Thrillhouse @ Thrillhouse @lemmy.world

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It’s kinda like religion though right? Who is anyone to say it’s not true. It’s kind of mean to shit on what other people are into or what they choose to believe as long as they’re not hurting anyone else. There’s no evidence on the Bigfoot topic that we know of at the moment, but there are tons of scientific discoveries that happen. They didn’t know about Lyme disease until 1982.

Should beliefs be separated from state and science decisions - absolutely.

The paranormal is interesting to think about and discuss. There are grifters but there are grifters everywhere, no matter what topic you’re interested in. These guys took it too far but hey that’s humanity for ya - people also die from autoerotic asphyxiation, bungee jumping, and free solo climbing, none of which I’m interested in pursuing for myself.

Meh just let people have their fun and their beliefs. People die doing all sorts of stupid shit.

It’s not like they’re health quacks or chiropractors who actually take money and can hurt people. It’s not RFK causing an anti-vax measles outbreak.

I know someone like this who is probably going to walk a similar path.

They were just found out for stealing large sums of money at work, including from their best friend.

We all think they’re a sociopath. They’re getting to the stage where I don’t believe they will be able to fund their lifestyle.

Ah yes, any platform that may contradict his obvious attempt to dominate America through propaganda must be removed.

I’m having trouble parsing that actually - it sounds like she’s applied for it and has been approved for it, but would not like to resort to that option.

The conditions accepted for MAiD have broadened but to actually be “approved” for the procedure you have to apply for it. The article says “… comes amid her being approved” not “her condition being eligible”

After decades battling severe ME/CFS and systemic lack of support, Marcia Doherty – known online as “Madeline” – is going fully public in a desperate bid to secure her survival and fight for change. It comes amid her being approved for assisted suicide in Canada – something she doesn’t actually want at all.

I agree with you that this is a persuasive piece which leverages MAiD as a call to action to better care for people with this condition.

Yes because she requested it?

I requested ADHD medication and was approved for that. If I don’t want to take it or if I want to stop taking it that’s my choice.

This is kind of how healthcare works so I don’t understand the sarcasm.

I think her approval for MAiD also boosts the visibility of her disease and how, again, all countries (not just Canada) care for people with this condition (spoiler: they don’t).

Telling this story in the media is a last ditch effort to get adequate care. Otherwise, she doesn’t want to live like this. Sounds reasonable.

Other countries like the US would probably just prefer she die homeless, poor, and quietly in the street somewhere, while still denying her care for her condition.

They should investigate. Particularly because a healthcare professional offering MAiD or even broaching the subject of MAiD with their patient is not permitted within the existing protocols and practices as I understand it.

If someone wants to seek MAiD they need to raise the topic with their healthcare team - not the other way around.

It is a cry for help to demonstrate how bad the condition is and the lack of support for it.

As per the article, this lack of support exists worldwide.

The way MAiD works in Canada, she has been approved but she is not forced to go through with it. It is now an option on the table for her if everything else becomes too much.

Sugar, ultraprocessed food, shopping/overconsumption, porn, gambling. Lots of normal things condoned by our society can be addictive for a segment of the population.

Have you ever had to watch a family member decline though? What about a pet? How did you treat that pet? Did you prolong their suffering and watch them slowly die unable to eat or drink or did you do something about it so they did not have to suffer? Why are humans different if they themselves, sound of mind, choose to end their own suffering?

An acquaintance of mine’s relative chose to go this way due to ALS. It was their choice and the last year was hell on the family, even though the relative had selected assisted dying.

Before modern medicine, how exactly do you think they handled grandma who was losing her marbles and lived in a one room farmhouse with the rest of the family? Especially if they’re violent and nasty. Is it right to withhold care/food/water and let nature take its course? Is that murder? Was there murder or suicide? Lots of this stuff has happened throughout history within the privacy of a family. People were likely more “religious” back then but we didn’t have the regulations or medical oversight to document things as such. Likely they just told people that their relative died of natural causes, buried them on the family plot and were done with it.

It is hell to witness the pain and confusion someone you love has when they have a degenerative disease and the Herculean effort it takes to care for someone in a condition like this. A family simply cannot do this alone without paying an exorbitant amount of money for medical and support staff - around the clock.

It’s like anything else in history:

• Ban abortion and abortion still happens, but without any shred of dignity, humanity or compassion.
• Ban drugs and guess what, they still exist on a dangerous black market.
• People still kill themselves without the help of medical assistance in dying. This just provides a path to dignity and closure for the person and their family for those who choose it. And I’m sure if you’re intent on ending your life, you don’t give a fuck about the stigma.

Wouldn’t it be a good thing to “de-stigmatize” suicide? So people can talk about it and we have more of a chance to intervene with people who do not have a lethal disease?

Everyone I have encountered who brings up “suicide is never an option” in relation to issues like this has never had to witness it. I’m 100% going out this way if I ever have a lethal disease.

Oh yeah it won’t happen all at once though. He’s going to test it bit by bit to make everyone else flinch. Then probably try to install a series of rules that effectively neuter it.

It’s the way Russia does it - the institution still “stands” but is beaten into ineffectual submission by a series of a thousand cuts. He’s got Turkey, Hungary and possibly Romania and Italy to back him up in this regard.

I’d add: he’ll probably threaten to pull out of NATO if the rest of the countries continue arming/aiding Ukraine.

It’s certainly one perspective but I don’t think it’s the only possibility.

It’s been a long time for testing and no one seems in the loop. Why lie about it.

Also the military has testing sites - why over populated civilian areas? Why not say they’re running a military exercise and loop in law enforcement at the very least?

Why also the sightings of similar “drones” in the UK?

Why do they “go dark” when chased?

If it was US military why did they prevent a medical helicopter from taking off? That seems highly unnecessary and cruel.

It’s super interesting that there are reports that a bunch of drones were following a coast guard ship.

Interestingly civilian drones get disabled around these NJ ones. Apparently they can’t fly and have issues.

That doesn’t seem like it’s enough money to pay an enormous hospital bill.

That’s a lot of words to justify being racist.

It’s impossible to “refute the malformed logic” that not all Indian people are lazy bad workers because that argument is just a) factually incorrect unless, as I said, they attempted to work with all Indian people available to them, and b) made, I would argue in bad faith.

Idk the simplest solution seems to be “my company keeps hiring lazy people, what does the screening / interview process look like? Why do we keep fucking up on the people we’re hiring?”

Maybe they hired the wrong person for the job. This could happen with any worker no matter their country of origin.

Maybe they’re a shit manager whose expectations are not clear and who provides no training.

Maybe the employee is going through something at home that is impacting their work. It’s a good manager’s responsibility to know their workers and give them grace.

Racism is just a lazy person’s excuse for not analyzing the complexities of the situation.

Bribe it’s called a bribe.