I'm on it for neuropathic pain as well and had a similar experience for a while. The sleepiness and lethargy stopped being a problem after I was on it for a bit, but the efficacy of its painkilling (and anxiolytic) properties also mostly wore off. I could go up quite a bit in dose, and have as a rare occasional thing, but don't really want to go down that route, as I'm already worried about withdrawal if/when I do go off. Mind if I ask if any following meds you tried worked well?

@dead@hexbear.net posted this in the other thread about this earlier today, if anyone is interested in seeing more examples of how vile this person was, and why they deserve a and

I went through his tweets from the last year.

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Advocating for violence against bicyclists https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1811572517519372463

Covid Denial https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1798482372008247663

No comment https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1797679831720829170

Zionism / Islamophobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1787644704131027346

Threatening to kill climate protestors https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1742956979381834233

Advocating for American civil war https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1737630849040785723

Transphobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1716879327613366492

Support for an American fascism party (America first) https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1715044435581390852

Zionism / Islamophobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1711001590163804208

Say immigrants to US should be sent to die https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1662973785245401088

Transphobia https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1659594821076385792

anti-abortion https://xcancel.com/Corey_Comper/status/1656718480719085579

For sure, but it's not even just chuds ime, it's the majority of the US population that thinks the "further left" something or someone is, the more "liberal" it is. Even many liberals think this.

Similar to Angel's story, a while back I told someone (an acquaintance I met irl) that I considered myself a communist and their response to me was:

"I'm pretty liberal myself, but communism is too liberal even for me."

There were several other people present and none of them thought this was a strange thing to say.

lol you're right. It's all cope and deflection. They're not even on par with fucking CNN in recognizing that their beloved savior just crashed and burned.

Edit:

Ok, nevermind. If we look in the discussion threads, they actually are seeing it for what it is. It's funny either way, and a crack up that it looks like they're still trying to spin it as a win for Biden if you just go by the post topics.

Yes, that's an important thing to remember. Instances like .world and justshit are largely responsible for dragging down .ml and other (relatively speaking) decent instances. On hexbear, we're used mostly seeing ourselves (obviously), lemmygrad, .ml, a little bit of db0, and a smattering of other little instances. The second you go on .ml, you're inundated with loads of the same shit we all thought had been left concentrated on reddit. It's not that .ml is that terrible, it's that it's too small to push back against the hordes of .worlders. And so the culture of .ml and other smaller instances slowly but surely gets degraded. Defederating from hexbear and lemmygrad preemptively by .world wasn't done just because they wanted to be "safe" from having to see opinions and takes based in a reality they like to deny (it was that too), but also so they could hold sway and more easily influence and dominate the fediverse.

For everyone on hexbear that was gung-ho about federation because it would mean actively dunking on libs, if you were one of the ones (like me) who liked the idea of arguing with liberals and putting them in their place for all the lurkers to see how inept their worldview is, I very much encourage you to make accounts on other instances and help push back against .world's insidious shit. If you're a hexbear that has had enough of that shit and just want to chill in a leftist space, I completely respect that and would suggest that you not make accounts on other instances.

Hexbear has almost fallen back to a state of existence similar to how it was before federation happened, with the biggest difference being more cross pollination with lemmygrad. Which is good for those I just mentioned who like to not have to see liberal and chuddy garbage outside of the dunk tank. But it's not good for .ml that they get so swamped by .world. I've said it before but I really do encourage hexbears who like the posting trenches to make accounts on .ml and check the same threads you read as a hexbear and take note of how drastically different the experience is.

This person has a long and sordid history as a misogynist piece of shit. They were fairly active on Lemmygrad who eventually banned them, but it was unfortunately just temporary. But you'll see the incel/MRA kind of trash they believe if you look at their lemmygrad modlog history.

Is there a reason we can't see ml c/technology from hexbear?

I don't think there is. From what I've been able to tell, it's a bug and is relatively common. There are certain comms and even certain users that are plain invisible, as it seems as if they do not federate correctly (despite the rest of the instance being federated). I have talked about it before, and c/technology isn't the only one like that. We also can't see the lemmy.ml privacy comm from hexbear. And they can't properly see our literature comm. I'm sure there are others, in fact I know there are I just can't remember which atm.

Are we able to defederate from specific communities?

I think we actually are able to do that now? But that's not what this is. This was an issue long before that was a feature. And like I said, it happens with certain users too and there is nothing in the modlog of either instance about them being banned or something. They simply don't exist if you're looking for them from the other instance.

That is really cool, but let's not pretend that DSA as an org isn't often times extremely lib and that any actual communist party should never find themselves to their right. Did anything ever happen to those DSA caucus leaders who snubbed the president of Cuba and went to meet with the Gusano opposition instead?

American foreign policy affects the entire world.

And you think Biden's foreign policy hasn't been a much bigger catastrophe for the world than Trump's was? How can you post so good on economics and MMT and China and then post this kind of liberal dredge?

The guillotine is not for you, comrade! The guillotine is for reddit itself and its transphobic defenders.

reddit though? -->

I'm certainly not getting any wiser going through these conversations on repeat and I don't think anyone else is, either.

I bet a lot of lurkers are, including me.

I wish more of our team would disengage.

I wish for the opposite. It's always funny to watch these people fume and sputter when they are faced with dissent instead of the clapping seals they're used to. And I do learn a lot from what hexbears and lemmygradians say even when they're talking to someone unwilling to be educated.