Sanman
O.G.
Wildfire smoke is making its way down the east coast. I imagine Trump will try to tariff you guys for the illegal import.
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From the mountain west, I'd highly recommend making one of these to scrub your indoor air: Corsi–Rosenthal Box - Wikipedia
Sanman
O.G.
Interesting design and I am all for making anything with duct tape. However, my wife has been an air purifier advocate for a while now, so we have several in the house already.
I think I like the duct tape aspect as well. I love things that are cheap and can beat more expensive things.
Tried listening to some of Ariana Grande's new songs and became concerned that I couldn't really understand what she was saying, only to realize no one else could either. Looking forward to getting this section of grant reviews done today.
I am reading a book about gender affirming care. The information is good. I really wish more authors who do advocacy work could write in a less chastising voice. I am reading the book. I am already sold on the message. I am a quarter of the way through, and they are still writing like they have to justify why the work is important and how people consistently get it wrong. I have put down so many potentially lovely books because I didn't feel like feeling lectured about something I already agree with. That is my early morning Friday rant.
I am looking forward to going to the farmers market this weekend.
I am looking forward to going to the farmers market this weekend.
I think you're touching on an important point about persuasion. I'm listening to a book on archaeology by Kenneth Feder called Native America. It's a wonderful book about the peopling of the Americas and the lives of ancient peoples through the study of the things, and contexts, they left behind. It begins with a call for better public outreach, and a critique of how poorly archaeology often communicates with the general public.
But he also spends a lot of time being sanctimonious and beating a few dead horses. The points are important, for example, emphasizing that people were here long before Europeans “discovered” the Americas, but after a while I find myself thinking trust the reader to understand your original point. You don't always have to return to the same injustice to make clear that it matters.
I think persuasion is really important to consider when you're trying to reach a general audience. Subject-matter experts are understandably frustrated by the misconceptions, injustices, or bad arguments they encounter over and over again, and I imagine it can feel like this is their chance to finally correct the record. But in the long run, that tone can alienate a pretty large group of readers-including people who already agree with you.
Sometimes I think advocacy writing gets more focused on signaling, “I understand the stakes and I am firmly on the right side of this,” than on making the most compelling or effective case. And ironically, I think that can make the advocacy less persuasive.
I agree. I enjoy being pushed to think deeply and challenged on my old thinking, but it requires some pacing. If I am consistently being presented the content in an almost adversarial framework, it becomes fatiguing over time. I think that can work under certain conditions, but it's rough when the purpose of the book is primarily educational. I need to keep this in mind for some of my didactics. I have had some really good trainings where the presenter approached teaching like everyone showed up in good faith and had a confident enthusiasm for the material. I want to make sure I keep that spirit.
Your book does sound interesting. I might give it a listen after something lighter first.
Watching clips of a very public trial of a mom who killed her 3 kids in my state makes me sad to see the hot mess that the behavioral health system is. Whether it was intentional or a result of PP psychosis, there were so many missed opportunities to possibly change the outcome.
I've been sort of following it and would love to hear what you think should have been done differently.
The inpatient discharge process sucks across the board. Not enough collaboration with outside providers unfortunately. Which is likely because of insurance policies and not because staff aren’t willing to try. But as an outpatient provider, I can’t tell you how many times clients have gotten discharged without reaching out to discuss discharge needs/plans.
Limited engagement of the other parent (in this case the father) in planning/coordinating for services. Curious if providers asked her if she wanted to sign release for the husband (I’m not watching every moment of the trial so maybe it was learned they did, but in general that doesn’t happen much).
Just a ****ty situation all around.
Limited engagement of the other parent (in this case the father) in planning/coordinating for services. Curious if providers asked her if she wanted to sign release for the husband (I’m not watching every moment of the trial so maybe it was learned they did, but in general that doesn’t happen much).
Just a ****ty situation all around.
I have been on a social bender for like six days and I'm really looking forward to some introversion time this weekend. I'm surfing with a few friends tomorrow, but clearing the rest of my weekend for whiskey and my book.
Terrifying experience: my uber driver was a decently published PhD in biochemistry. Dude got super ill during the tenure process, didn’t get it, and is now driving for a living. Academia is a BS profession. Nice car though.
Let us hope that he is not in the midst of creating an autobiographical super-villian 'origin story'
The testimony from the inpatient psychiatrist really showed the potential liability drawbacks of round and go models—she came across as having close to zero interaction with or knowledge of the patient, and I can see that not sitting well with the jury.
On the flip side, I got super sick during my tenure track and I think the schedule flexibility of academia was a saving grace. I’m having a bad flare out of nowhere right before the beginning of the semester, though, which sucks.
Just finished second week at new job. Worked with psychometrists for first time in my career (I appreciate them doing a lot of the dirty work, like sending out links for global forms!). Just finished moving the last of our stuff from storage are to new apartment. Currently sitting out on the terrace of our new 32nd floor apartment, hanging out with the gargoyle and enjoying the views of what you might not be surprised we're still calling Lake ONTARIO! Heading down to the city square later to the Muslim Festival for some good food and music. I hope you all enjoy these last weeks of summer- especially those of heading back to class next week!
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Not Friday, obviously, but a future Friday: I gave up and requested time off on GTA VI's release date
Just got my child their flu shot, but this reminds me that I still need to get mine sometime soon.
I got my flu shot last week, fortunately. I am in line to get tested since the little one tested positive recently. It has been an adventure.
You've inspired me to get my shot this afternoon!
I forgot to reply to this, but I once worked "security" at the Wisconsin State Fair and yeah ... it was a 19 day gig and one of the guys I was doing it with was a former TT history professor who did not receive tenure. It affected me way more than I thought it could at the time.
I read they are predicting over a billion dollars of lost productivity on launch day.
I played GTA on PS3 a thousand years ago. I’ve been dabbling w GTA V on PS5 recently. Thinking of taking launch day off bc it’s practically the weekend.
I got my flu shot recently, too! It knocked me down pretty hard, but better than the real thing.
I saw that article about lost productivity, haha. Yeah, I'm replaying parts of 5 right now!
I read they are predicting over a billion dollars of lost productivity on launch day.
I played GTA on PS3 a thousand years ago. I’ve been dabbling w GTA V on PS5 recently. Thinking of taking launch day off bc it’s practically the weekend.
I saw that article about lost productivity, haha. Yeah, I'm replaying parts of 5 right now!
I’m really interested to see how the gameplay has evolved; the previews I’ve read about talk about how it is much more adaptive/reactive. I am very much a chaos fun player. Open world is made for chaos fun, which is why when I rebooted GTA 5 and they were making me complete some missions...ugh.
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I saw You Can See Everything with my SO last weekend and it is incredible. 10/10 mindtrip
I’ve been debating whether I should watch it or not.
I'm waiting for the slew of 'PTSD Evaluation' cases to come into PCT due to exposure to violence in the video game.
Sanman
O.G.
Serious question, do drone pilots qualify for a PTSD diagnosis?
I could almost see a claim if they blew up a school full of kids or something.
I once had a cook on a navy ship claim (& RECEIVE?!) a diagnosis of PTSD having never left the ship while deployed. He wasn’t my individual case, but I had him in some groups, and all of the Vets hated the guy bc they all knew he was full of it. Not sure how he got around Criterion A, but we got stuck w him for a couple of months in the residential substance abuse treatment program.
Sure, if they ordered strikes.
To me, the kinds of things that military drone operators in a combat theater would routinely be exposed to would clearly qualify as Criterion A events (including ordering strikes or even witnessing by video scenes of carnage in a war zone)....under...
"Indirect aversive exposure: Facing repeated or extreme exposure to graphic details of trauma, typically in the line of duty for first responders, police, or military personnel (media exposure does not count unless work-related)."
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Sanman
O.G.
So, at what point do the video game battle simulations and drone setups collide? I see Criterion A getting messy there.
I dunno, to me it makes a difference if they are viewing actual scenes of actual carnage from an actual war zone vs. simulated...but I think I get your point regarding the fringes of Criterion A.
When you have to see all the crappy non-Criterion A events cited by clinicians/patients alike all day long every day...you LONG for a Criterion A involving an actual drone operator in an actual war zone viewing scenes of actual carnage/ casualties and wreckage.
Not someone I treated or met through the VA/my professional role (hence why i can divulge this). But a personal friend of mine was a drone operator who did take part in operations that had confirmed civilian collateral. He did end up seeking treatment at a VA for PTSD related concerns due to that exposure, but I obviously never asked about the psychodiagnostic legitimacy of his DX (because who the **** would do this with their friends lol).
We actually had some pretty good conversations on how it's too "easy" to psychologcally distance yourself after blowing up a village full of people via drone compared to conventional combat. I too was of the mind that we shouldn't make war "easier."
It's so good, especially to watch in theaters, because people legitimately react.
I would say yes. I mean while it's being observed on video, the violence is real and being perpetrated by them.
Sanman
O.G.
It is not about legitimacy of what the person is experiencing as much as how we are delineating diagnostic criteria. The convergence between things like virtual reality gaming and images seen by drone pilots starts to blur the line between fake and real. I also think about whether those folks at Facebook monitoring reported content and their reported symptomology. The line between real and digital experiences seems to be blurring as to the impact it can have on mental health.
Same. I hear its good, but there is a part of me that does not want to give this person any money or attention.
This was my concern as well. It is always so disappointing to me that documentaries about awful people get so many more views than documentaries about people doing virtuous things.
Speaking of horrible ppl, you could always watch “Melania”…..you’d be one of dozens of ppl to watch it.
Hey now! At least hundreds of geriatric white women from the South bought tickets to that!
You won't be giving her money--they talk a lot of that piece in the documentary, actually!
You know, the ones who survived their out of state or illegal in-state back alley abortions as 12-14yo children, decades of domestic violence and martial rape, and horrible women’s healthcare they fought to keep and Melania supports.
Sorry, feeling spicy about how much the current Administration is trying to turn back the clock to pre-1865….it’s like people don’t know our own country’s ugly history against women and minorities.
Sanman
O.G.
Don't know or don't care unless it affects them?
In happier news, looking forward to getting back into the gym tomorrow after 2 wk off bc of an injury. Steam + cold plunge afterwards, I might even have a sauna beer, depending on what’s on tap. Not really a beer guy, except one ice cold wheat beer in the sauna is a game-changer.
I just like to remind people who voted for him, who are usually lower middle class or worse off, that I am doing phenomenally well in this economy. That my my very diversified investments, are far outstripping inflationary increases in consumer goods and rising healthcare costs. And, I thank them for funding my retirement with their votes. They usually don't like that.
I wish my gym allowed sauna beer...
