I can’t say for sure if the seizures are painful but I think, for our dog, they were.

The type she had made her muscles go rigid.

Just holding muscles that tight for a few minutes would surely be painful.

Often people don’t recall the experience of the seizure, only that they had one. I don’t know if it’s the same for a dog.

A friend of mine who has epilepsy told me that he has an insanely painful headache after he has a seizure.

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Assumptions are lazy

Who did he murder ?

One is torture.

The other is a means of survival.

It’s acceptable to kill for survival.

It’s not acceptable to torture and hurt for sexual gratification that can be gained solo with no one else involved.

Research Statistics. Those used for experiments. I had poor math skills since forever. But I wanted to go into research knowing I would need to take multiple stats courses and not just cram and pass but actually learn it.

I spent a lot of extra time re learning high school level algebra. Order of operations that I had never really learned.

I probably spent 15 hours of extra time outside of class (first stats class) each week just trying my hardest to learn. Watching YouTube videos over and over. Doing example problems over and over.

Not gonna lie. There were a lot of tears and I often questioned if I was capable. But I felt like I had to try.

I found this one guys YouTube channel for stats and at the start of every video he gave a little pep talk. At first I rolled my eyes but by the 2nd video I think I was needing it and it honestly helped so much to hear someone say. “Yes this is hard but you are here trying and I’m going to hold your hand while we figure this out.”

I ended up with 1 point shy of a B+ for that class. Me who had failed algebra twice. Who avoided math like the clap.

That was for my B.A. While working on my masters I was required to take another stats. And funny enough had fellow students asking me for help. I found this so amusing I laughed and had to explain I wasn’t laughing at them. But at the fact someone wanted me to help. They thought I was competent.

When working on my PhD I was a teaching assistant for a stats class and found many students coming to me for help.

The thing is. I struggled so much. It was so hard and confusing. Anything about stats that could confuse me , did.
So when students got stuck on something, I knew exactly what they were getting mixed up about and could help give them examples to fix their problems.

I think being bad at math and struggling so hard to learn it has ultimately made me a decent teacher of stats. Or at least a good tutor.

I also feel like I really get stats. I don’t have a vague basic understanding. I really get why different tests are used in different scenarios and what needs done first and why.

Whereas I find a lot of fellow students don’t grasp this part of understanding statistics and often need someone else to tell them what test to use.

I don’t know if everyone learns this way. But for me, I think being bad forced me to be more attentive and understand deeper just to be able to do it at all.

And no one in the history of the world has gotten a tattoo of a symbol that they didn’t understand the meaning behind.

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I do agree a lot of b.s on the left side sure seems like psyop shit.

Fake outrage over b.s when there is plenty of real shit happening that is overshadowed by petty stuff.

Like a tattoo someone got 20 years ago that could be interpreted as hate. Though it’s subjective. And the person got it removed.

But yeah that’s way more important to dramatize all over online than talking about what Kushner is up to. Which I rarely see mentioned.

100% Election Truth Alliance has a lot of support. They said he was going to go after mail in ballots since those are why he lost 2021 even though he still cheated then too.

I’m so confused. I said I’m tired of what-aboutism.

We have to focus on what’s happening now.

I didn’t say we deny the things that caused the present situation.

I said I’m tired of hearing every time there is a discussion about Trump’s bad decisions and actions that are making things really bad, someone chimes in with what about Biden or Obama. Of which neither are currently the president nor can run for president again.

I don’t deny their part in the current state.

I’m saying that I don’t have the time or energy to engage with people constantly using Obama and Bidens actions as an excuse for why we can’t criticize trump.

Of course things today are a product of many people and institutions failing.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t talk about how to fix those problems.

I’m saying I’m tired of What-aboutism as it’s not productive and is purely intended as a distraction and division.

I don’t know how much clearer I can make this.

Surely you don’t think it’s important to discuss Obamas failings every time trump does something stupid to somehow excuse Trump’s actions or downplay them. ?

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Korean horror. The u.s one is bad like how the old boy remake is bad.

The original was a Pang Brothers film. Like. The audacity to think they could do better.

The Nazi genocide is a present issue. It’s happening right now.

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I’m not saying we forget I’m saying every time someone criticizes trump , someone jumps in and says "yeah but Biden this. Or Obama that. "

I am not saying they were perfect people or those criticisms aren’t valid. But they are not what we need to focus on.

Now if instead someone is running for office and someone says “this is what they have voted for in the past”. - then yeah. That’s valid right now.

That’s not what-aboutism. That’s considering a person’s history for deciding if they should be in office in the future.

This sort of conversation is important. Like Gavin newsome. He has a long history of support for Israel and billionaires. We need to talk about that.

We don’t need to constantly hear about poor decisions previous people in office made who aren’t in seats and can’t run.

Unless you are interested in political history.

We all have limits with information and attention. I prefer to focus on the present and trying not to repeat mistakes. Work on fixing current problems and future problems being caused by the current administration decisions being made.

We are all tired of what-aboutism.

We gotta focus on the present situation.

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About the same for a lot of things though I think the game ones have been better. But I only use FB groups for two games. Both diverse players and non competitive games. No man’s sky and animal crossing.

But generally people are friendly. And the communities are pretty active. Unless it’s an old game or something not relevant anymore.

I use FB groups for stained glass hobby and 3d printing and had pretty good luck with both. Except I joined a women’s 3d printing group and had some b.s drama and I left. But other 3d groups have been fine. Usually people asking for help.

*The women’s group seemed like a rare occurrence. Basically they said my posts looked like I was promoting myself because they looked polished. I said. Yeah I have photography as a hobby. And a long lifetime of art hobbies so yeah my stuff is going to present well. But I’m not selling anything. I don’t have a patreon. Etsy. All of my models I make free and accessible to anyone. I Just like my stuff to look nice because I know how to make it look nice. Not going to downgrade it because you think it’s flashy or makes newbies feel bad. I am happy to give pointers on photographing models or the software I use or anything else. I’m not here to brag but just share with other people who I think will appreciate what I have.

I really tried to work with them. So they changed the rules banning posting completed projects or models. And told me it was cause of me. And said in their post about the change that an “unamed community member” was the cause.

I didn’t even see the post. But the mod sent it to me. Just to make sure I knew I was the trouble maker.*

Idk who those awful women mods were. I got nothing nice to say. I answered troubleshooting questions all the time and helped people. Even made short videos showing people how to fix things.

I just instead help people in other 3d groups now. A lot of people join more than one anyway.

That’s the tea on them. Don’t join the women’s and girls 3d printing FB group.

Anyway.

It’s gonna be like reddit subs where it depends a lot on the mods. And your personal experience with said mods.

But unlike reddit, if you don’t like a 3d printing sub you are out of luck. There was only a general one and the ones for specific brands. , but on fb there are 50 others. So you can find alternatives.

Facebook groups.

They got 10 groups for every topic. I use a lot for hobbies and games.

Some better than others.

Yeah so I’ve also seen a lot of people talk about this.

Many of us miss our niche communities. Most of the subs I subscribed to were niche or medium level.

there just aren’t enough people on Lemmy for a ton of niche communities to stay active.

But I’m also okay with rarely-active niche communities.

One of my favorite reddit subs was “I’ll be your guide”. Only a handful of posts a year but good stuff. Basically videos or guides that were funny or absurd. I recall posting a video that was a legitimate guide on how to poop in the woods.

Yeah advice and help hobby/general communities are incredibly useful and so I have some thoughts about those.

When I first started using reddit I went to r/photography and asked some questions about an old film camera I had just got and was told I couldn’t ask thoe questions there and had to go to the film camera sub. Which I found a little annoying. R/photography (over the 13 years I subscribed to it) mostly became places for only fans photographers to post naked women. Call it art. To the point that was a large portion of photographs posted.

But I couldn’t ask about film. And novice and amateur photographs would just get downvoted with little to no comments.

I recall when I posted on r/sewing about a problem I was having with sewing vinyl, I Was told I needed to use the fabric/textiles sub. (Or something like that). You could only share things you made. Not ask for help. I thought that was so weird. (Also the textile sub was basically inactive so I got no help)

I think it’s a situation that further division of communities into designated “advice/help” oriented subs/communities is only needed when there are a lot of people asking questions all the time and other content isn’t getting seen. If that isn’t happening, we don’t need to separate people posting their projects and people asking for help.

I recently posted on a PC community here about needing some help with using streaming software but wasn’t sure where to ask. People on that community helped me. I didn’t need a dedicated community for that question. There is no such community on Lemmy. Probably because it’s not needed.

That wouldn’t have been acceptable on reddit and I certainly would have gotten told “don’t post questions here, you need to use the sub for specific streaming services”.

There is an Enshitification that happens when platforms become too big. Too popular. They will always then be used to market and manipulate . And it just spirals down. No solution.

There are tradeoffs with using smaller platforms. We get less spam here. Less bots. Less sock puppets (but these do exist here too). When you comment and get replies it’s much more likely it’s a real person and not a bot like reddit.

The conversations go slower. By that I mean if I see a post that’s a day old and make a comment. Other people see it. I get replies. Unlike reddit. 1 day is old news. No one is looking at 1 day old posts on reddit.

I quite like this slower pace and feel like I’m having more genuine interactions instead of just lurking or making a comment no one is ever going to read. Which encourages me to be more active. And I’m sure other people feel similar.

This is getting long so I’ll let you reply before I keep rambling forever.

A decent sized portion. This has been discussed many times and often mentioned in the political communities in the comments about reddit censorship.