At the time I was taking them I would have been on my parents’ medical insurance, so I’m not sure of the costs. I would imagine self-administration would be cheaper if only because you’re not paying for an office visit.

It’s been years since I took them, but at the time I used something that looks like the image below. Not a huge needle, and injected into an area with fatty tissue like the thigh or stomach so didn’t really hurt either.

I took them for a few years in middle/high school, and they worked well for me. If you don’t feel like going to a doctor every week for the shots (and you aren’t too freaked out by needles) you can usually also administer them yourself. My roommate in high school hated needles and shots, so I’d of course make sure to administer the shots while he was in the room.

That fucking trash. I’ve got vasovagal syncope.

A sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting, often in reaction to a stressful trigger.

Common triggers include strain, stress, long periods of standing, heat exposure, or the sight of blood.

Symptoms include paleness, nausea, sweating, a rapid heartbeat, and fainting.

It’s inconsistent, though. For example, never had issues with the numbing shots at the dentist. One day they start giving the shots to numb me up, and next thing I remember they’ve got me sitting up over a trash can trying to clear the vomit I was aspirating on. Scared the shit out of those dentists.

Once while in middle school I lightly nicked a finger with some scissors - barely even bled. All of a sudden I feel nauseous and ask to go to the bathroom. I manage to get out into the hallway before collapsing to the floor, hitting my head at least twice on the way down and traumatizing my classmates who thought I just dropped dead.

Intelligent design my big gay ass. Damn vagus nerve is a dodgy self-destruct mechanism.

I never get invited to the fun parties. 🥺

Those tiled bathrooms have great acoustics for it.

He does talk some mad shit.

They give me a gnarly headache if I overdo them, that’s about it.

That you, Morgoth? Stop trying to trick me into revealing the location of Gondolin.

Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.

Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.

Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.

Trade it for something a little lies swastikar-y.

I tried using DuckDNS for a while for DDNS, but noticed it seemed to have frequent periods of a few minutes each when it just wouldn’t resolve. Also was unable to get a matrix/synapse setup working behind it. It’s handy as a free service and nice if you just need basic DDNS, but it’s not the most reliable for hosting stuff from my experience.

I eventually settled on buying my own domain. Was much cheaper and easier to figure out DNS management than I was expecting, and my hosted services run so smoothly now.

Edit RE: downvotes: fuck me for sharing my experience? Kinda thought that was the point of this community…

It’s me, the unfiltered military guy. Gonna need to see that proof again.

This is one of the reasons why I set up a Wireguard VPN connection to my home network, and an on-demand VPN connection on my phone that automatically turns on anytime I’m not on the home network. Even away from home I get the benefits of my Pi-hole+Unbound (running as recursive resolver) setup.

Yay! Sportsball!

Pass the nachos.

Would be nice if he fucked the system enough that they couldn’t even accept payments - for the first time I owe federal taxes this year, about $300+.

Seeding both for good measure, and tucking those away into the Extended Seed folder on the NAS.

So far? Since February 15, 2018. The dearest friend I’ve ever had died that day. Both of us 29. I always said if I had been straight I’d have married her. I feel like some part of me died with her.

Much obliged.