Maybe the type of 'interesting thing' matters - try not to pick competitive/solo type activities like swimming. Maybe mixed doubles tennis instead. Or join a bookclub. Sign up for an adult education course in something you are interested in. Pick something where interacting with people is part of the activity. IF you really want to keep on with the swimming thing, join the local swim club and attend their other events.
I met my husband at a roleplaying convention, we've been together 19 years and married 12. We still game together and do other things as a commonly interesting activity.
While it's no longer assumed that a woman will be a virgin until she marries, there is still a degree of double standards regarding how many sexual partners a woman has. A raped woman is seen as having been defiled. Her value diminished in a way that merely breaking her arm or cracking a few ribs does equal.
Society generally still questions what the woman did to 'deserve' being raped - how was she dressed, why was she there alone, why was she with him?
It all adds to the power the rapist has over their victim. The stigma the rape victim will carry with them after the event is part of the territory marking and dominance by the rapist.
If I've understood the thread correctly, the proposition is that the symptom payload is significantly reduced if vaccinated for the relevant strain - so you don't feel sick - however you may still be infected and have a chance of passing the infection on prior to your immune system squashing it.
Chances are it will reduce the period that you are infectious (due to your immune system being boosted against the specific strain), which would potentially minimise the ability to spread the infection, but doesn't totally negate it.
As a Melbournian I'm slightly amused they are live-blogging the day on the front page of the Fairfax online press. Last Friday it got to 42 or so where I live in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and I had to hunt around for info on whether my train line was running (one of the few that was).
Your 'real world measures' all assume a 'standard' sized human.
As someone who is 5'2" in your imperial measurement system, I wouldn't fancy specifying construction measurements in arm spans or paces for someone else who is likely to be taller than I to build.
That said, I know my hand span is 150mm from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my little finger. And a 'stretched' pace is 1m. I used to work in the building industry and had to be able to estimate the size of things by eye.
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor specialising in psychiatric disorders and can prescribe pharmaceuticals. They may also be able to prescribe ECT and other more 'extreme' therapies, such as surgical interventions.
A psychologist is a trained therapist and cannot typically prescribe pharmaceuticals. These guys are pretty much limited to talk therapy and CBT.
I have a friend who has been trying to find the right cocktail of medal for several years now. She struggles constantly with the desire to do self harm and worries how this will impact on her ability to hold down a job.
My husband suffers from vacant seizures and anxiety attacks. He constantly talks about self harm and how he doesn't deserve opportunities his work has given him because being sick makes him unworthy.
You can't turn around without someone trying to fundraise for some form of cancer, it seems like every variant has a ribbon or appeal.
Mental health doesn't get the same kind of focus 'physical' disorders get, possibly because they are less tangible, there's no set of cells you can look at under a microscope and say 'look, there it is!'. But something like 1 in 4 adults suffer from some kind of mental health disorder at some point in their lives. It's in all our best interest that we make it easy for people to get help for mental disorders, because at some point it's going to be you or someone you love looking for help and not getting it.
Those countries are different in many other ways than gun regulation, though. Are you confident that this single factor is indeed the cause?
It's almost certainly not a single factor. If you take the example of Switzerland which has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world there is virtually no gun crime.
However the Swiss are also a nation who provided mercanaries for the rest of Europe for centuries. They are quite militarised with compulsory military service for all male citizens (voluntary for females), with screening for suitability and alternate service options available for those found to be poor candidates for weapons training and all the other aspects of front line service. They are also rich, well educated, and have one of the highest standards of living in the world. They have the highest per capita number of Nobel Prizes awarded and one of the world's highest life expectancies. They have constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of expression.
In many ways it's everything most people in the US want for their country, but smaller and in Europe.:)
At the other end of the spectrum you have emerging nations in Africa where it is easier to get weapons than food. You have anarchy. Death by gun is not uncommon and you have children being stolen at gun point and conscripted into wars to die at much the same age as the children shot up in Newtown. Education is virtually non-existent, healthcare unheard of.
The question is, which example would the US rather lean towards?
I've noticed that when you[1] argue against guns around here you tend to get pinged with the arguement 'but criminals would be armed anyway because they won't follow the law.
Most of these mass shootings are committed by people who are otherwise law abiding people up until the point where they snap.
Reducing the number of legally obtained weapons in the community would reduce access for everyone - EVEN the criminals, because there would be a smaller pool of weapons in the first place.
Mental health management certainly is an issue. Even in Australia with socialised medicine, getting mental health treatment is an uphill battle and admitting to mental health issues is still largely taboo. People would rather avoid treatment than admit they have a problem because they don't want to suffer the stigma that comes with being known to have a mental health issue. Couple that with the fact that most people with mental illnesses don't feel like they deserve to be treated, they are convinced they are just weak or are are just generally unworthy of anyone elses time and effort, most of them won't fight to get the treatment they need. I know several people at various stages of this battle.
As a society we need to accept that it's just as much an illness as having cancer or any other chronic illness. It requires treatment and support in much the same way. It's no more contagious than something like cancer and yet takes much the same toll on the sufferer and their carers. And left untreated can turn fatal, either for the sufferer or others around them.
Allowing someone who suffers from depression or schizophrenia or any similar condition ready access to guns is just asking for trouble. The normal blocks that sit there and tell you it's a bad idea to use the weapon on yourself or others are compromised.
The solution is two pronged, get the weapons out of the community (unless you want to go down the Swiss model of proper training for EVERYONE on how to handle them, though there are other aspects of their society which makes it safer); AND treat mental illness as an illness, and actually provide accessible treatment to everyone who needs it.
[1] You is a general statement not directed specifically at xevioso.
Does not compute - nothing is as boring as the Silmarillion. And I think I've read it twice knowing how boring it was.
Possibly it's the sheer mind piercing borningness of the Silmarillion which burned the information onto the OPs brain, whereas his co-workers are only neutrally boring.
If you actually read what I said - most guns start their life out as being obtained legally. If you reduce the number of legally obtained guns in the community there are less guns to be re-routed for illegal purposes. While there will always be determined criminals who will find a way to commit their crime of choice, it will minimise the number of more casual incidences which are largely crimes of opportunity.
Your argument that criminals will do illegal things anyway like obtain guns illegally therefore you shouldn't consider reducing the number of weapons in the community is like saying - there will always be people who can pick locks therefore why bother with locks.
As an Australian, I may have an unreasonably high expectations on how gun control might work. The buy back scheme worked out pretty well for us, most people handed their firearms in, there are few legal weapons still out and about that aren't in the hands of the police, rangers or farmers.
As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, most illegally obtained weapons start out their lives having been obtained legally by someone else. If you reduce the overall number of weapons out there, there are less to fall into the hands of criminals or the crazed.
Of course, in the US, rather than handing them over with barely a grumble it would be You can have it when you pry it form my cold dead fingers. I feel sad for you all.
Gun control won't reduce the number of people 'losing their shit' and going berserk. It will however, limit the amount of damage they can do before being contained. It's much harder to murder 20 plus people with a hunting knife before someone steps in and stops you.
Based on the residue left on the cup, I would assume that espresso retains the oils, you can usually see any oily residue floating on the top of a short black.
One possible 'catch' is that caffeine can be a trigger for migraine apparently. I am currently trialling an exclusion diet for migraine management and one of the restrictions is no more than one serve of caffeine or chocolate per day - and a 'serve' is smaller than you'd think.
Ironically, one of the medications my husband used to be prescribed for migraine was a product called Cafergot, to be taken at the onset of a migraine, it used caffeine to carry ergot directly to the brain for faster uptake in order to cut migraines off before they really settled. It was only useful if you took it within the first 30 minutes of offset. You couldn't take more than 2 per week or 3 per month because the ergot is nasty toxic stuff.
My husband and I will be celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary at the end of this week, and marking approximately 18 years together. We have our problems from time to time, but on the whole I think we are better for being together than either of us would be for being solo.
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Maybe the type of 'interesting thing' matters - try not to pick competitive/solo type activities like swimming. Maybe mixed doubles tennis instead. Or join a bookclub. Sign up for an adult education course in something you are interested in. Pick something where interacting with people is part of the activity. IF you really want to keep on with the swimming thing, join the local swim club and attend their other events.
I met my husband at a roleplaying convention, we've been together 19 years and married 12. We still game together and do other things as a commonly interesting activity.
While it's no longer assumed that a woman will be a virgin until she marries, there is still a degree of double standards regarding how many sexual partners a woman has. A raped woman is seen as having been defiled. Her value diminished in a way that merely breaking her arm or cracking a few ribs does equal.
Society generally still questions what the woman did to 'deserve' being raped - how was she dressed, why was she there alone, why was she with him?
It all adds to the power the rapist has over their victim. The stigma the rape victim will carry with them after the event is part of the territory marking and dominance by the rapist.
Have you considered that they may not be turned on by the woman as such, but by the power they have over her.
If I've understood the thread correctly, the proposition is that the symptom payload is significantly reduced if vaccinated for the relevant strain - so you don't feel sick - however you may still be infected and have a chance of passing the infection on prior to your immune system squashing it.
Chances are it will reduce the period that you are infectious (due to your immune system being boosted against the specific strain), which would potentially minimise the ability to spread the infection, but doesn't totally negate it.
As a Melbournian I'm slightly amused they are live-blogging the day on the front page of the Fairfax online press. Last Friday it got to 42 or so where I live in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and I had to hunt around for info on whether my train line was running (one of the few that was).
I thought the first rule of Paranoia was that 'Knowledge of the Rules is against the Rules'.
Sadly 'gaming' is a blocked category on the work firewall, so I can't look up the exact wording.
Previous sentence broke my brain.
Your 'real world measures' all assume a 'standard' sized human.
As someone who is 5'2" in your imperial measurement system, I wouldn't fancy specifying construction measurements in arm spans or paces for someone else who is likely to be taller than I to build.
That said, I know my hand span is 150mm from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my little finger. And a 'stretched' pace is 1m. I used to work in the building industry and had to be able to estimate the size of things by eye.
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor specialising in psychiatric disorders and can prescribe pharmaceuticals. They may also be able to prescribe ECT and other more 'extreme' therapies, such as surgical interventions.
A psychologist is a trained therapist and cannot typically prescribe pharmaceuticals. These guys are pretty much limited to talk therapy and CBT.
I have a friend who has been trying to find the right cocktail of medal for several years now. She struggles constantly with the desire to do self harm and worries how this will impact on her ability to hold down a job.
My husband suffers from vacant seizures and anxiety attacks. He constantly talks about self harm and how he doesn't deserve opportunities his work has given him because being sick makes him unworthy.
You can't turn around without someone trying to fundraise for some form of cancer, it seems like every variant has a ribbon or appeal.
Mental health doesn't get the same kind of focus 'physical' disorders get, possibly because they are less tangible, there's no set of cells you can look at under a microscope and say 'look, there it is!'. But something like 1 in 4 adults suffer from some kind of mental health disorder at some point in their lives. It's in all our best interest that we make it easy for people to get help for mental disorders, because at some point it's going to be you or someone you love looking for help and not getting it.
Those countries are different in many other ways than gun regulation, though. Are you confident that this single factor is indeed the cause?
It's almost certainly not a single factor. If you take the example of Switzerland which has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world there is virtually no gun crime.
However the Swiss are also a nation who provided mercanaries for the rest of Europe for centuries. They are quite militarised with compulsory military service for all male citizens (voluntary for females), with screening for suitability and alternate service options available for those found to be poor candidates for weapons training and all the other aspects of front line service. They are also rich, well educated, and have one of the highest standards of living in the world. They have the highest per capita number of Nobel Prizes awarded and one of the world's highest life expectancies. They have constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of expression.
In many ways it's everything most people in the US want for their country, but smaller and in Europe. :)
At the other end of the spectrum you have emerging nations in Africa where it is easier to get weapons than food. You have anarchy. Death by gun is not uncommon and you have children being stolen at gun point and conscripted into wars to die at much the same age as the children shot up in Newtown. Education is virtually non-existent, healthcare unheard of.
The question is, which example would the US rather lean towards?
I would say it's a confluence of those factors.
I've noticed that when you[1] argue against guns around here you tend to get pinged with the arguement 'but criminals would be armed anyway because they won't follow the law.
Most of these mass shootings are committed by people who are otherwise law abiding people up until the point where they snap.
Reducing the number of legally obtained weapons in the community would reduce access for everyone - EVEN the criminals, because there would be a smaller pool of weapons in the first place.
Mental health management certainly is an issue. Even in Australia with socialised medicine, getting mental health treatment is an uphill battle and admitting to mental health issues is still largely taboo. People would rather avoid treatment than admit they have a problem because they don't want to suffer the stigma that comes with being known to have a mental health issue. Couple that with the fact that most people with mental illnesses don't feel like they deserve to be treated, they are convinced they are just weak or are are just generally unworthy of anyone elses time and effort, most of them won't fight to get the treatment they need. I know several people at various stages of this battle.
As a society we need to accept that it's just as much an illness as having cancer or any other chronic illness. It requires treatment and support in much the same way. It's no more contagious than something like cancer and yet takes much the same toll on the sufferer and their carers. And left untreated can turn fatal, either for the sufferer or others around them.
Allowing someone who suffers from depression or schizophrenia or any similar condition ready access to guns is just asking for trouble. The normal blocks that sit there and tell you it's a bad idea to use the weapon on yourself or others are compromised.
The solution is two pronged, get the weapons out of the community (unless you want to go down the Swiss model of proper training for EVERYONE on how to handle them, though there are other aspects of their society which makes it safer); AND treat mental illness as an illness, and actually provide accessible treatment to everyone who needs it.
[1] You is a general statement not directed specifically at xevioso.
Does not compute - nothing is as boring as the Silmarillion. And I think I've read it twice knowing how boring it was.
Possibly it's the sheer mind piercing borningness of the Silmarillion which burned the information onto the OPs brain, whereas his co-workers are only neutrally boring.
If you actually read what I said - most guns start their life out as being obtained legally. If you reduce the number of legally obtained guns in the community there are less guns to be re-routed for illegal purposes. While there will always be determined criminals who will find a way to commit their crime of choice, it will minimise the number of more casual incidences which are largely crimes of opportunity.
Your argument that criminals will do illegal things anyway like obtain guns illegally therefore you shouldn't consider reducing the number of weapons in the community is like saying - there will always be people who can pick locks therefore why bother with locks.
As an Australian, I may have an unreasonably high expectations on how gun control might work. The buy back scheme worked out pretty well for us, most people handed their firearms in, there are few legal weapons still out and about that aren't in the hands of the police, rangers or farmers.
As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, most illegally obtained weapons start out their lives having been obtained legally by someone else. If you reduce the overall number of weapons out there, there are less to fall into the hands of criminals or the crazed.
Of course, in the US, rather than handing them over with barely a grumble it would be You can have it when you pry it form my cold dead fingers. I feel sad for you all.
I saw that episode again about a fortnight ago and thought of it immediately upon reading TFS. :)
The X-Files episode was of course a retelling of The Thing.
Doesn't the AR in AR-15 stand for Assault Rifle?
Gun control won't reduce the number of people 'losing their shit' and going berserk. It will however, limit the amount of damage they can do before being contained. It's much harder to murder 20 plus people with a hunting knife before someone steps in and stops you.
If you don't fancy the civet coffee, maybe give this a try.
A metric cup is 250ml, which is exactly 1/4 of a litre (1000ml).
Based on the residue left on the cup, I would assume that espresso retains the oils, you can usually see any oily residue floating on the top of a short black.
One possible 'catch' is that caffeine can be a trigger for migraine apparently. I am currently trialling an exclusion diet for migraine management and one of the restrictions is no more than one serve of caffeine or chocolate per day - and a 'serve' is smaller than you'd think.
Ironically, one of the medications my husband used to be prescribed for migraine was a product called Cafergot, to be taken at the onset of a migraine, it used caffeine to carry ergot directly to the brain for faster uptake in order to cut migraines off before they really settled. It was only useful if you took it within the first 30 minutes of offset. You couldn't take more than 2 per week or 3 per month because the ergot is nasty toxic stuff.
Birds gotta swim and fish gotta fly.
But they don't last long if they try.
- Tom Lehrer, Pollution.
My husband and I will be celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary at the end of this week, and marking approximately 18 years together. We have our problems from time to time, but on the whole I think we are better for being together than either of us would be for being solo.
Mmmmm.... bacon.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation thanks you for this obvious astroturfing. ;P