China will negotiate moving factories to the USA in exchange for Trump dropping the tariffs. Either that or they will raise tariffs on the USA even more.
To me the most upsetting part is how half the country sees things in the exact opposite way. Many see the institutions as already captured by an authoritarian party, and think Trump’s heavy handed ruling is stomping out the corruption.
How does one even engage with the other side when two realities are so polar opposite?
Even if Trump’s depiction of some deep state were true, why is replacing our institutions with less democratic ones the correct answer? It’s as if half the country has given up on democracy and has decided a more authoritarian rule will solve the US’ problems. History teaches us over and over again that this does not end well, even when it feels like the most appealing approach.
I don’t know what to do. I never thought I’d feel terrified living in my own country.
> why is replacing our institutions with less democratic ones the correct answer
What do you mean replacing? What the Trump's base mostly wants is getting rid of federal bloat, and transferring power to local government (e.g. education). Very democratic, very decentralizing. Did Trump even create a single "institution" yet?
"Democrats" screech "democracy needs saving" where what they really mean is "our oligarchic bureaucracy needs saving".
I’ve been undergoing ketamine IV treatment every 3-4 weeks, and some of my experiences, especially the first few, were also terrifying. It reminded me a lot of the fear and panic I get from getting too high with weed. But at the same time, many of my depression symptoms were significantly improved almost immediately. I feel “unstuck” in the days and weeks following treatment and can course correct some of my stubborn depressive tendencies that have been going on for years.
So that’s annoying. The experiences are unpleasant but the longer term effects are useful.
The anxiety is definitely the hardest part for me, and I have some health-related OCD stuff, so the constant “checking” that I’m not going crazy is challenging too. I was legitimately worried for a little while that it was making me psychotic after, but my doctor confirmed that my symptoms matched intense anxiety and not psychosis so that helped me relax. And they subside most importantly. Now I’ve done ketamine a bunch of times and know it isn’t going to hurt me. I can almost completely relax into it, though a stressful image or feeling I experience can still induce a bit of panic. For some reason those tend to come up right at the end of my session, if they do at all. But regardless, I’ve gotten better at riding those like waves and letting them go.
For someone like myself with high anxiety, I do wonder if there’s a better way to mentally prepare for experiences like this? Maybe some kind of coaching beforehand? I had an intro call, quick health screening, an orientation where was told a bunch of facts, asked if I had any questions, and that was basically it. I didn’t know how incredibly difficult it could be and was not mentally prepared to begin treatment. I’m okay now, but it was not an easy ride. I imagine science is still figuring a lot of this stuff out.
I know little about airplane tech, but do these onboard systems such as PA ever get OTA software updates? Perhaps an update got pushed that runs the prank? Could explain it happening on multiple flights and attendants being unable to stop it.
I think some kind of overlooked physical access to the system is the simplest explanation, since it would even effect an analogue system. Imagine there was some kind of mic input in the bathroom for some reason you could hook up a device to.
What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or something? Or just a coincidence?
Important to keep in mind that AWS has 250 services in 84 Availability Zones in 26 regions.
This outage is reportedly impacting 5 services in 1 region.
For those impacted, pretty terrible. But as a heavy user of AWS, I’ve seen these notices posted multiple times on HN and haven’t been impacted by one yet.
For businesses with uptime guarantees and lots of boxes to spin up in failover scenario, this has been a very eventful 12 months. At least that's what I'm experiencing.
Probably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention attrition begets more attrition, especially if it's "influential" employees who are leaving.
It’s just a little amazing to imagine that people doing the same work in different places of the country have such huge gaps in salary caps. I think the national average for a high-level software engineer is less than $150k per year.
Things are bigger anywhere. My colleagues and I thought we’re hot shit managing 5-7k applications and infrastructure. Amazon probably runs 20,000 orgs like mine.
Also, times are good and rates are crazy. Even at VARs, you can make a lot of cash. I have a buddy who went from $150k to $600k. The guy paid off his mortgage and is at a point where he could burn out and work at Home Depot if he needed to.
I burned out hard during quarantine and developed both sudden onset tinnitus and a migraine for the first time in my life. The migraine was with a visual aura and was terrifying and debilitating. I was so sure I was having a stroke. I saw a neurologist and a psychiatrist just like the author. Nothing. It was all a “stress-induced” episode. No fancy label, no satisfying diagnosis. And the symptoms have persisted here and there since. I have constant tinnitus and my brain feels different since then. I can’t think or focus as well. It sucks. And for the record, no, I didn’t get COVID (this is asked regularly when I describe my experience, especially after describing what sounds like brain fog).
I’m still not doing well. Just like the author, I’m not “better”. I’m barely hanging in.
I’ve heard numerous similar stories. Stress can do horrible things to the body. Almost everyone I’m close with has shared some kind of anxiety-induced medical something or another story with me. Last year was rough for society as a whole.
Reducing stress is something a lot of us could benefit from, but there are also some underlying medical issues that can be exacerbated by stress.
If you are still getting migraines you might want to see another doctor. They aren't super well understood yet, but there are pretty clear physiological signs and there are also some prophylactic treatment options. Chronic migraines are a very real neurological disorder, and for some people severe enough to be disabling.
In general I think it's a very hard line to walk to avoid over-pathologizing things while also not missing actual medical issues. Nobody really understands the brain, and the entire discourse around phenomenon like "brain fog" kinda bums me out. It's both easy for doctors to unfairly dismiss and easy for internet forums to spin pseudoscience about. The two reinforce each other even.
Keep hanging in there, and best of luck sorting out these issues.
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