We don’t have to worry about the government tracking us everywhere we go. These corporations will do it for them and then sell the data for a proft.

Star Trek is an inherently political show. TOS is often cited as airing the first interracial kiss on American television.

Without knowing much, I feel like it runs into the same problem as Latinx. It is unintuitive to speak the words how they are written. The specific auteur.ice example seems relatively easy to actually speak, but I’m sure other words run into the same problems.

So, is the legislature just going to override the vetoes on a lot of these measures?

Look at truth social for how that worked.

I thought you just counted as a willing creature for INT, CHA, and WIS saves if you decided to fail the saving throw. I feel like the only Attribute it intuitively doesn’t make sense for is CON like in the house rule you described.

It’s absolutely disgusting that over 1 in 10 children in the US are living in poverty. We can do so much better.

When the majority of your population also lives in the same metro area as your seat of government, it really helps.

I think it’s clear at this point that the Republican party has been working with Right Wing media and other organizations since the fallout from Watergate. The Federalist Society literally exists to create more conservative judges and hands Republican Presidents lists of their approved judges for federal judge appointments. Fox News, am talk radio like Rush Limbaugh, and now News Max and the Wallstreet Journal became the propaganda arm of the GOP. It will not stop until we reinstitute things like the fairness doctrine in media organizations and stop allowing entertainment channels to call themselves News channels.

The latest Supreme Court ruling on whether you had to serve customers whose message you disagreed with even if it is a message related to a protected class, was actually relatively narrow in scope. Unfortunately, the media did a bad job of reporting the actual opinion rather than the multiple procedural problems related to the case that should have stopped it dead in the water.

I do agree with the slippery slope reporting that likely future rulings may actually allow for refusal of service even if the customer is from a protected class unfortunately.

To your second point, this is actually a major problem of debates from a psychology stand point. Unless people are willing to change their beliefs, debates actually strengthen their belief in their previously held ideas. It is useless to debate someone that is not willing to change their mind.

I am not a doctor but did some neuroscience graduate studies and will try to provide a basic explanation.

The biggest problem with our current understanding of mental illness is we cannot directly connect the cause of mental illnesses to the symptoms like we can in other illnesses of the body. We run into a problem due to the complexity of the brain. For example, Parkinson’s disease is generally caused by degradation of the substantia nigra. This causes problems with dopamine signalling leading to paralysis. However, there are psychiatric disorders, for example the catatonic subtype of schizophrenia, which are defined by periods of paralysis that are not affected by the same medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease. To use Major Depressive Disorder as an example we have multiple classes of drugs that work on different chemical levels (serotonin and norepinephrine being the most common) and systems in the brain but don’t have a one size fits all treatment.

The focus of the DSM is a diagnosis guide that focuses on standardization of symptomology and diagnosis. It has guides on best treatment practices but it is not the primary purpose of the DSM.

Good to know, but at this point I’m pretty much done with reddit for good

Reddit started to rate limit 3rd party apps already. At least that was the message I got using sync yesterday. Now I’m here. At least some people will come.