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Throwaway05
18hr ago
Many of the possible organic causes are horrible.
Many of them aren't though! And some if treated may remit.
With respect to timing .....not really brief, but things can get better spontaneously shockingly far out. The human brain gonna do what it do.
The increasing paranoia is concerning but not as unilaterally bad as you might expect, while getting worse is obviously not a good outcome, it can sometimes lead to treatment that makes things better in the long run!
Try and recruit as much support as you can. :/
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
19hr ago
Eh? Smartphones have made my life immeasurably better (well, I can measure it, in the sense I would willingly pay a lot of money for a phone if there was no other way to get one cheaper).
- It's a phone. People forget these devices do, sometimes, allow for phonecalls.
- It is a very convenient and half-decent camera.
- I can use the internet anywhere I please.
- I read books on it.
- There are very few tasks that make me want to shift to my iPad, gaming laptop or gaming pc. Mostly if I need to handle complex forms, multitask a lot, or need the screen real-estate. I do 99% of my writing on my phone, I can touch type on a virtual keyboard with my eyes closed, no joke.
The ball is very white as far as I'm personally concerned. Being even 50% as good at {everything} as a larger, more dedicated device is inherently valuable, especially when they fit in your pocket and carry charge for a whole day. I'd say it's closer to 80-90% in actuality.
greyenlightenment
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19hr ago
that actually makes perfect sense as a deterrent
jkf
19hr ago
So it’s not a police matter, but also regular civilians are not supposed to intervene or even film? This is a recipe for utter chaos and disorder.
You will be surprised to learn that chaos did not reign in the years prior to widespread filming of public activities -- I guess if the guy wanted to take her toys away himself I'd be OK with that, but would recommend just ignoring her. Going to the cops is just weak -- do you record speeders with a dashcam and call them in?
greyenlightenment
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19hr ago
This is why I withheld judgement and just waited for more info to be released. It's too easy to be swayed by out of context videos and narratives.
Scotland has its own problems, but racialized sexual predation is not at the top of the list.
The thing about this type problem is you don't need many incidents for it be a major problem.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
19hr ago
What makes you think that? They seem to be mostly running away in the video.
Yes, this is extremely typical of teenage troublemakers. The second the threat of consequences or being caught/embarrassed appears, their brash aggression is replaced by the performance of fear and vulnerability.
So what? A twelve year old yelling at people is not a police matter, even if she has a hatchet.
So it’s not a police matter, but also regular civilians are not supposed to intervene or even film? This is a recipe for utter chaos and disorder.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
19hr ago
The Bulgars, much like the Magyars whose language managed to persist in Hungary, did not intermarry with, and thus left little to no genetic impact on, their Slavic subjects. What did leave a Turkic ancestral legacy (and the legacy of Islam) in the Balkans was the Ottoman Empire, which conquered the Slavic Bulgarians in the 14th century. Many in the Balkans today do have some Turkic ancestry, but it’s not because of the early medieval Turkic confederations, which were Turkic only at the most elite levels.
jkf
19hr ago
- What makes you think that? They seem to be mostly running away in the video.
- So what? A twelve year old yelling at people is not a police matter, even if she has a hatchet.
jkf
19hr ago
Have you met Bulgarians? Been there? I'm one for two, so while I'll grant that there's probably a range of appearances I stongly suspect that either these two or their parents (or both) were not originally from Bulgaria.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
19hr ago
I am, in fact, rather fond of Wikipedia. It is a handy utility.
It also, quite helpfully, notes that the ethnogenesis of modern Bulgarians, includes, among others:
Bulgars – a semi-nomadic Turkic tribal federation, possibly from Central Asia, which settled in the northeast of the Balkans in the 7th century CE, federated with the local Slavic and Slavicized population, organised early-medieval Bulgarian statehood and bequeathed their ethnonym to the modern Bulgarian ethnicity, while eventually assimilating into the Slavic population
The couple in question, while ethnically ambiguous, look "Turkic". It is certainly not out of the question, unlike labeling the offspring of two Nigerian immigrants as Welsh might be. I have functioning eyes, and the myopia is corrected by glasses.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
19hr ago
I suspect that the kids were walking about acting disorderly, yelling at people and/or waving weapons around.
jkf
19hr ago
More time needed on ethnoguesser 'dawg' -- since you like wikipedia so much:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Lazarki_from_Gabra.jpg
KingOfTheBailey
19hr ago
It does seem more likely to me that this is underclass behavior than a self-defense video from a rapey migrant. However:
no evidence
It is written in the scriptures that:
Law of No Evidence: Any claim that there is “no evidence” of something is evidence of bullshit.
No evidence should be fully up there with “government denial” or “I didn’t do it, no one saw me do it, there’s no way they can prove anything.” If there was indeed no evidence, there’d be no need to claim there was no evidence, and this is usually a move to categorize the evidence as illegitimate and irrelevant because it doesn’t fit today’s preferred form of scientism.
Now we're not talking about the scientific establishment this time, but a part of the United Kingdom. While this incident is not from Rotherham or Yorkshire, the state and its justice system from have a history of covering up child abuse by immigrants in the name of "community relations", as well as coming down disproportionately heavily on people who object. While you might say there are proportionately fewer migrants in Scotland, external online observers are going to be aware of Scotland's woke politics. There was the Adam Graham Isla Bryson case, where a rapist adopted a transgender identity during the court process, and was sent to a woman's prison. A sibling comment already mentioned the railroading of Count Dankula. There was also the £7bn superinjunction covering up the importing of 18000–19000 Afghans. It is very easy to say "we found no evidence" if "we" choose not to look very hard, and very easy for an external online observer to believe that the police and other systems in Scotland would do just that, given that we know from West Yorkshire that local police have been part of cover-ups in the past.
So I think it is perfectly rational to have suspicious priors if one is familiar with Rotherham and the extent of similar coverups in the UK, only saw a still from the video, and/or only read suspiciously carefully worded articles from mainstream sources. But the perspective of the camera in the video makes it harder to believe. Screaming "pedophile!" is a weapon underclass kids know how to wield; so is the reflexive "phone camera on, start recording" move. If there was a migrant behaving inappropriately I would expect to see him in the shot, as well as the armed girl.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
19hr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunning_folk
"I'm a witch, but I'm one of the good ones you see!"
I obviously do not think that "witches" ever had any form of supernatural power.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
19hr ago
That’s fucked up.
If it helps at all…I think you’re doing the right things.
AvocadoPanic
19hr ago
I know what you mean.
Many of the possible organic causes are horrible.
The Elon Musk delusion has persisted since April / May.
Since July, she sometimes seems afraid of me. Has claimed at least at twice thqt I'm abusive but was unable to articulate any actual abuse.
I think I've already used all the let's go get you checked out attempts I'm going to get.
Quantumfreakonomics
19hr ago
We got em. There they are just standing there, menacingly.
(They do look quite tan. I guess these are Romani?)
jkf
19hr ago
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
19hr ago
I dunno dawg. I googled "Bulgarian people", and they pass to me.
You seem to be under the impression that accusing your interlocutor of being a socialist is some kind of I-win button and super-embarrassing.
"Accusing"
The dude is supporting policies embraced by Bernie Sanders (who calls himself a socialist) and says that capitalism is incompatible with Christianity.
So he's
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Anti capitalist
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Supporting socialist ideas
How is it wrong to assume socialism?
I feel you should be aware that outside the 'States - and your interlocutor just said he is - this isn't really all that true. Australia's and the UK's Labour Parties are both former members of Socialist International and still take red - as in, Communist red - as their party colour. Die Linke is a significant party in German politics, and it's literally the East German Communist party with a new name. France's National Assembly is over a quarter declared socialists.
Cool, you can have your socialism in other countries if you want it. The idea that capitalism and Christianity can't coexist is still nonsense, especially since your European countries are often far more godless than America. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/09/05/u-s-adults-are-more-religious-than-western-europeans/
So that's evidence to the contrary, it is your socialism that can not coexist with Christianity.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
19hr ago
Next, you'll tell me the people of Brownland are actually yellow.
(Thanks, even if I meant brown as in the standard definition of "brown people", I'll correct it)
ControlsFreak
19hr ago
If you show up the ED with diverticulitis you could be seen in the ED and sent home with conservative management. You could be put in obs for a day and started on Zosyn and fluids and kept NPO, you could have a perf leading to surgical management, necrosis, and a 3 month hospital stay. Nobody knows any of the numbers associated with this visit until it's done.
What is the number for the next procedure that you are just about to get informed consent for?
Physicians aren't in control of this.
Then you should have no problem supporting a requirement that your employer figure it out.
Health systems aren't in control of this. Most importantly we can't control insurance.
No one has asked you to.
lurker
19hr ago
Tangential but there were in fact, no witches. The witch hunts of europe were started by a guy who wanted an excuse to get a bunch of women who disagreed with his preaching executed and spiraled out of control. The only crime any of the people accused of witchcraft actually committed was at worse disagreeing with a powerful person on theology.
There is a possibility those "bulgarian" men may have only become bulgarian quite recently. And that they may be quite a bit more melinated than the average bulgarian.
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