I use IRC everyday. In particular the #<linux_distro>-chat channel on IRC.

Echo all the other people here saying that you should be discussing this with medical professionals.

However - and forgive me for this if I’ve misinterpreted your post - if you think that chemical castration might remove a temptation that you might hurt someone then I’d recommend proceeding with it. Additionally, depending on exactly what the reason you can’t have “normal” relationships, there are some situations that you cannot discuss it with your parents without putting immense amounts of strain on your relationship.

Source: It came to me in a dream

Abstract Base Classes just remind people of Java lasagna code. Whereas XYZ is inseparable from Hilary Putnam’s water analogue in his famous Twin Earth thought experiment.

I’ve been off Facebook for over a decade now but have been unable to leave the META ecosystem due to the ubiquity of WhatsApp in the UK. There’s not really a good alternative in terms of IM apps because the other popular ones seem to have made a USP out of appealing to criminals.

Was doing pager duty support and there was a bug in a pipeline which was preventing a vital report from being generated. It had to exist by 8AM UTC and finally got it working at 5:30AM. My company would have lost its license to operate in a certain state if the report had not been generated.

IRC is still pretty popular with programmers and in my experience people are helpful on the various tech channels (on libera.chat at least)

It would be great if the middle powers could form some kind of “common” “wealth” but seems outlandish at the moment

Even the chill Americans can’t help but invade Greenland

-20 degrees celcius in Ukraine atm too

MC Solaar (French rap) Obsolète

Fitting slogan for a pair of teenage shorts

Yeah my parents had me when they were 40 and 38 respectively so they are now mid-70s while I’m in my 30s. They are definitely slowing down; taking longer to process new information, forgetting small things, etc. I can feel them reaching the age soon where the roles might reverse and they will start relying more on me. Fortunately I’ve got a good relationship with them and live close by.

I need to work enough to ensure that my personal life is comfortable, and that I’m saving enough for retirement.

Tall, Scottish nerd that works with computers.

Patrick Willems Are Music Biopics Good Now and TENET And A Celebration Of Vibes Movies.

I’m a big movie fan and have only recently discovered this channel but I find it has a nice mix of interesting takes backed up with citations from academia.

Great answer. I would also say that lemmy users tend to be more politically engaged in both directions, so there is less of a homogenisation of view points into the “reddit-consensus” when it comes to upvotes.

I remember using reddit in 2012, being at the end of my teen years, and only having discovered it a few years before: everyone on there seemed to clever compared to other social media at the time and I let the “reddit-consensus” genuinely affect my opinions. There was this post in 2012 where the OP was fearmongering about a free trade agreement Obama was trying to negotiate, saying it would harm small businesses in the US, with protectionism very much being the consensus. I had this moment of incongruity where I wanted to offload my critical thinking to the consensus but at the same time I thought, “This isn’t right; I usually support free trade deals…” Bit of a formative experience in terms of using more critical thinking when browsing the internet.

goatse demons

Ah I remembered it being short production time but a month makes more sense. The stuff in that doc about how the devs smoked cannabis the entire time too was nuts.

Not something from therapy per se but I found out antidepressants didn’t seem to work for my chronic fatigue symptoms that seemed like depression because I actually had an autoimmune disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis