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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by
Kevin Beaumont: "Generative Al government lobbying."
Photo of AI/tech company CEO's, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
Man that is impressive! I do hope your cancer scare was nothing more than that! And I'm glad the CBT helped. I have read about it before and I'm actually a big fan of the idea of stuff like exposure therapy. Without going into details, I have some traumas (none related to needles, ironically) and for a number of years I would watch very specific horror movies in order to get over it and it weirdly worked, lol. I do believe that many traumatic things can be overcome with gradual and safe exposure and life is a lot easier afterwards! But for me, when it comes to needles, I just don't know if it is possible for me to get past it. Like, I can somehow handle sowing needles without freaking out, but sowing machines scare me. I can deal with pins on a board but syringes and fish hooks fuck me up if I'm in the same room as them.
During covid, with all the vaccines we were supposed to get, I decided to also finally get the HPV vaccine that I had been ignoring for a decade.
The amusing part was that because I had waited so long and aged to where I am now, I had to get three shots instead of two. Even funnier, I had to pay for all of them, whereas if I had just gotten the two shots back in my 20s I would have gotten them for free. But that part honestly didn't bother me. I was willing to pay for it. It was the fact that I had to get three shots instead of two that fucked me up.
So for a period, I got stung by needles quite often. Also had to get a blood test for allergy tests at some point during this marathon of needles.
Didn't change a thing. I was still as terrified of needles when it ended as I was when it started. Maybe if I get terminally I'll and have to get needles everyday, I'll finally get over it, but I dunno.
Bonus irony: once I had to have a wisdom tooth removed and because I was so fucking terrified of the anesthetic needle or whatever you call it, they had to inject me 8 times because the adrenaline in my body neutralized the numbing agent or whatever. I'm not a doctor. That's just what they told me. Even though I was doped the fuck up to the point where the dentist said he didn't want to inject me anymore because it could become dangerous, I could still feel pain when he pulled the tooth. It was so fucked, but also kinda funny in hindsight.