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1 天前You’ve been drinking the wrong beligian beers friend. There’s a lot more to Belgian beer than a coriandered hoegaarden.
Try a trippel next time you get a chance. Or if you’re into hops Duvel is divine.
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11·1 天前Hmmm, you’ve written as though Israel isn’t itself a fascist state. Strange choice there!
Comparing the two, from my perspective, Israel resembles Nazi Germany much more closely than the USA does. Israel has a highly radicalised population that supports the genocide of other races it considers beneath them. In Israel there is overwhelming public support for massacres and dehumanised language and persecution everywhere you look.
The USA, for all its ills, hasn’t committed a genocide in quite a while. Iran is still just a war.
Gaza was a massacre, humiliation and persecution of an entire race of people.
2·2 天前Stocks are financial assets.
They can’t leave when their businesses, properties, assets, and income are derived from your country. Much of it isn’t easily movable, if at all. Most of a billionaire’s wealth isn’t in cold hard capital cash, it’s in a mixture of assets and yearly income from said assets.
They can choose to leave, and live wherever they’d like to live. But their place of residence, if legislated properly, would have no bearing on wealth taxes instituted at the asset or income level. If we chose to tax them regardless of being domicile or not: it is a legislative choice.
It would have no bearing on whether we can still legally and feasibly tax the fuck out of them.
What you’re saying is disinformation, friend. It serves the wealth class well when it’s spread around. But if you stop and think about it as an idea for a second it quickly falls apart.
1·4 天前Appreciate the humility.
Takes a well rounded and healthy mind to change your mind in the face of new information. It’s increasingly rare to find this online and it takes courage especially in a public forum.
It’s moments like this that renew my faith in human beings. Thank you for that gift tonight mate :).
Except, research shows that even at preschool level kids are able to distinguish expertise through various social cues. At this age it’s more about authority than a hierarchy of trust.
But by the age I’m talking of, between 6 and 8, we have a wealth of research that shows that children are capable of understanding hierarchies of trust:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25425347/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096518305666
If your point is instead about the minority of students that are struggling to keep up, then that becomes more a discussion on the structure of education as a whole. Rather than this particular subject. Where funding and logistical problems meet conflicting needs of different kids.
But, the idea that we’d dumb down a curriculum for the minority is… troubling. But then so is the idea of that minority continually falling behind.
Sure thing:
OSDD: Other Specified Dissociative Disorder
DID: Dissociative Identity Disorder (once called Multiple Personality Disorder)
RSD: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
From the way I understand it, dissociative disorders sit on a spectrum. Some people have an intact identity, but dissociation/derealisation as a coping mechanism. That would be one end of the spectrum.
OSDD sits somewhere in the middle and has a couple of subtypes.
DID is the other end of the spectrum and is quite rare. It usually involves very very severe trauma sustained over a long period at a very early age. This is where multiple different people live in the same mind and can take over and “front”.
Heres a lengthy further musing if you’re interested friend:
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I find it most useful to see OSDD as emotional fragmentation of identity as a reaction to severe trauma that manifests as multiple parts of yourself that most consider to be a normal internal experience. Often as separate internal monologues representing different aspects of yourself.
It’s my observation many ADHDers, especially ones diagnosed later in adulthood, talk about the many monologues in their minds, the radio playing, the intrusive thoughts they can’t control etc. It’s such a common trope. Some element of healthy internal talk is expected, but when it is intrusive and it comes with decreased ability, or memory loss, or anxiety and other weird symptoms (too numerous to list here), that’s when a dissociative disorder should be investigated.
Many of us ADHDers assume rationally that these symptoms are just a manifestation of executive dysfunction within ADHD. That logic makes sense on the face of it.
But if that were the case, it occurred to me to ask the question why so often these worrying symptoms get worse and more extreme with age? After all, ADHD is a genetic expression and a fixed thing, it’s not something that should worsen with age drastically; only St pace with natural age related cognitive decline.
So I dug into it from a trauma perspective, and ended up getting therapy and with my therapists help realised that for many including myself, ADHDers end up with a dissociative disorder.
The disorder sits on top of the ADHD and at first is a coping mechanism that to some degree works to manage the extreme emotions from the trauma we keep experiencing that we can’t process properly.
But as we age and gain more and more trauma, and the older trauma festers behind the repression, it ends up causing more and more cognitive decline, loss of capability sense of self, fragmentation, numbing of emotions and a heap of problem too numerous to name here.
I think it’s possible RSD itself doesn’t actually exist. I thought I had it, but it was all along trauma sitting on top of the ADHD.
This approach to therapy hasn’t fixed my ADHD but it is making living with it a hell of a lot easier.
Much of education is based on following a rational thought through to its conclusion regardless of age.
I’m confused as to why the idea of teaching a logical subject is up for debate. Kids are taught math and science early and through logical foundations.
Education is built on logic! Yes, by all means wrap that boring unemotional logic up in a shiny emotional wrapper. That makes sense. That’s the sign of a great teacher or a great curriculum or materials. But in that is the difference of delivery versus content.
From Ancient Greece to modern times - logic is something that still persists in education because the universe we live in is a logical rules based one. It might be boring, and not very engaging to some, not emotive enough, but it is neccessary.
In the UK kids are taught a basic version of the scientific method between the age of 5-7 years old according to the UK goverenment website. Should they scrap that because it’s not naturally emotive?
Respectfully, your point seems to be a moot one. Criticising delivery, when I was talking about the subject matter and delivery is as much a skill of those delivering as anything else.
Adding to this, I recently learned that ADHD rejection sensitive dysphoria is actually often some kind of dissociative disorder on the OSDD/PTSD/DID spectrum.
It makes a lot of sense the more you think about it.
ADHDers are by and large, especially if not caught early and given adequate support as children, so much more likely to end up with trauma. And, OSDD is one of the most common ways trauma is dealt with by the brain, along with PTSD, BPD and much less commonly, DID.
So if you’re reading this and have ADHD and RSD, you might want to consider finding a therapist who specialises in dissociation and trauma; with specific specialisms in OSDD, PTSD and/or DID. It could do you the world of good.
Okay. I don’t agree with you, but that’s fine. We can disagree.
If kid is capable of understanding basic scientific method at 8 years old, they can understand the basic structure of a hierarchy.
“X is more important than Y”
“Why sir”
“Because X uses the scientific method like we discussed in class last week and Y does not”
“What’s the scientific method again sir”
repeats for retention
Do we have data on people who understand the significance of peer reviewed research ignoring that research despite the understanding?
But there’s a third option. There’s a difference between complete absence of this topic in the curriculum, and simplified versions of it that increase in difficulty with capability. Mirroring other stages of educational development.
At the moment there’s a complete absence. At least in any country I’m aware of. Until late high school level which is way too late.
Young kds understand hierarchies. Social hierarchies start to form on the first day of kindergarten.
Teaching an 8 year old that science research sits at the top of a pyramid and newspapers and TV sitd at the bottom, would be easy to grasp. There’s nothing stopping us removing the detail and teaching a simplified structure that can then be built upon in subsequent years.
Edit: in regards to your edit, I was taught a simplified scientific method from age 8, not 12.
I find that the hierarchy of evidence combined with the ability to critique research is the foundation upon which sits pretty much all of my opinions. It’s a shame kids aren’t taught this from a young age; it would make manipulating them as adults so much harder.
Once you realise the strength of the peer review process, you realise that most peoples opinions dont actually matter: we have strong research on that.
12·7 天前It depends if their dear leader orders them to get involved or not doesn’t it.
Depends which. The despot or the worker.
Not propaganda, historical fact. I see many ills in this world, of which the USSR was one, China is one, the USA another. All different, all unique in their own method of tyranny. In this viewpoint is nuance and subtlety. And in that subtlety is context.
So I suppose in your mind all the academics Stalin had murdered all deserved it yes? I suppose murder in the name of the soviet state is acceptable as long they’re political enemies right? I suppose the Uyghurs are all happy and definitely haven’t been persecuted or reeducated hmm?
I can say all of these things whilst also seeing and commenting on the numerous hands the USA has had in coups across the world. The many wars they’ve started, and the lives the MIC has sacrificed in the name of profit.
Authoritarianism by its very nature is intolerance leading to trauma, abuse and pain. It is quite literally scapegoating and persecuting a group of people for political gain, which can often end in the harming and death of said group.
Both sides of the authoritarian equation are built on othering groups of people for political purposes.
It’s also the dimension of the political compass in which authoritarians would prefer we not talk about so I talk about it as much as is feasible.
The alternative to authoritarian socialism is libertarian socialism which is where any person who values both theirs and their fellow humans dignity and mutual respect would want to live.
But, that aside, left and right are pointless measures, secondary in their importance, if both are governed by people willing to remove personal freedoms and sovereignty in the name of however they like to measure progress.
When you rule with an iron fist, when there is no due process, when there is no personal representation only state representation and the ability for change that can only come from a functioning and healthy democracy; people are squashed under the boot of those in power a la Orwell’s Animal Farm. Neither of these worlds are ones I want to live in; nor do I want for any of my loved ones.
And with authoritarian communists/socialists?
So your approach in a nutshell is to tolerate those that are intolerant and would quite happily make tolerance illegal and punishable if given half a chance? Interesting take.
Some Tripels do, most don’t though. Most are without coriander.