maniclucky

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maniclucky,

They shouldn’t be plotted that way technically. The big 5 are independent traits so they should essentially be sliders, not linked like that.

That said, it’s way easier to see the points when you do that. Easy to miss when colors swap, for example, without the lines when you’ve been looking at this stuff for a few hours.

maniclucky,

You haven’t actually commented on anything recent, just vague references to his non-presidency years (people are allowed to change). Nor have you shown that any of the listed presidents were more progressive. Your argument is “nuh uh”. You claim he failed. How? You didn’t even take the low hanging fruit of “Isreal” or “continued border bullshit”.

Here, I’ll start: nominated the first black woman to the supreme court. More low hanging fruit, but you’ve set the bar rather low. He’s been doing quite a lot for the LGBT community, which is a pretty big reversal from his past.

See. Two sentences, one source, and now there’s substance. Now. Refute me.

maniclucky,

When I was doing my 2 second google search, I spotted the whitehouse.gov link (and it’s what reminded me about Ketanji Brown Jackson), but figured the person I was responding to would mark that as biased.

maniclucky,

Shocking. What’s the over/under on that person being a Russian troll?

maniclucky,

Fair enough. A lesson in “not every bad take is Russian”.

maniclucky,

I’ve seen this comment before. My counter: can you assure me that, for example, a new homeowner that doesn’t know better won’t disturb the scale? They won’t have a leaky faucet and mess with the pipes? Or something like Flint doesn’t happen ever again where necessary infrastructure changes necessitate disturbing the scale?

This ‘solution’ only ‘works’ if you leave it completely alone and never touch it. So don’t get new appliances, never have a plumber fix some things, never update that water main that’s gonna break down any time now. It’s a very short sighted ‘solution’ to the problem. I’d hazard it’s a good argument for triage. Cities that need new infrastructure anyway go first kind of thing. But fobbing it off as ‘its fine’ isn’t ok.

maniclucky,

Unironically, yes. Big jumps don’t happen without violent revolution and that rarely works out well. Progress happens by baby steps. If you’re waiting for everything to get better all at once, you will be angry the rest of your life.

maniclucky,

The first time I saw the argument, it was in relation to pipes in one’s home and I’m not an expert on plumbing. I just felt the idea of “leave it alone and it’ll be fine” is a really bad one and that it should be pushed back. I did acknowledge municipal pipes a bit, but my argument could use refinement.

maniclucky,

More than 0, and that’s the important part.

maniclucky,

Rarely

maniclucky,

Excuse me what? I’ve been an engineer for a decade and have never met anyone that would do that. We have calculators.

maniclucky,

I suppose. I’m still internally outraged and haven’t run into such a situation before, but I accept this.

maniclucky,

That makes sense. I feel like if you’re at the point where pi is meaningfully involved, you should probably do your math.

maniclucky,

I’m so ashamed I didn’t immediately think of that. That comic was the first thought any time someone used ‘adjective-ass noun’ for years.

maniclucky,

The ones near me don’t, but it’s still there. Just push buttons till it’s quiet. For mine, it’s the fourth button.

maniclucky,

And have personalities similar to cats I’ve been told. No idea if that’s true, but I chose to believe it.

maniclucky,

And Rankine is a sin.

maniclucky,

Yahtzee?

maniclucky, (edited )

I’ve had to stop listening to his review. Not because I don’t like them, but because I’m way too impressionable with negative reviews and it turns me away from too many things. I miss it.

Edit: spelling and grammar

maniclucky,

Not all of them. Some will commit suicide by five shots to the back of the head.

maniclucky,

Huh. I thought that was Sun Tzu, but google says Napoleon. Thank you.

maniclucky,

Bullshit. Source or it didn’t happen.

maniclucky,

Big claims need big evidence. Source.

maniclucky,

One case in the 60s/70s? That’s bad evidence. I assume you are clarifying and not supporting the person above.

maniclucky, (edited )

They are not referring to detransitioning (which is real though a minority to my understanding). They are referring to the blatant lie that doctors force patients to transition.

Edit: He -> They. Feels really inappropriate to assume gender given the context.

maniclucky,

Disinformation merits hostility. I’ll yield when I’m wrong.

Because this case ended it, it is no longer true that doctors force transitioning, thus proving my assertion that the person above is full of shit. Show me a relevant case and I’ll be happy to change my mind. Some case in which a doctor forced transitioning and was not prosecuted or sued over it within the last decade. I’m flexible on the date.

maniclucky,

Was. It was common practice. It is not relevant because the person above asserted that it is currently common practice. My goalposts are stationary and your evidence only provides historical context.

maniclucky,

Context clues and elementary understanding of language. They stated, prior to mod removal, that they had seen doctors force transitioning. Present tense. This would imply that the person was alive in the 60s/70s (reasonable, though Lemmy’s demographics make that unusual). The more likely, and unprovable on the internet, truth is that the person is regurgitating misinformation.

A quote from someone that quoted the person (incompletely it seems): “seen doctors force sex change to children that lead to the child killing themselves in adulthood”.

This also does not address the inherent misleading portion of it, which is the thing that merits the outrage: cases from half a century ago are not a basis on which to inform people of wrongdoing in modern healthcare. Granted, I didn’t explicitly state that as a goal from the outset, but we’re cuddling up next to bad faith to assert that as unreasonable.

maniclucky,

That if smells of capitulation without agreement, but thank you in any case. I hope you have a nice day.

maniclucky,

That’s fair and I would agree, and further guess that I’m reading too far.

maniclucky,

Can you promise that every internal surface is covered? Completely? And will remain so?

Replacing all poisonous, permanently brain damaging lead pipes should be a no brainer (insert joke here about the no brains resisting it).

maniclucky,

And what happens when an uninformed homeowner does a quicky repair themselves? Swap a coupling or maybe get a new faucet and disturb the calcium carbonate?

With full recognition that not everyone can afford the swap, if you can do so, you should for the safety of everyone that enters the home and uses the water.

maniclucky,

Yeah, that little bit of phrasing is doing a lot of work.

That said, as a layman, at what point is the vast corpus of data that is his assorted interviews, statements, appearances, etc on TV enough to call it? I’m curious how much more a one-on-one with a therapist could reveal. Obviously, there’s a persona that is prominent any time a camera is on, but if the camera is on all the time, when is it just his base personality?

maniclucky,

That makes sense, and I feel like that’s a good rule for 99.99% of people. Trump introduces one unusual facet and one that I don’t know enough about:

  1. He’s on camera all the time. His media presence is more than that of most of humanity, including those that do it professionally. Both being filmed and participating. Sure, a doctor needs scans to do things, but what is the test for this kind of thing and can the answers be derived from his very prominent existence?
  2. How does a therapist handle a non-cooperative patient? Let’s say the court order’s therapy. What does the poor bastard who works with him have to do to accomplish their task?
maniclucky,

That sounds so nice.

maniclucky,

I did when I was a kid. Took a long time.

maniclucky,

Yes it was. And if I remember right, there were two of them. I don’t know how I managed to actually do it.

maniclucky,

Discovery was IMHO the most inferior Star Trek, but they nailed this idea when they described the Terran empire. This strong, incontrovertibly evil, imperial monster was born of, and lives on fear. A version of humanity that gave up on trust or hope and became the worst version of themselves.

maniclucky, (edited )

I felt it was leaning too hard into the grimdark and action for my liking. But that’s just my opinion, and there’s lots of room for taste. My husband’s favorite is Voyager and I think that one is less well regarded so to each thier own.

maniclucky,

Star Trek, unlike a lot of franchises, has a lot of allowance for taste while still being generally good. I think that’s part of its charm.

maniclucky,

Proof for the curious. I’ll let the bot relink to piped, I’m lazy.

maniclucky,

I’d hazard it’s both. There are plenty of microtransaction models that explicitly exploit addictive behaviors (see gatcha).

On top of that, some companies handle more benign models better. Grinding Gear Games will lock your account from buying things if you ask them to without question, to help people that struggle with that sort of thing. Many other companies (I want to say Blizzard, but I don’t have a source) will throw up their hands and say “the system can’t do that”, when it’s not hard to implement. One enable flag is all you need (I’m aware implementation takes more, but just one variable can control a users ability to make purchases)

And some parents are also more than happy to have kids out of their hair by any means necessary.

This smells like the McDonald’s coffee story to me. A headline can make it sound absurd, but I suspect a deeper look isn’t a bad thing.

Edit: as for non money based addiction, yeah that ball can go back to the parents court imo

maniclucky,

Ooof. Yeah, that is real bad. I’ll happily pitchfork a big company, but that’s firmly in parental neglect territory.

maniclucky,

Love me some sources, thank you.

I was bringing it up in the context of “McDonald’s definitely did something wrong”, though I didn’t state that well.

I agree, specific damage is iffy, but the widespread is more alarming. The snippet that someone posted from the court documents shove this into parental neglect territory in my head, but we’ll see what happens. I’m neither a lawyer nor a parent so I’m strictly in the armchair on this.

There’s something to be said for some kind of regulation in regards to known addictive mechanisms and that corporations have proven time and again they can’t be trusted to handle it themselves (in every industry). This just might not be the case to drive it home

maniclucky,

I mean, FFXIV has just as much and manages it.

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