Notices by riga (riga@refactorcamp.org)

@anarchiv @flowerenby Long story short, psychiatry's main purpose is not to heal people, but to make them 'function' within capitalist society at minimal cost. And it still sucks at that.

/rant

@anarchiv @flowerenby Also, just on the basis of character types, making doctors the authoritative carers for people with psychological issues is probably the dumbest thing I can think of. Medical school selects for people who can get good grades, not people with above-average empathy and interpersonal skills.

@anarchiv @flowerenby A catalog of psychiatry's great successes:
- icepick lobotomies
- pharmacological lobotomies
- deep breathing ("mindfulness") as a cure for psychosocial trauma
- sensory deprivation (I know a man who's mother was made psychotic by receiving this 'treatment' for postpartum depression)
- homesexuality is a disease
- isolating vulnerable people from their sources of support in the community

@anarchiv @flowerenby It's crazy because psychiatry (despite being a medical specialty) is actually really not scientific. They make diagnoses based on clusters of symptoms, not the causes of those symptoms. It's like saying that a car has 'black smoke coming out of the back problems' rather than 'it has engine trouble'.

IntERnAtIOnaL gROwtH MAnageR

inner scream at looking for new jobs and finding nothing but pointless bullshit

freelance web developers -- does anybody have tips on finding good work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQKlHSD89E

I hope I never get my fill
Of pushing this boulder up on this hill
Getting to the top and taking a spill
Every time's like the first time
Every time is the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iou07quOpj4

Just looked at my bookshelf and found that I have precisely zero books one could consider "uplifting" 😅

@octesian yeah that's what I'm doing, and it looks better to my eyes in general. i guess it may be something that depends on your eyesight. I'm mildly nearsighted with an asigmatism