CodfishCartographer posted:

I've always found Jonestown super creepy and interesting. This is a really good documentary on it for those that're more interested in everything.

Gibfender posted:

Really good long form article on this disaster:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/

Basebf555 posted:

Of course by "anti-suicide stuff", I'm sure you just mean a simple barrier that would force people to put effort into climbing over it. Why anyone would fight against that is just baffling to me. So many of these suicides are people who just say "gently caress it" and hop over the rail really quick, and The Bridge featured testimony from a guy who said he regretted jumping the instant he did it but it was too late to grab onto anything. Simple barriers that force people to put more effort into jumping are proven to be effective in preventing a lot of them.

I guess its just that same old stigma where some think that suicidal people don't deserve help or resources because they're weak or disrespectful to God or whatever.

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PhantomPayne posted:

It's always horrifying learning that the medical education is broken pretty much everywhere.

When I was an intern (in mexico) we had to do "night guards" every third day. We would work 36 hours + extra time depending on your rotating service (internal medicine loved doing expositions and classes, so we were out at 6, and surgery was pretty much operating all day, sometimes finishing the day at 7ish).

Pretty much every night guard was a skeleton team with 3 residents and an intern that were all hungry, tired and sleep deprived, but loving something up (a note, a class, or not reading up a new article) would get you punished and get you another night guard, which would in turn become a vicious cycle.

There was one ortho resident who basically resigned himself to living his whole first year inside the resident quarters since most of his higher ups liked to gently caress with him and punish him for any single detail.

I saw a lot of breakdowns, and they would be pretty much be ignored by the education staff since, "thats real life" and "if you cant handle stress you aren't cut out to be a doctor".

Last I heard, the night guards were now every fourth day, which sounds a bit better, but our health education system should get a whole revamp considering how stressful it is for a 23 year old thats integral for a hospital to function correctly.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Academia is designed to make you insane and unintelligible.

zapffe posted:

In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

If you haven't seen the documentary, this isn't really a joke. Its not outright stated, but its pretty heavily implied there was an actual qanon style cabal of elite pedos, and Saville was deep in the group.

DesperateDan posted:

worst thing about saville was the whole media timeline of

- oh hey now he's dead we can finally talk about how saville had been noncing kids dead or alive for years with the explicit knowledge and assistance of at least dozens of people

- this was the case because a large proportion of celebrities and related jobs were also active paedophiles/complicit in enabling abuse and a bunch are still alive/powerful/active

- heh oh and politicians too, and there's little reason to think anything changed

- dont worry though cause there will be an extensive investigation into establishment and media paedophile rings that would never get sidelined, buried utterly and forgotten about like it didn't exist

- *sudden and absolute unerring silence on that particular issue forevermore*


there was a vanishingly quick peek behind the curtain but that was it, like ghislane maxwell who is gonna go down for selling kids to loving nobody, don't ask about that