Throwaway05
15hr ago
Well shit. My B.
I need a vacation.
Throwaway05
19hr ago
In brief - Cluster-B personality disorders are ones in which basic human defense mechanism (immature ones) run roughshod over function. People may effectively end up acting permanently as a teenager. Everyone has these defense mechanism however, and sufficiently bad circumstances can bring them out. And not everyone who has the disorder acts like a total crazy bitch. Plenty of politicians are functional narcissists, anti-socials work in Wall Street. If you know where to look you'll see more, or if your bubble gets stressed in some way you'll see more.
Ideally these people do well enough that most of the people around don't know that involved a ton of therapy or whatever to get there.
Modern woke feminism etc provides a good scaffolding for these peoples worst impulses to explode everywhere and cause a horrendous mess and for it to be called a good thing - which may explain certain over representations.
Throwaway05
21hr ago
Furthermore, if you don't want to live in a HCOL then being a doctor is an amazing deal.
In the US this is not true, doctors get paid less in HCOL areas (not universally because California is a bit different). Want to live in NY? Boston? Chicago? Take a 25-35% pay cut.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Pay is pretty flat - once you are an attending that's the salary, if anything it goes down with seniority because more senior people will take on less optional work/call and will take on non-clinical duties that pay less because clinical work is brutal.
Exception is if you go into private practice which is dying in the U.S.
Usually pay differences are more by specialty, some just don't pay well, but also you have working in academia (pay is ass) or working in a big city (pay is ass).
Opposite of most of life, in medicine more prestige and higher cost of living = lower salary.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Ah, correction noted!
Throwaway05
1d ago
Yeah medicare and medicaid can often pay below cost, sometimes to a ridiculous extent. I think I saw someone saying California Medicaid was paying under 40 an hour at one point on Meddit - with costs like front desk staff and MAs that is just grossly unsustainable.
Throwaway05
1d ago
I strongly require a citation for this.
According to the Google the top 1% of of income earners in the U.S. make between 650-800 per year. According to the most recent salary data I've seen exactly zero specalities have an average salary in that range. Neurosurgery is not shown on this data and probably reaches 1% thresholds, however.
The bulk specialties (what most doctors are) all have average salaries which are less than half of the 1% threshold except for EM which is a tad over half of that threshold.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Of course, the real retaliation for Soleimani was likely Iran greenlighting the Oct 7 attacks.
So your argument for Israel being the aggressor is that the US and Israel killed the king of terrorists and assassins via assassination? And that this action makes the abduction, rape, torture and murder of over 1000 civilians a legitimate act of warfare and retaliation?
That is certainly a choice.
Any argument that Israel is the aggressor has to deal with 10/7 and the arm of the Iranian military that functionally exists to murder Israeli civilians (the proxies).
Throwaway05
2d ago
Has Israel perhaps done something directly prior to these missile attacks?
Yes yes Iran has always been at war with Israel since the formation of the modern Iranian state, you can always point to some earlier insult in the back and forth. Structurally I think arming, funding, and directing terrorist groups with the primary goal of destroying Israel is a good place to stop with respect to determining initial cause of conflict - but fine, they've always been at war.
hot war
You don't get to decide when someone has enough of you punching them in the face and decides to punch back.
Throwaway05
2d ago
But I do have different standards. First, the US and Israel are clearly the aggressors here.
Iran has been launching missiles at Israel, engaged in near constant terrorism against Israel, and is engaged in a variety of forms of cyberwarfare with the US and Israel.
You can trace back decades in an attempt to figure out who started it "first" but a fight has been going on for a long time.
Iran just mad because they've been punching people in the face without ramifications and Israel and the US said "one more time and I'm going to shoot you in the knee" and then they did.
They are not the aggressors.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Anybody have a recommendation for a coffee maker you can load in advance and set to brew at a predetermined time?
Throwaway05
3d ago
In all honesty I'm not sure if this criticism is being aimed at me or pro-Iran posters who are confusing me.
If it's aimed at me - it does seem that seem people are formally anti-intervention (which makes sense) or anti-jew (which makes no sense to me but it is hate and hate doesn't always make sense), some of the other posters I cannot establish a theory of mind for, like the people who are mad at the US for being authoritarian and want to support Iran in response (or move to China as a hegemon).
Throwaway05
4d ago
If the US had military intelligence so great that they could avoid blunders, GWB would have invaded neither Iraq or Afghanistan.
This ignores (at least in the case of Afghanistan) the necessity of invasion.
Which is likely what happened here. To me it seems likely if not obvious that some of the governmental claims are correct in a way that makes invasion necessary and appropriate.
Many people disagree. That's fine.
What bothers me is the posters who don't seem to have any idea what the claims and circumstances are, either out of genuine ignorance or for need of rhetorical flourish. This is the first time in years I've felt mainstream media reporting is more reliable and informative than this forum and it's gross.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Alienating his base and attacking his own supporters, and then starting a insane war for what seems like no particularly good reason.
Comments like this confuse me.
It's not like Trump is some unknown man in a smoky room, he talks all the time. His administration has stated the reasons why. You can believe them or not but they are out there. You can even go beyond the public statements and make some inferences.
If you don't know what the stated reasons are.....try and address that first? It's not hard.
Furthermore it's pretty much impossible to know if the stated reasons are true/accurate or not without access to classified intelligence.
It's entirely possible that 100/100 presidents would have done this. It's entirely possible that 1/100 would have done this.
Throwaway05
7d ago
If you have access to certain D.C. insider tracks you will find that some things are just known. So and so snorts cocaine before every speech. This one is abusive towards staffers.
I've always found it weird because you'll often see something like a white guy being absolutely horrible to a bunch of mostly women and/or of color staffers.
As with Weinstein people still are very selective about what generates upset.
In this case, the response I saw was "oh yeah this isn't going away" and "common knowledge he's a pest" and "wait, we'll see more accusations."
As for why now? I guess you could make a case that it is an attempt to clear up the Governor's race? But we all know what direction that is going and California being mildly embarrassing is just assumed to be the case by moderates and conservatives so it isn't urgent.
To your other point - I don't know of any Eyes Wide Shut stuff (and not saying I really would) but D.C. being laden with shitty personalities doing shitty person things seems to be the main sin, even more so than Hollywood. This is much harder to generate blackmail out of.
Throwaway05
8d ago
I......I... the US and Iran are not the same.
The US has just like every other country and organization in the history of the world done bad shit at times. In the US when this has been discovered it has usually resulted in scandal, firings, and at times jail. Generally speaking the really bad stuff has been an accident or orthogonal to the goal.
Iran's explicit foreign policy is terrorism. They fund and support the rape and murder of civilians for personal gain, they support the destabilized situation in one of the world' biggest misery factories (Gaza). They do this to such an extent that it seems that stopping their terrorists was an existential threat, and is how we got the current awful situation.
Support of these things is....bad. It has eroded international norms, changed our relationship with unacceptable tactics like using hospitals as military bases.
Somehow they've run a highly successful pro-terrorism PR campaign that has dramatically damaged the Western coalition.
These things....are not the same.
Throwaway05
9d ago
Just want to say I appreciate the level of intention in this recommendation.
Throwaway05
9d ago
I don't doubt the existence of some of these programs, hell I know some SOF guys who assisted in um, procurement and delivery.
The U.S. has done bad things.
That does not mean dropping off some guns and foreign internal defense is the same thing as organized proxies that function effectively as an additional military arm of the state.
That is a difference in both degree and kind.
Throwaway05
9d ago
Who is the U.S. currently funding and supporting at that level who is engaged in deviant behaviors to that level?
Throwaway05
9d ago
The Iranian proxies are effectively Iran. They are given military supplies, intelligence, training, Human Resources and at times direct directives and orders.
They are a part of Iranian foreign policy and essentially part of the military - given recent events you could even argue that for the most part they listen to Iranian directives better than the actual Iranian military.
That's a world apart from the US dropping off some RPGs and training to the Taliban against the USSR.
Throwaway05
9d ago
Do you want citations for the fact that Israel is currently invading Lebanon,
Specifically with respect to this point - shit is complicated. Lebanon is a failed state that is limited in its ability to expel Iran and the proxies. While they may want these things to happen a different way, a lot of people are quite happy with the turn of events.
Throwaway05
9d ago
The bombing campaign in itself far exceeds anything Iran has done against US or Israel, and threatening to bomb their civilian infrastructure was psychotic.
What about all the rapes, murder, and torture on 10/7?
Throwaway05
9d ago
Except Iran is a religious state for a religion that very intensely resists moderation, often in tremendously costly ways.
Throwaway05
9d ago
I am happy to accept the explanation that you are anti-Zionist and not anti-semitic. Can you explain what happened on 10/7 and during the holocaust? Usually this is a good way to examine the split between the two.
That is 100% a problem - female doctors are increasingly more common, work shorter careers, and work less hours during them. Many of them do switch to pure teaching or admin roles for lower hours, more consistency, and safety.
That said it is an oddity because a doctor with 20 years experience and one fresh out of residency make mostly the same in most situations.
With respect to specialty choice (which is responsible for most of the variation in pay) women are more likely to go into more mission focused fields that pay less (like pediatrics and infectious disease) and men are more likely to go into money machine go brrr fields like radiology and ortho.
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