u/a_shootin_star

Mario is turtle genocide. Zelda is tomb robbery and desecration of ancient religious temples. Minecraft is environmental exploitation. Bomberman is a terrorist. Super Smash Bros. advocates for violence against women, children, animals, and Luigi.

Every game is horrible. There are no heroes. Life's value is only as much XP as your death will give.

If only these gamers could be so enlightened as I.

Then they'd know the truth. The greatest secret of them all.

Pokemon... is a blood sport.

I'm from Australia. And I just read a 20 Minutes article, and it is like watching Swiss politicians attempt to rediscover thermodynamics by committee.

SVP says: "Tous les cantons autour de nous ont des politiques moins restrictives. On doit flexibiliser."

That is correct. Geneva's current rules are absurdly restrictive. But simply allowing everyone to buy some inefficient portable monobloc with a hose hanging through an open window is not a serious cooling policy either.

Then we get the opposite side, where air conditioning is dismissed as an "hérésie climatique" and the answer is apparently to renovate and insulate buildings.

Here is the basic concept our politicians appear unable to process:

Insulation is not refrigeration!!

Insulation slows down heat entering a building. Exterior blinds, reflective roofs, trees, ventilation and better windows can reduce heat gains. All of that should absolutely be done.

But none of it actively removes heat from a room.

Once an apartment has absorbed heat through its walls, roof, windows, occupants and appliances, insulation does not magically generate cold air. If it is still 27°C outside at 2 a.m., opening the windows will not produce a 22°C bedroom. Thermal mass may delay the temperature peak, but without sufficiently cool nights it can also store the day's heat and release it while people are trying to sleep.

The Greens themselves admit that air conditioning is "une solution efficace et nécessaire, en particulier pour les personnes vulnérables." They also say that summer cooling should be treated with the same importance as winter heating.

Good. Then follow that logic to its conclusion?

Nobody responds to a freezing apartment in January by telling the tenant that wall insulation should eventually solve everything.

We install heating and improve the building envelope. Summer requires exactly the same approach: reduce the thermal load and provide equipment capable of controlling the indoor temperature.

This artificial choice between "air conditioning" and "renovation" is technically illiterate. A competent policy would cover the complete HVAC system:

• exterior shading, roof treatment and proper insulation
• efficient reversible heat pumps or fixed split systems instead of portable monobloc garbage
• controlled ventilation and humidity management
• enforceable indoor-temperature standards for housing and workplaces
• active cooling in hospitals, EMS, schools, nurseries and other vulnerable settings
• efficiency, noise and refrigerant requirements
• solar generation, grid planning and demand management
• batteries and energy storage infrastructures
• district cooling where density makes it practical

Australia and other hot countries already understand this. Passive design reduces the amount of cooling required. Efficient mechanical systems remove the remaining heat. The two approaches complement each other.

Meanwhile, Switzerland behaves as though every ordinary piece of infrastructure must first be reinvented through fifteen years of parliamentary debates, cantonal exceptions, medical certificates and ideological theatre.

The UDC sees the immediate problem but reduces the answer to easier access to appliances. The Greens see the structural problem but keep presenting load reduction as though it were temperature control. Both are describing half of a functioning system.

Stop debating "renovation or air conditioning."

That is the summer equivalent of debating "insulation or heating" in January.

We need both. We need actual HVAC engineering. We need to stop treating a safe indoor temperature as a decadent luxury. And we need to copy solutions that already work instead of pretending Switzerland can negotiate with thermodynamics.

/rant

She received an official DSM-5 diagnosis, one of "somatic symptom disorder (SSD)". She did not take it well and a few days later is still not grasping the situation. She is still in hospital. I posted about the situation in another sub when she was admitted reddit.com/r/self/comments/1tyut5j/my_little_sister_is_dying_and_im_not_sure_how_to/ if you need some background.

I have tried for years to show her meditation and other techniques that have worked for me, but each time we begin discussing methods she gets defensive like we're attacking her. I'm out of ideas how to encourage her. Part of me thinks the situation she is now is related to her lack of action on those things.

The doctors and psychiatrist gave her techniques (yoga, breathing, meditation, mindfulness, and other things I already talked with her over the years). Like she's always saying things like "I'm so grateful for X" and "I'm grateful that" but it's mainly just words? I am familiar with the saying "Actions speak louder than words" and she talks a lot.

I don't see a lightbulb moment happening soon, yet she needs it yesterday. Palliative care was also mentioned.

Denial is still present.

Personally knowing my sister, unless another situation forces her to change, she won't. I think she needs to be in a closed institution for a minimum of 6 months with no outside communications (inc. internet, phone, postcards).

But if she doesn't have to go there, and can "wake up" with source or material that you share, that would be the best course of action.

Because they're talking about pumping her with escitalopram (Lexapro) starting with 5mg for the first 2 weeks.

So all in all, I am coming here to ask, where should she look first now? Where would you guide someone at her stage look first?

TL;DR: Sister is starting to understand but has not accepted yet. Where should she start?

My sister (32) is at the hospital for the 20th time in 3 years. She was sent there in the ambulance with lights and sirens. What started with severe eating disorder in 2019, while going through flare-ups of endometriosis, is ending with her "enteric nervous system" being out of order, or not responsive as the doctors said. It's the "second brain", the one that is responsible for making sure food is being processed. Now it's just not assimilating anything anymore. So they are feeding her through 2 separate IV drops.

She's had numerous laparoscopies to clean endo, surgeries for the bowel and colon to resolve what they thought was lazy bowel syndrome, all the while pumping her with opiates and others because of her morphine allergy, but to no avail. There has never been an improvement. They take her in, manage the pains, let her out because "she went in for pain management, the pain is gone, she can now go home". Then see her again 2 months later. Rinse and repeat.

No specialists to see for another few weeks, and I don't think she'll last. In what is a first for her, she even texted our parents saying she can feel herself "leaving this Earth" (I had to remind my parents that she's most likely high on hospital drugs).

I have seen my sister slowly fade away over those last 6 years. She's becoming gaunter everyday. The light slowly faded from her usually glittery eyes over the last 2 years.

Yet despite knowing what's most likely to come I can't help but feel rage and hopelessness. She was given so many opportunities, traveled abroad for her studies and obtained the degree she wanted since she was 10; had family backup, a good support network, was independent. Then one day she had to go to the ER (USA) for an accident. They gave her opiates. And this is where, in my mind, a fuse was lit and it all started. It started at a hospital bed and most likely will end in one.

I was given this analogy: for a plane to crash, there needs to be a sequence of things to occur before redundant systems give up and crash out, leading to a disaster. The choices of the pilot are also sometimes contributory. It's never just one thing.

I reckon that's what happened in her case.

I guess I'm trying to justify what's happening to her or finding a reason to make this absurd thing logical. This fucking sucks.

It's been 24 hours without Discord. I can't go ahead with this any longer. My mental state is in complete and utter pandemonium. I cried myself to sleep 4 times today. I feel paranoid that Discord may never come back. Discord has the only thing that brings me joy in this cruel life for 7 years now and I won't be able to recover mentally or financially if it's gone. I've spent over $7,000 on Discord this week alone. I even bought $500 worth of Discord stocks because I trust Discord. I told my mom through tears and she yelled at me calling me a "failure" and saying she knew she should have been on birth control. Although, Discord being down has had it's positive impacts on me. My IQ has increased by 40 and I've been thinking more critically. When I saw the "API error" page, I vomited. I just hope they mean it when they say soon. I even started praying again. I've been a dedicated Christian for 12 minutes and I began to pray to god in hopes that they can bring Discord back soon. I had to learn Arabic to pray to Allah. I hope Discord comes back soon I don't know how much longer I can take this.