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Yes they are. Materials used for safer, less painful suicide methods (such as helium) are made purposely hard to get. Plus the authorities will lock you in a psych ward if they find out about your intent.

This seems...kind of obvious? No one just wants to die for death's sake. That wouldn't make a ton of sense. People kill themselves because they view it as the best of a set of bad options.

They pay their teachers significantly less than other states. Especially after you factor in the cost of living (FL is not nearly as affordable as people in NY/CA think it is).

According to these sources, they're 4th lowest in teacher salaries despite being 36th lowest in COL: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay... https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/opportunity...

This results in public schools taking whatever they can get teacher-wise. Where I grew up (NJ) being a public school teacher was a respectable career that people would actually go to college and study for. It's not like that in FL. A lot of teachers are just people who couldn't find a job elsewhere and need to pay the bills.

Aristotle doesn't seem esoteric in this sense.

He was talking about instrumental music, not lyrical music.

"The education system isn't highly rated overall so you'll have to choose carefully if you have kids."

This is an understatement. Virtually everyone I knew in Florida who had kids sent them to private school. These weren't rich people (they weren't in tech). Anyone who was remotely middle class would find a way to scrap the funds together because the public schools were so horrendous.

Most cultures didn't believe in a "progressive arrow of history". That's a fairly modern concept.

The cost of re-hiring someone will probably outweigh the benefits of saving a few months salary.

Good for her. Equity-focused democrats should be setting the example here.

I was told that in the early stages of dementia, it's good to challenge their unrealistic beliefs, but in the later stages its best to go along with them.

Middle and late stage dementia patients are basically in a constant state of confusion. The human mind can't handle being confused all the time, so it will make up stories that make their world make sense. Once they're at that stage, it's kinder to just let them live in that world, rather than pulling them back into confusion.

When my mom used to take my grandfather with dementia out to lunch, he would always insist that he'd been to that restaurant before, even if he hadn't. It was his way of convincing himself something was familiar, limiting that perpetual confusion.

Everything I've heard about clubhouse is that it's just a cesspool of toxicity.

Claims there's an "LSAT boom", but provides no stats shows that's true. This post is obviously just advertising their tutoring services.

I don't know why anyone would want to go to law school in today's age. A lot of lawyers don't make nearly as much as people think they make. The ones that do work insane hours and have no life outside of work. There's been an oversupply of law degrees in the US for a while now, so the job market favors employers and they can get away with mistreating their staff.

Ugh, I hit reply too early and the client I'm using doesn't support editing comments.

I'm busy at work and OP is probably not going to change their mind, so I'm leaving this.

Most of the countries ranked low on that list practice arranged marriages with no premarital sex. Is this what you're advocating for? Because I'd bet most Americans and Europeans don't want to live that lifestyle.

For some STIs the main consequence is the stigma in the first place. Creating more stigma to reduce

1. Condoms are only partially effective 2. Many STIs are asymptomatic 3. See #2

This is just obviously false.

That only makes sense if you assume the purpose of the test is to correctly apply logic rather than guess the actual number of Elephants in Germany. Someone who's not familiar with standardized testing may assume the latter is more important.

Your being sparky and you really haven't shown you understand the topic you're talking about. If you think OP is wrong, refute them with facts.

Most ADHD meds do more than just increase dopamine. They at the least increase Norepinephrine too, and may mildly affect serotonin. Plus we still don't fully understand these meds so there may be other things they're doing, or there may be second order effects we don't understand yet. Saying ADHD is just a dopamine deficiency is extremely reductive.

I mean, is the problem that people aren't _motivated_ enough to find a partner? That seems unlikely given how much you see people complaining about not being able to find a partner online. It seems like people want a partner, but something is getting in the way. I don't think motivation is the issue.

Cameras amplify the damage that bad laws can do.

They should have known that an economic downturn was possible and planned for it. Wtf do these C-level execs get paid millions of dollars for?

12 steps work great for a lot of people, but we need to be careful not to push the narrative that it's a cure-all for addiction. 12 steppers often act like it is and blame the addict for not trying hard enough if the 12 steps don't work for them. The latest research shows that at best it works for 1/3 of addicts/alcoholics. This makes sense since mental illness is complicated and we wouldn't expect a single treatment to work for everybody.

What we really need is better research to develop treatment methods that don't require people to essentially join a new religion and devote 5-10 hours of volunteer participation for the rest of their lives (I think it's understandable that not everyone wants to adopt this lifestyle). I fear that the "12 steps for everybody" model of addiction treatment gets in the way of that.

This should be at the top.

Parler and Kiwifarms weren't outlawed by the US government.

OMG, so much bad advice in this thread.

The best advice here is the comment telling you not to listen to us. You're not going to get good advice from strangers that know nothing about you.

This person clearly has severe trauma that's leading to suicidality. I don't think giving up carbs will help.

OP didn't say "porn bad for children". They said "porn bad".

So why not let people decide for themselves whether they want to be remote? You're assuming in person workers are more effective, which is precisely what's in question to begin with.

I'm listening to this now and love it. The best part is that he puts clips of various types of music throughout (European) history, so you get to listen to them all and compare.