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You sound like you'd be interested in David Healy's work. Check out Children of the Cure if you haven't already. That, as well as a plethora of other shady things I learned in university, are responsible for reorienting me toward public policy rather than becoming a practicing psychologist.

Nah, that's not the issue (nor do I believe in magic bullets, but that's a different matter). See, the issue is that MDMA can't be patented. Anyone can make it so no one pharmacorp can have a 20 year monopoly

Ehh, self reports are unreliable. Get me an objective study and then we'll talk

I'm surprised anyone still uses Skype tbh

That creates a weird power dynamic where the state could potentially withhold subsidies if it doesn't like what is published. Furthermore, it would provide an easy source of revenue to news and media corporations that are already established and entrenched since they already have the funds to easily handle all the paperwork that would be involved. Additionally, Postmedia accounts for at least 33% of the market by revenue. This is owned by a primarily American corporation. Subsidizing Postmedia would effectively be giving Canadian money to foreign corporations.

What I think needs to happen on a policy-level is that foreign ownership of news media needs to be curtailed and protections must be put in place to prevent larger companies from buying local newspapers. The current players in the news industry need to be broken up. But this isn't something I can change, nor is it even likely, so there's no sense talking about it. I'd much rather focus on something I can do myself to incentivize people to buy a publication.

Ah, so you're just a troll account, then. Very well, carry on.

Okay, first of all: the DSM is used primarily in North America. The majority of the world uses ICDM.

Secondly, the DSM has gone through many iterations and changes. For instance, DSM-I and -II contained psychopathy as a mental illness. It was replaced by ASPD in DSM-III. What we term today as "major depressive disorder" was also introduced in DSM-III. Did depression not exist prior to the third DSM? Did ASPD not exist? Does psychopathy not exist now that it has been replaced by ASPD?

Thirdly, there's so much bloody overlap in conditions listed in the DSM that you could present two psychiatrists with the same list of symptoms and they would diagnose two different disorders. And to my mind, this lends more credence to the first DSM's principle classifications of psychotic, neurotic, and behavioural disorders.

To summarize, the DSM is regional and therefore cannot be applied globally. It describes medical conditions and those medical conditions can be redefined at any time. And it is borderline unreliable due to diagnostic confusion and overspecification. In short, the presence or lack thereof of some cluster of symptoms in the DSM is not an indicator of the existence of a condition.

Psychopath is derived from Ancient Greek... And even besides that, laymen generally use the term to describe ASPD despite the two conditions not being entirely the same. Don't be obtuse.

The MBA was the worst thing to happen to the human race

Mm, true yeah

I was curious what freak.university was but it just leads to a 404 :/

Goofy ah copypasta. Copyright applies automatically, you don't need to publish a statement proclaiming it. Facebook is already forbidden from using your work commercially without your consent. They'll do it anyway though because Zuck knows he can get away with it

Awesome, thanks for the explanation :) Now I'm curious as to what poa.st did/does to be so reviled

Oh okay, that makes sense. And I'm assuming "Defederations" in the image is like the number of accounts in that defederated group?

Can someone give me a brief rundown on what it means to be federated vs defederated? New to lemmy

Nah, it seems pretty accurate to me

Not really, tbh. Cats will sometimes form colonies given enough resources and mothers will help eachother raise young. But you'll never see something like the group predation that lions take part in. Cats are largely more similar to the rest of the felids than they are to lions

Big cat just a big cat, more at 11

You dog

Not sure you'd be able to find 100k people to host a 1TB server though. Plus, redundancy would be better anyway since it would provide more download avenues in case some node is slow or has gone down.