Phạm Tuân born 14 February 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator and cosmonaut. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an Asian country in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
He also downed the only B-52 the be downed in aerial combat. He was a really cool pilot.
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oh my god r/place is literally the most visual show of the pure unadulterated toxicity and evil brewing under the skin of all imperialists. it physically hurts me knowing this is the ideology i kowtow to whenever i fall to the temptation of consumerism and mind-numbing internet bullshit
Holy shit stop going on Reddit. Stop filling up the whole of Hexbear with Reddit. Stop caring about the April Fool’s day gimmick of a CIA cutout. Reddit is a lost cause. Organize in your fucking community holy shit. I don’t care about what the Ford Foundation employees are posting at r/Neoliberal.
All the good subs are banned from :reddit-logo: and its just western cringe and cope. There are still a few okay subs, alltheleft got taken over by good mods, sls is still okay, trueanon usually has funny comments, but yeah I'm banned from :reddit-logo: now so now I'm just here
The solution to this as a socialist is to make more non-reddit slop instead of just complaining about it
What a cool guy
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Someone on Twitter just informed me that Switzerland is the AES state that is closest to achieving communism because they have direct democracy.
I believe this but only because of their 100% electrified rail network
They do have a bunch of nazi gold. So maybe they stole all their socialism as well
This is correct because the Swiss have perfected clock-face nodal train schedules, which is the ultimate goal of communism.
Fuck, I hope you’re alright. I wish all :cop: a very :pit:
first learning about Posadism
"Fuck kinda dumbass thinks you need to nuke the world for socialism lol"
after reading Wallerstein
"Well, maybe just a few kkkountries."
True understanding of world systems theory and core/periphery relations makes any semblance of "socialism" in the imperial core a sick joke.
The conception many people (at least in America) seem to have of the USSR in WW2 is that they just kind of sucked ass and died a lot and were losing, until USA did a Lend-Lease and shipped them a bunch of Autobot trucks that turned into Optimus Prime and ran over all the Nazis, and then the Soviets just sexually assaulted everybody that was left.
I'm kinda joking, but also this is genuinely how most people seem to think that shit went down now.
"Sup fuckers" as a gender neutral way to address a group of people
Why can’t any of the fucking psychs I find be normal for christs sake
So this new guy is some holistic healer weirdo who hates his role as a psychiatrist. Okay… apparently he still Believes In Science (tm) and is the first person I’ve met who is at all open to the idea of prescribing adhd meds to adults but he spends half the fucking session talking about himself and his worldview and diet philosophy shit.
Is everything I read about psychiatry and the diagnostic/evaluation process wrong? Do people actually not do the “sit for 1-3 sessions, interview and discuss the problem before exploring potential diagnoses/solutions” thing? Are Barkley and Hallowell the real quacks? This shit is maddening.
I have not had this problem, but there are a lot of quacks in psych and finding someone who works based on evidence and actually listens to you is a total crapshoot. If it's an option ditch this loser before he starts recommending colon cleanses for autism or some shit. I've had as much luck with psych nurses as psychiatrists, something to consider.
Puking your guts out on Ayahuasca doesn't do shit for ADHD or Bipolar or Schizophrenia. People have real problems and deserve treatments that stand up to scientific rigor. I know it's very fashionable to treat indigenous medical practices as being efficacious but many of them simply are not. Medical science has a lot of very real problems but when it works it works, and we can figure out why and how, and if it doesn't work you can use that to investigate other possibilities in a systematic way. Rejecting science in favor of untested entheogens is extremely reactionary. You don't get the results you want and so you reject the entire process of science in favor of a perceived authentic tradition. it's the very essence of reactionary thought and it drives quackery from homeopathy to TCM to bogus cancer cures. It's an extremely, extremely profitable industry and it causes real and severe harm.
Psych medicine fucking sucks. Many psych problems don't respond to treatment, or the treatment has undesirable side effects. I know, I've lived with Bipolar for decades and I've never found a drug or treatment that works. But my frustration and bad experiences doesn't change that a majority of people find real and lasting relief from intense suffering from prozac, the most basic bitch of all psych meds. It works for most people with depression and when it works it tends to work really well. Does it address the material conditions that escalates the severity of depressive symptoms? No. But that's not on the table anywhere right now. Your doctor cannot write you a check for rent and childcare and groceries. Prozac is what they've got. The best short term individual solution to massive, systemic problems.
Psych professionals have high suicide rates because they are dealing with the most traumatized people every single day and they often cannot help those people. I mean jesus christ dude. I don't want some fucking neurotypical diagnosing me. I want someone who understands what suicidal ideation and intrusive thoughts and mania are from personal experience. Books don't cut it a lot of the time. But that takes a horrible psychic toll. Every psych professional I've ever met is in therapy themselves because what they do is grinding and terrible. They've all lost many patients to suicide. They've watched many people go through endless cycles of self destruction. They deal with people in immense pain. Are there assholes who are only in it for the money? Of course, we live under the tyranny of capitalism. But there are also people who genuinely care and are doing the best they can in a deeply flawed system.
The mental health system in America, and the West generally, is fucked. Even where you have insurance and single payer the quality of care varies wildly. But of the treatments we have many of them work, reliably, repeatably, predictably. Prozac saves lives and alleviates suffering. Lithium saves lives and alleviates suffering. Thorazine, as much as it has been misused by the psych profession, saves lives and alleviates suffering. Turning away from that to magical practices won't alleviate real, biomedical problems. If you go to an ayahausca ceremony and feel like you gain something valuable from it then cool, that's great, but it sure as shit isn't going to stabilize a bipolar person undergoing sever mania.
I have a serious. Fucking. Problem. with quackery and untested "cures" and magic and religious healing practices. Some of them, some of them, can be valuable in tandem with biomedical practices, but many of them cause real harm. People die because Evangelicals try to cast out demons instead of getting medical treatment. People die because they take quack cancer cures. People die because they take fucking Ivermectin. It's all of a type; A rejection of the cold, unsatisfying reality that medical treatments are impersonal and wracked with problems. But problems in the profession don't mean that "traditional" or "authentic" or "spiritual" practices will produce results. Homeopathy, bleach cures, Yoga, TCM, they're all chock full of practices that can't be tested and falsified. But they're widespread because of reactionary distrust of biomedicine, and because they are extremely fucking profitable. For every authentic ayahausca ceremony there are dozens of cranks and charlatans that will lead you through an "authentic" ceremony for no other reason than it brings in cold, hard cash. Homeopathy is a TWENTY BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY.
I can rant on and on, but the simple cold truth is that 1.) we're stuck with capitalism 2.) evidence based medicine is the best thing we've got and 3.) reactionary rejection of biomedicine kills.
i dunno, this is definitely a complicated topic, and i disagree with the conclusion that what i'm rejecting is based upon reactionary reasoning.
in the US we just say any hyper kid is fucked up and drug the fuck out of them with ritalin, and then it fucks them up and gets them dependent upon drugs. this extends to adults.
what we agree on is that capitalism is causing or perpetuating a lot of mental health issues. yeah, we're stuck with what we've got, but i think a better solution to the problem is non-profit based mental health counselling, support groups, and legalized drugs with advisement, as opposed to "pay much out your ass, and i'll pretend i care and give you a prescription."
Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia are absolutely not the result of childhood trauma.
Tribes can be more tribal but if ur not in one you can just bolster ur community, do mutual aid, be a community of free peoples.
Yeah but if u don’t actually belong to a tribe u should not call it one. Tribe isn’t just a word u pick out in the thesaurus to name ur community, tribes are actual living cultures. Calling urself a tribe when u have no cultural connection to tribes is seen as larping as Indigenous people.
Oooof solidarity. When I finally found a psych willing to prescribe me the same adhd meds I'd been on before I changed insurance and needed to find a new psych, she was very much tipping into the territory of woo shit like that too.
Oh Gonzalo never boiled babies alive? He did execute people with boiling water and did kill babies but not with boiling water? Oh okay thanks for the clarification, totally changed my perspective on him :stalin-approval:
you need to eat unpitted cherries. tiddies are less dense so the unpitted cherries give you boobs but the pitted ones give you balls. basic shit c'mon youcan't just eat the cherries from the vine
yeah you got to prep them a bit more first. coming from someone who got dumped into a porn game. preparation is KEY to getting a good TF experience
every hexbear.net user just wants 1 thing and it's perfectly understandable
I was so hungover today that I just told my work I was sick even though I’d been up all night on coke
At the very least, shrooms aren’t addictive while coke is almost as addictive as heroin
r/place is such an interesting case-study in visualizing social currents. The only problem is that it's the social currents of fucking r*ddit
its actually a really cool idea, if only people online in general were cooler :yea:
Yep:
The first time I met Josh Wardle—four years before he invented the simple game that would make his last name, or a slant rhyme of it, unexpectedly famous—he was in Reddit’s San Francisco headquarters, in a state of near-panic, wondering whether one of his online experiments was about to descend into chaos. It was March 31, 2017. Wardle’s experiment was called Place: a blank canvas, a thousand white pixels by a thousand white pixels, which Reddit users could digitally deface in any way they pleased. I was on assignment for this magazine, reporting a story about Reddit, where Wardle then worked as a product manager. The central question of my story was also the central question of Wardle’s work, if not of the Internet itself: Can online spaces be designed so that the benefits of frictionless mass participation outweigh the costs?
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/does-wordle-prove-that-we-can-have-nice-things-on-the-internet
It threw me, too. But then I realized: "Place" is a five-letter word. :think-about-it:
