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I have a simple, yet incredibly important and difficult question. How do I defeat depression?

Depression isn't Sauron. There's not a magic ring to throw into a volcano.

Strategies that work for me are: 1) work. Work helps and making things help. 2) having other people who make you feel better and brighter around helps, so do animals, 3) Exercise. I'm not a natural born exerciser, so I have a trainer who turns up once or twice a week and works me out until I'm exhausted then finishes with yoga. Walking and weights and biking and running, or whatever you can do, are all real ways to change your mood.

Stop doing things that increase your depression. Do more of the things that lift your spirits.

And work with a therapist, talk to your doctor, all that.

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Good evening to my short kings

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we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

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Pretty sure people are more surprised by the walrus because they've kinda consumed a lot of stories where a fairy (or similar fantasy creature) suddenly appears at the door and takes you on that classic fantasy adventure.

So they'd go "Huh, yeah, so this finally happened to me, like in all those 1000s of works of fiction I read and internalized"

But there's not a lot of exposure to walruses suddenly appearing at doorsteps.

You've got a blueprint to the fairy situation. You haven't got one for the walrus situation.

In your original walrus v fairy post, you say:

“A fairy knocking on my door means I've made one bad assumption about how the world works“

Could you clarify what that assumption is, and how seeing the fairy informs you it was a bad one?

(With reference to this post here.)

Well, I don't believe fairies are real, so granting for the sake of argument that a. the thing I see outside my door is that which I would identify as "a fairy" and b. I have reason to doubt neither the correctness of my identification nor the reality of the situation, it tells me that I was wrong about fairies not being real.

Crucially, that's all it tells me. One might object "but the existence of a fairy proves that a civilisation of tiny people has been living under our noses undetected for all of human history", or "but the existence of a fairy proves that magic is real", or even "but the existence of a fairy refutes all of biology and physics and wholly invalidates rationalism as a means of gaining knowledge about the world". However, I'm under no obligation to imagine what's outside my door in a way that proves any of those things. Even entertaining the proposed scenario to its fullest extent, all I'm obligated to do is imagine that whatever is outside my door is something which I would confidently identify as "a fairy".

Now, if you want the thing outside my door to be that which by its very existence refutes human reason, in such a way that simply looking at it standing there (or hovering there, or whatever) is sufficient to impress this upon me? Figuring out what that looks like is on the person proposing the scenario – I'm not going to do their homework for them!

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Doing touhou design requests on twitter again, heres the kogaser Some parts i had good ideas for and others i just kinda did whatever idk

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leave your laundry on the floor for them

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I had a vision

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clean your room or you'll get rats!!

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Poison Jam! ‘Jet Set Radio’ SEGA Dreamcast

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octobuddy

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Writing fic is like stripping naked but leaving your face out of the shot

If the internet wasn’t anonymous anymore i would stop writing/posting fic and a part of my soul would die. I don’t want to post fic under my real name i don’t wish to be perceived i wish to be known on an incredibly deep level without something superficial like my name attached. Writing fic is like stripping naked but leaving your face out of the shot

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dragon mistress 🐉✨

(she/it)

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happy old gnoll

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