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ToaKraka
Dislikes you
3m ago
When I pay with dollar bills (buying General Tso's chicken at a Chinese restaurant or a Slurpee/Icee at a convenience store), the cashier occasionally rounds to the nearest five cents (giving me a free one or two cents) on his own initiative, but I've never seen one round to the nearest ten cents.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
5m ago
Maybe teens might benefit from prescription desoxyn, which is what we call it when avoiding a prescription for "1 meth please". I'll have to look at the studies.
erwgv3g34
7m ago
What can you buy with dimes? I pointed out that quarters still have plentiful useful in the laundromat business, among others (parking meters, etc.) I cannot think of any area where dimes are in similar use.
Whenever I give back change at my hotel, and the guest leaves it on the desk, they do not make any special effort to fish out dimes; they treat them the same as nickels and pennies.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
8m ago
I'm pretty sure it is in reference to that meme.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
8m ago
But I am struggling to understanding talk therapy as falling into the medical category, in part because much of talk therapy isn’t related to the prevention, treatment, or cure of mental illness
Eh? That's plain inaccurate. "Talk therapy" is a broad term but encompasses modalities like CBT which are the first choice for many psychiatric conditions like depression or OCD, even before the drugs. That isn't a whimsical choice, it's based on dozens of meta-analyses and reviews of the literature alongside rigorous cost-benefit analysis.
Currently receiving psychological therapy among CIS-R 12+ = 17.9%.
Currently receiving psychological therapy among CIS-R 0-5 = 1.6%.
Ratio of indicated to no-diagnosis therapy, per adult = 17.9% / 1.6% ≈ 11.2 to 1. If you restrict “indicated” to severe symptoms only (CIS-R 18+), the rate is 22.3%, giving ≈ 13.9 to 1.
In other words, at least in the UK, people are >11 times more likely to be in therapy because of a mental illness than they are just to chat or vent. The latter is practically a side-hustle. I can't imagine the numbers would be totally different in the States.
Some arguments tried to say that talk therapy is medical conduct because it triggers a physiological reaction in the brain, but all speech has the capacity to do that – someone telling you they love you can release dopamine and oxytocin; someone telling you “gross, no” after you ask them on a date can create a crushing response; etc. And yet, speech in a general sense continues to receive protections that conduct does not.
Oxygen plays an essential physiological role just about everywhere, not just the brain. It's not usually considered medical when it's just... in the air, but nobody objects to being billed for it when it's a concentrated canister being given by a mask or tube when your lungs aren't doing so hot.
07mk
9m ago
IOW if you don't talk much about the other 99% of your issue positions how much do you really hold them?
99%, of course. People don't have a responsibility to talk about their opinions in order to hold them.
One can criticize the likes of Singal for being tactically incompetent in terms of how talking about the 1% difference aids the "other side" more than they ought to, or whatever, of course. But that's a separate question than whether or not he holds these opinions, with its own various dimensions, such as the fact that someone like Singal can reasonably (and very possibly correctly) believe that disproportionately focusing his speech on that 1% where he disagrees with his "side" is actually beneficial for his "side" and harmful to the "other side."
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
9m ago
Well, yes, those are indeed symptoms of the US not being a soccer country, and the situation would thus change if it was one.
ChestertonsMeme
blocking the federal fist
13m ago
This is a really interesting point. I really like the proposal to require showing after-tax prices. But this means that businesses have to know what the after-tax price actually is for each customer before purchasing, which is much harder and more ambiguous than doing it after purchase. For example, if customers who live in a certain city have to pay an extra tax, how would the business learn this about customers it's showing ads to? Not to mention the much larger number of ad targets than actual customers.
I think one thing that would happen is businesses would show some price based on predicted taxes, and just eat the tax difference if they predicted wrong. Or an even richer industry of fine print would spring up around price displays.
ThenElection
14m ago
One possibility is that the Right implicitly accepts that there will always be disbelievers/bad people/whatever, and so the role of the inquisitor is to put them lower on the hierarchy. But the Left believes in the perfectability of society, and there's no room for bad people in a utopia.
Edawayac_Tosscount
14m ago
Perhaps it's not a good model for the average terrorist, but it worries me that if this kind of violence becomes popular, the uncommon clever terrorist could commit this sort of violence serially; think of an indirect attack with a lethality similar to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting or worse, executed by someone who was justifiably confident they could get away with it multiple times.
KingOfTheBailey
16m ago
Roses are red
Violets are blue
...wololo...
Now roses are too!
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18m ago
They are cultivating a narrative, but
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They are quite constrained in this. In particular, they cannot cultivate a narrative that will make those who consume mainstream-left media not hate them.
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They are trying to be scary at least some of the time. But not hateable. Consider all this handwringing about the Pokemon soundtrack... does the Pokemon soundtrack make them seem scary and hateable? Hardly. It's whimsical; that part is aimed not at generating fear or hate, but at convincing the convincible that they are doing their job.
MollieTheMare
18m ago
During previous elbow injuries, I've had great success working it out with exercises, either flexing the wrist against tension using rubber bands or getting a Tyler bar. But nothing I've found has really helped with this one.
I'm going to go against the grain of the rest of the advise here and recommend you find an exercise that gets a bunch of blood pumped into the area. I would argue that like a 2/10 on pain, like a knot is getting worked out but not like I definitely am tearing something more kind, is a good sign. I like the Gyro Ball for a good forearm active stretch rehab thing. Hits the forearms from a bunch of different angles. Not a medical doctor, and it seems like this might be higher up than would get hit. If noticeably inflamed maybe contrast baths, starting and ending with hot.
I also recommend forgetting the hammer curl exists as an exercise. Incline curls, chins, and Bayesian curls (I'm sorry I didn't make up the name) as primary biceps exercise. Preacher curls, barbell curls, regular old dumbell curls, etc as secondary biceps exercise. IMO, hammer curl are way overrated with normally a better exercise for any particular objective.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18m ago
Imagine you are a dyed in the wool red triber. You agree with 99% of everything Trump is doing. Then one day, Trump decides we should all cut off our dicks. And suddenly you start seeing all your friends at church cutting their dicks off. They're cutting the dicks off their kids too! You might make it your singular purpose to try to lead your tribe, with whom you agree on 99% of all other issues, back to the land of sanity.
I don't envy Jesse Singal. He seems to honestly believe this is a mistake and not a conflict. He honestly thinks he can convince Democratic politicians and policy makers to reverse course, even 20%. If only those damned Republicans weren't also on his side of this issue, making his side all crazy, and doubling down on all the dick chopping.
Wait, I think I mixed up my metaphors there at the end...
Oh wait no, I'm good.
ThenElection
19m ago
It's always surprised me that there are so few mass casualty events; I could name two or three attacks that would kill a thousand plus. I don't know if those targets are non-obviously hardened in a way that would prevent a successful attack, or if my estimate of the number of extremely violent/insane people in society is off by an order of magnitude.
Dean
Flairless
20m ago
Based.
There's a currency joke to be made here. I'm not sure what it should be, but I'll pretend to be upset that you didn't make it.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
23m ago
I'd like to blame that on surstromming, but that's a Swedish thing. Maybe it's just lutfisk in general, that stuff can't be good for your mental health.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
24m ago
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It does seem to me like you are on to something here. At least in the US context, "torture bad people until they become good" seems to be more of a right-wing solution, and "execute bad people in the town square and spit on their corpse" to be more of a left-wing one. Perhaps this is just of an outgrowth of individualism vs. collectivism - an (individualist) right-winger would feel that evil must be defeated within every individual, while a (collectivist) left-winger would be more concerned with the evil of groups and think that "reforming" individuals is a waste of time and effort when they are better used as a teaching piece.
(Seemingly relevant anecdata I can't slot into this theory: the concern of Puritan witch hunters with making their marks repent as they were tortured to death; Orwell's fantasy communists being obsessed with the same on a longer timescale, even as their real models didn't actually seem to be so concerned)
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
25m ago
Wait, so it's literally about pancakes and waffles?
That makes this meme prescient. The only error is that it assumes this is restricted to Twitter. I'm not sure if I'm having a seizure, if the simulation is glitching, or if it's an intentional reference. It's probably the last one, in all honesty. Nick Land lands another blow.
I'm glad that Bluesky exists, albeit only because it's a containment hub for the most insufferable X users. Apparently they're also too insufferable for themselves. People planning to start new social platforms take note, founder effects rule everything around you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27m ago
The main distinction is that the right-wing witches were driven out by the left-wing witches, while the left-wing witches left because they were unable to continue to keep the right-wing witches out.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
28m ago
Here is my proposal for reforming the cash system:
This sounds like a Friday Fun Thread topic to me.
Inflation has made pennies, nickels, and dimes worthless.
[citation needed]
Only the penny and the nickel cost more to mint than their fiat value.
YE_GUILTY
29m ago
Related, from before this latest flareup in the Singal War: Nate Silver on "Blueskyism," (briefly: being horrid exclusionary scolds) which he considers to be the left's greatest weakness at present.
PreformancePertension
33m ago
Sounds like we're creating a lot of new jobs at Google figuring out how to automatically track a user's tax jurisdiction before they get shown an ad. I only vaguely remembered that there were a lot, but now that I look, I find out that Missouri has ~1,400 individual tax jurisdictions. Completely bananas.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
34m ago
This is starting to read like a Python skit.
Indeed, and the problem is that it’s possible bad decisions are often a consequence of truth-seeking and an obsession with internal coherence. It may be that deep, personal introspection, and in particular a willingness to face the cold, hard emptiness of the universe with a grand disdain for spirituality and superstition is bad for us. Rationalism has no real answer to this beyond ‘nuh-uh’, ‘you’re doing it wrong’ and ‘maybe, but it doesn’t matter’, all of which I find profoundly unsatisfying.
When I think about the most fulfilling and happy moments of my life, none of them had to do with my (lifelong, since I was perhaps three or four years old, and really I have no recollection of ever having any belief in god) atheism. There were no euphoric moments, no enlightenment by my intelligence. Instead, it was simple company, family and friends, the feeling of being part of bigger and greater things, being at peace with my life, my past, my future, and in time with my passing.
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