tomenzgg
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- Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 14 comments
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 1 week ago:
Since 6 whole paragraphs were too daunting to read, I’d be happy to summarize the sources I’d linked to for you in just one manageable paragraph.
The primary cause, in over 50% of cases was an individual undergoing an acute stressor. Trauma could also contribute but, as I mentioned previously, mental illness is rarely a primary cause, even in cases of trauma. But, primarily, it’s an acute stressor.
This also isn’t anything I’m saying; I’m just citing the conclusions drawn by studies on the matter.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 1 week ago:
Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?
I mean, that’s not an argument for a better system, though; if you’re saying, “Yeah; you won’t be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds,” a person can certainly do that but it’s still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.
- Comment on truly I am cultured 1 week ago:
Given the vice, I suspect he wasn’t fucking much of anything.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 2 weeks ago:
Most people
An appeal to general consensus and definition by crowdsourcing is inherently anti-scientific.
kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill
I mean, clearly the scientist is who study these things didn’t draw that conclusion.
Being in a bad mental state is not, by any definition, an equivalent to being mentally ill. Mental illnesses are particular things, not a general blanket attribute for that person being “different from us” and non-standard.
And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.
Alright? I already said that some cases certainly involve mental illness. Your anecdotal pointing out won’t change the statistics and studies, though: those a minority if cases and generally incidental.
But you have demonstrated for all of us scapegoating in action: your entire comment disregards science and evidence-based assessment for an anecdotal definition based on a sense of normalcy that allows us to say, “Fundamentally, those people are just different from us. Normal people wouldn’t do that.”
It isn’t helpful, though.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 2 weeks ago:
Of course.
Basically, any study of mass shootings within the last decade all always draw the same conclusion: they are not driven, as a rule, by mental illness. In general, mental illness accounts for 25% of cases (and that’s for mental illness, in general) but the mental illness itself is generally incidental. But, of course, most people have a particular mental illness in mind when they mention it in this context and that’s severe mental illness, generally psychosis. The previous link mentions this as only being present in 5% of cases though this other source mentions 10%.
Regardless, these are clearly minority level numbers and, even if we wanted to stretch things and pretend they were higher for the sake of argument, still well and beyond below 50% as to make saying that mental illness, primarily, is to blame – end of story – just inherently untrue.
But, moreover – and the far more important part! –, the thing that shouldn’t be lost here is that the claim that mental illness is the cause has caught on as such a popular talking point because it’s easier to scapegoat.
It’s a simple answer that, for those unfamiliar, is going to make, supposedly, intuitive sense. The politicians like it – for much the same reason they like blaming violent media – because it doesn’t force them to do anything about the actual root issues (the social conditions that drive people to this desperation or create the far right ideas that become so popular that people write entire political manifestos beforehand) and it works so well as a scapegoat because people with psychosis are foreign (and, therefore, hard to understand) for the generally (more) mentally abled population.
The fact is that schizophrenics are overwhelmingly more likely to be victimized with violence than to be committers of it; but framing violent events like these as being driven by mental illness helps to prop up the misconception and ensure that people with severe mental illness are misunderstood.
Anyway, they were close because the beginning of their comment is spot on only to settle so assuredly on incorrect information but, more over, an unquestioned stereotype that causes real harm due to it being based on erroneous information.
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 2 weeks ago:
Fuck; you were so close…
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 weeks ago:
Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.
I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though,
so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companiesbecause something about the NAP and not restricting freedomincluding the freedom to be exploited. - Comment on The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time... 4 weeks ago:
Also, – watching at the age I am now – it’s hard for me to not notice how much of a given carceral justice is taken as a given rather than anything remotely more restorative.
And treatment of mental disability still unfomfortably mirrors our current system than anything I’d hope for so far into the future.
I think we can accept that the premise is we’ve made astounding strides and there are still areas of improvement; I don’t think that tarnishes the hopeful and utopian dream at the heart of Star Trek.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 weeks ago:
Huh; I’ve gotten so used to all the non–slur-related uses of “faggot” that Brit.s employ that I didn’t even consider that was the source of the confusion.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 weeks ago:
economics and management
The foremost things I have with every meal.
- Comment on Lab anxiety 5 weeks ago:
Oh, you were one of them that worked with the dolphins?
- Comment on What team would you put and why? 1 month ago:
Packers or the White Sox.
- Comment on Anon watches Super Size Me 1 month ago:
This was exactly my thought; feels similar to people’s response to PSAs regarding forest fires: “you had to be told to put out camp fires or check they’re fully put out?”
Clearly, history indicates that concepts don’t stick unless drilled into “common cultural sense”.
- Comment on Fetish 2026 goals 1 month ago:
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 1 month ago:
he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
I expected (hoped?) you’d educate yourself a bit; there’s a wealth of information and research and theory on this subject so it’s not like you have an excuse to so wildly misuse terminology which is well-known and well-defined. Continuing to use “racism” without defining what race is is cartoonish but I did hope for more from you; I guess, at least, good faith. Oh, well.
For others who come across this thread and would like creators who sometimes cover these topics with some depth, here’s some video essayists:
www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire www.youtube.com/@olurinatti www.youtube.com/@lilbilliam
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
I expect, at this point, we will just agree to disagree and there’s no way we’ll see eye to eye but no: it’s very much not. Race is an ill-defined social construct whereas xenophobia is basedon prejudice against cultural and national lines and, while those are also socially constructed, they are more concrete than the boundaries of “race”.
As such, racism seeks to (and is more defined by its attempt to) construct a sense of identity against something to maintain a status quo (hence why the definition of “white” has been able to expand to include ethnicity such as the Irish) to better position itself against others.
While cultures and ethnicities can certainly change over time, they’re not remotely as nebulous (and made up) as race is and, thus, don’t operate in that same way; people are also much more invested in cultures and ethnicities beyond reasons of maintaining hegemonic status quo so that impacts things, as well.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
That would be xenophobia; not racism.
I also never said that Europeans were a pest or plague; as I said in the previous comment, “My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization is still relevant.” You never alleged that I was saying that Europeans were a pest or plague (probably because I never said that) so I was never attempting to refute such a claim.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
Europe’s a race, now?
My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization (which, again, isn’t even true as Europe still has colonies) is still relevant as the effects of that colonization is still present today.
Something you haven’t refuted or even contested; how is acknowledging history racist?
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.
Playing prescriptionist with definitions isn’t going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
Is there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn’t include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?
Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
You’d be correct; a country which suffered from colonialism by a European country; the effects of which continue today. Therefore, the effects of colonialism by at least one European country is still relevant.
You said colonialism by Europe isn’t relevant in the modern age.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 month ago:
If France wants to reimburse Haiti for the independence debt, it’s welcome to start at any time; I’d hardly begin to say that colonialism isn’t relevant – even in the modern age –, for Europe.
- Comment on handling strays 1 month ago:
Yeah; this one’s been my experience, as well.
- Comment on Two types 2 months ago:
The former; the person you’re thinking of, as the latter, is Thomas Edison.
- Comment on We're going backwards 2 months ago:
The caveat being if they are so bad they are climbing to the ceiling and literally falling on you.
New nightmare fuel unlocked.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 3 months ago:
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
Like I said, it’s possible that I just missed how Apple Podcasts exposes the RSS feed transparently but I’ve never been able to find it via just browsing the site to then put into the latter two programs.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 3 months ago:
Just realized this was in response to a comment I’d made and not the post, proper…; sorry about that.
I do, actually, use Antennapod so it’s feasible there but I also use Elfeed in Emacs and Podcasts, on Linux mobile, which (I believe) both require you to find the RSS feeds yourself. So that’s usually where I run into the need to manually hunt down RSS feed manually.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 3 months ago:
I think you’re reading this as me having trouble finding podcasts; I find it mildly infuriating that Spotify and Apple are becoming the face of finding podcasts in a way that obfuscates how things actually work. I don’t like that these two entities become the only listed means to find a podcast when others exist and will cause lay people to associate podcasts with just them, if that makes more sense.
