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Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world Posts 2Comments 454Joined 2 yr. ago
Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world
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There's a contradiction here. If your MBTI type isn't 'fixed' and is based on how you decide to answer questions, then it implies that you can choose your own outcome and MBTI type, rendering it meaningless.
If your MBTI is fixed because it is based on how you answer questions so long as it is without the intent to alter its outcome, then it is not anymore deterministic than a horoscope.
At the end of the day, people see what they want to in themselves and discard the rest, whether it's reading a horoscope or MBTI profile.
I don't know about surgery options for trans men, but for cis women where periods are a concern, we don't need our uterus removed. That would be like cutting off our whole foot because of an ingrown toe nail. Hysterectomies, as with the removal of any organ, comes with inherent risks.
Birth control pills, IUDs, shots, are all options that can allow periods to go away. If we need almost absolute certainty that we will never get pregnant, bi-salp and tubal litigation are an option too.
I imagine, for trans men it's not just a matter of periods, as owning female reproductive organs comes with body dysphoria that goes beyond periods.
The brevity of police training program is definitely a major contributor.
While there are mental health programs present, the stigma of mental health has rendered many of them unused. Police surveyed in North Dakota found that an overwhelming majority will not disclose their mental health issues to their colleagues or supervisors, most expect to be discriminated if they do, and see mental health issues as a personal failure.
Of the services provided, only debriefings and weight rooms saw significant use. Outside of that, few used therapy, peer support groups, mental health checks, and resilience therapy.
That's a good point. Conservatives often excuse the abuse of power because the scope of police work demands it, without acknowledging that there are non-police alternatives that are likelier to descalate a situation.
I think this ties into their inability to acknowledge mental health as a real and treatable issue. Perhaps because doing so would require acknowledging their own while being inhibited by the shame and cultural conditioning they grew up with.
It is horrifying for so many to fail their psych exam. However, I would also question if this is the most effective approach to better policing outcomes.
Psych exams in volatile workplaces are contradictory due to self reported elements in the exam. In aviation, there is a phenomenon where pilots historically masked mental health issues because a diagnosis was a death sentence to their careers. Paradoxically, acknowledging and allowing pilots to fly with these issues while being medicated has led to better outcomes.
The police who answered truthfully in the exam were fired, but that begs the question of whether the remainder were mentally sound or simply knew how to mask themselves in the psych exam.
No, I am speaking about the police specifically.
The advancements being made to mental health care in the military are meaningful, and the reduction of homeless veteran through housing programs speaks to the progress and recognition of difficulties in reintegrating into civilian life.
The 'little dicks' part was unnecessary.
You can make a great argument against the Confederate flag without resorting to toxic masculinity.
The conservative mind genuinely believes that vaccines are harmful thanks to fox news and RFK Jr. There's no recovering from that. The kids will die and they will still insist it's the right thing.
However, that does not justify mandatory vaccinations. The US has historically denied, medically abused, and withheld consent from minority patients. To this day, black women are still receiving poorer outcomes due to a history of neglect and blatant discrimination. While most vaccine deniers are not among this cohort, mandatory vaccines would ultimately marginalize the very people conservatives aim to marginalize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_exploitation_of_Black_women_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
Six Flags, the amusement park mentioned in the post, are all located in the United states with the except of two in Canada and one in Mexico.
Walking from the nearest house to Six Flags Magic Mountain takes around at least 50 mins. If you don't believe me, check on maps.
That's 50 mins of no shade, water, bathroom, or other pedestrians. If you get a heatstroke, you have few options. You can call an Uber and hope they are willing to illegally pick you up on the highway, pay for emergency services, or hope a good samaritan helps you out.
This isn't unique to this location, this is just how almost all American amusement parks are. They are located somewhere out of the city for cheaper rent, with the expectation that everyone arrives by car. This is why they are surrounded by highways and have very few walkable paths and entrances on the outside.
I need you to understand that walking an hour in a walkable city and walking in an hour in an American suburb is like comparing a literal walk in the park with walking on a tight rope for an hour.
I've lived in both. It's a shit show in the vast majority of the US. Sidewalks deliberately end to prevent 'the poors' from entering adjacent neighborhoods. There is zero shade, trees, seats, or any form of refuge as a deterrent from homeless people. Once you start walking somewhere, there are no shops, restaurants, or water, or bathrooms until you reach your destination, where you must spend money. Public transit takes a minimum of 3x longer than cars, and that's if you live in a big city. If you miss your bus, you have to wait an hour for the next one. A shop that's only 200 meters across the highway can end up becoming a 5km walk due to lack of crossings. Each crossing alone can take you 5-10 minutes to cross due to the sheer width of the underpass, number of segments in it, and the infrequency of stopped traffic.
Also, people own guns in the US, pedestrian density is low, homeless people who might be desperate and mentally ill people are not cared for, and paths are not always fully lit. That means you better be sure you can walk back by sundown or else risk robbery, assault, and death.
Hey, don't kink shame.
Two things can be true at the same time. Late-stage capitalism is responsible for financially discouraging parents from having children, and fertility rates are declining due to a decline in reproductive health.
Fertility rates are being affected by food additives and pollutants, and RFK Jr. Is a complete nutjob who pulls statistics out of his herniated ass.
Don't fall for the black and white rhetoric Republicans are trying to pull. They are trying to get leftists to say 'these statistics are ridiculous and therefore microplastics and environmental damages by corporations are not a relevant issue.'
History is path dependent. Not every country has the same literacy rates, civic participation, income inequality, intergenerational wealth, social inertia, and so on.
What is rational and common place in one country is radical progressivism in another.
You can do what is ideal, or you can do what works. You can deny a reality of systemic barriers to affordable housing, or accept that they are real and must be tackled one at a time.
In an ideal world, yes, there would be no landlords. In the real world, property, laws, the economy, and people are so deeply intertwined that to propose the elimination of landlords is about as facetious as eliminating bankers because of exploitation in banking.
Lawns? Yes. Grass? No.
Native grasses are good for the ecosystem as long as it is not a monoculture.
Home insurance does not cover costs associated with maintenance and negligence.
Your sewer line failing because it's 50 years old and made of cast iron is not a valid home insurance claim.
The mapping of MBTI questions and results have no basis in science or modern psychology. The perceived accuracy of the results of the test is created through the Barnum effect. It's not any different from how a horoscope might say 'scorpios have intense emotions'.
It's not the the results are untrue, it is that the reader will always introspect on the qualities that they are told that they have, and find it true to some extent.
For example, I can tell you that you are a messy person, or I can tell you that you are organized person. In each instance, you would be able to find supporting evidence for both.
This is because the human mind is far more complex than the black and white definitions given by MBTI. If anything, horoscopes give you a much longer list of non-specific attributes to think about, which might lead to more introspection.