I mean, the idiots are in charge. There’s too many stupid goddamn things piling up for them all to be some 4d chess maneuvers.
Just because they’re idiots doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. That’s what the playbook is for - to keep the idiots on track and doing all the horrible things they’re paid to do. Then, if the plan fails, the idiots take the fall and the playbook authors just try again.
I see it all the time whenever someone’s consumerism is threatened.
Lol how, exactly? Do you think I am the tech illiterate end user we are talking about?
Or maybe I am someone who constantly has to deal with end-users, and I’m forced to acknowledge that educating them is like trying to hold back the tide?
Systemic problems require systematic solutions. Anything less is just shouting into the wind.
That’s not a solution, that’s a vague idea.
How do you hold people accountable? How do you encourage them?
What cultural solutions do you suggest?
Nah, I just think that we spend too much time blaming people instead of systems. You can’t change people. You can change systems which will then change people.
It’s not out of date so much as its woefully understudied. In other words, it could be true, but to my knowledge we really don’t have enough data on cotreatment regimens to back it up.
There is a known risk factor of antidepressants in general that is similar to the suicide risk you describe with ADHD medication. SSRI’s alone can put you through that process, where motivation increases first, followed after by mood stabilization.
This is why almost all antidepressants mention “increased risk of suicide” as a side effect. If you are starting antidepressants, make sure you actually understand this mechanism and coordinate with your provider and personal support system to ensure you don’t trust your half-treated brain to make huge decisions during those critical first weeks.
It’s not just suicide - you might find yourself abandoning otherwise positive employment or relationships because you have zero emotional satisfaction but a sudden influx of motivation.
The biggest confounding factor is the chicken or the egg - could the patient’s depression be a symptom of their ADHD? That is, could the depression be a long-term psychological consequence of living with untreated executive dysfunction? If their ADHD was treated well, and they felt psychologically “capable” enough to successfully manage their responsibilities and habits, would they still be depressed?
Or is the depression a comorbidity, and it would independently manifest regardless of the severity or treatment of their ADHD symptoms?
It almost certainly varies by and within individuals over time, and can be either comorbidity or symptom, or a combination of both, and there’s no real way to tell before treatment.
Some suggest just starting with whichever disorder presents itself more severely in the patient (e.g whichever has more impact on quality of life). Others suggest focusing on depression, as it carries the more immediate risks like you mentioned.
It also unfortunately carries a layer of stigma - like you described, an ADHD patient might be offended that their treatment regimen is designed to “keep them safe from themselves”. Which is totally valid clinically, but can be psychologically destabilizing, especially for patients that believe they are not at any such risk right now.
Sorry for replying to your wall of text with a wall of text!
TL;DR: we need much more study on these disorders, especially cotreatment studies, but ultimately you should expect there to be differing opinions and hurdles to overcome on your personal journey.
Everyone should keep an open mind while pursuing treatment, and focus primarily on trying to find doctors and therapists that listen to you and seem to know what they are talking about.
To blame someone is to consider them responsible.
Do you consider the average user responsible? Is it productive to try to hold them responsible for any of this?
The end-user has always been the bane of all tech development. It doesn’t change the fact that the increasing tech illiteracy of end-users in the modern day is by design.
Nobody can fix the user, but we can fix the companies that build containerized little retail environments that encourage mindless engagement and discourage curiousity and experimentation.
It’s funny but sad. Vague, selectively-enforcable laws are the point.
We can’t just call something AI to prevent regulation.
They can, though. With “laws” like this, the government can freely pick and choose who is punished and who is protected.
Hey everyone. It’s bad faith. Like, really bad faith. Watch OP say some stupid shit:
A reasonable user mentions an obstacle to childhood toothbrushing:
I see you haven’t interacted with many kids with special needs. Not everything in life can be easily “enforced” for everyone.
OP:
Sure. Niche cases exist. Prescriptions are still fine.
Also OP, later in that same thread:
It’s not hard to stick a toothbrush into a toddlers mouth. You don’t need a prescription.
See how that works? Remember what this article is about?
It’s bad faith conspiracy shit. Moderators? Anyone? (Edit: Thanks Mods!)
People: just trying to live their lives
This dickhead: “you should be ashamed for being different. Maybe if you were normal the world would be a better place”
They got the spirit! Libraries and librarians are some of the most fundamental “good” in society. They’re basically the canary in the coal mine - when they start to go, we all know there’s nothing but toxic gas in the room, and need to do something about it.
It is a shame that there’s very few ways of going “rogue” with access to digital information that doesn’t involve tremendous security risks to the uninitiated.
“We want to secretly give kids the ability to get whatever information they want!”
“Great… let’s start with ‘don’t ever accept packets of digital information from unidentifiable sources’”
“I bought a plane. It’s really two planes, Air Force One. Now if Boeing would build the damn thing it would be nice, too. We don’t build like we used to. We don’t build too fast,”
The possible future where Air Force One is Boeing quality with Qatari design and its critical security features are unnecessarily retrofitted at “move fast and break things” speed… and the only people who will ever use it are Trump’s camp-de-shit…
I like it. It’s a nice future.
The books were worth about $1,700. Since they are not overdue, the library will bill the man later.
Police informed CCPL that, because a contract was entered when the books were borrowed, failure to return or pay for the books would become a civil matter turned over to the city prosecutor.
Should the man return to the Beachwood Library, he will be banned from the property.
Shoutout to libraries. Absolute diamonds in the rough. Burn books? Whatever, people don’t return books all the time. When they’re overdue, here’s the bill, next!
We don’t live in the age of books anymore. Shit like this is ignorant and fascist but also just symbolic. Libraries are cornerstones of a free society, but the physical paper itself isn’t nearly as important anymore. It’s hilariously replaceable.
I want the list of books. “Banned” and “burned” books go hard as hell. Maybe even files for the m@tes to get 'em all at once. The modern age can undo all this idiot’s work with a single link.
Anyone else remember kids watching videos of other kids nearly choking to death on cinnamon, and thinking “hey this looks like fun”?
Or the “chug a gallon of milk” thing? Those “trends” were just weirdly masochistic and sadistic. It wasn’t even misinformation or anything. Kids watched other kids suffer, and then chose to suffer too.
I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.
It’s closer to what mobile apps did for gambling. Crazy how quickly that was normalized in the US, and it’s tragic how easily people can just delete thousands of dollars from their bank account on a whim from the comfort of their couch.
I guess what I’m saying is, maybe sometimes children and adults really do need some protection from their stupid impulses.
That drug use thing is a massive stretch of the words “cause harm to yourself or others”. That clause is - to my knowledge - used exclusively to mean things like abuse, assault, murder, or suicide.
Please provide a source of that actually happening or a legislative or judicial ruling that supports that idea at all.
While there is some support for absolute secrecy of a private confession, Lutheran history and the Book of Concord do not support the concept of keeping a confidence if it risks the ongoing abuse or death of a child or requires the pastor to violate civil or criminal laws designed to protect children from abuse.
While Scripture discourages gossiping and speech designed to damage the reputation of another, keeping a confidence “is not an absolute, especially when others are being harmed or may be hurt."
Yes, just as a lawyer would have to do when questioned about a client. Anything they did outside of attorney-client privledge they must speak about, it’d be the same for the clergy. It’s not an issue for lawyers, so I don’t see an issue for the clergy.
Is this intentionally bad faith, or just a deep misunderstanding of the legal system?
If a lawyer is a witness to a crime that their client committed, and is involved in proceedings related to that crime, they have to recuse themselves from representing the client. They literally cannot be that person’s lawyer anymore. They keep all information already held under attorney client privilege, but any future information is no longer protected.
They also have the bar - a legal association specifically dedicated to ensuring that lawyers all comply with the law. If they break the law in the course of their duties, the association exists to prevent them from ever practicing law again.
It’s not perfect, but it’s something.
It’s not the same for the clergy. A priest can be witness to whatever, and there’s no legal obligation to stop being the person’s priest or hearing their confessions. But there is a tremendous amount of evidence that clergy associations have been exclusively dedicated to ensuring that clergy never face the law at all.
Not all laws are good or just.
And yet, it’s effectively a universal truth that child sexual abuse is the gravest offense imaginable, and a very common result of religious secrecy is covering up child sexual abuse.
Slippery slopes are fallacies for a reason. We can all fucking agree on a law against child sexual abuse being fair and just. When it comes to anything else, we can have that conversation.
No, they only don’t have to report confessions. They’d still be legally required to report if they discover crimes happening, like other clergy committing crimes.
Except for the fact that there’s a legal loophole in place for confession. If you subpeona a priest who saw someone commit a crime, all he has to say is “I cannot testify, it is against my religion.”
Do you understand the issue? The priest can’t ever say “I can’t testify because I heard it in confession” because that in and of itself is a breach of the seal of confession.
So he can only say “I cannot testify” and we all have to leave it at that.
So that paedophiles don’t stay away from confession, so that priests can tell them that god wants them to go to the police as penance. Noone is helped when paedophiles instead keep their mouths shut.
There are specifically no systems in place for that to happen, or indication that that actually does happen. There is specifically every indication that churches often cover up these crimes as a matter of habit. Without mandated reporting, we can literally never know what happened.
There is very little evidence of societal benefits or needs when it comes to secrecy in confession. There are benefits and needs when it comes to secrecy with mental health professionals, and yet they often are mandated to report these crimes anyway, because the risks of not reporting far outweigh the benefits of secrecy.
Germany is behind the times and most of the EU on this one:
In 15 Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) reporting obligations are in place for all professionals.
In 10 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Slovakia) existing obligations only address certain professional groups such as social workers or teachers.
In Germany, Malta and the Netherlands, no reporting obligations were in place in March 2014.
This isn’t “the US is the exception” for once.
I’ve heard in the US you can get arrested for telling your therapist that you took drugs which is insane.
Source? I have literally never heard that.
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I should clarify, it’s the idiots currently holding the White House, and the playbook authors are the idiots at the Heritage Foundation et al. who funded and supported that acquisition in return for a well-known set of conditions.
There are also many conditions placed upon them by a bunch of other domestic and foreign influences that have been publically and privately bribing the administration and party in various ways.
I don’t mean to paint them as simple fall guys, though they are the current face of a much larger problem that will continue after they’re gone if not stopped. It doesn’t have to be this deep state secret cabal, puppet master / strings scenario. It’s blatantly just a bunch of corruption visible to the naked eye. Oligarchs funded and supported a known fascist criminal.
There are many “masterminds” with many shared and competing interests - and I’ll admit that some of them are highly effective political operatives - but they’re all idiots for thinking this has to work out in their favor.
Anyone with skin in the game had the wealth and power to live their lives however they wanted, in castles and penthouses forever free from want or fear… and they chose to use that power to set things up so that everyone loses. A less stable, less healthy, less prosperous future for the world. All for the sake of their own wallets or their own particular vision of what the future should be.
That fascist criminal took control of the country and put out giant signs saying his administration is up for sale to the lowest bidder. Now he sells out America three times over before breakfast, and turns on allies on a whim - or by mistake!
It is really hard to overstate how utterly stupid it was and is to get in bed with him, because now every last one of them has to hope that their chamber is empty and they survive this incredibly foolish game of Russian roulette.