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Crowstep
18hr ago
What about them? They, like the US, have had liberal gun laws for centuries. These aren't recent innovations that have been lobbied for by activists eager to imitate the US experience.
Ioper
18hr ago
To be more accurate, a lot of patients talked about wanting to die, some asked me at some point if I could help out (I'm not sure how serious those requests were) and one lady pleaded with me to kill her every time I was there, which was almost every day. 1/5 was an approximation on my part. I was regularly asked by patients to "help them die", but I wasn't really regularly asked by the same person except by the one patient. Some other people phrased things like that "it would have been good if I was allowed to help them die", which isn't really asking but is kind of in the same neighborhood.
Most of these people could probably have killed themselves if they had really wanted to, and for all I know some might have. They could have overdosed on the medications they already had in their homes. Perhaps this was too complex and scary for them though, I don't know. I imagine people want a solution that is painless and guaranteed to work, possibly under the supervision of a medical professional, not something where they can fail and die alone painfully over a longer period of time.
These things dont necessarily correlate with how poorly someone is either. My grandfather for instance who died last year at 100 desperately wanted to live even at the end when he was in horrific pain, had terrifying hallucinations and had not been able to move from his bed for months. The last thing he said to my mother was to ask her when he was going to get better again.
His wife (my grandmother), who died 40 years prior from ALS, wanted to be killed and started refusing food etc almost as soon as she became hospital bound in order to speed things up.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
18hr ago
This incident was because of some trans streamer wasn't it, because he didn't like being called out for making bath tub hrt.
I have been a regular at kiwifarms, unfortunately, God, I have wasted my life.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
18hr ago
The guy who loads up on tight ends
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Europe isn't a country. Talking about stuff that Europe is doing is like talking about how Americans love Samba dancing, mate tea and poutine.
Not really. The European elites all attend the same universities, go to the same cocktail parties etc. The end result being ideas fashionable among them sweep through the continent, even when no one in their countries asked for them, and when you'd expect them to be offensive to their culture. This is without touching on the EU, and the member states' obligation to implement EU law.
Surely more credible? Making it easy and legal for your citizens to own guns includes making it easy and legal for sub-populations (you mean black people right? You can just say that here) to get hold of them too.
When it turns out that said subgroups (black people among them, but there was quite a bit of mass immigration from strange countries lately), skew the statistics to the point that without them, the US would be as safe as any part of Europe, I find it less likely that making guns illegal would substantially change their behavior.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
18hr ago
One is known as Otterbox. One is known as Otterlocker. I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened, here
The gay furries got some new robust cellphone cases?
gattsuru
18hr ago
There is a very well-known robust cellphone case manufacturer. There is also a gay furry porn website. One is known as Otterbox. One is known as Otterlocker. I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened, here. And boy was my face red.
I've also had to consider very carefully what image edit tools to recommend, because I have a go to, and it's pretty robust if not the best GUI. But I also can't tell randos to install GIMP on their home computers without ending up on a list.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
18hr ago
Have you heard of three branches of government:
I did, that's my point.
Some parts of the government exist to exert checks and balances on the others.
That strikes me as nothing more than fiction. The idea relies on there being some objective standard the judiciary judges the other branches of the government on, without it, it's still government just wanting to do something. Look no further than no right to euthanasia existing for the majority of the existence of Canada, only to magically appear now.
gattsuru
18hr ago
It's a bit of a distraction and cjet79's willing to accept the standard story, but I'll caveat that the evidence is a lot weaker than common knowledge suggests. There's been a sizable number of countries that have either brought about new firearms regulation, or clamped down significantly harder, in the post-1980 range where we have pretty good statistics. That's part of why the Australia example always bugs me: the decrease in total suicides didn't actually stay and there were increases in non-firearms suicide.
((Is this in contradiction to the one case of gas ovens? Sure! ... but exactly how sure are we that pre-1970s 'suicides' were all intentional suicide?))
Rov_Scam
18hr ago
I'll play, but only on the condition that we gat at least ten people, including the following:
- The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early
- The guy who loads up on tight ends
- The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
- The guy who drafts the Ravens defense in the 9th round
- The guy who drafts the consensus best kicker in the 10th round (used to be Janikowski, more recently Justin Tucker, who knows this year)
- The guy who drafts an inordinate number of Steelers (or whoever the hometown team is)
- The guy who drafts someone who will be bagging groceries two years from now because he had a 79 yard run in the preseason
- The guy who takes fantasy football way too seriously but nonetheless ends up drafting an awful team
- The guy who fucks up his entire draft because he thinks it's a PPR league when it isn't, or vice versa
This last one happened in a league I played in a few years back and the results were hilarious. He had drafted a bunch of wideouts and practically no RBs and didn't realize we were in a standard league until the 7th or 8th round. He then started frantically drafting every questionable RB available to make up lost ground, and was offering desperate trades the week afterwards to correct his error. He ended up almost making the playoffs, but the full-blown meltdown was unforgettable.
Glassnoser
19hr ago
I haven't had a haircut since October and have had lots of compliments. It looks fine, so I don't get the salad bowl comment. If I've recently showered with shampoo, it gets in my face, but by the end of the day, it accumulates enough grease to stay out of my eyes after repeatedly brushing it back.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
19hr ago
But where's the defeat though?
You might be able to say this once they've successfully occupied the area and destroyed Hamas. That hasn't happened yet.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
19hr ago
Yeah I'm totally lost when people talk about inner cities as anarchic wastelands... They're mostly just poor and dirty at worst.
Glassnoser
19hr ago
Is there a word for that emotion you feel when you're aware of someone who is naive about a situation and you feel sympathy or concern towards them?
Tree
19hr ago
Good point. All the hyped anti-aging drugs haven’t panned out either. Because things very very rarely do, and it’s good to always keep in mind that nothing ever happens. I hadn’t really considered it here, because like most rats/transhumanists I tend to pattern-match every criticism of ozempic, or of a hypothetical anti-aging drug, with a kind of moralising, small-minded complaint - ‘it’s the easy way out’ , ‘it’s unauthentic thinness’, ‘aging/dying is a part of life’ etc – I immediately dismiss.
anti_dan
19hr ago
I heard of it. What is the bad governmental outcome that derived from literacy tests?
oats_son
19hr ago
Damn, how horrifying. I always thought that I would prefer not to be hanged if I had to be executed, glad I was right. Guillotine is far more humane, though my real preference is for the firing squad.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
19hr ago
That's just not true. There's many examples of gun legalization lobbies in Europe with variable degrees of success.
And what about Brazil, or any of the other countries where people straight up run on gun legalization so you can shoot back at the criminals and win elections?
Policy waxes and wanes, but to say personal ownership of arms is directionally unpopular is patently untrue.
oats_son
19hr ago
The bullet itself might not do anything, but the explosion would be enough to do something. I saw a photo of some guy's finger that got mangled after he struck a .50 cal bullet with a hammer. That should work on any part of body...
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19hr ago
No, but coming up with a way to direct a bullet that will work for a shot to the head isn't rocket science.
Actually, come to think of it, it pretty much is rocket science. But very simple rocket science.
WandererintheWilderness
19hr ago
If you want to achieve this in the real world, you need to lock some people up for the rest of their lives on those grounds alone, and I think letting them kill themselves might well kinder in some cases.
Holding out for a miracle cure is a gambit at the best of times, but still - I think "how likely is it that we'll have unprecedentedly effective antidepressants by, say, 2050" has to be considered. There is a difference between locking people up for life as the stated goal, and locking them up indefinitely until we help them better. If you think there's a decent chance of a cure being developed within the patient's lifespan, I think it's worth the chance.
No they don't? The European elites overwhelmingly attend the universities in their own countries, like everywhere else in the world. The Anglosphere universities do suck in some of them, but I can't find a single European head of state or government outside of the UK that was educated in a UK or US university.
Socialisation is similarly within countries, for the obvious fact that Europe is a multilingual continent of dozens of countries and elites aren't all jetting to the same city every weekend. British elites socialise in London, French elites socialise in Paris (in French), Polish elites socialise in Warsaw etc.
As far as I can tell, none of the authoritarian measures you mentioned have anything to do with the EU. The cancelled election in Romania was done by the Romanian judicary. I'm not sure which arrested opposition politicians you are talking about but the ones that Google came up with (Belarus, Turkey, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia) are not in the EU. Legally penalising speech and building digital panopticons is, I assume, a reference to the UK, which is not in the EU.
Do you live in Europe? Because this reads like someone who just thinks of it as the USA plus funny accents, which is wrong.
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