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@blankisomeone I sent you a PM. Please reach out to speak to some trained, qualified professionals or family/friends who can offer help. We love you and appreciate you, but we are woefully unequipped to assist ❤️❤️❤️ Please do not harm yourself. All states change. Love and hugs
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Nope. Everyone here is a giga-unicorn.
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They are hiring (US) https://appliedphysics.org/careers-at-applied-physics-2/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NAC6ajkH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQr70rfwQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KYYFJ-g3JE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8k4UiDwSJw
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please reach out for support instantly. the link below shows you where to call depending on what country you're in. https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/
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hey, thank you for sharing. this is devastating and my love goes out to the boy's family and everyone who knew him. sometimes things happen that don't make sense in life. but i fully agree with you that we as a society must find better ways to help those who are experiencing suicidality and also set in place more preventative measures. just make sure you don't lay it all on your shoulders; this is a shared burden and maybe for now, your part in it is allowing yourself to grieve, and also to allow yourself to find happiness again. i know that this can be the harder part, but it's crucial.
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Sorry that you’re not feeling too good tonight I hope you feel better soon
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I have experience with Olanzapine. It was "forced/given" to me in the psychiatry. I stopped taking it as soon as I got out of the closed ward. I had to play along for a bit, otherwise they would have never let me out. They had a court order that allowed them to force me to take drugs and also allowed them to restrain me against my will. They could have done anything to me. This is Germany btw. Don't go crazy here, you will use all your rights as a human being. They gave Olanzapine to get the dopamine down so that I would fall asleep. It put me to sleep, but it was not a restful sleep. I hated it, because it felt like someone was trying to push the "OFF" knob from the outside. In my eyes all these medications have so many side effects and the doctors, inventors, pharmacies and the entire system has no idea what they are doing. They are playing with fire. "Hey we got the dopamine down, but we broke 50 other things in the process". Approved. This is my personal opinion based on one drug that was given to me while conscious and a bunch of stuff that was IM'ed to me when I was unreachable "for them".
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As you probably all know, capitalism has its issues. But as Leo Gura pointed out in When Does the Left Go Too Far?, socialism isn't perfect either. Awhile back, I discovered an economic theory that can ensure steady economic growth whilst at the same time, ensuring that those benefits distribute rather than consolidate. To understand this, you first need to understand the three factors of production - land, labor, and capital. Profit for each of the three has its own term. Land: Natural resources and plots of land. Profit from land is rent. Labor: Effort by people to provide a good or service. Profit from labor is a wage. Capital: Anything manmade, especially to produce goods or services. Profit from capital is interest. What different economic theories disagree on is on the priority of each of the three. For example, Marxian economics revolves around the labor theory of value (LTV) which states that labor is the only way to contribute to the economy. Land and capital exist but take on a passive role relative to labor. As such, landlords and business owners are leeching off of the productive working class whilst giving nothing in return. Neoclassical economics considers all three to be legitimate. There was something that I noticed. I spotted a thread in the LTV when it occurred to me that each business has to start somehow. The founder may not contribute a majority of the labor that goes into a successful business, but does take on a risk of starting one. Most fail but the ones that succeed will become big. Even big businesses can eventually fail as is the case with Sears which has just five locations left as of December 2025 (Sears had a branch in Mexico which is now larger than the current company). At the same time, I felt like land speculation was a way to make money without actually giving anything to society. In fact, it's negative since it drives up land prices. I then discovered georgism, an economic theory that I believe will give us the best of both capitalism and socialism. Henry George lived during the late 19th century and wrote a book called Progress and Poverty in 1879. In this book, he took note that landowners nearby where the railroads were built were profiteering big time. The industrial revolution brought forth unprecedented wealth and yet there was still a great deal of poverty. He came to the conclusion that land was the problem. After all, whereas labor and capital are manmade and variable, land is a constant. It's also worth noting that at the time that book was written, the American frontier was nearing its conclusion (Native Americans would get kicked off of Oklahoma a decade later). Once all of the land gets sold, the price of land will go up. To solve this, George proposed a land value tax (LVT). This is different from a property tax in that it only taxes the land and not the improvements. Henry George gained following in what became known as the single tax movement. Henry George ran for NYC mayor in 1886 against Abram Hewitt, who won, and Theodore Roosevelt. He ran again in 1897 but died a few days before the election. His funeral was attended by 100,000, making it one of the largest funerals in the country at the time. The LVT was largely forgotten in the mid 20th century, perhaps because the post war boom and the automobile enabled a recreation of the frontier. George's ideas remained of note to economists, perhaps because of how logical they are. Since the 2008 financial crisis, georgism has become relevant again, especially as homes have become increasingly unaffordable. I found myself to be persuaded to support land-based taxation because it enables the state to collect revenue without incurring any deadweight loss. This is because taxing land does not result in less land. Furthermore, LVT does not suffer from tax avoidance or evasion because the government will always know what landowners have to pay. The only issue lies in separating land from improvements as not doing so makes it simply a property tax which is a double edged sword. A property tax discourages land speculation but it also discourages improving the property. - Today
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I woke up in the middle of the night to horrible screams and cries of a woman. I looked out from the window, I thought something happened in the building in front of mine (there is always something happening there). It turns out it wasn’t in the other building, but closer. Too close. I saw what appeared to be the crushed body of a young man under my window, his mother beside him sobbing and asking him why he did that. His father was screaming to the sky in despair. I called an ambulance with the hope that he was still alive and could be saved. The ambulance came quickly, and the paramedics tried their best for 20–30 minutes to bring him back to life, but unfortunately, he was dead. Later, I found out that it was my teen neighbor who had committed suicide by jumping from a high floor, his parents’ home, a few floors above mine. He was bullied harshly at school, and the pain apparently was so unbearable. He didn’t have to do that, I thought. He was a beautiful and smart boy, but from the limited perspective of an adolescent, he didn’t realize that although his circumstances seemed to suck right now, this was not permanent and that he had a long life to live in which he would also experience good things. His death, and the brutal and painful way he died, traumatized so many people around him. His nuclear family, the extended family, the neighbors, his classmates (the few who were his friends), many people are grieving. So many people loved him. But it was too late. After that, I was afraid to sleep with the window open or look out of the window. I was afraid to go outside when it was dark. I was afraid of random daily things that reminded me of the tragedy. I was hypervigilant. I had dreams of the tragedy or related themes. In one dream, I was in his position, on the ground, looking from below at the window from which he jumped and feeling his parents’ love. Since the day he committed suicide, his parents, especially his mother, were screaming in cries, from the window, every early morning, desperately calling their son’s name, even after his funeral. The screams were so painful to hear, so piercing. It is so painful to witness grieving people, especially parents who lost their child to suicide. At some point, they stopped screaming in grief from the window and just grieved silently at home. His father started to drink. His mother lost so much weight she almost disappeared. I had hallucinations of them crying later. I had hallucinations of hearing someone’s body hitting the ground after jumping from a high floor. I couldn’t stop thinking about his dead body, with the broken limbs, how such death can happen to such young and living person. Gradually the obsessive thoughts and hallucinations decreased, and I could function more easily. It’s still saddens me so much that he took his life. I saw him around two weeks before he died, he was with a friend (who, as I found out later was toxic to him) and he looked to me like a normal, even popular boy. Though when I noticed his eyes, they appeared empty or sad, I couldn’t articulate it, it was just a feeling. I thought that I may be over-feeling. My dogs barked at them, so I moved quickly in order not to scare them, I didn’t have time to converse with them and see what was happening between them, which I regret. This is my survivor’s guilt talking, deluding me into thinking that I had control over the situation. But maybe if his parents, who knew about the bullying, couldn’t stop him, what could I do? If that wasn’t enough, I felt another guilt inside me, another type of guilt, which is the guilt of slightly understanding him. Because it is not socially acceptable to understand people who commit suicide. We’re supposed to never want it, right? And I really don’t want it. I will never do that. But it made me think about how fucked up society is, like, really fucked up and how vulnerable children are to all of this crap. I read that there has been an increase of 60% in child/teen suicide in recent years. This is crazy, because children are not supposed to die in such horrible ways. It also seems like there is not much talk or awareness about it, as if someone is trying to shift the focus away to keep the social dysfunction that leads to it because it benefits them. But we, the adults who live in this society, are responsible as well, we actively create it. Adults bully each other at workplaces, adults are emotionally absent or immature within their family and friendships units, mostly in ways which are normalized snd socially acceptable. And all this narcissistic cult of individualism, that hurts our lives and the lives of our children but we never question it. And it’s bad because it makes the life so much unbearable, unnecessarily unbearable and more difficult than it should be. Especially for the most vulnerable people in society in their most vulnerable stages of their lives. Me and another neighbor would like to plant a tree in the spot where the boy fell, for his memory and with the intention to inspire people to be better, kinder, more tolerant the loving to each other. Though I personally feel a little bit hopeless about society and humanity right now.
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Are there any conformity examples that happen specifically on this forum?
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Game Design Thinking Process https://www.zachtronics.com/zach-like/
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You're welcome
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www.zachtronics.com
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Games SpaceChem: Construct molecular machines to fight monsters through chemistry-based puzzles. Infinifactory: 3D factory-building for alien overlords, placing blocks like welders and sensors. TIS-100: Assembly-language programming to repair a corrupted computer. Shenzhen I/O: Design circuits and code embedded systems in a simulated Chinese electronics factory. Opus Magnum: Alchemical machines transmuting reagents into gems or weapons.
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Zachtronics is a studio focused on engineering puzzle games. It is specialized in titles that challenge players to design machines, circuits and programs to solve complex problems. If you are a STEM nerdy motherfuck*r, you have to play his games. When you play his games, you will work as a hacker, nanoeletronics engineer, machine design engineer, software engineer, software alchemist. Contemplate what is necessary to be creative on this level - imagine the flow to know that you can create games like this
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Thank you!
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i’ve got multiple tools in this toolbox. time to experiment with them all. each tool has a purpose.
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The Future of Humanity | Michio Kaku | Talks at Google
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Chip Design
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I fully agree when it comes to unconscious conformity. An example: Growing up for the first 25 years of my life, I was a strong people pleaser, I couldn't say no. In every situation for 25 years, what I wanted was to say no but I did it anyway. I was fully conscious that I had this problem. While I was making the decision to follow what other people wanted me to do or behave I consciously watched myself do it. The fear of displeasing or causing conflict over ruled me. Conscious: yes, real time self-awareness and observing myself act out the play. Conscious of act Integrity: No, I did not act through my values or identity or thoughts. Unconscious: a fear put into me outside of my control. That I later grew out of. This is why some people commented "self-conformity". Peer pressure: Peer pressure + unconscious + not integrity = Unconscious conformity: Leos Pizza (regret) Peer pressure + unconscious + integrity = Unconscious conformity: Smoked cigarettes/drugs with his friends has a blast. Peer pressure + Conscious + integrity = Authenticity (you feel the pressure but act from your own values) Peer pressure + Conscious + not integrity = Conscious conformity: people pleaser 25 years or insert cousin word (compliance):. Group think: Group think + unconscious + not integrity = Unconscious conformity: Classic hidden conformity (the Christian/MAGA example you gave) Group think + unconscious + integrity = ??? Group think + Conscious + integrity = ??? Group think + Conscious + not integrity = ??? It's OK I know this one if you read it is gonna go over terribly.
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Which connects to Salvatore Pais:
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I suffered AI induced psychosis way before it even was a term. It happened in March of 2024. I was using ChatGPT so heavily, also through the API and writing scripts. Trying out every framework under the sun for automation and using agents before they even were a real thing. I adapted my speech and especially my written chat speech so much that I didn't even bother writing to real people properly anymore. I would abbreviate my texts and use symbols to shorten stuff. I didn't bother explaining to people what the symbols meant (because they were too stupid in my eyes - peak psychosis). I ended up in a psych ward, but never was treated for the actual problem. I only realized a few weeks ago when the term AI induced psychosis was coined, that what I experienced was exactly that. Everything got faster and faster. My brain wasn't able to keep up anymore. The information flood just made me break down. This is the first time I am talking about this and actually admitting to myself that this happened to me is quite freeing. I still use Gemini quite heavily, it gives quite "profound" answers some times.
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