Moral and successful? Even if this guy was addicted to meth (which you don’t know) it’s one of the most addictive drugs on the planet. Being an addict doesn’t make anyone less of a person.

I saw an IG post that said, “He died like he lived. Deserving to get shot in the neck.”

There are enough reasons to hate him. You don’t have to judge people for what they look like.

Jesus christ dude. A few years ago we were marching hopelessly towards extinction, and then a handful of psychopaths decided we should be sprinting. One day a more intelligent lifeform will read our story as a classic tragedy.

After one of the murders in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey was asked if MPD could arrest ICE goons. His response: “Legally speaking, yes. Practically speaking… it gets a little hairy when they outnumber us and have bigger guns. We don’t want to create warfare in the streets.” God I fucking hate that man.

federal intervention is expected

Oh good. That should help things.

Ooh, Casefile did a great podcast ep on this. Episode 306. (If you’re not familiar, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime. It’s not exploitative or voyeuristic. Just stories of notable crimes and their investigations, with plenty of awful police work and miscarriages of justice.)

I got a TCL last year and it wouldn’t let me use the TV until I set up the internet. After 4 factory resets I figured out how to put it in store demo mode, and plugged in a separate streaming device that connects to the internet. Now I realize I could have connected the TV to the internet and then blocked it at the network level.

Sorry, you said insurance and I missed it somehow. I agree that laymen and insurance companies treat it as a bible, but I also think that’s how the APA presents it. If the goal is to compile “symptoms that tend to present together” the DSM does a poor job of making that clear.

I have several problems with the DSM. This isn’t an exhaustive list but off the top of my head:

-It’s based on the idea that there’s a clear line between “normal” and “disordered” mental functioning, and that we can quantify all of a person’s experiences to land on either side of that line. There are a handful of diagnoses that are discrete enough for me to say “you either have it or you don’t” but the majority of them are so arbitrary that they’re not useful. Mood disorders are especially vague.

-Inter-rater reliability is notoriously poor. I can diagnose anyone with a disorder to argue medical necessity for therapy.

-It includes conditions that cannot and should not be diagnosed by mental health professionals, like narcolepsy. It’s good for providers to know what narcolepsy is, but unless they’re going to include every other medical condition, I don’t know why they include the ones they do.

-DSM-5 broadened the criteria for several disorders, possibly to increase access to insurance coverage, but it’s edging ever closer to categorizing every human experience as a disorder. According to DSM-5, if you’re having depressive symptoms for more than 2 weeks after a loved one dies, it’s no longer grief and it’s considered a major depressive episode. When people criticized that bereavement clause, DSM-5-TR included “prolonged grief disorder” which extends the time you can grieve the loss without a MDD diagnosis. But grief is absolutely a normal response to loss, and sometimes it can be really disruptive and long-lasting. Why are we pretending that’s disordered?

-The majority of every DSM task force has been older white men, and we should be very skeptical of what they consider normal or not.

I mean… insurance companies also treat it like the bible, as do many psychologists. It would be useful to have guidance like “these are symptoms that tend to present together” but that’s not how the DSM is written.

Gambling addiction is the scariest kind of addiction, IMO. You can get sober but you’re still in the hole.

Another nitpick I’m surprised I haven’t seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn’t know what units we use to measure the Dow.

I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. Does the installation wipe everything stored on the phone? I don’t mind installing apps individually, just wondering about files and photos. Also can I run Action Launcher on Graphene?

Aside from revenge against Walz… one theory is that we’re a functioning community that’s ethnically diverse, relatively progressive, union strong, and very friendly to queer folks. Fox News would have you believe that any one of those features creates a godless hellscape, but we’re doing pretty good. Minnesota grew a huge budget surplus under Walz, and then we invested it in schools and social programs. The Republican tradition is to destroy something (see: the federal government) and say, “See? Told you it was broken!”

Who’s the broken clock?

Your snarky defeatism is so cool and original! What sort of resistance are you engaging in that’s so effective?

The videos were sometimes watched from home and hotels, often late at night or early in the morning, it said.

I won’t claim to be an expert, but based on this I’d say this guy is an absolute fucking loser.

Ah, that is sensible. Thanks for clarifying, and I agree. Homelessness is a failure of a community. If the climate is already hostile to people who have shelter, we better make damn sure unhoused people are protected too.

I’m not trying to be dense here, but what sensible thing did you mean?

It’s not that someone’s “keeping them around.” They live there.