Holy fucking shit.
And people call me stupid for voting dem. What choice do they leave me with?
one of my coworkers is LGBTQ, and she and her girlfriend are 1) planning to head to canada in the event of a trump victory and 2) in contact with a local group that is basically "underground railroad for LGBTQ people" (also because of a potential trump reelection). she straight up told me that if trump wins, in her opinion she will be dead unless she leaves. she and her girlfriend have received death threats on more than one occasion.
Holy fucking shit.
And people call me stupid for voting dem. What choice do they leave me with?
one of my coworkers is LGBTQ, and she and her girlfriend are 1) planning to head to canada in the event of a trump victory and 2) in contact with a local group that is basically "underground railroad for LGBTQ people" (also because of a potential trump reelection). she straight up told me that if trump wins, in her opinion she will be dead unless she leaves. she and her girlfriend have received death threats on more than one occasion.
I feel like I've already seen this Batman movie?
ok so is the Republican party now reaching out to represent Racists, Rapists, Serial Killers, Murderers, their willing victims, the Mafia, Russian hackers, scammers, and all basic scum of the earth?
Maybe Felix's reasoning makes sense now.
South Central PA. Relatively ruralI'm curious what state she's in because even in NY I'm worried about that kinda stuff happening.
And honestly if there already are death threats.. she shouldn't wait for an election. To be able to exist safely is a basic need.
South Central PA. Relatively rural
Mixing country "music" with pop music is the deep state's attempt to drag people to the right politically.
But, now I come to think of it, why is there no genre of 'country metal'?
Learn something every day.I think there is.
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I think there is.
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The pod racing was literally the only redeeming feature of the entire prequel series, and you want to get rid of it?@FelixDeCat got me thinking..
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The real prequel trilogy should be:
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One
and followed by the original trilogy!
Fuck George Lucas's pre-teen racing movie!
The pod racing was literally the only redeeming feature of the entire prequel series, and you want to get rid of it?
A sad retcon of a C- extra from movies that were better, and NOT because of their extras. The only reason that character existed in the prequels was to sell toys.Did you find a cave and hibernate through Boba Fett's origins
You mean the abused animal he exploited until it died? Should be called the Jedi & Bailey Circus. Animal exploitation is rampant within virtually everything ever shown about Jedi.Obi-wan's bad ass lizard pet
Yup nothing says 'kids show' like murder of kindergarteners followed by third degree burns and rampant generational trauma.Vader got his burns and many more extensive plotlines?
A sad retcon of a C- extra from movies that were better, and NOT because of their extras. The only reason that character existed in the prequels was to sell toys.
You mean the abused animal he exploited until it died? Should be called the Jedi & Bailey Circus. Animal exploitation is rampant within virtually everything ever shown about Jedi.
Yup nothing says 'kids show' like murder of kindergarteners followed by third degree burns and rampant generational trauma.
Reminder: vader didn't have burns until he got burns in E3. That was a retcon. He was just a chewed up old man.
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E1-3 were shit, absolute bottom of the barrel terrible, who's only purpose was to sell toys. There's a reason he sat on the prequels until the very profitable toy licenses got released.
So that explains the whole Beyonce foray into country...
You're likely familiar with the placebo effect. How about the nocebo effect?The entire discipline of psychiatry/clinical psychology is largely a fraud, in my opinion. It's the means by which mysticism and a belief in magic has been smuggled back into our supposedly 'scientific' worldview.
I remember the last time a psychiatrist pushed SSRIs at me for my 'medically unexplained symptoms'. When I was reluctant to take them (having had every variety of SSRI they have over the last few decades, with no positive effects from any of them) they told me I should "try to believe in them, they work better if you believe in them".
Not sure what else you call that but faith healing? (I took them, and all they did was make me twitch uncontrollably. They did nothing for the physical symptoms they were prescribed for - I guess I lacked sufficient faith?)
And then there's the favorite mental health mantra of "the patient has to _want_ to get better" - the all-purpose excuse for failed treatments. If a psychological treatment doesn't work, it's always because the patient lacked sufficient belief in it. It appears to me that clinical psychology thus shares the non-falsifiability that is characteristic of faith healing and other assorted woo.
On top of that, there's the official line of the psychiatric profession on 'medically unexplained symptoms', which is pure God-of-the-Gaps reasoning (to whit: any physical symptom science can't currently explain, must be due to the sufferer's "wrong thoughts", which are to be corrected by means of CBT).
All that does is substitute 'the mind' in the place where the medieval Catholic church would have put 'God' or 'Satan's invisible demons' (with CBT as the replacement for exorcism or 'accepting Jesus into your heart').
Heck, the mental health industry even gets royal patronage, much as the Christian church did. It even features outright criminal abusers, much like the Catholic clergy (I encountered one such personally, and have heard of other cases).
I don't understand how people can see this dogma as anything other than a religious one. There's nothing remotely scientific about it.
You're likely familiar with the placebo effect. How about the nocebo effect?
The nocebo effect of drugs
While the placebo effect has been studied for a long time, much less is known about its negative counterpart, named the nocebo effect. However, it may be of particular importance because of its impact on the treatment outcomes and public health. We conducted ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I mean, you can be skeptical all you want, but it still exists. Being skeptical about the placebo effect at this point is about as rational as being skeptical that the earth is round. Nocebo is the same. Enough data to back up both to allay your fears that it's either bias or regression to the mean.Yeah, I'm not convinced by the placebo effect. I think it's over-rated. Mainly by people who want to bang on about the magical mystical powers of 'the mind'. Certainly it's never worked for me (have had treatments that, if the placebo effect worked, should have had some positive effect, but didn't). Likewise am skeptical about nocebo.
(If you are referring to the twitching I experienced, I didn't at the time associate it with the SSRI, only in retrospect realised it started just as they increased the dose of that med, and later read that twitching is a sometimes-reported side-effect of it).
Much of what gets ascribed to the placebo effect I suspect is either bias in reporting (patients don't like telling doctors that the drug they prescribed didn't do anything, because doctors get so disappointed at hearing that, so they'll claim it 'helped a bit', even if it didn't) or just regression to the mean (people getting better anyway).