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  • K, this is what worked for me, so take or leave it as you see fit.

    My brain did similar things, and just like water will take the path of least resistance, so did my brain … over and over and over again. So I decided that I’d had enough of the bs circle of death and would train my brain to go a different path.

    Every time I recognized the nagging thought was there yet again, I forced my brain away from it, ie: thought of something good I’d done, or that someone had done for me, or what groceries I need to buy, etc etc. Anything to break my brain’s habit.

    Now it isn’t easy, and especially when I was tired or cranky it wouldn’t work well. But I kept at it anyway, and forgave myself when it didn’t work.

    Took a couple of years (I was in my late 40s) but it took. Now I’m able to divert my brain at least 99% of the time, but I only need to do that once in a while because that old path is not as easy for my brain to find anymore.

    Anyway, I hope you can find something that works for you, and you can get the nasty thoughts stopped (or eased at least). Good luck!





























  • girlfreddy@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlwhat a time to be alive
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    This is a list of the best bandages to buy. The following link has a list of the worst and the not-as-bad bandages. https://www.mamavation.com/health/band-aids-bandages-pfas-forever-chemicals-report.html

    Best Bandages

    These bandages had NO detections of organic fluorine in both their absorbent pads and adhesive flaps. The detection limit of this testing was 10 ppm. * are all brands selling products marketed to People of Color with black and brown skin tones.

    3M Micropore Surgical/Medical Tape — non-detect organic fluorine

    All Terrain Neon Kids Bandages — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandage.

    Band-Aid Hello Kitty Assorted Adhesive Bandages — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandage.

    CVS Sterile Manuka Honey Sports Bandages — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandage.

    FEBU Organic Bamboo Strip Bandages — non-detect organic fluorine on both absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandages.

    Patch Bamboo Bandages for Kids with Coconut Oil — non-detect organic fluorine on both absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandages.

    *TRU COLOUR Skin Tone Bandages Diversity in Healing (olive) — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    *TRU COLOUR Skin Tone Bandages Diversity in Healing (dark brown) — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    *TRU COLOUR Skin Tone Bandages Diversity in Healing (brown black) — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    *Trutone Skin Tone Adhesive Bandages Dark Brown — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    *Trutone Skin Tone Adhesive Bandages Brown — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    *Trutone Skin Tone Adhesive Bandages Olive — non-detect organic fluorine in the absorbent pad, non-detect organic fluorine in sticky flaps of bandage.

    Welly Good Vibes Bravery Badges — non-detect organic fluorine on both absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandages.

    Welly Waterproof Bravery Assorted Waterproof Bandages — non-detect organic fluorine on both absorbent pad and sticky flaps of bandages.


  • A small blurb from The Guardian on why Andres Freund went looking in the first place.

    So how was it spotted? A single Microsoft developer was annoyed that a system was running slowly. That’s it. The developer, Andres Freund, was trying to uncover why a system running a beta version of Debian, a Linux distribution, was lagging when making encrypted connections. That lag was all of half a second, for logins. That’s it: before, it took Freund 0.3s to login, and after, it took 0.8s. That annoyance was enough to cause him to break out the metaphorical spanner and pull his system apart to find the cause of the problem.