individuals” there NYT I fixed your headline

Wanna know a secret… God didn’t even write that part. God’s version has him at a kmart in Toledo, Iowa buying the entire universe on a Saturday in 1997, at which point he installed it, but it did take several days because it was football season, but it was less than a week no matter what anyone else says.

So, therapists are starting to use this because it simplifies notetaking, which is actually a big behind-the-scenes thing. Therapists have to maintain sometimes multiple sets of notes on each patient: one for insurance/billing, one for their records, one that can be viewed by you on-demand, one for judges or other individuals involved in a person’s treatments. When it comes to billing notes, it’s a formulaic thing they’re doing to justify your treatment, they basically extract a few quotes to keep your insurance company paying for whatever it is they think they’re paying for. Insurance doesn’t just write check a check every week saying “hope you talked about fun stuff.” Treatment plans have to be done and progress accounted for. Even if those treatment plans are just to satisfy a beancounter reading the reports.

And it it turns out this is actually all a great use for AI, summarizing and filing - it doesn’t need to be creating, just distilling. And as such a therapist can see more patients, or have more time with their families (being a therapist is cognitively stressful, you can’t just zone out or scroll on Tiktok when you get bored).

At the same time, every therapist I know (I’m married to one, have a kid with another, and a lot my friends are therapists - plus my own) is experimenting and won’t feel the least bit upset if you say “no.” They are trying to get a feel for what patients are OK with.

I let my therapist use it. We’re doing a very specific modality and I’m not the least bit worried about that being recorded.

But if I were detailing my own childhood rape or something, I might not feel the same way, IDK.

Just communicate with them honestly.

This stuff used to bother me but then I observed nature and its cruel rules for long enough, and I realized that suffering is one of the few constants in life, one of the guarantees. Wasps that paralyze spiders for months so they can be eaten alive by their offspring, bird species where most chicks are left to stave to death, etc… yeah nature is just as cruel as humans can be, but at a much larger scale in perpetuity, and we’re a lot more efficient at turning that suffering into greater good that lessens the suffering of others in perpetuity. So, while I don’t condone or even like to think about baby monkey experiments, I will not bat an eye at lab mice being given Parkinson’s so we can observe and seek answers and cures.

If we get another president, I hope they use the WH Twitter account to post nothing but crimes committed by rednecks and conservatives. Hell just the sex crimes against children would keep the account full.

I’m buying fireworks this summer, but they aren’t being used on the 4th.

And giving literally everything away so the rich can have a little more