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Democrats Begged Team Kamala Harris Not to Campaign With Liz Cheney
  • Hahahaha....oh wait you're serious....BAHAHAHA. Harris didn't run as a Republican and you know it. And no permutation close to it either. And either you know it or you didn't actually pay any attention beyond "I saw her on the same stage as Liz Cheney so they must be pulling right". If you had paid any attention you would see that those last minute inclusions of Republicans was around the threat Trump posed to the country. They got up on stage and literally said that they didn't agree on most positions, but that the need to keep trump out of office overshadowed party alliance.

    And given all that if you were actually progressive (and you know wanting to make progress) and being realistic you would look at the actual options and have seen which was as close as you could get to your preference and votes to move the needle in the right direction. Enough people didn't do that (or didn't agree with what I assume are our positions and preferences...very to the left of Trump for myself and presumably many others here) that we ended up with this mess.

    There is plenty to learn but "HaRiS RaN As A RePuBlIcAn" is not one of them.

  • Get good.
  • Obnoxious, but also NOT correct. As another poster pointed out baby talk does serve a purpose in language development, and is a pretty universal part of child rearing. It's not some recent cultural phenomenon that's holding people bad from their full potential (or whatever BS this person is trying to imply). Using big words or skipping the baby talk stage doesn't lead to more rapid or better development.

  • Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear bans use of ‘conversion therapy’
  • My quick web search says California outlawed conversion therapy in 2012. Since then there has been attempts to side step it since the language restricts "mental health providers", which is a licensed group. But others can still try to convert people, such as at a camp. Now they can't say they are providing treatment legally, so it seems like California can and did outlaw it, but they are playing whack-a-mole, with people trying to get around the law on language technicalities. CA should definitely plug those holes, but really no one should be believing what these not licensed quacks are trying to sell either.

  • End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down
  • Yeah it's a shame because there was a time that Toms hardware was so good and often neck and neck with Anandtech in terms of great articles to read, but at some point it became more sensationalist and the line betweens tom's guide and tom's hardware blurred (with tom's guide seeming to take over). There are still nuggets that are okay, but just not like it used to be.

  • Looking for Sperm Preservation Advice
  • Check your local laws, some states have laws that fertility preservation must be "covered" by insurance when going through treatment that could impact fertility (like starting hormones or chemo). Some healthcare providers/systems do have this down pretty smoothly and might save you some hassle. (Of course you might not be in a place that this applies, but if you are, could be a useful thing to make use of)

    *Note: covered doesn't mean free, still subject to your usual co-pay/deductible, etc.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • This one exactly. But don't lose hope, the word doesn't really convey figuratively other than online people who mostly sound foolish trying to push buttons. It is usually used as an emphasis when someone wants to say how close to the actual literal situation things were (even if not literally the same). People who use it as "figuratively" are in decline, kind of like people that throw a fit over "moist" and as long as we keep pointing out how ridiculous they are (both moist dramatics and literal confusers) their relevance will continue to fade.

  • Uvalde school shooting victims' families announce $2 million settlement with Texas city and new lawsuits
  • May want to read you own article before posting it....from the article at 11:35, a few minutes after the gunman entered the school....

    " Three Uvalde police officers rush to the same door that the gunman used to enter, which was closed. Surveillance footage shows the officers all have pistols, and two of them have rifles. One officer has external armor, and two are wearing concealable armor."

    They had armor, pistols and 2/3 had rifles.

    This is a tragedy any way you slice it. There is so much gun reform that needs to happen, and police did not handle things well here. People with guns are hard situations to handle, but police handled a bad situation on a way that made it worse.

  • It takes no faith to dismiss unsubstantiated claims for the supernatural and recognize what there is evidence for
  • The argument starts with the presumption that the universe would turn out this particular way. To use their own analogy the issue isn't whether the bullet fired goes through the donut hole, but rather whether it ends up anywhere at all (I like those odds).

  • These just go out with the other recycling, right?
  • You can usually call or check out a website rather than driving. Most people save them up, then take them all at once or take them when they are going there anyway with other stuff to dispose of.

    Also be really careful if one breaks (get everyone out of the room and air it out first).

    https://www.epa.gov/mercury/cleaning-broken-cfl

  • Just waiting for that elusive moment of energy+motivation.
  • Don't wonder to hard, many of the things discussed are common and not necessarily a disorder. And when they might be it's often paired with the wrong disorder (this would be depression, not really ADHD for example). Take most of these meme and a humor communities with a giant grain of salt (or skepticism).

  • Double blind win (by skeletonclaw)
  • Yeah that's not quite it. Placebo is actually present for most/the majority of people, but they (researched of various kinds )are looking for effects that are above and beyond the level demonstrated by the placebo alone.

    One fun thing to think about is that most (maybe all) treatments include some degree of placebo effect inherently.

  • What's the general view of CBT?
  • They are going to be more similar than different really. Both lean heavily on the B part of the name (applied Behavioral analysis, and cognitive Behavioral therapy), and at their core are learning new skills or behaviors that more effectively navigate the world (one not inherently designed around an autistic experience of the world(as if there was just one)). They are both about making behavior changes that lead to being more comfortable long term, and that usually revolves around practicing behaviors (often pretty frequently, which can be uncomfortable short term).

  • Hasn't happened yet
  • Looks like someone wasn't paying attention then.

    Edit: okay that was a little harsh. But maybe I will still say if that was what you focused on and took away from the pandemic it seems like you missed the bigger picture of politics and perspectives of who was actually using science to guide choices and who has people's best interests in mind.

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