• Veraxus@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Depends on what you mean by that. PTs can use chiropractic techniques to great effect.

      But there is a MASSIVE difference between an actual PT that sometimes uses specific chiropractic techniques and the con artists who try to shake your down for weekly neck cracks.

    • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      For people who don’t know, the theory of chiropractics is that the light of God somehow shines into the human body through the top of the head, travels down the spine, and on through the nerves. If you can just fix any blockages (aka “subluxations”) in that flow then it will be impossible for disease to exist in the body. Because God’s light.

      The founder of chiropractics was told this information by a ghost.

      I know some people swear by chiropractic adjustments, but this is information I wish I’d known when I had my back injury because going to a chiropractor set my recovery back by at least three years. And the money I lost to that quack could have paid for not only the legit physical therapist that actually got me feeling better, but probably a decent massage chair too.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Wow, I knew chiropractors were quacks, but I didn’t know it was this bad. Thanks for sharing this; I’m sorry that you didn’t have this information when you most needed it.

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been cracking my own neck and back since I was 14/15, never had to pay for fake doctors

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 years ago

    If the point of getting a job is so that you can eventually retire one day, and you know what you want to do when you retire, you should start doing what you want to do now while you can enjoy it.

    Similarly, If you feel like the place you were born in makes you unhappy, move to a different place. There are so many places.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      The problem is that the one thing I want to do that I’m not already doing is “not work”

      I don’t have any grand plans to take up new hobbies or anything in my retirement (though I’m sure I’ll continue collecting hobbies just as I always have) I just want to be able to do them on my own schedule

        • Fondots@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          You could chant primary colors at kindergarteners online line for a maximum of 20 hours per week, or in person for a maximum of 10 hours per week

          That may work for you, and if it does I’m happy for you, but for me, as much as I want more time for myself and my hobbies, one thing I want even more is to not ever spend any amount of time doing anything even remotely like that.

          I also have no real interest in working abroad even if I didn’t think that job sounded horrible. A week or two of vacation, sure, but by the end of week 2, I’m ready to go home, and that’s really the point here, I want to be able to just stay home, and only leave when it’s to do something I want to do.

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    You cannot achieve any good by hurting people.

    People are so convinced that if we’re more cruel to criminals, they’ll stop committing crimes, or if we’re harsher to workers, we’ll work harder, or if you’re tough on border controls, immigrants will go away. It does not work and it cannot work.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    01·
    2 years ago

    That you need to wash your hands after going to the bathroom. I’ve seen too many grown men walk straight out of the restroom after urinating.