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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Tbf, I work closely with this population and would prefer the money be funneled into public housing that doesn’t evict people for using, and things like that, rather than just handed to people who have no framework to use it and possibly unstable executive function. For one thing, the resources tend to go much further. For another, many of my patients are put in danger by sudden cash windfalls.

    However I’d still prefer them to get a wad of cash to the current solution, which is “kick them out of anywhere you find them and hope they eventually just vanish”


  • I mean, it’s only a difficult problem if you consider helping ninety people improve their lives at the cost of spending taxpayer money to support ten people’s bad habits to be difficult. The real issue here is the number of people (conservative and liberal “centrist” alike) who consider it more important to uphold their personal view of morality than it is to help our fellow humans.

    Give them money? But some of them might do the bad thing, so obviously no.




  • This is a very odd comment.

    1. I’m not sure how my comment could possibly have been any more calm. I’m just cautioning on sharing that specific type of information without a source handy.
    2. You had not posted sources when I left my comment. I cannot predict what you’ll post before you post it. Honestly I still don’t see you sharing a source anywhere else in your post history, did you make an edit that didn’t save and then blame me for it?
    3. Brains are part of biology. Biology does not mean “unchanging”, I’m very familiar with neuroplasticity. However “it’s not biological, brains can change” is a truly bizarre statement.
    4. I’m a card carrying socialist. Wrote the card myself. I’m also a doctor and don’t like seeing pop science shared uncritically as a way to imply biological superiority over my opponents, because it doesn’t help my cause in any way.

    For someone attacking me for perceived anger, I feel like you could take some of your own advice re. counting to ten before posting.









  • I think specifically the concept of transgender is fairly modern, and probably shouldn’t be applied to someone from such a different culture. It’s definitely possible they would have been the equivalent to what we call trans, and that’d be cool AF, but there’s no way to differentiate whether or not this was a genetically female person who identified with a different gender role, or if it’s evidence that being a warrior was an acceptable role for anyone regardless of gender.

    Either way it’s awesome.