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I'm gonna share some completely anticlimactic TMI for the benefit of other middle-aged men:

The day before yesterday, I was very stressed and anxious for a variety of reasons, and we were moving some furniture out of a storage locker, and I was feeling lethargic and a little lightheaded and generally out of it, and then I began feeling nausea and indigestion and my jaw was tight and then my left arm and hand started feeling a little numb. Nothing terrible! Just: feeling meh, and those minor symptoms.

And then guess what crazy thing we did?

We went to the nearby emergency room.

Yep.

And they were very nice to me, and quickly administered an EKG and blood tests, and guess what?

I *wasn't* having a heart attack.

I was just stressed and tired and anxious. That's all.

But if I *had* been having a heart attack, going to the E.R. could have saved my life. And even though I wasn't, they were very nice to me. No one made fun of me. No one called me a whiner or a hypochondriac. My wife expressed gratitude that I took my survival seriously. And I was home again in less than two hours.

So this is for my fellow typical men, who are inclined to ignore health issues because: John Wayne or something, and fear of embarrassment:

Don't ignore stuff. Don't wait until you're sure. Be willing to overreact. Be willing to waste everyone's time. It's okay! The world won't end! (And you may even get to take a nap under a warm blanket, like I did!)

Portland police chief Bob Day said in a press conference today that their goal is to detain and arrests people on the spot just to identify them and get rid of their anonymity, so that they can surveil them and keeps tabs on them and be more likely to ID them at future events / see who their social circles are. He said taking people into custody is “a tool to leverage more information, and to learn about other people.” I know we know this, but it’s harrowing to hear.

Fascism and a police state are already here, and things are only getting worse. Police across the board are more funded than ever, and in many cities their funding has increased substantially since 2020. Let’s also not forget that Biden expressed his desire to see cop cities everywhere.