iirc Alexandre Dumas (three musketeers dude) was b/Black but that tends to get downplayed.
I cannot gd remember where I heard that, but wikipedia said mixed race? Idk if it meant consentual, but I hope so. Obv hierarchical systems muddy that situation for anyone
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People with favourable socioeconomic conditions, such as high incomes or education levels, face a reduced risk of age-related diseases and show fewer signs of biological ageing than peers of the same age, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
"the Resilience Ethnicity and Adolescent Mental Health (REACH) cohorts".
🤨 REAMH?
Research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has tracked depressive symptoms in 7100 young people from Tokyo and London and shown girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both cities. The study found that this gap is around twice as large in London and the year-on-year rise in depressive symptoms is around four times steeper for teenage girls in London than for teenage girls in Tokyo.
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Work is not inherently valuable; YOU are inherently valuable.
Disagree? Fight me.
https://nebula.tv/videos/jaredhenderson-how-work-took-over-the-world/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGDdV83jnY
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Consider risks before acting, where you can. If not, try to mitigate any harms you can think of.
Like, get a trained human (or at least non-LLM) therapist or counsellor.
But if you can't afford one, don't feel comfortable with Samaritans, or are too eager to use a Machine Learning tool with no standard ethics requirements, then please look after yourself.
Use an alias for yourself and others.
Mix them up once in a while.
Change details (location, season, day, time, gender(s) or lack thereof, number of people, exact order of events, etc).
what in the fuck is this nonsense?
These claims are infuriating bullshit and I need to stop thinking about it or I may scream.
Jesus holy shit fuycking christ nuggets. TRY CRITICAL THINKING FOR TWO SECONDS.
I kept waiting for the bait-and-switch where he's like "however, the biotic origin of life explains NOTHING because it becomes either a recursive problem or a much longer scale recursive problem".
Or "aha, gotcha! The points I've been making are unsubstantiated and flimsy, but because I'm talking in a video about it, you probably believed me. That's okay! We all have heuristics / cognitive biases."
But no. Unless he says it at the very end after I lost patience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsgTUAt4SUo
What is WITH the anti-abstract thought and education-bashing, ffs?
There is merit to learning new things of ANY variety. Guiding people to experience new ideas is worthwhile, if at least for the opportunity to notice new hobbies or interests, or spark connections between ideas later.
JFC. Yes. Teach people basic accounting, how to compose an email, and how to search for information at a library and online. Those are vital skills for everyone to learn and, unfortunately, it's most convenient to teach a cohort at a time while young and in fewer places.
That doesn't mean any non-work or "unproductive" pursuits are useless. How utterly unimaginative and irresponsible. WTAF?!
Also, I had an epiphany. Therapy has inherent value even in shitty situations. At the very least, counselling can* grant you an example template of a (one-sided) healthy relationship.
It's unfair to have to wait or pay for it.
Regardless of what factors facilitate that experience, still, knowing what that COULD look like is constructive.
* [ I say "can" because some individuals should not be in mental health professions, others could be if they have better working conditions, and yet more can always have an off day -- or you two just might not mesh as people. It happens. ]
e.g. my therapist can't make my doctor stop being a shit, but knowing they believe me when I say it stresses me out is indispensable.
You need a handler for the spy-craft of existing while mistreated.
Someone must remind you that imagination for restructuring society is boundless.
We CAN meet everyone's needs if and only if we first consider it possible.
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkSaturday #therapy #counselling #CBT #psychodynamic #humanistic #PersonCentred #psychotherapy #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #distress #depression #situational #disability
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