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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Comfort. I got into Atoms during the pan. At the time, they let you order different sized shoes because most people have slightly different sized feet. I got 10.5" on the right, 10.75" on the left. Best shoes I’ve ever owned.

    I assume they’re having financial problems because they stopped allowing that and they haven’t replenished inventory for my sizes for six months or longer.





  • I had this problem when I was going through some shit (bi-polar) more than a decade ago. My shrink asked me if I could take a medical leave from work to figure out what meds would be the best fit. After initially declining, I accepted that I couldn’t go on and took a medical leave for 90 days (protected in California).

    We got me stabilized on fewer meds and my situation drastically improved. My job was still hell, and that eventually broke me, but I would have spun out harder and faster (suicide, I’m pretty sure), without dialing in the meds. Quitting that job was one of the most substantial decisions of my life. (I still attempted suicide later, but that was a product of abandoning treatment, not failure of treatment.)

    Treatment can work. It can be hard to get it right. Also, bingo, mother fuckers!



  • Because there’s very limited food choices if you don’t have a lot of money. I agree, someone with this condition should not drive, but that doesn’t mean life is livable in USA without a car. In many places, there is no public transport. This would essentially be a sentence of poverty.

    That said, I can afford to have this condition, I do take Uber when drunk, there’s reasonable public transit where I live. I’m not trying to excuse drunk driving (I say this as a DUI guy twenty years ago). I’m saying that what you just said wouldn’t make sense to some people because of restrictions they can’t control. It’s too bad our society doesn’t care more about people to solve some / all of these problems.