Here’s one perspective: https://archive.is/yaFoo
Ask yourself: what would an official diagnosis bring you? And what would self-identification bring you? Are there specific issues?
Going through similar things right now, I feel like I’m probably autistic but I just have zero confidence in choosing that label for myself so I would like some actual confirmation. I have a suspicion I may have subclinical autism or something so that may not help at all.
Is there a game mode where you answer using a dropdown instead of a geopin?
But why does that line of reasoning not apply to rich YouTubers and Twitch streamers?
If influencers stopped working, their revenue would go down drastically, which can’t be said of Rowling. So in a sense they have to work for a living, but they’re also so rich that they could stop working if they wanted to. It just seems like they’re similar situations.
If you can call an athlete or a movie star labour aristocrats, it seems like that label would also apply to successful authors and influencers. They’re all propped up by the industries built around them.
Good point. A rough estimate would be she gets 10% of each of the 600,000,000 $15 Harry Potter books that have been sold worldwide. That comes out to $900,000,000.
A lot of that value came from the many workers involved in the publishing, marketing, translating, printing, shipping, etc. of the books. Did she get the surplus value of their labour? Does intellectual property count as means of production? How is that different from Youtubers and Twitch streamers benefitting from the labour put into their respective platforms?
If intellectual property is valid in at least some sense and she deserves monetary compensation for the sale of Italian translations, why does that not transfer to the licensing for movies and theme parks?
Btw I’m neither defending Rowling nor am I being antagonistic / trying to pull a gotcha or anything. I just think it’s interesting.
I live in France.
Looks like 81% of the US population got at least 1 dose, and 17% got an updated (bivalent) booster dose.
81% of the French population got at least 1 dose, and 56% got a booster.
Wack. But I was talking about the attitude of the doctors and pharmacists I’ve met.
Sorry that happened to you but I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment. We should study the negative side effects of vaccines and take them seriously but two anecdotes outside of a clinical trial is not much more meaningful than a single anecdote. If everybody is vaccinated, you’d expect a bunch of vaccinated people to die or get weird symptoms even if it’s completely unrelated to the vaccine. We see patterns everywhere.
In that case, did JKR become a billionaire by being a worker?
The fact that vaccines help prevent the spread of disease is offhandedly mentioned at the very end. This is so wild. Isn’t herd immunity a concept most people understand? That vaccines aren’t just about you personally?
I’m not high-risk at all and I got my latest booster a few weeks back - upon learning this very shocking fact my GP asked me why in a pretty judgmental way. Same deal when I had to jump through hoops to get my previous booster even though the official government policy in my country was that anyone could get it. Different pharmacies had different interpretations of this very clear policy though and nobody agreed.
I don’t live in constant fear of what COVID will do to me personally, but the vibe I get from practicing health workers I interact with is that I’m weird for caring about getting vaccinated and it’s getting to me. Like, am I wrong? I don’t think I am.
No idea which comments you’re talking about, but maybe they just disagree with you? Just repeating the same stuff isn’t necessarily going to convince someone - is reciting Leninist theory supposed to be a magic spell to force people to agree with you? If you think it’s impossible for somebody to be a communist and oppose Russia in the war, you live in an online bubble.
Keep your cat inside and it won’t destroy the ecosystem.
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