have you forgotten about princess diana and who she died with? They're almost 100years ahead of your prediction
You know what, yes. Let's use that shithole as our dumping ground. The one place I want to take a bajillion immigrants. It's been more than paid for.
if this were a rule in TOW I might actually play it.
There's another few phenomena at play. It's easy to dismiss it all as a huge wave of over prescription for pill purposes. And that is a part of it. But I know something about this, I've studied it, and know some local history about it.
The city I was from has a long history of issues with ADHD diagnosis right. In this country it was infamous (at least in health/medicine circles) for it in the 90s and early 2000s, because that city's diagnosis rate was something like 10-20x the rest of the country. Was it something in the water? Or were we just better at diagnosing it? Eyebrows were raised, and audits were done, what was causing this huge apparent increase? Basically this first big wave of diagnosis ended in about 2001 after the gov inquiry because it turns out most of it wasn't legit, it was teens (last 3 years of school) and uni age students and there were 2 main clinics, two big clusters, where there was a huge surge of diagnoses. One in the northern part of the city, one in the rich southern suburbs.
What was happening was two things. The northern cluster was a bunch of parents after the not-meth, for use or for sale. But the other clinic was in a very well-to-do area and it mostly wasn't about the drugs. It was about exams. By getting the diagnosis of ADHD they got one of two things, for some it was an excuse for why their precious little diddums wasn't doing so well at school, it wasn't the kid (or the parent's fault), it was this disease they had. The 2nd was additional time in exams, they got extra time and accommodations in the big final 'SAT' (equivalent) tests done in the the final 2 years of school (and all other tests and assessments). This is an advantage even if you're a moderately smart student who studies well, extra time in the big final exams is huge when it then affects what unis and courses you can then get into. It could be the difference between getting into med school or not. And then these exam/assessment benefits continue into uni also so a decent chunk of it was 18-24 also.
So then there was a big state governmental push to clamp down on that stuff, and psychiatrists in that city became very reluctant to diagnose and prescribe for it. Once one did, word got out, and they'd get flooded with those patients, and nobody wanted the gov breathing down their neck on that after the big 2000's scandal for a while. So then we had this big wave of people who do actually have mild or moderate ADHD but who couldn't get the diagnosis because the pendulum swung the other way to being overly restrictive. Which then creates a another class of people getting the adult diagnosis, the ones who were missed in school because their case was mild/moderate but the pendulum had swung towards being overly restrictive when they went through.
So that's then means you have the following groups of people seeking it:
- Drug seekers (for personal use, or for sale, uni students pay for dexamphetamine for study AND fun)
- Excuse seekers
- Exam/assessment accommodation seekers
- Legit mild-moderate cases that won't get picked up till teen/adulthood even in a less restrictive time/place
- Legit mild-moderate cases that went through at a time when it was overly restrictive and so they got missed
- Tiktok and porn addled brains that are misdiagnosed as adhd
- (misc other motivations, or some combination)
I'm not saying that a lot of it isn't drugs. But looking at the historical causes in the city I'm from, a good 40-50% of it was excuse-seeking and exam gaming, not the drugs. And once a wave starts, it becomes self-perpetuating as their peers and parents hear about it, and seek it out themselves.
(E: as someone else mentioned, there's also some other modern causes, so add in things like 'attention-seeking' and 'not neurotypical' bullshit too, which motivate people to try to get diagnosed, it has become 'trendy' in some circles. That is on top of other things on the supply side making it easier)
that's related to T
The anti hairloss meds fuck with your T
Let it recede, or shave it off.
Nah it was real bad imo
Nostalgia bait crap with none of the humour the first one had. I chuckled once. I'm burnt out on cape shit, marvel humour, 4th wall breaking 'we know its bad that's the joke, wink' humour, multiple universes/timetravel, 'r-rated aren't we so edgy' humour, crossovers... and it was all of that.
But I could forgive all of that if it were funny. It wasn't.
Yeah, we agree on that, absolutely a product of the enlightenment. I'll go further, it's the enlightenment taken to one of it's natural conclusions.
vegetable wilson let his wife run things.
even satan can quote the bible.
it worked to oust liz truss
Why not try it again?
take a look at the size and regions of Christendom before and after islam, and how islam accomplished that.
They've been a problem for 1400 years. They might be more of a problem because of isreal right now. But still a problem.
Those are exclusively limited to preventing state agencies from awarding contracts to companies boycotting Israel. There's no law against any individual boycotting Israel.
When the fed gov becomes big enough and is a significant enough part of an industry that then becomes a de facto law preventing the what-should-be private sector from boycotting isreal.
No you're better than this.
How was it before significant contact with the west. We're not talking modern shit here.
Japan is superior to any western country.
Only when there are western countries around and influencing it.
How was it before significant contact with the west? Japan's greatness is dependant on the west.
How sad is it that I knew from the headline alone that this would be a black girl?
There was a chance it was a mentally ill man.
Yeah I've always thought putting a tonne of time into those guitar games was dumb af
Lower floor, so by all means, good to play casually. No need to learn an actual instrument, just have some fun.
But if the time you spent on them could have you playing an actual guitar pretty well, then yeah, what a waste.
Oh sure, you can make the argument for this one person who also streams, then yeah, they may be better off with the guitar hero. But no, its a waste for most people.
Then an actor shot the place up, but only ended up hitting the hard drive in there, the one thing a pizzagate believer wouldn't want to hit.
mmmhmmm
Fake and gay inbred german monarchs. Not of the same stock as the people. That's the issue.
And also don't forget there wasn't a real effort at destasification. It's not even a word.
Nah this one has been on people's radar for a while: because their prison escape game had moments of great stuff, 10% of it was really cool co-op mechanics. Then their 'it takes two' game, took what worked and made it so 80% of the game was the stuff that worked well, all while there was a gaming drought. The aesthetic aside, it was a good game at the right time that was 40x better than their last. All while streaming of co-op games has seen an upsurge again. With that level of improvement, the next one was highly anticipated. Anyone who likes co-op like they specialise in was looking forward and hoping for something great from em.
I agree with the other crits that I've seen here, but this does have a pedigree, it was from a 'franchise' of co-op games that had been getting better and better and really delivered for a lot of people last time. It's not from nowhere
Thanks for the rec!
i use a video download thing a lot, that would be annoying to lose for me
But still worth staying with brave imo
Actors are on par with prostitutes and tax collectors. We should never have abandoned this cultural standard
I’d already forgotten about it to laugh at avowed
Perhaps on average, but those gen z who do go, really go and take it seriously. The trad churches, the latin mass traditional catholic and eastern rites, the orthobros, they're all seeing a resurgence and it's coming from gen z.