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birb_cromble
29m ago
why so many people hate medicine.
For me, my defining moment when dealing with medical professionals was when I began having irregular heart rhythms, along with a boatload of other symptoms. Unfortunately, one of those symptoms was weight gain. Once that happens, doctors will not, in any way, listen to a single thing that you tell them.
Every time I would go to the doctor, they would tell me to exercise and lay off the junk food. The fact that I had completely cut out junk food and upped my gym routine to 90 minutes a day/5x a week sailed in one ear and straight out the other.
Eventually I collapsed at the gym and showed up at the ER with a 240 bpm heart rate. It turns out I'd had an autoimmune disorder for several years that had wrought absolute havoc on my body's symptoms. A doctor ran a simple, inexpensive blood test and had me diagnosed and medicated in a few days. All my problems went away and I lost 65 pounds in six months.
Every single one of those events could have been prevented if any doctor in a three year period had actually listened to me instead of telling me to go fuck myself.
remzem
30m ago
The conscription thing isn't really true. Russia conscripts twice a year starting in april and october every year and has done so dating back to the soviet era. Western media seems to always run the story like clockwork around this time of year despite it not being anything new. They might end up on the border and could see combat there, but the people fighting in the territory of Ukraine are voluntary or mobilized reservists, with the caveat that the voluntary come from very poor regions and receive significant sign on bonuses.
07mk
34m ago
We can expect things like moral panics, jaywalking, stealing, genocide, rape, and crowd hysteria to be with us for as long as human civilization remains human. I don't expect that not to be the case. I still hold the individuals who perform these things accountable and blame them for partaking in them. In practice, on a forum like this, all I can do is to explain whom I blame, for I lack the capability to do anything to make that blame translate to actual negative consequences for the blameworthy.
LiberalRetvrn
41m ago
Was the price of goods not one of the most important issues in the 2024 election? Proles voted overwhelmingly in favor of lower prices.
But they're also not stupid, so using that fact to extort them into annihilation is not going to work.
They absolutely are stupid. Proles are the people who walk into Best Buy and drop $900 on a brand new laptop with a Celeron and 720p screen, split into 96 monthly payments with 10% interest from Affirm. Proles buy a $70,000 truck that gets 15 mpg and then complain about gas prices. Proles see lower prices as the solution to all their problems, because they can't imagine not consuming every dollar they earn on stupid crap. And the lower prices are, the more crap they can consume. They are attempting to vote in their own interests, they just don't understand what their interests are.
PMCs need to take a hard look at themselves and understand that it is they who want cheaper goods
No, we don't. I want to protect the environment, even if it raises prices. I want $10/gallon gas. As a PMC, I'm willing to pay more because the amount I consume now is already well within my budget.
suy
43m ago
20mg dyphenhydramine works for me but only sparingly. over the counter, safe, effective. mix with a responsible amount of alcohol to ensure unconsciousness.
some people like myself get terrible nightmares on it but it's still worth it for trips and special situations
you need to find yourself multiple solutions to cycle through to not build a tolerance, but there really is no easy cure for chronic insomnia.
07mk
48m ago
I haven't watched the show or plan to, but your description of the phenomenon surrounding it reminds me a bit of the Netflix show Jessica Jones from about a decade back. Not nearly as big a deal in terms of being talked about for ideological messaging as Adolescence, but I ran into more than a few mentions by people about it as some great demonstration of "rape culture." When I watched the show, it was a decent superhero dramedy that was so extremely far removed from anything approaching social reality that the notion that it was some meaningful social commentary to anyone who's not actively trying to twist it that way seemed utterly absurd.
Which, I think, points to why the people talking about these shows this way are doing so: they're actively trying to twist it that way. The mainstream ideology that these people follow posits that fictional works always and inevitably have political and ideological meaning, which is why the followers so often decrt media that has the wrong messaging and also try to create media that has the right messaging. This show Adolescence seems to have enough features that allow them to see the correct patterns that properly flatter them and their messaging, and it's apparently well made to boot, so they latch on to it.
The funniest possible thing to happen now would be the writer(s) of the show being proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be unremorseful sexual predators.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
48m ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
52m ago
Tariffs have been at least partially priced in for a while, though. And SPY has been sliding since mid February.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
54m ago
Why can’t houses depreciate without an apocalyptic event?
A more cynical commenter than me might suggest it's because it takes an apocalyptic event for the federal government to stop propping up house prices.
Listening
1hr ago
On a practical level I think that sort of thinking is gone from almost all modern education
This seems more like an argument for the dissolution of the monasteries than a defense.
And while the impacts of not noticing from medicine are higher, I'm not sure we should be held to a higher standard than anyone else
Of course not—the sea pouring in certainly won't be confined to just medicine.
ABigGuy4U
1hr ago
Several Roman emperors actually tried to restore the Roman Republic. It never worked out because the Senate didn’t want the responsibility. They preferred to be a bickering social club.
veqq
1hr ago
drafted ... served willingly
Too many enrolled early on, overwhelming induction capacity. The US actually ended voluntary enlistment at the end of 1942, to allocate manpower more rationally.
veqq
1hr ago
But this policy hurts Europe and China by devastating the US. Europe and China can continue trading with each other before - and will do so even more.
Goodguy
1hr ago
Everyone who thought it was ok to torture people purely for fun certainly was. The ones who believed that it had to be done to appease the gods at least have an excuse. But anyone back then who was doing it purely because they enjoyed it was psychopathic by my standards.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
But wait, you said that "only genuine psychopaths" would question these ideas. Are you claiming that just about everyone was psychopathic back then?
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
I think you've assumed that I think that critical theory is the only type of academic history?
I don't know what you think; I gave a proposed definition for how to determine whether academic history is "woke" or not.
It's part of this "overcorrection" that I see that whenever a historical figure is pointed out as being not worthy of our praise, it must be "woke".
The "overcorrection" isn't happening in the academy; it's happening in public, who as I'm sure you know by and large don't really do actual history. Instead, pop history is a sort of secular cultural catechesis and mythopoetics; pulling together a narrative for the in-group to anchor its sense of identity to, and affirming the moral worth of that narrative.
I find actual "good" history to be incredibly boring. It's basically translating and regurgitating primary texts
The really good ones manage to piece together narratives from those primary documents. Like, no-one ever accused Ferdinand Braudel of being compulsively readible, but he manages to take all the grain prices and trader's manifests and censuses of windmills and meld all of it into fascinating insights into every day life in historical Europe. Biography can be similar, getting you in the subject's head and humanizing them across the centuries and gulfs of cultural differences.
(Tangential hot take: give Italian Americans their own holiday worthy of their community's cultural spirit, and Columbus will disappear.)
Agreed, but it needs to be a catholic too.
Goodguy
1hr ago
It does not matter whether they would have agreed or not. Morality is not a democracy.
veqq
1hr ago
1/3 of Guatemalans live like Americans in the 90s (in a good way, better than modern America). 2/3 live like rural Appalachia. Prices are very high, 3-5x more than in Central Mexico (central Mexico is about 1/2 old America, 1/2 Texas truck stop) (indeed, higher than LCOL US.) Surprisingly to me, it's rather rainy and cold.
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
Make Men Great Again?
wingdingspringking
1hr ago
Okay, fair enough. You're engaging with the specific case, when the point I'm driving at is the generalization; that drastic changes to the rules by which the economy functions can have large and sometimes very negative consequences. If you want to apply that generalization to the case of the great depression, then yes, monetary policy that resulted in an insufficient money supply was a key factor. So was a large asset bubble. We could just as easily look at the case of the Spanish Price Revolution to see what happens when the government drastically increases the money supply without understanding what the effects of that will be.
None of that detracts from the fact that ideological economic changes, imposed literally overnight, are politically risky if the ideology doesn't match reality.
functor
1hr ago
European manufacturing is suffering. Also Europe is largely a lot cheaper than the US. Engineers in Milan made on average 35 000 Euro last year. French electricians make around 25000 Euros a year.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
For example, all else being equal, it is more moral to not torture people for fun than it is to torture people for fun. This was as true 2000 years ago as it is now.
Would an aztec have agreed? Would a mongol? An Iroquois? Any random european who went to a public breaking on the wheel?
Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
I think if any republicans try to reign in Trump, Dems know it'd undermine their entire messaging to not join in.
HaroldWilson
1hr ago
Yeah but there was nothing anyone could do to stop those once it became clear what was happening, whereas if there's a recession now it will be blindingly obvious what is going on.
Has anyone here built an electric guitar or bass from parts before? I might take a crack at it and I wouldn't mind some pointers
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