TeaDrunk

As far as I know it is, remains, and hasn't changed from being one of the top 5 countries to live on the planet.

Sweden, one of the best places to live? Hell yeah dude! Canada, also one of the best places to live? Also hell yeah dude!

That's just called changing culture. This happens at each generation at least.

I would like to push against the notion that expressing ableist beliefs, as long as they don't affect the actual person who is a target of the ableism, doesn't deserve calling out. These sorts of expressions of opinions interact broadly with the community as a signal of acceptable and unacceptable ways to view people. Expressing this sort of callous willingness to imply someone one doesn't know all that well is dangerous simply because they have behaved some way differently also has the secondary effect of exampling that members of the community here are willing to describe strangers as dangerous if they don't conform to expected behaviors. This signals to nondangerous, different people that they are in danger of being labeled as dangerous, which is stressful for folks who just want to talk popcorn intellectual subject matters on an orange site.

It's similar to eg. why lgbtqia+ people have distinct memories about feeling unsafe in communities where "smear the queer" is a recess schoolyard game.

This is an ableist viewpoint. For example, if she had a close childhood friend, cousin, family member, or she herself had experience with cancer, that would both cause trauma-based behaviors (such as being "a bit off") as well as explain her hyperfocus into going into pediatric oncology from a young age.

It sounds like you didn't know her very well and still judge her as dangerous.

> the more I believe the courts practically seek out these sick fucks to be "caregivers" and such

I suspect its worse than that. I suspect courts don't care if the caregiver is a sick fuck, because the sick fuck is offering to fix the problem of a disabled person existing with needs.

Renting a room comes with its own logistical nightmares, fwiw. Navigating the entire roomate interview process sucks. More than once I've had friends who deal with roomates have months at a time too stressed to advance their other career goals because roomates stealing their shit, playing loud music, refusing to leave, not paying on time, etc etc. When you don't have "fuck you" money, there is surprisingly little necessary to royally fuck up your plans to get out of the bad situation you're in.

I would note that, despite its presentation as new activisim-- sex workers advocating for safer work conditions and more societal acceptance has been a fight ongoing for many decades, potentially centuries. It might be taking a new front as the internet involves as increasingly important to sex work but this is not a new fight.

What if the body cam happened to be off, glitchy, or data was just lost on happenstance? What if even if the arrest was unlawful the victim already lost their job?

Scenario: A policeman is performing brutality on someone while multiple peers observe. Those peers approach anyone recording, such that it forces anyone recording to traverse further and further away. (And if those people stand their ground, cops are now able to arrest them for being within 8 feet.) What then?

If a cop is actively walking towards you, do you have to stop recording once they reach 8 feet? How can you gather evidence if there are a dozen cops surrounding the abuse, with them approaching anyone who is outside 8 feet to force them further and further away?

Depending on region, a 30 minute walk can be dangerous to one's health due to hot, humid temperatures or smoke inhalation.

(Besides that, a 30 minute walk can be inconvenient- the stuff you're buying might not support being carried for 30 minutes. I tried to get a friend to consider giving up a car-based life and they asked me how they're going to move their stuff for LAN parties and gun hobby related activities.)

Genuinely asking: Is it common for people to be suspended for trying to attend a meeting they don't have access to? I'm not in a corporate environment so I don't actually know. I'm asking this because two other people were suspended for doing that, according to the article, and I'm curious why those two people weren't just given a finger-waggle treatment.

Um, this sounds dangerous and unhelpful in actually making long-term lifestyle and relationship with food changes necessary in losing weight and keeping weight off.

Additionally, ganging up on an individual explicitly as a weight loss plan sounds like a great way to develop an eating disorder, given that simple exposure to the pressures of instagram is known to do this to girls.

On the contrary I think people working on things like this might have a good amount of humanity. It's the pressures to cut humans out for labor costs that is without humanity. Even non-profit hospitals often have administrations that are incentivized to cut costs, which meant that even before the pandemic hospitals were cutting their workforce to the bone. There are currently very few, if any, laws that mandate safe healthcare-worker-to-patient ratios, which means hospital administration can arbitrarily decide how many ways a given medical personnel is expected to split their attention among the sick.

Make no mistake that if we are to blame anyone with this technology we should be blaming medical administration.

TBH A range of ages is demographic diversity. No idea why it's forgotten about sometimes.

Most of the examples listed are just like... stair vs ramp/escalators. Very little had anything to do with accomplishing anything academic.

No, I haven't. Thanks for sending this over. I don't know the parties reporting.

I've also enjoyed his writing but I can most certainly see his biases. He has a peculiar way of thoroughly researching some assumptions but then apparently having a complete blindspot to others, which is only made more apparently by how critically thinking all his posts are. I guess that's most people, though, they just rarely do so with the precision and eloquence of scott.

Or also you never have to work for a manager who openly respects others more because of their race or gender. A wide variety of things apply this way. A sane amount of political correctness allows the meritocracy I want in a workplace.

I think this can become more difficult when you consider-- where else would they gain enough money to feed themselves, their dependents, and otherwise remain employed? Their industry is already dying, the NYT is one of the few still stable bets that they can remain in their specialty. Otherwise they may be risking poverty while they re-train into a new specialty and a permanent decrease of lifetime earnings during their re-training period, which will then go on to impact any children they have.

I don't mean to say that this is a good or morally correct choice by society's notion, merely that the choice may be more difficult individually.

I think it is fair to say that the author under the pseudonym of Scott Alexander didn't mean to provide an avenue for which his identity could be in a major, nationwide, widely-read source of news, when he republished an article under his real name in a relatively niche audience book that would unlikely have the same amount of circulation as the New York Times.

Isn't there a difference between having your name in a book that likely doesn't get much circulation and therefore probably wouldn't damage your career from attention, and the literal New York Times outing your name?

Shouldn't we at least suggest these are significantly distinct events with very different ramifications for the author?

My argument is that all children inherently want to learn. All children desire a good education, defined as being in a supportive environment where their curiosities can be wholly quenched and allowed to thrive. There's no child that's born not giving a flying fuck about anything, only children who don't have that curiosity beaten out of them by the world. Labeling literally children as irredeemable only adds to their beating.

Why can't we have summer schools and before/after-school tutoring?

Isn't the parent stating too many people are doing exactly what you're proposing, which is protesting that services are being provided to people who don't deserve it?

(Separating children into deserving and undeserving categories of educational attention seems that way to me...)

> Who cares? I don't mean "who cares about this article"; I found it worth the read. What I really mean is: is there really that much interest, or even that much of interest, in the edits of peoples' autobiographical sound bites?

For stalkers, I bet there's plenty of demand.

I'm confused because the parent poster is saying there are ways to maintain Brad Pitt's physique AND slim down by swimming, so I looked at a swimmer and didn't see this.

> Women can maintain the 90% look indefinitely with basic maintenance diet and exercise. The basic Instagram model plan.

Is this actually true? I was under the impression the Instagram model was only available to women of certain body types and compositions + photoshop and makeup.

If this is the case why does Michael Phelps not have the same body shape as Brad Pitt?

tl;dr: In a proof-of-concept phase 2 trial, researchers transplanted gut bacteria from patients who responded extraordinarily strongly to immunotherapy into the gut of patients who are completely nonresponsive to the therapy. N = 15, with 6 people experiencing reduction of tumors or stabilization.

It's definitely not a silver bullet... I feel like we still don't understand enough about the mechanisms surrounding the gut flora. This is flailing in the dark. Fingers crossed these results encourage more research into the biological chemistry behind this.