One of my kids calls water fountains water mountains… I assume from just mishearing the word. The first time he said it I went to correct him and then I’m like it does look like a water mountain so fuck it we’ll go with that. Now the whole family only refers to them us water mountains.
And oddly there is another misheard word another of my kids used that we’ve all adopted, this kid said his tshirt was skin side out instead of inside out. Again I went to correct him and thought no he is right too, so now clothes are skin side out or skin side in.
Note: I’ve no idea why the uploader decided to rotate the image, when I’ve tried rotating the original image in a way that’d fix it only to see that it didn’t matter
What kind of demented toddler would even buy a printer attached to a subscription service? Printing is the definition of a thing that you do so sporadically and randomly it’s almost questionable to even get one. If you have some kind of cheap printing shop, school, or library super close by to you, then it’s not even a competition. The whole reason people buy printers and ink cartridges is so they can print something on demand at any time for essentially free (besides the odd time you might need another cartridge, which is even rarer to happen).
If someone buys a freaking “printer subscription month”, I guarantee, they’ll print one, MAYBE two papers, and not use the rest of it. Then repeat the cycle every time you need to print. $15 well spent, huh?
TITLE: Lithium May Reduce Psych Hospitalizations for People w/ Bipolar
OR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER—N=260
Thank you Dr. Pope.
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The American Psychiatric Association issued the following news release:
Lithium May Reduce Psychiatric Hospitalizations in People With Bipolar,
Major Depressive Disorder
Taking lithium may significantly reduce the risk of psychiatric
hospitalization for people who have major depressive disorder or bipolar
disorder, a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders has found.
Maurizio Pompili, M.D, Ph.D., of Sapienza University in Rome and
colleagues analyzed data from the health records of 260 adult patients
who had either major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder and had
been admitted to the psychiatric unit of Sant’Andrea University Hospital
in Rome between February 2019 and August 2020.
The researchers compared the patients’ psychiatric hospitalization rates
for the 12 months before they started taking lithium with their
hospitalization rates during the first 12 months of taking lithium.
In the 12 months before taking lithium, 40.4% of the patients were
hospitalized, whereas only 11.2% of patients were hospitalized while
taking the drug.
This represents a 3.62-fold reduction in hospitalization during lithium
treatment.
The risk of hospitalization did not differ significantly between
patients with major depressive disorder and patients with bipolar
disorder either before or during treatment with lithium, suggesting that
taking lithium similarly benefitted both groups of patients.
Pompili and colleagues wrote that this finding was “unexpected,” as
other studies have suggested that lithium is more effective in patients
with bipolar disorder than those with major depressive disorder.
The risk of hospitalization also did not differ significantly between
patients who took only lithium and patients who also took other
psychotropic medications, with the exception of patients who also took
antipsychotics: Patients who took an antipsychotic along with lithium
had 21.1 times the odds of being hospitalized than those who did not
take an antipsychotic.
“An association of co-treatment with an antipsychotic plus lithium among
patients who required hospitalization probably represents greater
illness severity,” the researchers wrote.
<p>Criminal Justice Policy Review, Ahead of Print. <br />Studies explicitly examining the antecedents of prison victimization are rare relative to other institutional outcomes (e.g., misconduct) and are virtually nonexistent for incarcerated military veterans. In the current study, we employed Firth regression models to predict victimization among a subsample of military veterans housed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MnDOC) using a target congruence approach. Inconsistent with prior theory and research, we observed no differences among veterans on the basis of race and physical or mental health disorders. We did, however, observe a relationship between an individual’s risk of recidivism as measured by the MnSTARR 2.0 and victimization whereby higher scores corresponded with greater odds of victimization. Implications for theory and correctional policy are discussed and directions for future research are given.</p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2023/journal-article-abstracts/08874034231187303/">Victimization Among Incarcerated Military Veterans: A Target Congruence Approach</a> was curated by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p>
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<p>Although irritability is common in youth, research on treatment is in its infancy. Threat biases are more pronounced in irritable compared to low irritable youth, similar to evidence found in anxious youth. Therefore, interventions targeting these biases may be promising for reducing irritability. This study utilised a multiple baseline case series design to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of positive search training (PST) for irritable children. Three children were included who met criteria for a principal diagnosis of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), and a secondary diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). PST was feasible with two of the three participants; one child refused to continue after one session. For the two participants who completed PST, acceptability was stable with moderate-to-high ratings of engagement and enjoyment, and high and stable treatment-relevant verbalisations of the key strategies. Both cases showed declines in DMDD severity across treatment and no longer met criteria at post-treatment. Both participants met criteria for Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) at post-treatment (considered less severe for irritability than DMDD). Declines in parent-reported irritability occurred for both cases, however some returns to baseline were observed. Overall, PST for irritable youth shows promise as an acceptable and feasible intervention. Further studies are needed combining PST with strategies for secondary diagnoses, given its high comorbidity with disruptive behaviour disorders.</p>
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<p>Crime &Delinquency, Ahead of Print. <br />This study examined how selective rule enforcement on prison units is related to individual misconduct. Selective rule enforcement was operationalized as the unit-level discrepancy between self- and officially reported misconduct. Both survey and administrative data were used from 4,123 individuals incarcerated in 197 units in the Netherlands. Findings showed that the level of selective rule enforcement varied greatly across units, irrespective of regime, with averages above zero. Multilevel regression analyses indicated that, after controlling for important covariates, selective rule enforcement on units was consistently related to the odds of displaying misconduct including verbal, physical, property, and contrabands misconduct. These findings demonstrate the importance of contextual differences and the use of discretion by correctional officers for individual behavior in prison.</p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2023/journal-article-abstracts/00111287231189723/">Selective Rule Enforcement on Prison Units and Individual Misconduct: A Multilevel Study</a> was curated by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p>
The Pentagon is developing plans to restructure the National Guard in Washington, D.C., in a move to address problems highlighted by the chaotic response to the Jan. 6 riot and safety breaches during the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, The Associated Press has learned.
Don’t you find it odd that there is always some sort of republican scheme or “problem” keeping the democrats from getting anything meaningful done?
At what point are the Republicans political strategy masterminds that can never be beat, even when not in power?
Or
At what point do we realize that corporate democrats don’t actually want to win or play dirty politics to beat the obviously cheating Republicans?
Why is it that only the Republicans can “play dirty” to advance their agenda? Why can’t the democrats, who are supposed to be fighting for the people against the Republicans, ever get anything major done?
You don’t need to think too hard to realize that it comes down to class and that American politics is smoke and mirrors for us and power for the corrupt/elite and lawmaker/lobbyist class. The corporate democrats (the only ones who have had any power in the last 3 decades) haven’t done fuck all for us. They are a pressure escape to keep us from realizing the system is bullshit all the way down and burning it to the ground.
Don’t get me wrong, Republicans are still the biggest cancer in the system. I’m just tired of democrats getting power and then not using it to make the middle class’ life better consistently over time.
The whole system is broken and I’m done hearing about how hard democrat politicians have been trying for the past several decades when things continually get worse and the republican party remains the minority.
I’ve been going back and watching earlier seasons, which - I thought - had a smaller budget and less recognition. But after taking a closer look at the credits I realized there’s a lot of celebrity heads that are voiced by the actual celebrities. The star trek episode actually had the full original cast - and those weren’t...
Celebrities, oddly enough, typically enjoy attention and the best way to get that is relevance maintained by frequent appearances. Many popular shows (even up-and-coming ones) have cameos from otherwise unrelated actors.
I’m running Ubuntu, and every once in a while, I boot up my PC and some app is missing that was there previously. Last night I shut down my computer, and this morning Firefox was missing. I lost all my browsing history, cookies, bookmarks, extensions, etc....
Also, simply uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox shouldn’t lose all your settings. Silly question, but are you sure you’re the same local user? Also, Firefox syncs this stuff so all sounds odd.
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
If people aren’t doing work you aren’t paying them wages. So yes, sure, some company probably saved 100m in wages, benefits, etc. This is what they call bottom line savings. What i’d like to hear is how this affects their top line e.g. revenue. Only the combination matters and odds are this will have impacts on the top line in the next 18-36 months.
Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch....
Maybe that’s your machine being oddly programmed. Every machine I’ve seen unlocks right after it finishes it’s cycle. It can also be stopped and unlocked anywhere halfway, but it takes some time to drain the water (usually a few seconds, not a full minute like you mentioned originally).
Realistically, if that rumored Google / Nest tracking platform launches and slowly makes its way onto every active Android phone, Google will have the world’s largest BT tracker network, and Google’s platform will be the biggest stalker threat. But right now, AirTags are at the top of the stalker risk pile.
Sure, Google could currently watch out for Tiles and the other odd balls, but those products are likely to quickly fizzle out unless they get on to Apple current and Google’s upcoming platforms. Also, those products are inaccurate and kind of suck.
I’m not personally offended, don’t worry. I’m not part of the LGBT community myself, back when I was studying I looked into the literature around transition and the perceived hot controversy on the issue. You’ve touched on an important issue, which is that a large percentage of people who will end up transitioning have a lot of stressors which will end up severely impacting their mental health, not just the innate stress from gender dysphoria, but the lack of support from friends and family, ostracization, etc.
This helps explain the psychiatric comorbidities, like depressive and anxiety disorders.
It seems to me that the current medical pathway for trans patients is robust, and should weed out the odd patient with transient dysphoria or patients which have serious psychiatric issues that mistakenly led them down this path.
For those that go down the path, regret rates seem to always be between 1 and 2 per cent. At this point, we can accept these rates as statistically accurate, when we have data from thousands of individuals.
We can add the people who have their sexuality as their only character trait and need everyone to know.
I don’t need to know that you are lgbtqi+. If you want to tell me that you have a partner and they happen to be the same gender or such then good on you for finding someone to love. Fucking amazing how the world works and you went against the odds and all that.
However.
I don’t need you to remind me that you are pan every 15 minutes.
The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds::New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth
I’ve been having the same problem even on my home IP. It only happens when I’m using Firefox though. If I use Chrome, and oddly enough change my IP by routing through my rented VPS and pass a few captchas then Google will eventually start to trust Firefox from my home IP. It’s bizarre and Google is really starting to piss me off because I’m wasting so much time on this shit.
I’m mostly here to advocate for his cause rather than him, but I also won’t go along with narratives that serve interests that are clearly at odds with mine and his and yours alike; I made that mistake in the aughts when I was a New Atheist and thought that it was my solemn duty as a defender of truth and child brides to fight Islam with everything I had.
Islam’s fine, I was wrong. RMS was wrong, on this and on other things too. I know because he’s a man.
I’m not proposing nobody knows about bicycles or anything but it’s sort of odd how often I come across some type of [scenario perfect for bicycle] post that asks whatever they should do
A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.
Why do you assume they are absolutely fucking terrified vs thinking better safe than sorry?
Because they are too afraid to go to a grocery store without a gun. That means they’re really, really bad at risk assessment. And that makes them dangers to themselves and others.
I know the risk of a violent encounter is low, but I carry because it’s the only reliable way to not be at a disadvantage in a fight.
Do you? Do you actually know that? Because your odds of being a shooting victim are way, way higher as a handgun owner than as a grocery shopper. You’re more likely to be hit by lightning than to be in a violent confrontation at the supermarket, and yet you don’t go around in a rubber suit to be “better safe than sorry.”
Having a plan to avoid being assaulted isn’t the same as living in terror.
And yet you’re not wearing a rubber suit. Your risk aversion needs calibration if the gun that objectively makes you less safe makes you feel more safe.
Protip - if some group seems totally ridiculous, there’s a good chance you don’t understand something important.
Or they could be members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and they are totally ridiculous.
For the record, I don’t think all gun owners are ridiculous - certainly not to the level of the WBC. I don’t even think people who feel the need to pack heat while going out for milk are ridiculous. But they’re definitely scared, and bad at assessing risks.
Water mountains (lemmy.sdf.org)
Music Industry sues Internet Archive (www.reuters.com)
Another lawsuit against Internet archive sigh
What a world we live in... (lemmy.world)
Note: I’ve no idea why the uploader decided to rotate the image, when I’ve tried rotating the original image in a way that’d fix it only to see that it didn’t matter
When you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?
The Pentagon plans to shake up DC’s National Guard, criticized for its response to protests, Jan. 6 (apnews.com)
The Pentagon is developing plans to restructure the National Guard in Washington, D.C., in a move to address problems highlighted by the chaotic response to the Jan. 6 riot and safety breaches during the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, The Associated Press has learned.
How did Futurama have so many celebrity guest appearances?
I’ve been going back and watching earlier seasons, which - I thought - had a smaller budget and less recognition. But after taking a closer look at the credits I realized there’s a lot of celebrity heads that are voiced by the actual celebrities. The star trek episode actually had the full original cast - and those weren’t...
Apps uninstalling themselves?
I’m running Ubuntu, and every once in a while, I boot up my PC and some app is missing that was there previously. Last night I shut down my computer, and this morning Firefox was missing. I lost all my browsing history, cookies, bookmarks, extensions, etc....
What would get you "back to the office"?
There are a lot of news articles about “back to the office”, but they recirculate the same bad ideas. Let’s provide some new ideas for the media to circulate. It may also have the effect of making the office less terrible....
'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000 (nofilmschool.com)
The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.
Why do washing machines prevent opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends?
Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch....
They are watching (media.kbin.social)
AirTag stalking protection is live on Android — here’s how to set it up (www.tomsguide.com)
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional (abcnews.go.com)
The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds::New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth
What's a good alternative to Gmail?
Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail....
What would sell better if people knew about it?
Hawaii cannot ban guns on beaches, US judge rules (www.reuters.com)
A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.
What more need be said about it? (lemmy.world)
I say double it. (feddit.ch)