• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Imagine having to extend you car with plates at the top, because there is not enough room for you psychotic scribbles. Then leaving a shit ton of white space at the bottom.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Wild that we let a person cover their vehicle with signs that essentially say “I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality”, and society at large says “sure, keep operating that heavy machinery in public”.

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      2 months ago

      What’s the alternative? Locking up people who haven’t committed a crime if a doctor doesn’t like what they’re saying? This guy probably is schizophrenic but plenty of conspiracy theorists aren’t and people saying something true but unpopular sometimes sound like conspiracy theorists.

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        I said we shouldn’t let them drive a car, not lock them in prison. Calm down.

        Ideally we would provide people like this with mental healthcare, and get them medicated so that they actually can operate a vehicle without being an inherent risk to everyone around them.

        My point is that, in America, you can basically be screaming “I am extremely unwell to the point of being an elevated risk to myself and everyone around me”, and our usual response is to act like everything is normal and nothing should be done.

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          I don’t think this guy would take any pills you tried to give him unless you literally forced them down his throat. (They’re created with computer too.)

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            (They’re created with computer too.)

            I’ve got bad news for him regarding how modern pickup trucks work.

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                I’m no expert on automobiles, but that truck would need to be 40+ years old to have no computers onboard. It doesn’t look that old to me, though maybe he just kept it in good shape.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
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      By “forgot his meds” you mean “forgot to go to the doctor 30 years ago to get diagnosed so he could be prescribed them in the first place,” right?

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    2 months ago

    i really wish we had a more robust mental healthcare system that could help people like this before they get to this point.

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      It’s really hard to reliably treat schizophrenics since they often don’t want to be treated. I don’t expect that this guy would take any pills without being forced to. (And then the medication isn’t perfect.)

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        “Everything that you think about who you are is in fact the result of a mental defect. But, if you take these pills we can make you a different person” is the toughest sell in the world. And the psychiatric community needs to wise up to that fact.

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Oh you have a common beginner question. Let me clear it up with a simple diagram:

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    It’s like a Dr Bronners bottle on bath salts.

    Hmmm… maybe they ate (smoked? Boofed?) bath salts in the bath while cleaning with Dr. Bronners.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
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      If you want a real trip, look into the philosophies of the creators of modern cereals, like Kellogg. Shit like Raisin Bran, Grape Nuts, and hell even Graham Crackers were invented as part of this weird moralistic pseudoscientific health crusade nonsense going around at the time. It’s pretty fucking weird.