No doubt in my mind that I will. I was absolutely getting the itch for some new music to get me through automating tasks people told me can't be automated and not telling anyone so I can spend more of my work day studying. o7

Edit: Thanks again for all the fucking great mixes. If there's ever any way I can kick some dollars your way like donations or a platform where you take payments lmk and I'll see what I can do. I owe you at least one lunch with how much of my sanity you've saved helping me drown out the world.

While policing definitely selects for already shit people, if you want to argue the case that cops at no point ever had any ideas about helping people only to be harassed by their peers and bosses, have their spirits crushed and be propagandized into conforming with the structural racist and class wafare mission of "policing" in the United States, go right ahead... or you can realize that that's the EXACT same situation pharmacists are in. They're literally trained to uphold the exact same racist and class based order, and police people away from assistance (medicatIon, in this case) that cops do with access to so many other rights.

I'm sure plenty of pharmacists do want to help people, and I'm plenty aware that the the structure that controls them keeps them on an extremely tight leash about who that help can go to. Just like cops. The reason people say ACAB and "good cops quit" is precisely because they know there's occasionally good people who wind up in the line of work who immediately realize how fucked it is and try and fix it only to get their lives ruined or wind up dead themselves, or be forced to quit.

None of this is even to defend cops, it's to illustrate that every single argument you've made for pharmacists is true of cops too, as well as almost every single other profession, and that when the pharmacist accusing you of selling drugs because you're an adult with ADHD, or asking "why you need so many" or "this is an odd dose" or all the other shit they literally should take up with a doctor but won't because they'll get sat the fuck down immediately, so they instead harass the patient, that they're not doing it because "they want to help people but their hands are tied." Maybe that was true at one point, but at that current point they're a fucking cop and fucking people over just because they can. When they "accidentally forget to order your prescription" that you've been getting the same dose of every month on the same date at the same place for 3+ years, month after month after month, they're not "trying their best, but just underpaid".

They're not special, they're not exceptions, they're not unique. They're in the exact same situation everyone else is, and it's perfectly fine to call them pieces of shit for acting like it.

Please just re-analyze a bit and think about it.

(P.S. I'm not saying when the companies who own these pharmacies etc push these policies they're always doing them out of an out and out conscious racist or class based purpose, but cops don't think they are either. It's all culture and "business policies" made by extremely normal ceo failsons and board members, handed down to be enforced by the poor against the poor, sanitized through industry appropriate language and coding. It just so happens that in policework being outwardly mask off racist is industry appropriate, because the "white" public literally supports it most of the time.)

This is true of every profession, except some of them also ruin people's fucking lives and it isn't an excuse.

"Cops need to be paid more if you don't want them shooting innocent people." ass take.

Glad to hear you're on the mend, hope everything all healed up well and you got some good cans to replace the broken ones. I really need to dig my set out and get around to replacing the cable with a TRS jack so I can stop replacing the cable every 12-24 months and just plug the cable in at the headphone end too.

I re-watch this at least once a year religiously just because it's the best worst best good bad movie, and is so ridiculous and weirdly not all at the same time.

Also raised a Catholic in religious group homes (essentially orphanages, group foster homes for kids who are never getting fostered) in Australia, and I agree with your entire wall of text and thank you for posting it so I didn't have to post something similar.

I also used to piss off several of the "staff" whose official position to "the children" was babies didn't go to hell until insert catholic goalpost but that whole concept of purgatory as a placeholder until we accept god or whatever, which always led to me arguing that I should remain unbaptized and as ignorant of the churches teachings as possible then until I go to purgatory and don't have to make the decision based on faith. (Not how it "works" but is an incredibly frustrating topic for any Catholics trying to keep things "kid friendly".)

Edit: They really REALLY didn't like you saying that spreading the churches teachings to, for instance, pacific islands people's etc, was (knowing they're imperfect humans) condemning souls to hell when ignorance covered them 100%.

And to whatever portion is actually asking: The dissonance is an important part of American evangelicalism or whatever you like to call it. End result is that God's plan gets to be whatever an authority in your life decides it is

I would expand this to say not just an important part of American Evangelicalism but the entire core necessary and defining component in my mind of the power structure part of "The American Civic Religion(tm)" and the principle piece from which control structures that allow American Protestantism (at least since Jerry Falwell) to operate with the same purpose that Catholicism did in Rome, that is, to functionally reign in all dissent from "Conservative Christian Doctrine" and ensure that this vital conservative political power structure can never again be divorced from the specific beliefs of their target "audience's" faith.

As a former STEM lord who quit Aero eng in their third year because I didn't wanna make weapons for capitalists, they're 100000000% a symptom of our society (but one we will still have to eliminate in a socialist one, but not nearly the same way/magnitude) rather than a something endemic to all societies.

STEM lords as we have them are a result of the same shit that makes incels, that makes reply guys, that makes debate bros, that makes twitter wine moms, etc.

There's a reason most of those things have huge overlaps with each other, and it's the crossroads of what America enshrines as it's values. Ignorance coupled with arrogance. These are problems every society faces but America in particular goes out of it's way to nourish them in it's population in order to fuel it's culture war and consumerism, and as a result it's uniquely effective at educating those traits into it's population, especially in unison.

It's also why even the most educated of them feels confident enough to "share it's expertise" on shit it has absolutely no education or involvement with, etc etc. It's not just the ignorance, it's not just the arrogance, it's the combination and the fact that we naturally select FOR it. It's even celebrated when it fits in the current cultural product, like twitch "celebs" and blue check marks opinions somehow being relevant, conducting interviews, the existence of youtubers, etc etc. The audacity to think that anyone even should hear their take let alone anyone actually wanting to.

It's a uniquely individualist mindset fostered by generations of imperial core cultural reform, as you alluded to in the education/general literacy points.

If you keep those things in mind and look back at scientists like Carl Sagan(a socialist) and listen to the way speak about our society, or look at how soviet scientists and astronauts etc were treated and treated their accomplishments (as done by and for the people, etc) even when they were being celebrated they always fostered the view that it was an accomplishment struggled for by all, that it was shared by them all, and that they were all responsible for it's risks and rewards. That a rich society had to be rich in huge and varying fields and specialties and that the same was true of people to understand each other, even (perhaps even especially) when they hyper-specialized in the thing they did best or enjoyed or did the most good for "the team".

I went through the absolute fucking song and dance and being the literal luckiest person in the world to actually get diagnosed with ADHD at roughly 30 (no dox no dox), only to find out I was diagnosed while I was in foster care as a child and they just never treated it or told me when I got kicked out into the world upon hitting the magical "we no longer care lol" age. So that was neat. Got my childhood medical records to confirm (different country, never part of the country I was diagnosed in as adult records), literally wanted to stab EVERYONE.

I cannot fathom how much harder it'd be if I was AFAB or wasn't exceptionally lucky or had more complexity than 'just' ADHD.

I still drive 3 hours to see that doctor twice a year and do phone health visits the rest of the time specifically just because every other doctor I've met sees medication as "only necessary to make you more productive for your employer lol" and not maintaining your quality of life, gym and cooking habits, personal hygiene and social norms vs hyperfocus binges sessions, sleep routine, social interactions, etc. and I am fucking terrified of having to start from scratch.