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bigschnitz , in America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?

I am shocked that a market based healthcare system that prioritizes profits manages to lock people into lucrative consumer cycles where they’re conditioned to rely on medications or treatments that don’t cure them. I am shocked.

Completely unrelated, it’s very noticeable how everyone is medicated and has mental health problems since I’ve moved to the US, weirdly back in Australia where the health system is different it’s less common. What are the odds of that…

iHUNTcriminals ,

Oi cunt. Strallya!

monkey ,

As it turns out, stress actually increases if people have to trade their savings for mental health services

surewhynotlem ,

So it’s that the treatment is intentionally ineffective?

It’s not that the US is a worse place to live?

bigschnitz ,
deconstruct , in Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU

Funneling public money to a bunch of grifters.

Florida is also using this crap in their schools.

mojo , in Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU

Jesus fucking Christ. They spew objectively wrong nonsense in an attempt to brainwash vulnerable people.

Reminder that PragerU made a video defending slavery.

Maeve ,

Their adverts on YouTube are equally vile.

luckyhunter , in Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack

Aparently not all BLM.

catsarebadpeople ,

Didn’t you hear? The point is that ALL lives matter! /s lol you moron

luckyhunter ,

Oh as long as the politics are correct. That’s right.

catsarebadpeople ,

Muh politics. Waaaaaaaah. GFYS

qwertyWarlord ,

Has nothing to do with being free from committing crimes, numbnuts

luckyhunter ,

Nothing criminal with a fiesty but mostly peaceful protest.

FlexibleToast ,

Lol, you’re delusional.

Manifish_Destiny ,

6 deaths == fiesty and mostly peaceful. Are you fucking retarded?

FlexibleToast ,

Domestic terrorists attempting to overthrow an election by attacking the nation’s capitol. Very feisty. The person is either a moron or a troll.

FlyingSquid ,
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He’s still alive. Unlike what you can say for a lot of black people who encounter the cops.

Yes, his life does matter. He’s just no longer entitled to his freedom.

So your little gotcha doesn’t work. At all.

luckyhunter ,

Lol drat! The technicalities!

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s not a technicality. His life is in no danger from police whatsoever. BLM is about the police’s response to black people and how little their lives are valued.

luckyhunter ,

I thought it was about rich black women fleecing the public to buy mansions in white neighborhoods.

FlyingSquid ,
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That would be because you’re a racist.

luckyhunter ,

racist? hell, I admire those women!

FlyingSquid ,
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Yeah, nice try. Your snark doesn’t make you any less of a racist when you are tarring an entire movement, an entire race of people, with the actions of one or two people.

luckyhunter ,

Well darn it. I guess I’m in good company with the Democrats then since the BLM website still has donations set up through ACTBlue.

FlyingSquid ,
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That is irrelevant to my comment.

luckyhunter ,

c’est la vie

Dagwood222 , in Finding a vacation rental in New York City just got harder

There are about 43 million hotels in the city. And you can get a hotel in Hoboken or Yonkers and commute into the city.

bobs_monkey ,

Was gonna say, I’ve never had an issue booking a hotel in NYC as long as I plan ahead, and rates are generally reasonable as long as you, again, plan ahead. Obviously you’re going to pay more at the height of tourist season, weekends, whenever events are happening, etc. It’s been this way for pretty much forever. But if you book your stay a few months out, you tend to get better deals.

I live in a ski town that has a massive Airbnb problem, and the city is finally green lighting the building of more hotels. It’s everywhere. And while there is an expectation that holiday weekends and much of the winter is busy, it doesn’t help having morons going apeshit until 3am on a Tuesday when I have work the next day and our sheriffs can be pretty useless.

Dagwood222 ,

What you’ve said is what I hear a lot; someone buys a house on a residential street in a tourist town and turns it into a party palace.

The original concept was good, but as usual, people find ways to exploit the system.

bobs_monkey ,

Where I’m at, cabin rentals were a thing long before Airbnb. People had their vacation cabins, and they’d rent them out through a local agency. It was fine for decades, and most people used them to supplement their vacation property. It wasn’t until Airbnb that people were actively scooping up as many properties as possible to rent them out exclusively and completely thrash the local housing market. And I know we’re not alone in this, ski/tourist towns all over the world are having this problem.

Jaysyn , in US military leaders say Tuberville is aiding US adversaries with hold on military nominations | CNN Politics
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

If you think that isn't by design, you probably vote .

WorldWideLem , in Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack

Couldn’t have happened to a prouder boy

dan1101 , in US says 52 mln air bag inflators should be recalled over rupture threat

I for one don’t like having stuff near my face that can explode shrapnel.

FuglyDuck , in More than 60 Atlanta training center activists named in RICO Indictment
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The worst part of this is that the facility isn’t even in Atlanta. So the people directly affected don’t have a say in the city’s decisions

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Atlanta is in DeKalb county. Well, partially - Atlanta is in DeKalb and Fulton. The land being rented to build Cop City is owned by the city of Atlanta.

I’m actually from DeKalb county, so this quite literally hits home for me.

FuglyDuck ,
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correct me if I’m wrong, but even though the land itself is owned by the city, it’s in unincorporated land, meaning the neighbors to it don’t get to have a voice on the city council to represent them?

I’m not sure what use dekalb county would be here, though.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Unfortunately, all that matters is that the city owns the land, and they can do what they want with it. Since Atlanta owns the land, it’s the Atlanta City Council that decides what to do with it.

As for DeKalb, it’s in DeKalb county and DeKalb county is the one that’s issued the building permits for it.

Yewb , in Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse

What is this a chatgpt story? There is almost no substance....

Are we really as society going to look at websites like this that are 1% story content? 99% add content that frankly I visually dont even process?

Am I the only one? I literally wouldn't click on an add link even if it was something I want!

comedy ,
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This isn't the entire story, just a snippet that was copied from the full story, which is linked in OP.

blanketswithsmallpox ,
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Yewb

Ahhh AI!!!

-_-

foggy ,

Bro go skim YouTube shorts.

Stock footage, reddit posts, AI voiceover.

It’s making money. It’s a weird era.

agent_flounder ,
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This is why I love pi-hole. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I see no ads on that page.

SomeoneElse ,

The article contains quite a big error too. Her two eldest children are over 18, have moved out and and are estranged from their mother. The eldest daughter actually helped the police, she posted on Instagram (or maybe TikTok) from outside the house when her mother was arrested. Initial reports said two of the children found in the house weren’t hers but I don’t think they’re the other lady’s either, she’s in her late 50 iirc.

FuglyDuck , in Finding a vacation rental in New York City just got harder
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Does anybody actually like it when airBnB moves into their neighborhood? I had one try and move in next door. fortunately my city had a defacto ban in place (the permit basically means you have to be a hotel-level of operation to successfully get the permit.).

They were only in operation for two or three groups staying and it was a nightmare. Trash being thrown into my yard. Shitty party music until 3 am. idiots trying to drive home from a keggar. drunken fratboys trying to figure out how to use my brick smoker to grill their fucking hotdogs… because the fence wasn’t an obvious enough indication that maybe it was someone else’s property. idiots blocking my drive way. Drunken idiots trying to drive out to get…whatever…

Like, I could not imagine living with that constant barage of bullshit. the funny part was the host was pissed that we dared call the cops on their ‘guests’. (who then proceeded to piss off the cops with bullshit pseudo-lawyering.)

Chetzemoka ,

AirBNB was great back when it was just a viable means for finding a room in someone's house to crash for a few days. Then the profiteers found it and AirBNB sacrificed their entire reputation for short-sighted greed. Add with everything in the past 20 years

ericisshort ,

I used to be a host in nyc with two rooms in my place, and it was just that, profiteering ruining it for everyone. But before the LLCs, there were the hosts that just scaled l into becoming profiteerers. A lot of them started as regular hosts and simply found it much more lucrative to scale it to many units or entire buildings.

It was a fun experiment for a while, but I hated what it became as soon as Airbnb started marketing itself more aggressively. Once they shared listings with hotel aggregators, it was over, completely changing the type of clientele and turning it into a sort of Russian roulette, where one in six guests would do something that got me closer to quitting it altogether, which I did eventually.

Edit for clarity: I’m in favor of the current regulation.

marron12 ,

I lived on the same floor as a couple Airbnbs for a while and it was the same way. Lots of trash and noise. More than the usual big city noise. Like bass cranked up at 3 am and they probably won’t hear if you try to knock.

For a while there was a steady stream of men coming in and out of one of the apartments. And a sign on the door that said something about massages.

rez_doggie , in More than 60 Atlanta training center activists named in RICO Indictment

Further proof that all cops are bastards

synae , in Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU
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Well this is terrible news

WhatAmLemmy ,

Religion has taught us you gotta indoctrinate the kids to grow the cult.

The nazi’s started the hitler youth org the 1920’s to perform the same function.

SSX ,
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Though not surprising.

Oklahoma is the only state in America without any blue counties. In the 2020 election, every county was red for every single race. The state sucks and I feel bad for the blue voters in it.

asunaspersonalasst , in Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue
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lmao cry about it, Mr Melon.

assassin_aragorn ,

Hey now it’s not nice to refer to someone by the shape of their face!

Just kidding, get fucked Musk.

Bonesince1997 , in US military leaders say Tuberville is aiding US adversaries with hold on military nominations | CNN Politics

This shit is bizarre. This is the radicalism they speak about. They do it themselves. There’s no worthy cause here.

snooggums ,
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It is always projection with those fascists.

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