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  1. Comment on Why Disney ditched ‘Doctor Who’ in ~tv

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    American fan here! There are dozens of us!

    American fan here! There are dozens of us!

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  2. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 27 in ~society

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    I appreciate your sacrifice comrade. Ai videos are weird and they clearly did so much editing. Honestly, it's such a piece of trash that it's very fitting for Cuomo's campaign

    I appreciate your sacrifice comrade.

    Ai videos are weird and they clearly did so much editing. Honestly, it's such a piece of trash that it's very fitting for Cuomo's campaign

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    The guy in charge waves away the specifics when the reporter asks

    The guy in charge waves away the specifics when the reporter asks

    Mr. Shumway allowed that planning was at an early stage, and many questions remained: What would happen to people who did not comply with the campus’s sobriety or treatment mandates? Would people who wished to leave be free to do so? Could sobriety requirements result in people losing subsidized housing and returning to homelessness?

    “You’re looking for granularity in a blue-sky conversation,” Mr. Shumway said. He said he had presented the plans to federal officials and “got very positive signals.”

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    Since the topic is about this specific situation in relation to the Trump executive order and whether or not it would be voluntary given the intent of those building this, I didn't really address...

    Since the topic is about this specific situation in relation to the Trump executive order and whether or not it would be voluntary given the intent of those building this, I didn't really address involuntary commitment in general.

    I do not believe in it as a solution for homelessness.

    I am involved in sending people to the hospital on an involuntary or "voluntold" basis regularly and work with them afterwards. When it's needed it can be literally life saving. But it can also be incredibly traumatic. Mostly we ( specifically American society) have agreed the latter is worth the trade off of the former. Not everyone who has experienced it agrees.

    But without the "saving lives" level of trade off, I'm not nearly as keen on it. And most of it is very short term - days - with longer term treatment requiring a much higher level of proof. In Utah that requires a court hearing with rights for the defendant/patient.

    And that's without even considering how traumatic even voluntary congregate shelters can be, and how you often lose your pets, and are split from your families based on gender oh wait, it's Utah, by "sex" in an imaginary binary only. And when people start talking about saving souls like in this article I start to have questions about religious expectations and requirements. That doesn't even get into how bad jails are - and how a locked campus substance abuse program that's explicitly coerced is not that much different.

    I have no doubt this is actually about removing the "eyesore" that these people consider the homeless to be from the political level at least.

    But my full thoughts on involuntary commitment are complex and off topic. The executive order pushes involuntary treatment for the homeless not because it's best practice but because they want to force people into being "fixed" and if it doesn't work they'll just keep forcing.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on US libraries scramble for books after giant distributor shuts down in ~books

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    Yes I got a notice from my library that they're pivoting to another service (Palace Project) but that existing holds and checkouts won't come with.

    Yes I got a notice from my library that they're pivoting to another service (Palace Project) but that existing holds and checkouts won't come with.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 27 in ~society

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    As if the court didn't see the first one and no one remembers it. Which as I was typing was.... Concerning actually. It's more 1984 than I would like.

    As if the court didn't see the first one and no one remembers it.

    Which as I was typing was.... Concerning actually. It's more 1984 than I would like.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 27 in ~society

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    You're not tricking me into searching that. Not with these eyeballs. But I did check AO3 and there is only one fic with Bill (Schoolhouse Rock) and it's G rated. Guess that "junior staffer" got...

    almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself.

    You're not tricking me into searching that. Not with these eyeballs. But I did check AO3 and there is only one fic with Bill (Schoolhouse Rock) and it's G rated.

    Guess that "junior staffer" got rehired after the last one.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on How to stop negative thoughts and reset your mind for positive thinking in ~health.mental

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    And it's worth noting that CBT and workbook style assignments don't work for everyone. They're great for the people that vibe with them but not everyone will feel better/experience improvement/etc...

    And it's worth noting that CBT and workbook style assignments don't work for everyone. They're great for the people that vibe with them but not everyone will feel better/experience improvement/etc with any given treatment or technique. Things are worth trying but not worth making oneself (more) miserable over! (And yay for the folks it works for)

    Just a reminder for folks in general. It can get disheartening when practices, or medications, or anything that others recommend doesn't click for you personally, especially if you're already prone to the spiraling negative thoughts.

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  9. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    It's worth noting the existing law in Utah per the article I'm going to have to look into France's system as it sounds concerningly flexible in reasons for commitment. A family member and two...

    It's worth noting the existing law in Utah per the article

    Under Utah’s current law, a judge must find that an individual is dangerous or gravely disabled, and patients have the right to an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses.

    I'm going to have to look into France's system as it sounds concerningly flexible in reasons for commitment. A family member and two medical certifications is very different than being a danger to one's self or others for example. But it's not clear if this is indefinite or what restrictions there are on the certificates and my French is almost certainly not good enough to manage it. However 24 percent is probably not that high. Many people are held on short involuntary hospitalizations in the US for example.

    However many of the subsections on that page don't actually provide any information on involuntary commitment in those countries so it's not super useful for comparison. The Netherlands only talks about "convicts", Japan just lists the law, Ireland links to another page. Germany works on the guardianship system, etc.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Good News - A thread and a challenge in ~news

  11. Comment on Good News - A thread and a challenge in ~news

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    If the mood strikes you, share one here

    If the mood strikes you, share one here

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  12. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    No I'm not playing this game. . You asked "why does it have to be involuntary" and I was stunned, because either you didn't read the article or you didn't understand it. So as clear as possible,...

    No I'm not playing this game. . You asked "why does it have to be involuntary" and I was stunned, because either you didn't read the article or you didn't understand it. So as clear as possible, the answer is ***BECAUSE THEY WANT IT TO BE INVOLUNTARY. *** That is the whole point. Asking why it has to be that way is like asking why ICE has to be violent. It doesn't. They are choosing to be. I won't even quote the critics just the planners' goals and the reporting.

    Trump wants it:

    He said the administration would “open up large parcels of inexpensive land” where “dangerously deranged” people “can be relocated and their problems identified.”

    And his housing secretary:

    Asked in the confirmation process if he supported “relocation camps” for homeless people, Scott Turner, the housing secretary, did not reject the idea.

    As for this specific location:

    They also vow stern measures to move homeless people to the remote site and force many of them to undergo treatment,

    The Utah plan returns to an earlier “treatment first” model that conditions aid on sobriety or compliance with psychiatric treatment.

    As Mr. Shumway describes it, nearly two-thirds of the 1,300 homeless people potentially sent to the site could be there for involuntary treatment. About 400 beds would be set aside for psychiatric treatment. Another 400 beds would provide substance abuse treatment “as an alternative to jail,” he said, with entry and exit “not voluntary.”

    Mr. Shumway’s vision would require expanding civil commitment, the process by which a person can be forced to accept mental health treatment.

    Utah’s plan is novel in that it combines elements of a homeless shelter and a psychiatric hospital, sharply expanding involuntary treatment.

    With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some homeless Utahns can avoid jail.

    Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under court-ordered civil commitment

    Except let's hear from a community member, one of the local homeless people:

    But when shown a rendering of the site, she was skeptical. “OK, so straight up, this reminds me of a concentration camp,” she said. “Trying to get all the homeless in one area by the airport. I mean — would we be able to leave of our own free will?”

    So, no, I'm not playing the "wait and see maybe it won't be so bad" game when what they want to do is literally illegal under current civil commitment laws and they're going forward anyway.

    I will not be so cowardly as the NYT. My expectations have been sadly met here however so please don't bother making the case of why this might be ok if we just let them build it, implement it, and see what the courts say while being "suspicious" instead of explicitly critical.

    This plan is disgusting as intended and cannot be saved by waiting to see if it isn't so bad when it's running. And it is in line with the equally disgusting executive order and is exactly what people like myself predicted and feared.

    23 votes

  13. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    The title is mine. The NYT's is far too vague for this topic. Because frankly, this is horrifying. This is the same ideology as is behind Trump's Executive Order And honestly looks a lot like a...

    The title is mine. The NYT's is far too vague for this topic. Because frankly, this is horrifying. This is the same ideology as is behind Trump's Executive Order

    And honestly looks a lot like a concentration camp to me. Or a psychiatric prison. Or a labor camp. Or a place where undesirables disappear.

    15 votes

  15. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    I guess the real question is can you actually ban advertising? Especially if you look at the modern influencer advertising culture. You can technically ban it, but you can't necessarily stop...

    I guess the real question is can you actually ban advertising? Especially if you look at the modern influencer advertising culture. You can technically ban it, but you can't necessarily stop somebody from talking about the products they're using or even just showing them as they do a makeup tutorial or as they talk about the game they're playing while streaming or something.

    It almost makes me think by banning it you bring back some of the worst parts of less regulated advertising. How do you even confirm advertising is happening or how can you prove it at least?

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge in ~news

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    It may depend on the specific triggers in the system. Like certain actions may put off an audible alarm or a silent alarm just to the security office and certain other things may automatically...

    It may depend on the specific triggers in the system. Like certain actions may put off an audible alarm or a silent alarm just to the security office and certain other things may automatically notify the police. Just like how some fire systems will put an entire building an alarm for one smoke detector and contact the fire department and others will require to smoke detectors to go off before making an entire building evacuate just doing an audible alarm when there's a single one activated. But they also have said that their system needed updated for a while so it could just be really old and bad

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 1 - '9x7.' | Full episode in ~tv

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    And wanted you to know that I do appreciate this even though I'm behind and therefore just haven't been commenting on. And then when I catch up I forget to come back and comment. But I did want...

    And wanted you to know that I do appreciate this even though I'm behind and therefore just haven't been commenting on. And then when I catch up I forget to come back and comment. But I did want you to know that I do really appreciate the reminder of these being posted here. Thank you!

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power in ~lgbt

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    Yeah though I think there are people if you go back a few generations who probably could have told you about "the two gentlemen" who lived together with a look or "the man who wore a dress but...

    Yeah though I think there are people if you go back a few generations who probably could have told you about "the two gentlemen" who lived together with a look or "the man who wore a dress but that's just how he was, he didn't bother no one"

    But when people stop seeing "different" people as people they stop caring about them. I'm glad I can help at least.

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  19. Comment on A Nazi tattoo exposes US Democrats’ greatest weakness in ~society

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    Warning rant with you as a springboard @Gaywallet: I say once again let just one of the people advocating for trans people losing rights as a sound political strategy - because without the defense...

    Warning rant with you as a springboard @Gaywallet:

    I say once again let just one of the people advocating for trans people losing rights as a sound political strategy - because without the defense of them, they will be lost - tell me they're willing to lose the same rights.

    If you're (general) signing up to be allowed to be legally denied fair housing protections, to be fired, harassed and arrested for your failure to gender present "appropriately" by someone else's standard, to advocate for the literal banning of your medical care, to be banned from public restrooms, to not be allowed to participate in even sports culture, because you're simultaneously cheating and superior and mentally ill and inferior... Cool at least then you're consistent.

    But it's always people advocating for the loss of other people's rights. Already people are saying we shouldn't provide emergency medical care to undocumented immigrants. That US citizens should be de-naturalized. That the constitution doesn't apply to "them".

    Put up or shut up. Be willing to sign up for the dehumanizing rights-denying experience or find a new talking point.

    9 votes

  20. Comment on Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power in ~lgbt

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    To be clear, I didn't say only in "other" cultures and wasn't implying trans folks only show up "elsewhere" by any means. From the Public Universal Friend to Thomas/ine Hall, we can find trans...

    To be clear, I didn't say only in "other" cultures and wasn't implying trans folks only show up "elsewhere" by any means. From the Public Universal Friend to Thomas/ine Hall, we can find trans (and intersex and GNC) people in the "United States" since the colonizers named it such (and much earlier on Turtle Island in general in the various ways different tribes identified the category called two spirit)

    But yes I take your point. I just like to broaden my response beyond that initial step. The Public Universal Friend was a preacher after all.

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