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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago

You don’t suffer chronic pain, do you?

Off-topic: the topic is a toothache, which is usually curable.

There are medical guidelines for chronic pain management, and leaping to dangerous, addictive substances aren't that. There's pain catastrophizing to watch out for. There are multi-disciplinary approaches recommended before turning to prescriptions.

Despite not suffering more pain than other nationalities, Americans had been taking disproportionately more pain pills than the rest of the world. There is something wrong with the mentality that treats medicine as an exercise of pain satisfaction rather than pain management & imagines that patients need to live pain-free despite the dangers.

During the opioid crisis, articles like this had belabored that point repeatedly & explained where the industry went wrong.