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[feelotraveller]

Trouble with the internet is that it ceaselessly connects; blackjack, hookers and all.

Can play pretend a different world and get some serioulsly quick load times by using something like Elinks - fancy eyeporn and one arm bandits take a hike.

[Flying Teasets]

Are the people of Shanghai really starving right now?

[martinuzz]

What I understand, the severe lockdown indeed has caused at least some households (and workplaces with workers not allowed / able to go home) to be cut off from supplies.

[Grim Portent]

I find myself wondering how lobotomies, one of the most unpleasant procedures ever using in psychiatric medicine, wound up being seen as potentially reasonable again for the right conditions.* It's a pretty steep pit to climb out of considering just how bad the historical connotations of the procedure are.


*Extreme, likely to be fatal epilepsy is sometimes treated by lobotomy as I recall. Remove the part of the brain that triggers the seizures, and the person can then live a fairly normal life, especially if done while young.

[hector13]

I think we understand the brain a bit better, or we just have the hubris to think we understand the brain more than we did decades ago.

[EuchreJack]

Well, you did say "likely to be fatal epilepsy", so they probably figured the patient wasn't significantly worse off.
Also, the term "lobotomy" may not be an accurate description for the actual procedure. 
A lobotomy is a fairy specific and crude procedure that has as much in common with brain surgery as amputation has with orthopedic surgery.

[bloop_bleep]

I don't think lobotomies are done in serious medical settings anymore. I think what actually is used to treat severe epilepsy is a corpus callosotomy, which cuts the connective tissue between the two halves of the brain called the corpus callosum, which as I recall prevents the amplification of certain signals across that pathway causing seizures.

[martinuzz]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

[None]

It's my limited understanding that lobotomies were performed on people with what were perceived to be behavioral issues, or perhaps neurodivergence, not so much as a treatment to improve the living conditions of the recipient, but so enough higher function would be destroyed that they would be less inconvenient. Y'know, super brutal, inhumane stuff.

From what I recall of high school psychology, the corpus callostomy is what is sometimes used for epilepsy, as bloop_bleep says.

Unrelated- fuck epilepsy. I hope we find a way to eradicate it properly.

[MrRoboto75]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Frontal lobotomy?  Frontal Lobotomy in a bottle?

[Naturegirl1999]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Frontal lobotomy?  Frontal Lobotomy in a bottle?

ah yes, I remember the start of this…what would that be, lots of very very shar[ needles?

[EuchreJack]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Frontal lobotomy?  Frontal Lobotomy in a bottle?

Treating mental illness through Alcohol.  Not a foolproof method.

[King Zultan]

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Frontal lobotomy?  Frontal Lobotomy in a bottle?

Treating mental illness through Alcohol.  Not a foolproof method.

Sounds like you haven't used enough alcohol.

[Rolan7]

As a queer 1986 baby that prompt makes me wonder if you're referencing something
Does being recommended for a ton of ADD meds because I annoyed a teacher in 4th grade count?

[EuchreJack]

Yo!
Add 50 years, and they still probably would have lobotomized my Autistic brain