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TowardsPanna
4hr ago
What The Motte theme are you running?
I'm usually partial to blue (dramblr).
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
4hr ago
The ones against illegal immigration.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
4hr ago
Planned Parenthood does more than just provide abortions. If you can't see the difference between "Medicaid doesn't cover abortion" and "Medicaid can't cover non-abortion care if the provider also provides abortions" I don't know what to tell you.
wqnm
4hr ago
Reminds me of the old Moldbug quip about socialism working in Iceland because anything would work in Iceland.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
4hr ago
I had had to head down to London twice to attend the sessions. Beyond that? Not much to say, it was a bog-standard NHS hospital.
You go in, they take your vitals and your measurements, primarily focusing on making sure your blood pressure is okay (psilocybin affects it, not that the risk is notable). By that point in time, you've gone through phone screening, but on arrival, they conduct drug screening. They're looking for any illicit substances that might confound their results.
Once you get the all clear, you swallow a dose, then head to a clinic room. I was alone, but I think I saw a few other people who were probably participants. They had extremely dull music playing, and offered me eye covers if I wanted them. I had a pressure cuff on, with continuous monitoring. A nurse would swing around every few minutes at the staff to make sure I was okay, but eventually I told her I felt fine and she didn't really bother. There was also a psychologist on staff, but I told them I didn't need anything in particular at the time.
Once 8 hours was up (I think they could have let me leave earlier, but I didn't want to risk it since I was unsure about the come down), they took another set of measurements and I was good to go.
Overall, very boring and clinical. Not that there was much else to do, it was a rainy day out there.
Rov_Scam
4hr ago
Well, you should be concerned, at least theoretically, because I can all but guarantee you can't do this. The only chance I'd give you of actually being able to is if your parents are relatively recent immigrants who naturalized before you were born, and you have access to their naturalization papers. Otherwise it's damn near impossible. I did a fair amount of genealogical work when I was in oil and gas and simply proving a bloodline back 100 years can take a significant amount of work, and that's including unofficial sources like obituaries and affidavits. In particular, anyone whose ancestors came here before about 1890 you can forget about entirely, as vital records simply weren't kept before then and estate records didn't normally include a list of all the heirs. And this work didn't even get into naturalization records, which are filed with the District Court where the person was naturalized, which, good luck that they were properly archived. So I guess you'd agree then that we should establish a system where the most recent immigrants and their descendants are the most likely to be allowed to stay and the people whose families have been here the longest are the most likely to be given the boot?
aceventura
4hr ago
Yeah, I'm hoping that is the total for all three and not 40K each because holy crap.
40K a year per child not an usually large amount of money to pay for a top ranked private school in many states.
But yes, this is all pretty stupid. My kids go to a public high school ranked in the top 10 in a demographically "desirable" county in my state and are turning out fine. Just get your kids into a good school district, stay engaged in their personal lives and what's happening at school, and the rest will work itself out.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4hr ago
This does not meet commitment criteria. He should be committed if he attempted to kill himself, or if he is likely to kill himself if sent home.
The latter is entirely within the discretion of the pshrink.
So you would rather lock people up indefinitely than allow them to go free and not have guns?
I want them to go free and have guns. Both liberty (i.e. not being in jail) and the right to bear arms are rights and should not be permanently taken away based on the word of a psychiatrist, or a police officer, or even a police officer AND a psychiatrist.
cjet79
4hr ago
I think if you are not allowed to ban something then you shouldn't be allowed to make access risky. All bans are is adding a risk component to a thing. You can at least pretend like onerous requirements serve a purpose. Where onerous crosses over into risky is where I'd prefer courts to draw a line and say "you are just banning the thing, so unless you are allowed to just straight up ban the thing, get rid of that requirement."
erwgv3g34
5hr ago
Working a fulltime job as a cashier, or barista, or whatever is also well within the physical and mental capabilities of a teenage male. That is enough to pay for a room or even a studio. And considering how many families throughout history have been raised in similar or worse conditions... it's really also a matter of our society not being set up that way, not of material impossibility.
In an alternate reality, we could end credentialed education at 8th grade like the Amish do, a boy would either start working directly or apprentice into a trade, then a couple of years later when he accidentally knocks up some girl at 16 he marries her at the point of a shotgun and is able to support both at a low standard of living until he finishes his apprenticeship or gets enough experience that he can find better work.
And, ideally, in that parallel universe we also build more fucking housing and train more fucking doctors so that our standard of living does not keep going down even as the economy becomes more and more productive, the way it does in this world.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
Okay, since you're doubling down on being obnoxious and openly admitting to ban evasion (not that I was in any doubt), bye.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
5hr ago
It is functionally a reward though, and one that people are keen to give to their kids. First because the kid get access to all the benefits of being an American, but secondly that a lot of immigration law can be gamed by having a minor child who is an American. Things like priority for immigration through family connections. Or being able to live in Mexico and send your kids to American schools, or access to American healthcare. There are cases in which women will wait until literally in labor before crossing the border in hopes that the baby will be born in America and be American.
I’m not opposed to granting citizenship to a child born to legal immigrants who have lived in America for years and work and pay taxes and are working toward citizenship. It’s reasonable that if the family moved here and wants to remain that the child gets to be born an American. What isn’t right is a person sneaking in with the intention of giving birth in America and no actual legal connections to America beyond popping out a kid.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
This place isn't really for self-promoting. We'll let people post links to their blogs, but generally not as their first post with no previous participating in the community.
Hadad
5hr ago
You are wrong. If you want to punish me regardless, do so, but you cannot intimidate me into accepting a lie as truth. I survived the previous dozen plus bans, one more is fine.
sun_the_second
5hr ago
The end of the conflict between pure blood anti-immigrationists and their opponents is far behind us. Everyone else doesn't have a leg to stand on other than "the kind of people I don't like look sort of like this, please remove them (other than the good ones of course)". When push comes to shove, I do not expect the winning side to hold to their words of "blood is the most important".
5434a
5hr ago
Can you give us some more details about what the set and setting was for the session?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
There was nothing wrong with my reply.
I'm telling you there is something wrong with your replies throughout this thread.
You can reject that or ignore me. I'm just informing you of the situation and what the consequences will be if this continues.
Blueberry
5hr ago
Call me a dirt poor europrole, but I would rather get $480K (plus interest/stock increases) when turning 18 years old, instead of my parents paying half a million for Duolingo.
It tickles the mind though how education could be disrupted/advanced by modern tech.
Or maybe it is not so important after all? One comment on the blog claimed that Finland and Japan have similar PISA scores, despite Japan/Asia being famous for forcing children to grind obscene hours for school.
No_one
5hr ago
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity!
I see people out there getting absolutely wasted on kratom, acting like lunatics, wasting huge amounts of money on it, not washing, being aggressive, getting in fights. Maybe drugs should be legal for people who are not idiots.
anon_
5hr ago
my lawyer was ineffective for not investigating childhood abuse that might’ve been raised at sentencing
Hadad
5hr ago
There was nothing wrong with my reply. He asked I give him personal information. I told him no.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
I understand that 'more abortions for black women(and this is South Carolina)' is your #1 priority
Don't attribute motives to people they have not stated.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
Okay, you're repeating the pattern that got you a warning and then a timeout just days ago, and once again you are filling the queue with reports from people annoyed by your behavior, and with good reason.
This kind of argumentation where you just drop low-effort snarky bird-flipping comments needs to stop. I'm warning you again; next we start applying longer bans.
Would you say that your basic argument is that the rules shouldn't be changed, de facto or de jure, because the change might be weaponized against a given group, and that instead we should accept the status quo because its formal strictures provide better protection from such weaponization?
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