Steam: Introducing Steam Families
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Today's sarcastic mimicry brought to you by someone who underestimated Poe's law
Today's opinion on voting is brought to you by somebody who doesn't understand how voting works
Risking someone's life in the event you don't have perfect attention aside, no matter what happens in the car you will PM10 dust pollution that gives little kids asthma, and if it's an ICE car you will release CO2 that brings all life on earth closer to extinction. It's one of the single most massively violent acts an average human is capable of.
Nah lmao this is greenscreened. The focus on the foreground doesn't match the background, and the background is uniformly blurred.
It's cause humans have ugly faces. This is also why furry porn is so popular.
Eating meat costs more plant lives than eating plants, because a cow has to eat lots of plants in order to make one steak.
Humans are really really good at separating themselves from their own violent actions. For example, many humans drive a car and eat meat.
Lots of people are in multiple families. Probably even most people. Most people have two sets of cousins. And lots of people have a family of their parents and siblings and a family of their spouse and kids. I have steam library sharing with my partner and my partner has library sharing with its roommate, who has library sharing with other people. Is this new system gonna screw us?
What if you're in multiple families (polycules)?
Bug is a taxonomic term? Fucking taxonomists. Taxonomy is a garbage pseudoscience that takes our living natural language and turns it into a dead, useless thing like their pinned up butterflies.
The news used to be printed on paper, and back in those days every extra character would increase costs. These days it's partly tradition, and partly so the headline doesn't get cut off in embeds
I think it's best to do both.
A personality disorder is not the same as a personality trait. A personality disorder is a disturbance in normal personality functioning, but it doesn't lock you into having one personality. People with NPD have a great variation in individual personality traits. A personality disorder diagnosis is determined on the basis of fitting a list of criteria, it's not a judgement of someone's entire personality.
Additionally, the article you linked says one of the leading indicators of criminal behaviour is "psychopathy". Psychopathy is not a personality trait, nor is it even a recognised psychological term. Although I'm short on time, I have serious doubts about that review's impartiality and proper use of the scientific method.
Finally, discriminating against people because a statistical model says they're more likely to commit crimes is some Minority Report bullshit, and it's also exactly how police treat black people. Profiling is wrong.
Well, that's news to me. But I did already know that Elon Musk has autism and Donald Trump has obesity. Now if you were to say autistic people are abusers, or obese people are abusers, and offer up those two as proof, I'd laugh at you. Thus I feel obliged to laugh at you now for saying that one abuser being mentally ill proves mentally ill people are abusers.
Hahaha.
Something very strange just happened. I gave a long comment with three different reasons why pwNPD are vulnerable and aren't abusers, and I elaborated on each of them. But then you just restated your belief, without including any arguments or sources. You didn't even try to discredit my arguments. If you can't give any reasons people should believe pwNPD are abusers, I think one could be forgiven for thinking there's no good reason to believe your statement.
No, that's a harmful stereotype based in no kind of scientific inquiry.
Consider the fact that NPD and BPD are caused by child abuse. Isn't it common knowledge that abused people are more likely to be abused in the future? Abusing a child doesn't turn them into a superior, less vulnerable ubermensch. It turns them into someone who falls apart and cries because they tried to learn the violin and weren't immediately great at it. After all, psychologists are doctors, and a doctor's job is to help people who are suffering. Doctors don't deal in morality, and they don't label people for hurting others. What you're thinking of is philosophers and priests, not doctors. Doctors are interested in helping the patient suffer less, not in imposing morality. This idea that a mental disorder is when you hurt other people is really bizarre. That's not how medicine works at all.
Also treating someone as a threat their whole life is oppression. As any black man who's been stopped in traffic by the police can tell you. Here you go treating people as a threat because of a mental disorder, the outcome is obvious.
That's fair. I was using a quick and simple soundbyte to push the idea that insulting people with mental illnesses is bad. When I take a nuanced and patient approach, people usually accuse me of defending abusers and go off on a wild tangent. I've found it's important to cement people's ideas of who I am and where my criticism is coming from within the first 10 seconds of the interaction. If it takes any longer than that, they assume since I dared to disagree with them that I must be the enemy, and they project everything they disagree with onto me.
Since you're clearly appreciative of nuance, I'll use the nuanced argument with you. While Elon Musk may have NPD, it would be medical malpractice for a registered psychiatrist to make that judgement without having had a session with him. There are regulations against that sort of behaviour for good reason. It's called the Goldwater Rule. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
The danger of diagnosing public figures without the proper rigour is that people's idea of what a pwNPD is are informed by stereotypes, and those stereotypes inform future armchair diagnoses. It becomes an ouroboros with no actual grounding in science. That's why everyone thinks psychopaths are killers, narcissists are abusers, and obsessive-compulsives are neat freaks. These stereotypes can encourage abuse by the public of people with mental disorders.
They're introducing new rules about being in the same country?? Fuck, this news gets worse and worse.