There is a possibility - just a small one - that I was a little drunk last night and instead of reading a book and going to sleep I posted things on the internet.
I still stand by the fact even for what's intended to be an amusing article it's a shit one though
I mean my take on 'safe spaces' when it comes to forums/communities/subs whatever largely comes from disability support groups where the ground rules are generally along the lines of:
You can offer support but try to steer clear of unasked for advice. Never offer medical advice.
Don't be dismissive of other people's experiences - everyone's experience is different, and if it doesn't match yours that doesn't mean it's invalid
No personal attacks, derogatory language, racism (etc)...
You could argue that because everyone is joining a Mental Health or Epilepsy group the shared experiences will be similar enough to give it an echo chamber quality ('me too'! 'I had that!') But then that's part of the point, to make people feel that they're not on their own. People aren't going to challenge people on these forums very often unless there's clear evidence they're not who they say they are which is once in a blue moon rare.
Anyway we're not pushing for new societal norms in these communities, we're seeking refuge from societal norms, where we can talk with people who 'get it' because others don't. I think that's what the purpose of some of these safe spaces serve
Watched it with my son - he's an aspiring goalie on his primary schools mixed sex team and he was cheering her on. Fantastic saves there, one in particular had us cheering. They're a great team!
It was a great game, they played really well right until the end. I was never really that interested in sport until he was but my wife always has been.
I joined Mastodon last month and so could finally sort of see how it would work - if you were using your Kbin account to log into Mastodon for example you could share a post from a Lemmy community directly to your Mastodon followers.
That is very cool.
The rest is a bit clunky like you say though. I could use my Kbin account to post to Mastodon from this community. Would that serve any purpose? Doesn't appear so. Might become clearer in the future
More small businesses fucked over. Whatever you say from an armchair about whether in hindsight it was wise for them to do this or not, I always find it hard to read stories where people have tried and failed to strike out in their own.
A lot of the time it's because people are lied to in capitalist countries that we should all aspire to striking out on our own, running our own businesses, being entrepreneurs blah blah blah.
It's an almost identical case to the Beverly Allit one, right down to how badly it's been managed. Has the NHS honestly learned nothing on how to handle suspicious activity on its wards?
My cousin's children were born in that very same hospital years ago and it just makes you worry so much. Can't imagine what those families have been through. At least they've caught her now...
Accidents happen if course. If it was a preventable accident it could potentially be classed under incompetence, which is kind of the medical version of manslaughter depending on the situation. But proving that would probably require another professional whistleblowing on a colleague.
I think that could be guessed without seeing the writing in the article as well, though obviously you're right.
Some killers are just psychopaths/sociopaths (like Ted Bundy) but the vast majority have some serious problems which have unfortunately been missed or more likely hidden and she's received no help for them leading to.... This. It's awful.
I work in a hospital. Management should have been all over this but it sounds very much like they didn't want any trouble so ignored it as much as possible.
Staff should have one to ones with their managers including checking up on their welfare which is done properly could have picked up on something in the killer's behaviour or mental health which wasn't right.
Wards should have high standards of monitoring and if there's an unexpected death the reason why should be fully investigated. If there was any room for doubt they should have at least escalated it to into an independent internal investigation - it's not like there were a lot of potential suspects.
Nah that was me being a bit off handed and it's not my place to tell anyone where to post what to. My apologies, it was badly phrased and looks rude. You're good
This has been spammed in a few communities in my subscribed feed apart from this one and I avoid anything like philosophical debate communities.... Because I'm stupid. 😛
Comparing lobotomies to gender reassignment is comparing two very different things. (I should say up front I don't know much about transgender terms, I am pro-trans but if I use the wrong language or something I apologise in advance)
Lobotomies were usually done against a patient's wishes. My wife has bipolar, I have epilepsy and not that far back in history doctors may well have recommended lobotomies as a last resort if using the drugs available at the time didn't work to cure the condition. Largely, though not always, it would be done against the patient's will, either because they weren't in a position where they were able to give informed consent (having a manic episode will do that for instance) or because the family would approve it on the patients behalf - just see it as a problem that needs fixing.
I'm in the UK and the only real reading on the subject I've done is 'Time To Think', a book about the clinic that supported young people's gender reassignment. It had a lot of troubles (piss poor management) but the account is interspersed with a range of positive to negative experiences that young people felt when they went there. Anyway, the process was that people were asking for the surgery. They would be assessed, talk about whether they really wanted to be a different gender, whether at that age they weren't just exploring their sexualit etc. If they were adamant that they felt they needed to change their genderb- or still unsure - they would be prescribed puberty blockers until they were old enough to undergo medical procedure (hence the title of the book).
So there's your difference - people wanting sex change operations today are enthusiasticlly trying to get them, and often having to fight very hard to get it, consent isn't even in question, whereas labotomies were inflicting unwanted irreversible neurological damage on people, often without what we would now call reasonable consent, just to make them less of a problem.
There was actually someone similar in the news when I was growing up, Beverly Allit. I remember seeing stuff about that on the local news because it wasn't that far away from where we were. It's pretty terrifying, the idea that you can just be leaving your children in the hands of people like this
There is a possibility - just a small one - that I was a little drunk last night and instead of reading a book and going to sleep I posted things on the internet.
I still stand by the fact even for what's intended to be an amusing article it's a shit one though