This is why healthcare in the US sucks.

• A wealthy person will have a 24-hour hotline to connect with a nurse or doctor (immediately or through return call) with access to their medical history who will help them figure out what to do.
• A moderately well-off person will have a web/phone interface where they can send a message and someone will return their message in a day or two.
• Everyone else has to make a gamble: do I spent money to try to figure this out? Do I risk spending money and then it turns out to be nothing? But what if it’s something and it’s more expensive later on? What will my insurance pay for? How do I find someone that’s reliable, but also inexpensive? All of this causes stress which makes things worse.

In your case, think of anyone who knows your medical history and who you can ask questions of. The doctor who prescribed your anxiety medications - can you call/message them and ask them? The pharmacist who dispenses the meds - can you go/call and ask a question about your medications? Some pharmacies also have nurse / clinic stations, too. If you have any kind of medical insurance, check out their web page - a lot of them have set up tele-medicine offerings recently. If your job has an HR department, this is actually one case they can be helpful; an HR person in my company helped me figure out what health resources I had access to, based on my plan. Finally, if you haven’t been getting annual checkups, you should start thinking of doing so (especially as you get older), and ask them how you can contact them to ask questions like this.

Good luck fam, I hope it turns out OK for you.

Apparently there’s a man in Virginia who will lend you his entire family, but only if it’ll help take away their rights.

His dog, apparently smarter than every Republican voter in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, refused to have anything to do with it.

“You’re not my sidechick, you’re my control condition!”

Go to the same restaurants at the same time under the same conditions (i.e. how recently you ate another meal, day of the week, the weather, etc.) but with a different person and see if you still feel ill. Vary the conditions until you find one that correlates with your illness. Then try altering that condition.

If you feel ill under all conditions then see a doctor. In fact it might be good to make a doctor appointment anyway.

Members of Devo, Oingo Boingo, and Nine Inch Nails have each gotten into making soundtracks as well.

“Swords to ploughshares”

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world might be a better link to use.

Eraserhead, Side B

The album has been seen as presaging the dark ambient music genre, and its presentation of background noise and non-musical cues has been described by Pitchfork’s Mark Richardson as “a sound track (two words) in the literal sense”. -wikipedia

The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia’s post-industrial history. Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger; describing it both as a “sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place” and “beautiful, if you see it the right way.”[8][9][1] Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked “9 hours a day for 63 days” to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. -wikipedia

I encourage you to watch “Aguirre the Wrath of God”, see it here: https://lemmy.world/post/17030774

It’s based on an illustrated novel by an artist [from Sweden] named Simon Stålenhag.”

These are great illustrations btw.

BIGGIE

• Unbelievable - wordplay
• My Downfall - the flow
• N----z Bleed - storytelling

You’re right, my comment was pretty condescending, I apologize. Your points are well-taken, thanks for giving me something to think about.

Well I’m glad you found a movie you like. But I gotta say, “the movie is bad because it was made bad on purpose” just seems like copium.

Since you’re interested in history: Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” also makes an anti-Great Man point about Napoleon, both in Tolstoy’s depiction of the Battle of Borodino, as well as in historical thoughts that are usually collected at the end of that novel. I don’t remember if Bondarchuk’s movie adaption of War and Peace retains that theme, but you can see it on youtube. The best Napoleon movie is arguably Waterloo which is somewhat critical of Napoleon. Likewise, the Napoleon miniseries has him act like kind of a doofus at times (and has an interesting depiction of the Napoleon-Josephine relationship).

I guess I’m just kind of bitter about this film because most of us in the US don’t have a lot of knowledge about European history since our teachers are underpaid, our academics are ridiculed, and because our historical movies and TV shows are generally ahistorical cartoonish BS like this one.

From reading the reviews and social media comments, it annoyed anyone with an interest in history.

If I were paid to promote this film, I’d say something like: you can tell from the previews and the theatrical release that there’s good cinematography, set design, costumes, etc. Well in the extended version there’s MORE of it. And then tacitly suggest that people play it in the background with the sound off while listening to classical music.

Scott spent over $100 million to piss off the French, which any Englishmen would love to do if given half a chance.

Got it. This movie is only really interesting if you’re from England.

Yeah Jordan Peele is a genius.

Demi Moore is pretty cool. Thoughts go out to Bruce Willis.

On !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee:

• Die Hard: https://lemmy.world/post/18064570
• A Few Good Men: https://lemmy.world/post/17139845

Looks amazing. I was a bit worried about Zack Snyder being involved, but apparently:

Series Directed by

David Hartman … (1 episode, 2024)

Jay Oliva … (unknown episodes)

Series Writing Credits

Eric Carrasco … (head writer) (1 episode, 2024)

Jay Oliva … (unknown episodes)

Zack Snyder … (unknown episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10625492/fullcredits/

“Thoughts?”