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Maybe the distributor wanting an extra excuse to charge more for a little while?

What's insane? That she was wrongfully convicted, or that anyone is questioning her guilt? If the latter, we should never stop scrutinizing the government when they're able to lock people up for life. To be clear, I'm not making a judgment about Letby.

I think about this one a lot. IIRC the gist was "Don't tell anyone. Get a lawyer. Don't tell anyone. Get rid of most of it."

In Davis Graeber's Bullshit Jobs he describes a sort of cultural belief that these jobs should be low-paying, because that's how we know people are in it "for the right reasons" and not "just for the money."

I'm so sorry. I can't imagine where your head is at right now.

From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: "Unfortunately, [niece] had a children's passport (expired now), so she's in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don't currently match each other and don't match her passport records."

I hope you wrote this light-heartedly, because it made me laugh and helps me understand autism a little better.

This is how I think of it too. My body will die but my influence will continue, so I try to have a good influence.

Everyone realizes this is a joke acronym, right? Or am I dumb for thinking that needs to be pointed out?

At the very least they should lose every penny they have, and every penny they earn henceforth should go directly to the fund. Or am I just describing incarceration?

This guy sucks. Facts.

I stopped taking him seriously when his Netflix specials included: blaming the victims of Louis CK's sexual harassment ("Why didn't they just hang up the phone?") and some other 13-year-old take dismissing trans people. He stopped punching up and started punching down.

I guess he briefly had a W when he said Israel was committing genocide, then walked it back and said the real problem was antisemitism. What a coward.

EDIT: The trans joke I'm referring to was "If I was in ISIS in the trenches fighting against the United States and all of the sudden I see a man with a beard and big D-cups titties just rushing my foxhole and sh*t, I’d be horrified."

Sekiro had several of the hardest bosses for me. God I love that game.

This case sounds eerily similar to the case of Curtis Flowers, who spent 20+ years on death row for a quadruple-homicide in Mississippi. The DA and investigators just didn't want to do their jobs, so they pinned it on someone who they didn't expect to fight back, and they tried and convicted him 6 times instead of looking for the real culprit. In the Dark is an incredible podcast about it.

The state isn't just stealing the years these guys were locked up. They're stealing the years afterwards too. In Ziegler's case, he's never used a cell phone, never used the internet. There's no amount of money that would compensate for what they did to him.

An attempt at humor?

If I may ask, how are you able to take a 75% pay cut and still pay your bills?

This is great. Some people think the goal of meditation is to maintain focus on one thing without getting distracted. It's common, then, for a meditation practice to feel frustrating and discouraging; yet another activity for them to fail because they can't stay focused. It might help to think of meditation as "practice of returning." Through this lens we assume that we WILL get distracted, and once we notice we've gotten distracted, we practice returning to our breath/blank space, etc.

Yeah, OP's take has always sounded pretty psychopathic to me. I feel the same about, "We deserve to be wiped out by climate change," even though a small minority of the world population created a large majority of the greenhouse gases. If climate change only wiped out fossil fuel execs, maybe that would be deserved.

Thanks for writing this. I had zero idea what EVs mean for a mechanic.

Ah, another interesting book I can recommend is called Crazy Like Us, about the globalization of the Western concept of mental health. They talk about execs at GlaxoSmithKline trying to figure out how to market antidepressants in Japan. In Japanese culture sadness and depression were seen as a normal part of the human experience. Like you said, the pharma guys had to get clever to convince their Japanese market that depression is an illness, and they had the treatment.

I mostly disagree that diagnoses are helpful to therapists. Or rather, most diagnoses are not helpful to me. I can look at them as shorthand, so if a client has MDD in their chart I have a broad sense of some of the symptoms they're experiencing. But I can just as easily, you know, ask the client what's going on. There are a small few (ASD, bipolar, schizophrenia, OCD) whose symptoms are so discrete and disruptive that specialized treatment can be life-changing. Outside of those few, if insurance didn't require it, I would never assign a diagnosis again.