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jeffw OP , 3 months ago

I legit appreciate the history lesson but you don’t have to debunk posts on nottheonion haha

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Had to Google it but: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Watkins

Notable that he’s acknowledged his mental health and addiction struggles since making the flat earth and lizard person comments.

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Y’know, I went back to reread it and I think you’re right.

For the record, if this were a serious community, I’d probably delete the post over this. Just saying, I won’t be mad if mods decide it disqualifies the article since the headline might be misleading.

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

The mental health comments were 2020, so he was still playing. Technically still in the NFL, just a free agent

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Worth the investment how? Traditional ROI? No, it won’t be. Encouraging adoption of EVs and reducing emissions? Quite possibly. There’s a concept called “Social ROI” that includes outside effects like that

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

A friendly reminder to “adopt don’t shop!” My wife and I just adopted a dog a few weeks ago (sadly, we had to put down one of our dogs a few months back)

jeffw OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

That’s why you go to a local shelter or through a legit nonprofit. My poor guy was a stray abandoned in a park and cops took him to the SPCA :(

But yeah, that just sounds like backyard breeding with extra step

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Actually, the number of euthanized animals annually has plummeted from like 20+ million a year 50 years ago to close to the 1-3 million iirc. The problem has gone down despite increasing inequity

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

I don’t think that’s it actually. There are fewer animals abandoned because of greater awareness of spaying and neutering and also more charities dedicated to moving pets around the USA. Traditionally, a lot of animals were killed down south, where strays are more of an issue. Now people pay to ship the animals up north where there’s demand.

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

No.

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Deinstitutionalization utterly failed in the US. Not because it is a bad idea but because it was basically executed as Reagan shutting down inpatient treatment and refusing to divert those funds to community-based programs. Getting people out of those terrible institutions was a great idea. Letting them go without any support? Not such a great idea

jeffw OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Admittedly, I haven’t read his work but from what I’ve read of it, it seems entirely out of line with modern understanding of mental illness. He had his heart in the right place and there’s still an argument to be made about “when is this symptom a clinical presentation vs just a ‘typical’ behavior,” but we just know so much more about brain chemistry now. Mental illness is real.

His stuff is about as relevant to modern treatment as Freud. Cool to talk about but it doesn’t help anyone in treatment.

Edit: went to look him up again and found this, which I thought was interesting: psychiatrictimes.com/…/thomas-szasz-myth-migraine

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

I thought it was more like “mental illness is all normal thinking, so we need to stop treating it,” which just seems like an overreaction to overdiagnosis

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Interesting, what a weird dude

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

This happens a lot in the disability community too

jeffw , 3 months ago

Ohh, how about rebuking him with a big ass fine for violating that gag order though?

jeffw , 3 months ago

Not at all outside the scope of the trial. Actually, the prosecutors asked for a 3k fine. Within the judge’s ability to do. You can be penalized for violating any judge’s order in any trial.

Edit: I actually only read like one article about the trial today. Yesterday they requested $3k fine during hearings yesterday and I didn’t see any headlines about Trump being fined today, so I am assuming it didn’t happen.

jeffw , 3 months ago

Regardless of what you think of rich ass corporations, this is an important liability issue. United shouldn’t be on the hook for losing money when it was Boeing’s fault

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Out of curiosity, what did you get it confused with?

Mistakes happen though, no worries

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

The article talks about Israeli oppression of Palestinians is bad. It’s quite clear that is not the same as antisemitism. It doesn’t condemn anti-Israel stuff, it condemns antisemitism.

It also makes the point that religious right wingers don’t care about antisemitism, just the anti-Israel stuff, which I think is an important takeaway.

Not trying to be rude, but it kinda seems like the person you’re replying to read it more thoroughly than you did.

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Sorry to hear that :/

We’re here for you though!

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

Thanks! Idk how well rounded my sources are though lol, I mostly pull from stuff I’d describe as centrist to moderately left

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

And that argument is discussed in the article. Doesn’t mean it isn’t sexist

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

I imagine parents got involved in some cases

jeffw OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Provigil isn’t “drugged out”?

jeffw OP , 3 months ago

“Cracked out”? It’s modafinil lol