The likelihood that you’re going to get caught anyway, this might be a better situation for an “act like you belong” approach.

Hi-vis vest, hard hat, a ladder, couple safety cones, and some tools. Just waltz right up and run a half-inch drill bit through the lens. Pack up and move on to the next one.

It literally would… Because of the type of blindness they’re talking about…

An article talking about something doesn’t make it true. “Because of the type of blindness we’re talking about” doesn’t explain anything, and that kind of ‘trust me bro’ blanket pseudo-rationalization doesn’t scratch the surface of how we’d be able to understand the perceptions of someone who’s preceptive foundation is fundamentally different from our own.

But keep telling me how that doesn’t mesh with the article.

I understand the claim, what I’m saying is that it would be difficult to confirm. Not having a visual reference would mean their experience of visual input would be distinct from ours, but concluding that it doesn’t happen at all is a stretch.

As a hypothesis, my guess would be their experience of visual sensation of a hallucination would come as raw input - flashes of light or something.

The problem would come with asking that person to tell you if they see flashes of light if they’ve never experienced real light. How their brain re-wired that chunk is a complete mystery to an outside observer. If visual processing is reassigned, it would be to something completely unrelated: like, light perception could now be tied to decision making, with good ideas feeling brighter vs risky ideas feeling dark. Or vice versa.

But to them, that processing of visual feedback isn’t a visual experience, so asking if they’ve seen flashes of light would be like me asking you if you’ve ever tasted an ethical dilemma or some other concept: the question wouldn’t make sense, and we would have no way to make it make sense without knowing ahead of time that it’s tied to decision making. And if it was, a visual hallucination could come as making them feel erroneously confident about a risky behavior simply because the visual cortex is giving the perception of brightness to literally every thought.

So again, that would be really hard, if not impossible to assess, and claims to have done so would need a lot of evidence to back it up.

someone whose never been able to see, can’t experience visual hallucinations, they just can’t.

That would be really hard to assess. Hallucinations happen in the brain, so even if the eyes were nonfunctional or literally absent, that chunk (occipital lobe) of the brain isn’t necessarily just turned off, so it’s not a huge leap to conclude that that chunk could still crank out the sensation of sight in some way during a hallucination.

But without the context of actual sight, that sensation wouldn’t carry much meaning, and would probably be really hard for that person to describe.

Interesting thought!

Chest pain kicks in: Oh fuck today’s the day, aaarrrrgh–

Chest pain subsides: Oh. Well then. finishes my Monster and gets back to work

Are those the black bean patties? Cuz those things are fucking delicious. I’m not vegan or vegetarian or anything, I just like tasty food, and you guys have come up with some good stuff! The impossible burgers are pretty decent too - I’d go for one of those over a ‘beef’ fastfood patty any day (calling those horrid things ‘beef’ is a stretch right out the gate, but you get gist).

Yes.

Compost the rich*

I wouldn’t recommend eating them - you’d probably catch something nasty. Grinding them up and feeding them to worms is far more appropriate!

Waste of a hospital bed. Go rot in a sewer where you belong.

*snoozes alarm*

…just five more extinction level events…

*zzzzz*

A single scent: it’s a tossup between mesquite or coffee.

A combination of scents hitting your nose like an olfactory blitzkrieg: that first step into an Indian restaurant when you get hit by a combination of different curries, naan bread, and the rest of their menu that they’ve been serving to customers over the last several hours.

says gaming, religion serve similar life purposes

Glad it’s a Buddhist saying this. My knee-jerk was to compare the benign influence of violent videogames to the radicalizing influence of violent religions.

This may just be my lack of familiarity with Buddhism, but my understanding is they’re generally pretty chill and actually make a positive impact on society. Other religions, not so much.

That’s called the “milieu” which is just a fancy term for the general vibe of the therapeutic environment.

And yeah, hospitals SUCK at that. They’d never let actual greenery in the units because of their potential to harbor bugs or trigger allergies, but the plain/sterile look of everything makes it feel pretty alien to most patients.

Pediatric hospitals are the only ones that get it right - the walls are colorful and filled with happy imagery; the ceiling lights often have inserts that make them look like little patches of blue sky and clouds.

Idk why hospitals that care for adults always look so damn depressing. That’d be a great project idea, to get some pediatric hospital interior decorators to do their thing in other facilities!

Previous poster specified “medics” which I understood as the people on the actual units providing care; and their reluctance to teach skills without the foundation of knowledge that enables those skills. My take was to put myself in their shoes and consider why - the very obvious answer being that doing so can cause harm. The number of bigots working the front lines is of course higher than zero, but also a very clear minority, so jumping to that as the answer to why they behave a certain way around trans people is not correct.

You’re getting more into all the bullshit that influences healthcare at the systemic level: administration, politics, religion… and your right, the answers there get a lot more nefarious, but are very much not the people the previous poster or I was discussing.

also stuff like DIY medicine, it would help me greatly as a trans person if medics stopped policing medical knowledge and taught us their skills instead.

The problem there is that the skills and knowledge go hand-in-hand, and something being safe vs not is dependent on it being used correctly. If you’re encountering reluctance from medical folks to give you DIY resources, it’s most likely from the fear of giving you advice that’ll turn around and fuck you up. And we don’t want to fuck you up. But as you mentioned, the longer term consequences (suicide) potentially far exceed fucking up a shot… like degradation of your subcutaneous tissue because something that was supposed to be injected intramuscular was erroneously injected into the fat, causing it to break down and leaving you with a nasty pit (clinically minor, but disfiguring). Or failing to instruct you to sanitize the stopper and your injection site with alcohol pads, leading to necrotizing fasciitis, (which can kill you).

All that said, I agree with you - you’re more than capable of understanding those risks and taking the time to learn both the skills and the knowledge to mitigate them. Whether or not to take that risk is solely up to you. What I’d advise is to take a deep dive into literally every step of the process: The DIY guide you found said to use one needle to draw the solution and another one to inject… why? With an inch and a half needle… why? that’s a 27 gauge… why? Says inject it into your thigh… why? At a 90* angle… why? What do you do if something goes wrong? How can you even tell if something’s gone wrong? You get the gist. The skill of actually giving a shot is the easy part - understanding the ‘why’ gets crazy complicated.

Numbers and such pulled out of my ass - I don’t know squat about estrogen, so real instructions will almost certainly be different. But if you’re doing it DIY, you really do need to become your own nurse. (and if that stuff comes naturally to you, get your ass into nursing school!!).

Having never given estrogen before, I’m pretty sure you already know more about it than I do, but if any of your DIY instructions seem odd or even wrong, feel free to bounce it off me and I’d be happy to share what insight I have.

Deathwatch (Warhammer 40,000) by Jared Moreno Luna

7/10. It was great background music while playing Satisfactory, but now that I’m actually focusing on it, it’s pretty repetitive. Playlist started with Starcraft music - also a pretty good match for Satisfactory!