Modern_medicine_isnt @ Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world

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Oh, and what the heck is the facility doing with steak knives? Unless "nursing home" means something different in Australia, the whole situation shouldn't have occured. One judge said she was no threat. Then why did the facility call the police? I think a large portion of the blame here should be on the facility for allowing the situation to occur, and then calling in police who aren't trained (I assume) in dealing with dementia patients.

So a peice of data for y'all. My Dad was 80+ and pretty frail with alzheimer's. When he had an episode of paranoia, he was alarmingly strong, and suddenly could walk and move like he was 50 again. I've been told this is common and apparently is due to extreme adrenaline. But I observed that it can't last all that long, 40 minutes was the max. I don't think we should count out the 95 year old granny being dangerous. Now knowing that though, I would have attempted to avoid and delay. And really, I would do that no matter who it is. But I don’t know if the cop knows all that or if it was a realistic option. Most of the staff at memory care didn't understand the concept, and this was a higher end facility.

So somewhere in there I lost what you are suggesting would increase the likelihood of multiple people attempting to peacefully intervene to stop these abductions. Also, I find physchology writing to be hard to read. Not sure what they need to do to make these things more readable though. But even though the topic interests me, I just can't seem to read a book on the subject.

Well in fairness, he seems to have made several companies while in high school. He was probably the only employee, but admittedly I sure didn't have that kind of giva shit in High School. And anyway, the range of experience or knowledge needed to be "senior" in tech is absurdly large. 4 years in the work force isn't uncommon to get to senior. Just change jobs twice and demand a title bump each time... you go from engineer to mid-level, to senior. Other people retire at 60 as a senior engineer. It's just a dumb title.

What is the phrase... "death is so final".

I think your sentiment that facism needs to be fought is fine. But once they are coming for you particularly, your fight is over. Try to stay alive.

It's about odds and comfort with risk. The odds of dieing are many fold higher if you pull a gun. If you are say a mom of 5 kids... getting taken and deported, but alive and free is woth a lot more than it is for a 20 something with no family.

Sadly, when it comes to thugs, there is no shortage.

Well yeah, and a legal defense fund.

Well, you don't want it to be from a company. You want it to be opensource and decentralized so the government can't shut it down.

While all that maybe true in the case of an activity that happens over and over... the odds that any one person is close enough to one of these events more than once is extremely small. I doubt any of that research covers this kind of situation.

Maybe we need to start a fund to reward any bystanders that attempt to intervene in a safe manner. They could do things like ask for badge numbers, take videos, ask for the warrant, and just generally get in the way. Maybe stand infront of the vehicle that the person is put in to slow down the progress.
Maybe we need a app that will notify people that something is happening so they can flood the area even more with people who will stand in front of the vehicle.

That is a sure way to end up dead.

It's a tough call honestly. So far it doesn't seem like they are killing the people they take. If the person was armed, and tries to use it to defend themselves, they very likely will get killed. As other have commented, these appear to be basically thugs. Likely with less training then police officers, and certainly with less oversight. So people need to choose what they want to avoid most. Death, or incarceration with a chance of getting out. I would hate to have to make that choice myself.

More than free, easily accessible. I would argue access is probably more important. And with better access to getting an id should be better access to government assistance for people who need it. But I know... I must be a dirty socialist or something. Cause empathy is our greatest weakness.

Doesn't matter what you do, Republicans will claim some BS and their voters will believe it. Let's just do things because it is the right thing to do.

And probably jntetest.

Yes and no. The issue is really with the difficulty and time it takes to get these ids. Not to mention the expense. The poorer a person is, the less likely they are to have the correct id. And make no mistake, the Republicans know this, and they know that poor people favor democrats. Same with mail in voters. So their effort to make this rule is not one of common sense, but stratrgic value. They are just trying to put up obstacles that making voting hardrr for people who don't vote from them.

And really, what should be addressed is the difficulty of getting id. But noone wants to pay for that. This causes some people to have to travel significant distances on our meager public transit system which can take many hours to go 15 miles. And again, the poorer a person is, the less likely they are to have a car to drive, or the money to uber, or the time away from work to get to these places and even attempt to get the id.

https://www.voteriders.org/analysis-millions-lack-voter-id/

The people spending long hours working to challenge his illegal efforts in court are who is stopping him. And they are winning, a lot. But courts take time, so trump uses the gap to cause chaos and slip in a few illegal actions.

Thanks to them, in the long term trumps presidency will cost many X more then any savings it is claiming. There will be tons of payouts to federal employees, legal expenses, and the cost of putting back together what he has damaged or destroyed.

All that aside, I don’t here people saying don't worry. I see them saying that his team and his efforts are incompetent attempts to garner attention. Essentially they are just saying that this crew is idiots.

You assume there is only one way to fight back...