@rachy_0101 @TheJeffPutnam @twmays1974 Reading comprehension: F
He called the therapist who decided that grief was actually half a dozen mental illnesses a bitch. And he is correct.
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Benjamin
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@TheJeffPutnam @twmays1974 You called your mother a "bitch." I'm guessing she was onto something by taking you to therapy....
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My dad died when I was 5 and my mother said “hmmm, he’s too sad, let’s take him to therapy.”
Suddenly I had BPD, ADHD, ODD, and every other disorder you can think of.
No bitch. I was sad my dad died.
Edward A. Perin - Psychologist@DoctorPerin
The next movement I want to see in the mental health field is de-diagnosing
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@sigma_lion_29 @DLCDonut We should bring back throwing people to the lions. Start with Epstein's customers.
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@DLCDonut No actually it's unironically true to a great extent. Murder and killing was more excusable, and of course they had their own morality and ethics, but things like throwing people to the lions and killing children was completely normalised though and seen as good and virtuous
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I cant believe all modern morals started 2000 years ago in one region of the world and before that, and outside that one location, nobody thought murder was wrong
horse dentist@equine__dentist
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Benjamin retweetledi
Remember those people who just wanted to be left alone?
Yeah, well, you should have left them alone.
Because that is no longer what they want.
g.@GeauxGabrielle
It’ll be gay marriage next. Then interracial marriage. Then segregated schools. They’re already working on that. Then whites only public spaces. They’ve already re-segregated the federal work force by firing as many Black people as they could.
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@Lylanthia @Babygravy9 Or South Park for that matter. The literal pilot episode is "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and there's episode where Butters is put into a mental hospital after extensive "testing."
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@Babygravy9 Makes me wonder if Netflix's Big Mouth is banned in the UK
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Gonna be honest with you, I don’t have a great deal of sympathy for people who draw pictures of children being abused, in the same way I don’t think people should be allowed to generate AI porn of children. You can argue the harm is “notional” all you want. I simply don’t want people who have those desires to find any outlet for them, or indeed to feel safe skirting anywhere near the real thing.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
UK-based VTuber and artist Mimi Yanagi was arrested on April 20 for her own drawings of anime-style characters. These drawings were 100% fictional, made up by her, with no real people involved. UK law still treats these kinds of drawings as illegal child pornography, police took all her computers and devices. She has now been released on bail, but she is not allowed to post any “adult” content. She must also use an account name approved by the police. The UK is lost, you can’t even draw now, they will put you in prison
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Except it's not anywhere near the real thing. If the drawings were photorealistic I'd agree with you, but anime isn't anywhere close to that and the likelihood of someone mistaking it as such is about as high as if it were a drawing of an Ewok orgy.
Ethically it's no worse than any number of CNC videos you can find on pornhub, especially when the "barely legal" tag is involved. I'd argue that the CNC acted out by real people is actually worse: not only could it actually be mistaken for the real thing, but it very well COULD be that an actual crime was recorded and posted under the guise of acting.
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Reality is binary. True and false, good and bad, light and dark. All nuance is merely a combination of binary factors building a larger picture; it is by inspecting and analyzing this picture with reason and virtue that one can determine which aspects dominate.
He is taking the coward's route, actually. The virtuous way would be to endure with honor as he makes his journey to the halls of his ancestors.
No, you are not sovereign. Sovereignty over nature and life belongs to the Deathless Gods; life was given to you and to snuff it out prematurely is an affront to those who gave it. Suicide dishonors the gods, dishonors your ancestors, dishonors yourself. Only in the face of a greater dishonor can it ever be justified.
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@err_id10t @Audens6 @Rothmus Binary thinking.
A 95 yr old in pain ending their life is not taking a cowardly decision.
Am I not sovereign, why should I endure? Life is imposed on me.
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@Fuck_Jerry_Rice @Lonewolf6622 @CameronCorduroy The entire thread is about leaning, retard. The map claims that people who understand government and civics lean Democrat; this is false.
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@Lonewolf6622 @CameronCorduroy When i speak about politics, I dont need to preface it with my leaning inorder to make sure people don't think im maga. 😂🤡
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POV: you make everyone pass an AP Gov test before they can vote
James 𝕏ond@james_xond
Unpopular opinion but the right to vote shouldn’t be automatic. It should require passing a basic test on economics, finance, history, and how laws and public policy actually work… Pass it, you vote. Fail it, you don’t.
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Yes, it is. Suicide is always immoral. That immorality is only overridden by virtue if the death is deserved; death is only deserved when you have brought dishonor on your name and your people or when your continued existence would ensure you do so. Ending it because you're in pain is just taking the coward's way out.
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@err_id10t @Audens6 @Rothmus Youre in solitary confinement, a form of pain.
Ending it when in extreme pain isnt immoral.
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@MASKTHING @HalfBrokenClock @LGailey @Hoodie_Milly @frontierism Because I refuse to debase myself like a nіgger by being too lazy to walk the cart an additional ten feet at zero cost to myself.
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Red button pushers are the same ones returning shopping carts btw
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@adrian_wil38851 @RizomaSchool Dad isn't biologically hardwired to detect the slightest changes with the baby while he's asleep like mom is. Having him in the bed with them adds significant risk because he could accidentally roll over on the baby and not notice.
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@RizomaSchool Dad should be right there on the left side with her too. Babies should feel safe and feel both parents next to them when they cry at night.
Cry it out is abuse.
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this is how 99.9999999% of humanity slept with their infants btw
Bella🥰😍@Bella__Bahby
The sweetest memory of motherhood
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If you'd read my comment in full you'd have seen the part where I admitted that eyestrain and nearsightedness can result from excessive book reading just as much as screens. You'd have also seen everything after it about why physical books are still not only better for you but also superior on principle.
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You face the same problem with books as with phones. Focusing on a close object for extended periods of time strains your eyes, and often leaves people forgetting to blink. A book is no better than a phone in this situation. A book is only marginally better at night, but depends on the light you're reading under.
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@Mynamis_Private @benwehrman Neither "devout" nor "liberal" was anywhere in the question
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@benwehrman Insane. I'm about as averse to blacks as you can get, but I will live around devout Christians over liberals any time of the week.
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This is what the Supreme Court conservative supermajority just enabled.
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Novels, like all fiction, are a matter of taste as they are primarily for entertainment. As with all entertainment of course, some novels are more valuable than others: on one end you have degenerate novels like the "in the YA section but actually written for horny millennial wine moms" genre; on the other, you get true classics from the likes of Dickens, Orwell, Fitzgerald, or Melville. Most fiction falls somewhere in the middle: there's nothing wrong with liking it, but it's not going to offer profound insight into the human condition.
That said, even the most important and profound novel is worthless if you lack the knowledge and wisdom to properly understand it. Thus the importance of nonfiction.
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@MattLaneWrites So daycare was half your expenses? At that point the only answer is that you're retarded. Mothers belong at home with their babies no matter what, but when the daycare is half the household expenses there's really no excuse for the lower earner to just not work.
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When we were in an apartment with two infants, we paid:
- $2300/month rent
- $2000/month student loans
- $2400/kid/month daycare
That's $109,200/year before groceries, utilities, diapers, transportation, etc
sam (dependent thinker)@CobrastanGuy
at some point i do kinda wonder what exactly people are doing with their money
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Filters can reduce feelings of eye strain based on color tone but they don't change the underlying physics of screens. Looking straight at a panel of any kind of light for hours on end is bad for you and will harm your vision over time, especially in young kids whose eyes and brains aren't fully developed yet.
Of course, some of the health issues can be gotten from excessive reading of physical books as well: a sedentary lifestyle is bad no matter what it includes and nearsightedness can develop with or without a screen. That being said, screens are inherently more stimulating than paper—both optically and neurologically.
However you slice it, physical books are healthier than ebooks. An e-ink reader is a decent middle ground if the kid goes through books faster than you can acquire them or if you want to use a library digital loan, but giving a kid an iPad as a "learning tool" is just lazy and financially excessive.
That's not even starting on the matter of ownership: a physical book is the only kind of book you can truly own and know it hasn't been modified between the publishing house and you. Even books you "buy" on Kindle, Nook, Apple, etc., aren't yours; you merely bought a license to them, which can be revoked or modified at will.
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@err_id10t @MattWalshBlog Most "blue light" shit is fake fearmongering garbage. The only problem with it is sleep disruption if you stare at a screen too close to bedtime. That can even be mostly mitigated with time-based color filters and brightness which are both available on stock samsung phones.
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They weren't entirely wrong, though. Remember: "all good things in moderation." Excessive consumption of fiction that isn't tempered with knowledge of real things is a problem in modern culture. "Star Wars Brain" is in fact a form of brainrot.
For every novel one reads, he or she should strive to match it with a text on history, science, or philosophy. If he wishes to be a learned citizen, one should be sure to consume more nonfiction than he does fiction.
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@y_guy82086 @MattWalshBlog You would have done just fine 200 years ago. Your thinking is identical to theirs.
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