Humans are social animals, you’re the odd one out here from a social perspective, not that you’re not entitled to that choice but choices have consequences.
I’d suggest just ignoring them. You aren’t going to find a better work environment anywhere else unless you literally have no coworkers.
Yes! Ok that probably helps a lot. Because I’ve seen a HUGE rise in _core (cottagecore, goblin core, Forrest core, witch core, etc. and that’s just here on Lemmy)
I hope that takes off more and leaves Punk behind so it can fit better. :) I’m sure the distinction exists for a reason.
And yeah steampunk is sort of the odd duck in what the other major __punk actually hit, but I did have some friends waaaaaaay back when steampunk was brand new, big into it, and they took it all the way to the social changes necessary for never evolving past the Industrial Revolution… so I’m probably heavily biased by that (then again in highschool they had canes, waistcoats, and top hats, and basically cosplayed as English gentlemen all the time so… probably not an ideal sample!)
It’s like everything else conservatives think they want: “We want illegal immigrants out of the country! But we’re not willing to fund more immigration courts/judges. Let those court cases back up forever so they can stay here indefinitely! Oh wait…”
Conservative: “Tesla chose Texas for their new whatever, yeeeee fuckin’ haw yo! That’s a lot of money that will come into the state!”
Bystander: “But don’t they have to settle that case with the EPA before they can proceed? I mean, they totally fucked that river and will have to pay for cleanup.” (note: this is hypothetical river fucking)
Conservative (and Libertarians, oddly): “Yeah yeah whatever. That’s why we have the courts!”
Bystander: “Except that court case won’t be heard for years because the courts are backed up. Apparently there’s not enough money in the Federal budget this year to pay for more judges, courthouses, and lawyers to handle cases like that”
Conservative: “Then they need to increase taxes! Oh wait…”
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN’S Tuesday upset defeat by Westchester County Executive George Latimer generated many perspectives on what exactly precipitated his downfall....
Isn't less disease better than more? I won't argue with you about sex or other things that people have hangups about, but HIV is also transmissible through blood. There are people who got HIV and developed AIDS for reasons that are innocent in any reasonable context. If you're a first responder or good Samaritan, doctor, nurse, or find yourself in some other context where it's possible for uncontrolled mingling of blood, you're at risk of contracting HIV. If particularly vulnerable people can be completely protected, then everyone's odds will improve.
I live in New York, one of the most northern and blue states around, and have my entire life. In 7th grade I decided I didn’t like saying the Pledge of Allegiance, the name alone sounded odd to me, like why are children pledging themselves to a country, when we can’t even really understand what that means? So I stopped.
The school staff lost their minds.
Luckily my parents taught me to be firm in my beliefs, if I had truely thought about them and believed them. So I stuck to my choice, and my parents backed me up on it when they arrived at the school 45 minutes after the Pledge normally ended.
On a side note, I had read ahead in my Social Studies textbook that week, and learned about Nationalism in Nazi Germany, and it had sounded strangly familiar to me. Not long after the Pledge of Allegiance incident happened.
Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a significant issue among military veterans. A recent study published in JAMA Network Open suggests that trained psychiatric service dogs can help alleviate some symptoms of PTSD. The study found that veterans partnered with these service dogs experienced reduced PTSD symptoms and improved psychosocial functioning compared to those receiving usual care alone.
PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. Symptoms include intrusive memories, avoidance of trauma reminders, negative changes in thoughts and mood, and heightened arousal and reactivity. These symptoms can cause substantial distress and impair various aspects of daily life. Among veterans, PTSD is particularly prevalent, affecting about 23% of those who served after the September 11 attacks.
Existing treatments for PTSD include therapy and medication, but they are not effective for everyone, and many veterans struggle to stick with these treatments. Increasingly, veterans are turning to psychiatric service dogs as a complementary intervention. These dogs are trained to perform specific tasks that help mitigate PTSD symptoms, such as interrupting anxiety attacks or providing a sense of security in public spaces. Despite their growing popularity, the effectiveness of service dogs for PTSD had not been thoroughly studied until now.
“When I reflect on why this research matters, I think about the veterans that I’ve spoken with and the things they have shared with me. A common theme is that for many of them, they’re in a dark place. When they find out that a service dog is an option, there is hope. Then they find out that it’s going to be a two year wait,” said Maggie O’Haire, the principal investigator on the study and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Arizona.
“Two years is a long time when you’re in a dark place. Our group’s mission is to conduct the largest, most comprehensive set of studies on service dogs for veterans with PTSD, and this study represents a major milestone in this process.”
Sarah Leighton, a PhD candidate and first author of the paper, added: “I spent a decade working at a nonprofit service dog organization. I heard and saw first-hand how these partnerships were changing people’s lives. One of our clients went from rarely leaving his room, for months at a time, to having the confidence to visit Disneyland with the assistance of his service dog.”
“However, support is limited. No medical insurance company will cover the costs associated with acquiring and caring for a service dog. The Department of Veterans Affairs provides benefits for many types of service dogs but has hesitated to extend support to service dogs for PTSD. Ultimately, policymakers, clinicians, and the public need robust scientific information. We hope this research will pave the way for increased access to service dog programs and help improve these same programs, benefiting both recipients and the broader community.”
The study was a nonrandomized controlled trial involving veterans who received a trained service dog in addition to their usual care and those who were on a waiting list for a service dog but had unrestricted access to usual care. Participants were recruited from K9s For Warriors, a nonprofit organization that provides service dogs to veterans.
To be eligible for the study, veterans had to have served on or after September 11, 2001, been honorably discharged, and have a current PTSD diagnosis confirmed by independent clinicians. They also had to meet the criteria set by K9s For Warriors and be at least 18 years old.
Participants in the intervention group received a service dog after a thorough training process. These dogs, primarily from shelters and rescues, underwent extensive training to perform tasks specific to PTSD. The veterans and their dogs spent three weeks at the K9s For Warriors campus, receiving over 40 hours per week of instruction. After this training, the dogs and veterans were assessed to ensure they could safely and effectively operate as a team in public.
The study measured PTSD symptom severity, depression, anxiety, and psychosocial functioning at baseline and three months after the intervention. PTSD symptoms were assessed using self-reported questionnaires and clinician-administered scales, ensuring a comprehensive evaluation.
The study found that veterans partnered with service dogs reported significantly lower PTSD symptom severity after three months compared to those on the waiting list. This improvement was observed in both self-reported measures and clinician ratings. Specifically, the intervention group showed a marked reduction in PTSD symptoms, as measured by standardized scales.
“These findings are particularly notable given the relatively short time frame,” Leighton said. “Service dog partnerships can last a decade, and we’re seeing these significant differences after just three months. We’re excited to learn how these outcomes evolve over a longer period; in our current study, we follow veterans for over a year.”
In addition to reduced PTSD symptoms, veterans with service dogs experienced lower levels of depression and anxiety. They also reported better overall quality of life, including less social isolation and greater companionship. However, the study noted that social activity levels were lower for those with service dogs, possibly due to negative public reactions or the stigma associated with having a service dog.
“Overall, we found evidence supporting service dog partnerships for veterans with PTSD,” O’Haire told PsyPost, “we saw significantly better outcomes in the service dog group in nearly every area we measured. Service dog placements were associated with 66% lower odds of an expert PTSD diagnosis; lower PTSD severity, anxiety, and depression; less social isolation and higher companionship, but lower participation in activities; and higher quality of life.”
While the study’s findings are promising, there are several limitations. First, the study was nonrandomized, meaning veterans received service dogs based on their position on the waiting list rather than random assignment. This approach could introduce bias, although the researchers adjusted for various baseline characteristics to mitigate this.
“This study was nonrandomized, meaning we cannot say (yet) that service dogs cause these outcomes,” O’Haire explained. “The great news is that we’re currently midway through the next study, a gold-standard NIH-funded clinical trial to confirm these findings in a randomized design. This will help us establish causation.”
“Next, we’ll investigate how service dog partnerships combine with evidence-based, frontline PTSD treatments through a Department of Defense (DOD)-funded randomized clinical trial,” O’Haire continued. “Specifically, we’ll learn whether trained service dogs can help veterans overcome the stresses and challenges that are involved in Prolonged Exposure therapy, to increase treatment completion and achieve better health outcomes. Ultimately, the future of our research is to move beyond the binary of whether or not service dog partnerships work to understand for whom and under what circumstances service dog partnerships are most effective.”
“Of course, each individual’s care needs are unique; service dogs aren’t a cure, and they won’t be right for everyone,” Leighton noted. “At the end of the day, we’re thrilled to be building the evidence base underlying the service dog intervention and hope that our work will increase access to those who might benefit.”
The study, “Service Dogs for Veterans and Military Members With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial,” was authored by Sarah C. Leighton, Kerri E. Rodriguez, Clare L. Jensen, Evan L. MacLean, Louanne W. Davis, Erin L. Ashbeck, Edward J. Bedrick, and Marguerite E. O’Haire.
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The way the Sophgo SG2000 chip works, you can select to use either the 1 GHz RISC-V core or the 1 GHz ARM core, but you cannot use both at the same time.
This story is about 20 years old so the exact details are a tad fuzzy. I was a somewhat awkward kid in high school, when i was around 14-16 i was on a family vacation and was walking through the hotel lobby to go to the beach for a night walk. I ran into a group of like 3 or 4 girls my age or a tad older and we started talking. After a little while of chatting it up one girl asked to see my wallet, odd request but whatever, im an awkward teenager chatting with a group of girls i thought was attractive. As she is inspecting my wallet she asks “where do you keep your condom in your wallet?” I proudly told her (like my parents always warned me) “you shouldn’t keep a condom in your wallet b/c it can cause it to rip” That kind of killed the conversation for them so after a few more minutes I went on down to the beach. It didnt hit me until I was close to 30 why she was asking where i kept a condom in my wallet…
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...
Do you realize how many books are in a literary? The odds they will chance on one particular book are really small. And ig they do it’s far from the worst thing that can happen to them in a school
Israel definitely has the right to exist. But so do a hundred odd other countries. Yet you do not acknowledge each of them one by one. All Germany has to do going forward is provide the necessary education on dangers of anti semitism, fascism and take this task very seriously. This is just meaningless over compensation or even worse maybe the result of meaningless lobbying.
It was like 102 degrees (~39°C) yesterday evening (and about as humid as Vietnam), but he was SOOOOOO BORED. So I got him out of the house. He made it eleven feet into the park, pooped, and immediately went to the pool afterwards to wait for me to fill it.
Nice. Where do you get one of those for a reasonable price these days?
My first dog, I got exactly that for $4 from a grocery store as a seasonal thing
However, after our second dog was a fiasco, I got rid of that since we weren’t getting another dog.
Now our third dog has not been swimming. She’s a rescue who still reacts against other dogs so we can’t bring her to a lake or dog park. I want one of these pools again to see if she’d take to it, but she doesn’t like to get wet so odds are not in my favor. I think the same pool was $28 last time I saw one, and I’m not interested in throwing away that much money. Almost all “baby pools” I see now are inflatable, which wouldn’t survive a dogs first use. So are there really no cheap plastic pools anymore?
But I learned to play some third-person games, while others still hurt. For example, generally slower pace and auto-aim World of Wacraft is alright, but action-packed Warframe that also offers me to shoot in third person (why on goddamn Earth?) is killing me.
As per Valheim, I tried, but it felt odd to me. But thanks a lot for the recommendation!
Then don’t sexually text any minors. Very simple. Now that I’ve helped you sort out your odd unrelated moral dilema, do you have anything to say about the Doc?
According to the latest reports, Windows 11 has made an independent choice by automatically turning on OneDrive folder backup for Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Music, and Video folders without your permission. This signifies that, whether you approve or not, everything is becoming coordinated with the cloud....
My apologies, I was not familiar with the difference. I’m going to have to test this when I am back at my system. Looking at the docs, it does seem to be experimental in Linux. But it seems odd that it would turn off automagically.
I have it somewhat working on Nobara after SteamVR updated a few weeks back. It works, but is rather unstable and you got to reboot any time it craps out. 6/10 technically functional, but needs work.
It doesn’t help that my headset has had odd issues even on Windows since it’s refurbished.
Oddly enough, OneDrive is the least of my problems with windows. It’s pretty handy at work since I have to juggle tasks between multiple PCs. My only hang up with Linux is games, which is odd since time wise I don’t spend most of my time there.
where did I at any point offer any culinary advice or criticism?
Are you drunk on pain meds, or confusing me with another poster?
as for being stupid: yeah, probably your fault. I mean, if you are being wilfully ignorant, that’s pretty stupid.
≥company’s that take advantage…
how do you suggest they take advantage of lazy people without taking advantage of stupid people?
why do you suggest they don’t also take advantage of “smart” people (which is, as I clearly said, what they are also doing)?
A continuing factor here, from the start, is you not reading the comments, and instead arguing disingenuously. This seems oddly out of character for you. Just kind of picturing you like Brendan Fraser in The Whale, only with anger and rage of Cartman.
Was finding the number odd (expecting a longer orbit) but looks like the solar system has already orbited the center of the milky way 18 to 20 times. Imagine that much change in earth in 20 years.
@neilhimself@pablolarah the rumour around the internet is that you support Israel in this ongoing conflict. So maybe not that odd thing to say. Anyway, free Palestine 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚🥰☺️
is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?
read right as polite, because they get offended easily....
What's up with all the "___punk" stuff?
I’m probably just out of the loop, but what the hell is up with slapping “Punk” after some random word and trying to pass it off as a thing?...
[OC] My weird hand (lemmy.world)
Israel threatens to 'take Lebanon back to the stone age' (www.telegraph.co.uk)
The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases (apnews.com)
Progressives on AIPAC’s Defeat of Bowman: “Now We Know How Much It Costs to Buy an Election” (theintercept.com)
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN’S Tuesday upset defeat by Westchester County Executive George Latimer generated many perspectives on what exactly precipitated his downfall....
Game-Changing HIV Shot Can’t Get to High-Risk Groups Fast Enough | Lenacapavir proved it's possible to prevent 100% of infections in women. Access and affordability are the next big hurdles. (www.bloomberg.com)
Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly (www.bbc.com)
Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”....
Pine64 Oz64 is a single-board PC with ARM and RISC-V CPU cores - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
When did you completely fuck up your chance with someone?
Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint (forward.com)
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...
New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)
The local dog park has kiddie pools by the water spigots. (lemmy.world)
It was like 102 degrees (~39°C) yesterday evening (and about as humid as Vietnam), but he was SOOOOOO BORED. So I got him out of the house. He made it eleven feet into the park, pooped, and immediately went to the pool afterwards to wait for me to fill it.
China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud....
CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected (electrek.co)
Hey there both good (lemmy.world)
Deadrop developer Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following new Twitch ban allegations (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Celebrity streamer insists that “I didn’t do anything wrong”...
OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions (windowsreport.com)
According to the latest reports, Windows 11 has made an independent choice by automatically turning on OneDrive folder backup for Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Music, and Video folders without your permission. This signifies that, whether you approve or not, everything is becoming coordinated with the cloud....
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. (lemmy.world)
Note I did not buy any food for myself....
What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?