My point was that I had linked to plenty of countries not located within north or south America.

Thanks!

I bit for a minute there, until I realized that video is 3 hours and 45 minutes long… I don’t care that much…

There’s no question the planet and all other life would be better off if we died out in the stone age. Climate change, PFAS, microplastics… We’re parasites to the planet (channeling my best Andrew Ryan impression there).

Well the world would certainly be a better place now if that were the case.

PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

I’m not sure what “American countries” means haha. I wouldn’t consider the EU American.

That’s the resource that I’m familiar with, but I’d bet similar counselor databases exist for Asian countries.

Here’s the countries list on Psychology Today.

I would try to avoid random, potentially unqualified counselors from 3rd world countries…

I remember a news segment where monozygotic (identical) twins had different results for their genealogy. Their efficacy and reproducibility should definitely be questioned.

Not to mention the problem of your DNA info being sold and used for nefarious purposes. Not just by hackers, but if the company is bought out by a different organization, they don’t have to honor the terms of 23andMe or Ancestory.com regarding not selling you data.

Edit: Here’s the story.

Their comment wasn’t out of touch, but your faith in the mainstream DNA testing market certainly is.

I get 3x as many groceries at Costco for the same price as at Walmart.

Another giveaway is the writing on the dude’s hat (upper left). I always check the hands and any text in the image. Those are dead giveaways.

I have a key fob faraday cage/pouch keychain to prevent people from being able to dupe my key fob’s signal.

I didn’t downvote, but I hate videos being posted in the science community. Should be articles. This post belongs on a video community.

I’m completely disinterested in all things cosplay, but I’ve enjoyed watching his evolution and enthusiasm.

Kind of a sad case in which better social support and community mental health programs may have resulted in a different life for this guy.

I don’t think this guy had any malice. Some might argue that his statements to police were just excuses, but his behavior was bizarre enough to make me think this was a guy who was in need of food, shelter, and help; not incarceration. But the DOC is the largest mental health provider in the US…

It makes me think of my former clients/population I worked with. I hope this guy gets the help he needs. The world and the people in it aren’t black and white; we all live in the grey. I worked with criminals I’d consider better people than many “upstanding citizens.”

The Half Life mod Earth’s Special Forces will forever be the GOAT to me.

Couldn’t find a good gameplay video. But man that was kickass with other players or even just bots.

As the kid plays videogames or listens to music, nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas, is emitted through the snorkel and puts the child to sleep.

Finally!

A humane way to euthanize our children!

You’re so sickeningly wrong… Serious mental illness does not have the connection to violence you’re claiming. I wrote this article on my blog specifically to combat the harmful stigmatizing misinformation like you are claiming here. (I have ads turned off and don’t benefit in any way.)

An excerpt from my blog post:

Only 3-5% of violent acts can be attributed to those with SMI [20], co-occurring substance use plays the most pivotal role in violence [24], many psychosocial contextual factors influence violent acts [11], and while individuals with SMI are potentially 2.1% more likely than those without a mental illness to be violent [4], they are 10 times more likely to be victims of violence themselves. [20]

The References

The following is an excerpt on the Far-Right violent extremism (such as this case) from another one of my blog posts

Radicalization happens when an individual experiences destabilization thru various environmental factors (e.g., job loss, interpersonal hardship, isolation), experiences extremist rhetoric, and the extremism is then reinforced by members of the individual’s group/community. [24]

Radicalization spreads through a complex social contagion effect, in which it requires multiple exposures before the individual adopts the extreme belief(s), and this concept has been documented in political movements in a broad application. [24] Political propaganda utilizes a similar approach as well.

Group membership and social media usage are catalysts that enhance the spread of radical beliefs. [24] However, evidence suggests that despite encountering the misinformation online, there are still geographical factors that suggest local organizing plays an important role in the development of Far-Right extremist groups. [24]

3 Key Ingredients for Radicalization: [10]

1. Identity Fusion: allegiance to a social group is prioritized above one’s own well-being and identity.

2. Obsessive Passions: one compulsively and relentlessly pursues a passion to the point of dysfunction, marked by loss of self-control and inability to cease activity that causes harm, guilt, shame, or burn-out. [14]

3. Past Incarceration

Another critical factor in one’s susceptibility to radicalization, as concisely stated by Psychology Today, is that: “people who had been threatened, dehumanized, and perceived that they were discriminated against were more likely to become radicalized.” [10] This statement is key in examining the political extremism that has permeated our country, as the movements promoting radicalization prey on people by exploiting these very components.

In a study evaluating Left-Wing and Right-Wing domestic extremism between 1994 and 2020, there was one fatality as the result of Left-Wing extremism, versus 329 fatalities resulting from Far Right extremism in that 25 year period. [5]

The Far-Right movement is the oldest and most deadly form of domestic terrorism in the United States, and The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism found that the Far-Right is responsible for 98% of extremist murders in the U.S. [24] Furthermore, for nearly every year since 2011, Far-Right terrorist attacks/plots have accounted for over half of all terror attacks/plots in the United States. [21]

In the U.S., Right-Wing extremism was responsible for two-thirds of all failed, foiled, or successful terror attacks in 2019, and was responsible for 90% of attacks in the first half of 2020 alone. [21] Since 2013, Far-Right extremism has been responsible for more terror attacks/plots than the Left-Wing, ethnonationalism, or religiously motivated attacks/plots. [21]

For the references

Starfield was very bland and had very limited dialogue/storyline in comparison to skyrim, but skyrim was so repetitive and boring with so much of the game being spent in similar looking dungeons fighting drauger…

Even with mods, I never made it through a second playthrough because the gameplay just fizzled with the boring dungeon-crawling required for so many questlines/words of power.

At least in oblivion, most of the caves/oblivion gates were totally optional. So much of skyrim is spent in boring ass dungeons…

This isn’t an argument for Starfield replayability tho. Starfield doesn’t have enough storyline for much replayability. Felt so bare bones in comparison to skyrim or any other Bethesda game.

Yeah I never valued skyrim for replayability… I replayed oblivion a lot (maybe because I was younger), and replayed FO3/NV a bit. But even with mods, I could never get myself to replay skyrim more than a couple hours in.

Just felt so repetitive with boring dungeons and drauger. Stumbling into Blackreach was one of my favorite Bethesda experiences tho. But the gameplay felt stale halfway through my first playthrough. Felt like a chore to finish the story.