Lpzie posted:

Ham Cheeks posted:

is Columbo always drunk or does he just look that way?

19 o'clock posted:

i gotta try mushrooms sometime it's a drag that all my mushroom friends are people i don't necessarily want to do mushrooms with

RealityWarCriminal posted:

me on my winter shorts

titty_baby_ posted:

Disgusting

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1633865546881208320

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

Second generation LA and born on one of the hottest days of the year. Secretly the warming planet is a boon for people like me who enjoy hot weather.
It's 67 right now, I feel cold.

RealityWarCriminal posted:

me on my winter shorts

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

titty_baby_ posted:

Yeah bxtch well I'm from near Bakersfield where it'll be 100 every day for months and I loving hated it and moved to the coast where if its over 60 its a warm day

Lpzie posted:

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

DryGoods posted:

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

Uncle Wemus posted:

Freddie DeBoer:

Since a bunch of you are pretending to sincerely believe that capitalism is the root cause of depression

Capitalism is fairly young, while mental illness is not. There are all manner of mental disorders with etiologies strikingly similar to those of modern diseases described in texts from antiquity. How would capitalism cause mental illness thousands of years prior to its birth?

There is no simplistic relationship between the generosity of a country’s social safety net and its rates of mental illness and suicide. The Netherlands, a very generous social state and one that has invested a great deal of money and energy into modern psychiatric services, nevertheless suffers from high rates of mental illness. The Nordic social democratic model not only does not prevent suicidality, it is in fact associated with slightly higher than average rates. The USSR, supposedly home to an alternative economic system, had disturbingly high rates of mental illness. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has some of the highest suicide rates in the world. Meanwhile the advantages that more redistributive states might enjoy in mental wellness are hopelessly confounded by their overall status as wealthy and technologically advanced countries. If the problem is capitalism, why do various approaches to the market economy and attempts to ameliorate its ills not produce stable and significant advantages in mental wellness?

Everyone in our society lives under capitalism, yet only a small fractionhave severe mental illnesses. Saying that the problem is capitalism is thus no more justifiable than saying that breathing air causes mental illness; whatever the relationship between capitalism and mental illness, it cannot be said that life under capitalism itself is causative of mental illness based simply on observing the presence of both. The 1% of the American population that suffers from schizophrenia lives under the same capitalism as the 99% of the population that does not. What is the causative explanation that functions here?

Women commit suicide at a small fraction of the rate at which men do. Why is capitalism falling especially hard on men in this way?

There are consistent and significant racial differences in suicide rates. White people in America commit suicide some 10 percentage points higher than Asian people do. Why is capitalism having this odd effect?

There are differences in rates of suicidality between occupations. The military is hit especially hard, and yet military life is the closest Americans come to living under socialism. What explains this phenomenon?

Why do relative rates of mental illness and suicide rise and fall in countries where the economic system remains stable? Are they getting more or less capitalist in concert with these developments?

If suicide is purely a product of environment, why does prosperous and technologically advanced Japan have a far higher suicide rate than Syria, a country that has been ravaged by a brutal civil war for over a decade?

Why did I develop bipolar disorder in late adolescence where so many of the people who share my exact socioeconomic characteristics did not?

What does “it’s the capitalism/it’s the ‘system’” offer us? Analytically, emotionally, as a guide to immediate action? How am I supposed to interpret that sentiment, when it comes from someone who expresses skepticism about my medications and psychiatry in general? How does this statement help me? How does it help researchers hoping to develop better treatments for these diseases? How does it help doctors attempting to treat people who suffer from them? What actionable and practical reforms does it suggest? Where do we go from “it’s the capitalism, man”?

Joementum posted:

if you go on any online discussion board about Burlington, VT it is full of people acting like it's the same as NYC in Escape from New York: a lawless crime zone where only the strongest survive.


and i want to emphasize: this is about Burlington Vermont


people have completely lost the plot

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1633921323289444352

AxGrap posted:

Let me guess, your boss has pointy hair?

gently caress YOU

tacodaemon posted:

yesterday I saw a dog walker about to let their dog piss into the wind (making me worry the wind would blow piss on me) before they I guess thought better of it. if Tom Cotton hates how things currently work in DC so much I would be okay him jumping in the way to serve as a piss shield for me on windy days

Koirhor posted:

lol now my boss is posting dilbert comic strips in our teams chat

Hatebag posted:

Columbo needs his coat because it doubles as a blanket when he sleeps in his car

Ham Cheeks posted:

just one more thing....



gently caress you!!!

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1633865546881208320

Uncle Wemus posted:

Freddie DeBoer:

Since a bunch of you are pretending to sincerely believe that capitalism is the root cause of depression

Capitalism is fairly young, while mental illness is not. There are all manner of mental disorders with etiologies strikingly similar to those of modern diseases described in texts from antiquity. How would capitalism cause mental illness thousands of years prior to its birth?

There is no simplistic relationship between the generosity of a country’s social safety net and its rates of mental illness and suicide. The Netherlands, a very generous social state and one that has invested a great deal of money and energy into modern psychiatric services, nevertheless suffers from high rates of mental illness. The Nordic social democratic model not only does not prevent suicidality, it is in fact associated with slightly higher than average rates. The USSR, supposedly home to an alternative economic system, had disturbingly high rates of mental illness. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has some of the highest suicide rates in the world. Meanwhile the advantages that more redistributive states might enjoy in mental wellness are hopelessly confounded by their overall status as wealthy and technologically advanced countries. If the problem is capitalism, why do various approaches to the market economy and attempts to ameliorate its ills not produce stable and significant advantages in mental wellness?

Everyone in our society lives under capitalism, yet only a small fractionhave severe mental illnesses. Saying that the problem is capitalism is thus no more justifiable than saying that breathing air causes mental illness; whatever the relationship between capitalism and mental illness, it cannot be said that life under capitalism itself is causative of mental illness based simply on observing the presence of both. The 1% of the American population that suffers from schizophrenia lives under the same capitalism as the 99% of the population that does not. What is the causative explanation that functions here?

Women commit suicide at a small fraction of the rate at which men do. Why is capitalism falling especially hard on men in this way?

There are consistent and significant racial differences in suicide rates. White people in America commit suicide some 10 percentage points higher than Asian people do. Why is capitalism having this odd effect?

There are differences in rates of suicidality between occupations. The military is hit especially hard, and yet military life is the closest Americans come to living under socialism. What explains this phenomenon?

Why do relative rates of mental illness and suicide rise and fall in countries where the economic system remains stable? Are they getting more or less capitalist in concert with these developments?

If suicide is purely a product of environment, why does prosperous and technologically advanced Japan have a far higher suicide rate than Syria, a country that has been ravaged by a brutal civil war for over a decade?

Why did I develop bipolar disorder in late adolescence where so many of the people who share my exact socioeconomic characteristics did not?

What does “it’s the capitalism/it’s the ‘system’” offer us? Analytically, emotionally, as a guide to immediate action? How am I supposed to interpret that sentiment, when it comes from someone who expresses skepticism about my medications and psychiatry in general? How does this statement help me? How does it help researchers hoping to develop better treatments for these diseases? How does it help doctors attempting to treat people who suffer from them? What actionable and practical reforms does it suggest? Where do we go from “it’s the capitalism, man”?

VideoKid posted:

I was just on hold with 20 minutes with a landlord and instead of hold music they had Sean Hannity’s afternoon radio show. One weird trick to make your tenants stop calling you

tacodaemon posted:

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1633564535457222656

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1633749383815602176?s=20