Zozano @ Zozano @aussie.zone

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I'm convinced most did not think at all.

There are eight young kids within my extended family, only two of them were planned - my child, and my sisters child.

The other six, I just feel sorry for. Their parents are... Well... You know...

Being strong doesn't make you a capable fighter.

Knocking someone out is not as easy as it may seem, it takes skill, more than strength.

One in eight men think they could score a point against Serena Williams

Who do you think would win between an Olympic level male swimmer, or an amateur level female UFC fighter?

"No, but you see, since all cops are part of a systemic issue, all of them are bastards, even if they have the best intentions and aren't complicit in the problems I have with police"

There is probably a lot of overlap with people who think all white people are racist, or all men are rapists.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

The only backstory you need is right after the prelude, it showed that she was really good at judo.

A woman beating the shit out of a man does not defy physics.

Don't worry, I do. The problem here is that there are two different definitions of truth. Scientific Truth/Fact is what we are left with after we rule out what is not true.

Science doesn't make declarative statements about what is true in any ultimate sense. But when we talk about truth in science, we're referring to the scientific consensus.

When we use the scientific method, we deduce facts about reality, then use those facts to infer "truth". Of course, science is often wrong, and we discover when truth is wrong in the second half of the process.

Actually, yes.

Journal Impact Factor (JIF), is a very important part of establishing credibility.

Reputable journals are very selective about what they publish. They're worried about their JIF.

If you get published in a journal with a high JIF, you can be as close to possible as establishing a foundation of fact, as their articles have a high chance of being both reproducible and accurate.

If there was a casino that took bets for which scientific discoveries would be true ten years from now, I would make money all decade long by betting on high ranking JIF articles.

Maybe if I dropped acid and was hypnotised, but my memory is quite poor.

With Australia's surveillance issues, I would prefer not to have a company which handles our data to have closer ties to the government.

Okami won game of the year, it's certainly not obscure. It even got a Steam release after all these years.

It was a game for PC around the year 2000, I don't even know the name of it. I've been searching for it for years. It's a point and click adventure game.

The premise is your spaceship breaks down on an alien planet. If you try to repair the ship immediately a giant alien spider will come and kill you.

After searching for a while you end up making friends with one of the aliens and sneak around one of the villages looking for parts.

I never made it past that point.

I highly doubt anyone will know what this is, I've tried multiple times on that reddit sub for games people can't remember.

Thanks for the tips.

Internode is being absorbed into iinet soon, so they will cease to exist as an entity in a few months. End of an era. I'll look into Aussie Broadband

Nope, but that sounds like psychiatric malfeasance.

I'm sure nobody denies there are bad psychiatrists, but what you're saying sounds more like an argument for better practice's in psychiatry (which happen constantly), as opposed to the claim you had initially, which was about psychiatrists over diagnosing people with a mental illness.

On a related note: The frequency of ADHD diagnoses has risen drastically over the last few decades.

Someone may interpret this to mean psychiatrists are over diagnosing.

Another interpretation is more people are becoming ADHD.

But the medical consensus is that the public understanding of what ADHD is has improved. It is no longer understood as "little boys with too much energy", and so, more people seek help.

It's shameful that misdiagnoses happen, and I'm sorry that happened to you.

When you try to take some cute little sea critters home but realise they'll die outside of their environment:

Alright then, keep your sea crits.

I'm trying to understand the underlying presuppositions which lead you to this opinion.

Are you convinced psychiatric medicine:

• is not effective?
• is over-prescibed?
• is a worse treatment than therapy?
• is harmful?

On a related note, Centrelink added a new song!

Bless them! They're so generous to provide us with something new to listen to while we wait to talk to someone for over an hour, to ask them why we haven't been paid when we submitted a claim two months ago!

And then for some unlucky people "sorry your claim has been rejected, please start a new claim and have it assessed in a few months, and we'll back pay you to today, not two months ago".

Well that was condescending and not very constructive.

Can you tell me which modern religion doesn't profess to provide a moral compass?

One of the first things you're taught to understand when interpreting data is that you have a bias. It is impossible not to have a bias.

Take for example: 1+1=2. Is it an extremely simple equation, or a decades long mathematical pursuit to establish certainty?

Our bias tells us we can confidently assert such simple statements, but the truth is, unless we spend an agonising length of time understanding the most insignificant and asinine facts, we NEED biases to understand the world.

The point of understanding we have biases is to think more critically about which ones are most obviously wrong.

It never was.

While many medical doctors do not recite the Hippocratic Oath, it is totally applicable here.

FIRST DO NO HARM.

Prolonging pain without a foreseeable remedy is harmful. This is a no brainer.

I know they aren't, I'm saying their claim is that they are.

It's even common to claim everything God does is just and right. If gay people get killed in a nightclub, it's because they've sinned, and that's Gods will, therefore, the gunman was doing the right thing.

Then you get the people with cognitive dissonance who claim that slavery was moral because God stipulated rules about how the slaves should be treated and "it was a different time".

Then you get the people who turn themselves into bombs and believe mass murder is right, and the people that died should thank them, because the psycho took their victims to heaven with them.

Then you get the people who vote against abortion rights because they believe the most ethical thing to do is save babies, even if it risks the mothers life, or guarantees poor life quality (either from poverty or developmental issues).

It's ALL a moral claim. When your moral foundation is God, nothing you can do in service of what that God supposedly says can be wrong.