Very interesting, thanks for this.
shortgiraffe
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It's sad to me how many people don't recognize morbid obesity, or downplay being overweight in general because other people are also that size.
If you make a joke that risky, and they don't laugh/acknowledge it, you really shouldn't keep telling it. They either didn't get it (and probably won't with future tellings) or they didn't like it.
That's definitely a prarie dog, not a ground hog. They're actually different animals, it's not a regional difference like a lot of people think. Fun fact about prarie dogs, they're only fertile for a few hours a year.
If that really does include everything, why do I always hear about how thin margins are in the food service industry? That doesn't sound like a thin margin to me.
Things that permanently change people should be done carefully and with a lot of safety checks. We can all agree on that.
Everyone does, and they are being done with lots of checks. The above comment isn't saying that though. They're claiming that those checks aren't being done, which is just not true. The rate people regret gender reassignment surgery is orders of magnitude less then many common surgeries, like knee replacement.
liberals are going 180 against them and claiming everyone should be transitioning.
I have never seen a person arguing for that. I have seen people arguing, and passing laws, for the opposite though.
Right. (some) Mental illnesses are when that trait is so severe it causes problems for the person. That trait is something everyone has, but not the mental illness. Mental illness is specifically when that trait is severe. It would be saying everyone has a severe issue to some extent, even if it's not severe for them. It just doesn't make sense, and to me weakens what mental illness actually is. If people use adhd to just mean attention issues, even ones so minor they don't cause a person problems, it undermines the word.
Edit: didn't mean to delete the parent comment, I accidentally posted twice. It was the same as above in the thread.
I also think it's a tool we reach for much more often than is necessary.
Do you have any evidence for this? Because the vast majority of people who transition stick with it, and the vast majority of people who don't go back because of social pressures. here is an article about how many people are happy with the care they receive, I really think you should read it.
The comparable example I like to give is adhd. It isn't binary. You don't just have it or don't have it.
Yes, you either have it or you don't. You either have diagnosable, actual adhd or you don't. Sure, it can be worse for some people. But to be diagnosed, it has to be causing you problems in your life. Mental illnesses aren't something that everyone has to some extent.
Other people get by with therapy alone. Yet others find medication necessary to be functional.
Yes, people cope with their issues in different ways. Same for trans people. Most don't get top or bottom surgery, for example.
I know everyone hates this word, but starting with more conservative treatments first is the norm throughout healthcare for exactly this reason. We've made an exception for transgender people for political reasons, not scientific ones.
I hate the word conservative for reasons completely unrelated to how you use it here, I'm not sure why you'd mention it. And there's not an exception for trans heathcare, why would you think that?
Hating racists isn't the same as hating white people.
Fent is cheap and potent, and so some dealers add it to their heroin (and a couple other drugs, fake pills are also common). Then you can add more cutting agents (like flour), and stretch it even further. However, because it's so potent (50x compared to heroin) a tiny "hot spot" of badly mixed heroin could kill even an addict. As I understand it, deliberating making people OD is largely a myth. While it might get some addict's attention, it also gets the attention of the police.
It's so potent that cross contamination is a major issue. Drug dealer cuts their heroin on a dirty table, next kind of drug gets cut on the same dirty table. For at least some cases, no one meant for fent to be in there.
But it doesn't produce as good of a high as other opioids do (I don't understand the mechanics I'm afraid). As I understand it, the demand is mostly heroin addicts who are really deep in.
Interestingly, from what I remember, it's actually somewhat similar to heroin in that way. Morphine is supposed to be a better high (again, for people not super deep in), but isn't as available. So people use the cheaper and more potent heroin.
Some backup services charge less for shipping a hard drive then bandwidth, last I looked it was around 8tb to be cheaper (for the user) then restoring over the internet. So I'd guess it's around that mark, but I'm obviously not an expert.