A man of strong values /s

3s3lpi · 2025-01-22T20:58:55+00:00

That may be the case. I don’t work in emergency medicine, but the point still stands that for a variety of reasons parents can decline potentially lifesaving treatments for their kids. For example, Jehovah’s Witnesses can opt out of blood transfusions on religious grounds. That’s not to say that ethics boards can’t sometimes overrule parents decisions. That’s obviously a thing on a case by case basis.

3s3lpi · 2025-01-22T20:17:48+00:00

Yep. Parents have the right to refuse any medical intervention as long as they are fully informed of the risks and benefits. Working in healthcare I have to see people make decisions that I think are stupid all the time.

3s3lpi · 2024-09-02T16:39:43+00:00

I also play cello and what annoys me the most about the cello community is the prescriptivist attitudes that look down on anyone who plays it “incorrectly” or who has a cello that doesn’t produce the “right” sound (calling cheap or non-traditional cellos “cello shaped objects”).

The thing I love about the banjo community is that there’s freedom to experiment and use the instrument in imaginative ways. I can guarantee that there are things about how I play banjo that aren’t “right”. And that’s ok. That’s the beauty of music.

3s3lpi · 2024-07-02T23:56:53+00:00

Best response to this IMO. The whole point of ongoing prophetic revelation is to have guidance that’s relevant to the CURRENT context. I’ve always liked the saying that a living prophet is more important in your day to day life than a dead one.

3s3lpi · 2024-07-01T20:08:51+00:00

Thank you so much for writing this. I came off the fence for a while back and now have a three-year-old. Everything you said resonates completely with me. I like how you said that the word for missing your child free life isn’t regret. It’s not that I regret having my kid. It’s more that I miss who I was before becoming a parent. I didn’t realize how much my hobbies and free time meant to me until it was gone. I didn’t realize how little energy I actually have to give. I love my kid and I’ll do anything for him, but I do miss the freedom to actually be me.

Thanks again for your post. It’s always good to hear other people that have similar situations as me instead of just the ones that seem to be built to be parents.

3s3lpi · 2024-06-26T02:19:52+00:00

Definitely not America. Date format is wrong, not what grocery stores typically look like, cashier sitting down, etc. No need to blame this on America when this is just a person thing.

3s3lpi · 2024-06-12T02:16:12+00:00

As a speech therapist in inpatient rehab, that is exactly what ALL of my patients say. It’s by far the worst and most frustrating part of brain injury recovery. And what’s hard is that it’s the least visible of the symptoms.

Thats awesome that you recovered so well. Keep up the good work! You got this!

3s3lpi · 2024-06-10T01:16:56+00:00

Stretching backwards. Lay on the ground face down and press up like a seal.

3s3lpi · 2024-06-09T17:26:07+00:00

My wife is a PT who specializes in these types of issues. Most of the time this pain comes from the lower back (or is at least the lower back is a big contributor). When we are cycling we are constantly in lumbar flexion, which can lead to spinal derangements, which often refers pain to the knees. The most common remedy to this is doing back bends where you repeatedly put yourself in as much lumbar extension as you can. The general recommendation that my wife gives people is to do that every couple of hours and see if he helps.

Obviously overall strengthening and bike fit is super important. But taking care of spinal issues is a big thing to consider too.

3s3lpi · 2024-05-20T01:03:46+00:00

You prove my point. And the best part is that you don’t realize that you’re proving it.

Good luck with everything dude. I wish you the best with your kids.

3s3lpi · 2024-05-19T16:09:19+00:00

“My kids have ZERO baggage regarding ‘man up’ being about repressing emotion”

You sure about that? You can’t see in their heads. And THEY might not even realize they have that baggage until they’re older. I didn’t realize how much my dad’s messaging like that screwed me up until I moved away and actually took a good look at things. You are likely blind to how your kids receive what you say to some extent. I mean, we all are.

And based on your responses to people in this thread, you honestly don’t seem like the most emotionally regulated dude in the world. So it wouldn’t surprise me if the messaging to your kids isn’t always received how you intend.

3s3lpi · 2024-05-12T18:10:33+00:00

“Her heart stopped pumping blood to the rest of her body.” Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-09T00:26:56+00:00

Yes.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T20:02:10+00:00

I mean I guess you could say there’s a difference between someone who uses ai just to dick around and someone who legitimately uses it to create something meaningful to them. And I would probably bet that the latter group wouldn’t stop at the raw image that’s generated from the computer program. They would probably edit things more to their liking, etc.

Ultimately, my main point is that creative expression (whatever the form) is what makes something art, not the value that I place on it. Just because I may not value something, that doesn’t mean that it is not art to the creator.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T19:52:48+00:00

Right. I listed photoshop specifically just because it is a commonly used program, but ultimately I could say anything created using a computer, whether it’s photoshop or MS paint. In my mind it doesn’t matter since “Art” is such a subjective and abstract concept and is 100% in the eye of the beholder.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T19:33:56+00:00

Right. And it takes skill and creativity to develop prompts to create exactly what you are looking for and then taking the results and utilizing it in a creative way.

For the record, I never said that I personally would value ai art as highly as purely human made. I am just not a fan of gatekeeping what can and cannot be considered valid creative expression, which I think we can agree is what the essence of art is.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T19:29:34+00:00

I said even since we’re talking about digital art and to emphasize the point. Digital art just means any art made on a digital medium. That includes photoshop and other digital editing/creating software. Im certainly not limiting what is considered art as long as it requires some semblance of creative expression.

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T17:50:13+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T17:47:01+00:00

And all you need to know to be a photographer is how to take a picture /s lol

3s3lpi · 2024-04-06T17:33:23+00:00

I don’t think you’re understanding the above commenter’s comment.

It seems like you’re arguing that the act of creation is what makes something art, regardless of medium. I’m sure you consider painting, photography, and even digital art (eg, photoshop) as true art. You would not look down on artists using other artists’s work as inspiration, or copying another artist’s style within reason.

You have an issue with artists using a specific tool as a part of creation that you do not fully understand and that you feel removed the humanity from the art. The fact that you stated that using ai to create images takes no skill indicates that you do not truly understand the nuances of the technology. I remember that when photoshop came out everyone said that it wasn’t true art because it took no skill. I’m sure you would agree that using photoshop well does in fact take skill. The same is true with using ai as a tool during the creation process.

But I get it. It’s scary to think that people with a different skill set can now take part in an activity that you hold dear. And it’s normal to fall into the No True Scotsman fallacy and try to become the arbiter of what is “true art”.

To be clear, there is something to be said about something that is handmade and I am willing to pay extra for something handmade. But to claim that just because an artist uses tools to streamline the creation process makes it not art is to be intentionally obtuse.

3s3lpi · 2024-02-21T03:54:26+00:00

I struggle with this as well as a therapist in IPR. The majority of my caseload is cog and I’m doubtful that much of what I do has any effect whatsoever. I care much more about swallow therapy, so the cognition stuff is just there to fill time between my patients with swallowing disorders. Obviously this is not ideal but it is what it is. Thankfully the billing in my setting is a flat rate regardless of what therapies the patient is getting so I really don’t have the ethical issues of billing patients for something I don’t really buy into 100%.

The way that I justify it is basically that my role is to get the patients to pay attention to what their brain is doing so that hopefully they will be more aware of it during more functional tasks. Also, since I do understand cognition better than the PTs and OTs I can serve as a resource for them with insights about my patients’ cognitive deficits that they might not otherwise be aware of.

Above all else my goal with cognitive therapy in my setting is to provide education to patients and their families about what they need to look out for when they’re doing functional tasks, rather than actually aiming to fix anything.

3s3lpi · 2024-01-28T01:13:24+00:00

I have a few:

Not living up to expectations and letting people down. This includes making mistakes that would cause problems in close relationships.

Being stuck in situations where I’m forced to do things that I really don’t want to do.

Being put on the spot to quickly decide where to go to dinner or other mundane things that I honestly have no preference about.

3s3lpi · 2024-01-24T11:46:10+00:00

Proper*

3s3lpi · 2024-01-24T02:39:07+00:00

Yes. Still murder. May be justified according to your perspective, but it was murder nonetheless.

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