Elon Musk poses a clear and present danger to American national security. The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be. (emphasis mine$
The government not doing that in the first place lead to SpaceX having the monopoly, so I think that is part of the problem.
It has been a dumping ground for immigrants for a long time. The British used to send their convicts, that didn’t make the cut for hanging but they surely didn’t want in “their” country, here to be slaves.
Not many people know that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. —The History Press
No ads unless you want to “pay” for a free revive. No micro transactions that I’ve seen.
I’ve put at least 10 pieces of furniture out on the curb in the last 4 months and they’ve all been taken. It makes me glad that someone can use it.
I didn’t know there was a non-mobile.
Yes, and I’m not as narcoleptic as others I’ve heard because I can medicate and function. But I do have one of the smallest sleep latencies (how fast I enter REM sleep) of any narcoleptic I’ve encountered.
I’ve never fallen asleep while doing something truly stimulating. Boring to me tv show or movie while comfy, sleep at 10pm, TV show that has me gripped, binge until 2am. I have a memory from my teens of watching a good movie in the theaters, no issue, but a friend dragged me to see it a second time and I passed out.
Absolutely, me too. If my brain is stimulated, then I’m at no risk (unless other factors are against me).
It was crazy to see the EEG showing me hitting REM with 15 minutes. Sometimes I feel like I’m conscious and experience REM.
Mine was more like 2 minutes. My doctor once called me “extremely narcoleptic”.
Thanks for chiming in and sharing your experience! I used to have a really great narcolepsy community over on R*ddit, and that is one of the few things I miss about that place.
If you see anyone online show the search results and pricing on Amazon, then try to replicate those search results and product price on a device that is totally partitioned from your viewing of the item/price elsewhere, you’re likely to find it is not possible. If you then go back to the original device and do the same, you’ll magically find the same product and lower price.
I noticed this on Walmarts website when asking chat GPT to find items for me. I was wondering why it was happening. Some of the price differences were extreme too.
Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.
Yeah, for real. I don’t know if you read what I wrote in another response, but one of the factors that affect me having a sleep attack is the amount of stimulation, and that would be enough endorphins to keep me awake. Now, if I’m not medicated, the cataplexy (weakness in the limbs that comes with my form of N) might get me because of extreme emotions.
though to be fair it’s really wild the range of different things COVID can do to you
My mom still has problems with brain fog and her sense of taste after having COVID.
Dysautonomia
Wow, that sounds like the disease you have when something’s wrong with your brain and they don’t know what.
I would not have fallen asleep while running, I would not have been able to stand up straight while asleep, and I would not have been that awake when I did wake up.
And, while where here, most media portrayals of narcolepsy are not accurate, but I am also not offended at my disorder being played as a joke. However, I’ve never actually watched the whole of Rat Race or Duce Biggalo or any other movies portraying narcoleptics so maybe that had something to do with it.
I’ve been working in this job for the past three months.
Are you the first Personal Assistant she’s had?
And do you have a contact for a certain amount of time to be assumed renewed or could she straight up fire you tomorrow?
They’re the kind of parents that are so relaxed to the point where they don’t care about her, which is probably true. She’s the youngest girl of the family, so she’s not really that important to them. She’s basically allowed to do anything that she wants, as long as it’s nothing that puts her in danger.
At first, I thought this was sad, but honestly, I would have loved this as a 20-something. Do you know how she feels about it? I mean, at least she has plenty of money to wipe her tears with…
Yeah, driving is pretty essential where I live. It sounds like you have coping mechanisms too. So what causes syncope?
What do they prescribe for this? Stimulants?
Stimulants: amphetamines in the morning, and a strong sedative for night time. I am actually taking a lot less amphetamines since losing more weight and getting healthier. I recently started the sedative, which allows me to take even less by making me sleep longer. Narcoleptics go into REM too fast, which means their sleep cycle is over quick, and it goes quickly past the deep sleep stage, which is really beneficial to the body (and negative to get less of it like a narcoleptic does).
Edit: sorry I missed your second question!
Does something set you off? (e.g. getting excited)
I’m nervous talking to people I’m not close with (co-workers), and it happened a couple of times when I was talking to them, and a couple times laughing, but that is just the cataplexy (weakness in the limbs).
My sleep attacks aren’t triggered by emotions but amount of sleep, amount of stimulation, and environmental factors. These three are like a triangle chart and if any two of them are low (or too much in the case of environmental factors), or any one is extremely low without others compensating with high levels, that is what triggers me. And as I said in another comment, I can do things like manipulate my environment (colder temps, more stimulation) to compensate as well.
I actually am at a level where, as long as I’m medicated, and I’ve gotten enough sleep, I’m fine to drive in most circumstances. I also know my triggers (what makes me feels sleepy), limits (how far can I go, etc), and tells (how I know the sleep attack is oncoming). I also have techniques for undoing my triggers (cold air, for example), and also ways to stimulate the part of my brain that controls that sleepy feeling.
However, when I was diagnosed, my doctor did not tell me that and he well should have because I was not safe and it was a fucking wonder I didn’t kill myself or others. People said I had a guardian angel, but I think it was really just my conscious mind keeping me me from crashing in between struggling against the sleep demon.
What lead you to seek diagnosis?
[I hope I don’t get too much hate for this, but I understand if it comes]
I had about a 40 minute commute on the highway, and I had an accident. No one else was involved, which was pure luck (people have often said I have a guardian angel watching over me about these things). But my car was 100% totaled and I was just fine (maybe a little sore) and I was fucking scared. When I was explaining it to my SO, I mentioned maybe it was narcolepsy (due to a video I saw that I wish I could find), and so we got an appointment with a sleep doctor.
Are you taking corrective meds?
Two kinds, an amphetamine for day time and a very strong sedative for nighttime.
How does or did it impact your everyday life?
The short answer, without getting into any stories:
So, much of life was a struggle. And I don’t have it as bad as some others (especially my cataplexy, which is a weakness in the knees and arms that comes with my type of narcolepsy).
Being medicated has been enough to keep me functional. Except for when I’m stressed, didn’t get enough sleep (like coming home late from a recent trip and having to wake up for work in the morning), or when the conditions are just right, I am pretty much “sleep attack” free.
I mean, underfunding our own governmental space program might also be a contributing factor. 🤷