Ugh. Typical corporate bullshit.

Please tell me you’re joking. I was just beginning to like some of the discord communities I’ve joined over the years.

Fuck that guy, seriously. Activision already ruined WoW, which I sincerely liked a lot for a very long time.

I agree completely.

I’ve been a nurse for over a decade and I disagree strongly. Way too many of the doctors I’ve had to do with both outside and inside my work have been overworked, arrogant or simply too jaded to do their work properly.

There have been exceptions, of course. I survived both surgeries, after all. Maybe I could have avoided having to learn how to walk again if someone had listened a bit earlier. Maybe not.

But yes, we get into this line of work to help people initially, at least generally, I’ll give you that.

I’ll concede that there’s a difference between physical and psychological diagnoses, but I’ll stand by the main point I was trying to convey, which in this case is that simply blindly following whatever a doctor says can go very wrong.

At the very least there’s always a good reason to get a second opinion if there’s even a little bit of doubt. Obviously there’s also the difference between a lifelong psychological issue and an acute medical emergency.

I simply felt that OP was giving really bad advice and I’m fairly sure he’s got no medical training whatsoever, while I’ve been a nurse for over a decade. Maybe I’m wrong and he’s a doctor, but I highly doubt it.

Setting up an MRI and interpreting the images yourself is obviously impossible, but I did work in a related field so it wasn’t just guesswork either. Do you think any of the doctors I met gave a shit about my thoughts on the matter regardless?

I knew it wasn’t just random headaches but something else, potentially a lot worse. I was right in that instance, at the very least. You’re right that I couldn’t tell them exactly what it was, but since it was quite localised I had my suspicions.

Trying to tell a doctor that you suspect something isn’t exactly easy unless they actually happen to listen, which they didn’t, for far too long.

When they finally did the surgery it was a lot worse than it could’ve been. I was lucky enough that it was a pre-cancerous tumor though. A few months more and it would probably have been too late.

I’ll admit that I worked in a related field at the time though, so I wasn’t entirely relying on guesswork. Not that that meant anything to a single one of the doctors I met before the last one that actually gave me the MRI scan I had begged for for months. I was in surgery the next week.

So you tell me, was the right course of action to just listen to what the doctors said, or not?

From someone with two major surgeries behind me, one of them involving a tumour inside my head, this sounds outright idiotic.

I’d be dead unless I realized something was wrong other than what the doctors at the time described as “just a few headaches”. Took me upwards of 10+ different doctors before they finally listened and found it. Exactly where I described the pain and pressure coming from.

Listen to your body, and for fucks sake stop giving bad advice to people.

Now there’s a name I haven’t seen in a while and that makes me a little bit sad.

Which, it should be noted, incidentally is exactly why they’re sending random people to said prison without due process in the first place.

While I completely agree with you, that is the one thing that could change with just one thing going right for one of all the groups that work on just that problem.

It’s what happens after that that’s really scary, probably. Perhaps we all go into some utopian AI driven future, but I highly doubt that’s even possible.

Giving russia more power won’t be any better for the world at large.

By far one of the easiest decisions was jumping on over here - and I barely understand it half the time.

Second best was ditching Facebook like it was cancer.

Finnish, not Ukrainian. Whenever a second front opens up, and it will, it’ll be right here.

You might’ve talked to one Ukrainian. I’ve lived right next to the fucking russians my entire life, and I’m telling you you’re utterly wrong.

You might not listen, but that’s on you.

You’re wasting your time. I happen to live in a country with a very long border to Russia (guess which one) and I know you’re full of shit simply because we’re dealing with the motherfuckers daily. NATO is and always has been a defensive alliance. We all know that. Russia is simply using it as a really idiotic excuse to do what they wanted to do in the first place. We all know that too.

Simply put, the time for this kind of bullshit is over and done for. Nobody that isn’t already dumb enough to side with those fucknuts believes any of this shit.

As for the US, yeah well up until Putin and his cronies got all the clowns to come out they weren’t actively harming anyone deliberately. Sure, there are war crimes and assholes all over, but also a lot of good-natured and sincerely well meaning people. There have also been trials and sentences for said assholes, as opposed to Russia where you can beat your wife to death and it’s all good.

You don’t find a lot of good in Russia, and you haven’t for a long time. My grandfather fought them, and either me or my son will probably fight them eventually. We’ve already taken action once. It won’t stop there.

Propagandan is one of Kremlin’s biggest tools, and it has been since the wall went up and it certainly never stopped when it came down.

Over time it has become the cheapest way for them for sow discord and infighting between their adversaries. Moving it online made it even cheaper and they’ve been at it hard the past decade or two.

Obviously the US have their own operations, but your point is not correct in any way. Look at what they’ve accomplished. The world is in chaos and they’re largely responsible for a lot or even most of it, depending on how you look at the big picture.

Serious politicians (and I use that term loosely) are not used to dealing with someone as utterly demented as trump on a daily basis. They’re used to long boring meetings and talking politely behind each others backs. Not … this.

People had a hard time understanding Hitler at first, too, and he wrote a fucking book about what he was about to do before he actually went and did it.

Translated from an indoctrinated North Korean? For sure. It’d probably make a lot more sense in native Korean than it does as translated text.

I can’t help but to agree with you on more or less all points made.

There are a lot of dudes working for the fucking Russians too.