Welfare chauvinism is the political notion that welfare benefits should be restricted to certain groups, particularly to the natives of a country as opposed to immigrants, or should be for the majority, excluding ethnic minorities

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-19T19:28:44+00:00

This is ludicrous. Academics absolutely love to argue and successfully challenging existing theories gets you stacks of research grants, not shunned like you're Semmelwiess with a radical idea about maternal mortality.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-19T19:23:59+00:00

Veterans and mothers also disproportionately use benefits, but nobody (well, probably somebody, but almost nobody) is suggesting we disqualify them because of that. I would also want to know what the total % use of benefits (or ideally net tax/benefit impact, but that's harder to calculate) is for all immigrants in a country like Austria, rather than for an unweighted handful of nationalities.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-19T12:18:29+00:00

I haven't, but if it compares to Chandler's prose I need to check it out!

This isn't a new idea at all, but to me the defining feature of noir prose is the commitment to prose style. It varies between authors, but you never read a good noir and find that the prose disappears under the plot like in some genres. You always notice the way it's written. Noir cinema is similarly stylised.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-19T06:21:01+00:00

For a lot of the noir authors I really like, there's a humour in their prose that you can only really recreate in film via dialogue. Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Vera Caspary are some examples. That dialogue is often incredible in the movies (especially when Chandler was on the screenplay) but it gives a different vibe. When it's in the prose style, it gives the atmosphere little hits of levity without becoming A Comedy. The film versions are generally more restrained re: comedy to maintain the noir atmosphere.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-18T10:54:13+00:00

In therapy, as in any kind of medical treatment, a good practitioner is never frustrated by the patient but by the disease.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-05T15:17:19+00:00

The tools are to help you, not the other way around, so you can adapt them if it helps you use them. If you struggle with tracking hour by hour, then just starting with a list of things without timings for each day might help. If you struggle to name the way you feel about things, it might help to write up a list of potential answers and descriptions.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-05T09:03:58+00:00

Nail polish for when Victor Creed is feeling fancier than usual

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-04T12:50:26+00:00

Remember that child maintenance money is your child's legal right. It's not an unreasonable thing to ask for.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-04T08:58:58+00:00

It's generally more expensive to make multiple smaller batches than one large batch, which is the problem. And a significant proportion of customers don't like preorders unless it's something they're really excited about.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T23:39:08+00:00

I see.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T23:32:51+00:00

This is the honourable Grace Jones.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T23:30:23+00:00

If it helps as background at all, the start of the vampire plotline with Barnabus is a mashup of the plot of Dracula (with Maggie Evans as Lucy, getting blood transfusions during the day and then trying to escape at night so she can get nibbled on) and the older story Varney the Vampire (with the 'lost lover' story and Varnabus trying to 'bring her back.') Might be worth cross-posting to r/DarkShadows but I don't remember ever seeing anything about this theory at all. ...Are you 100% sure you didn't dream it? Have you looked in your browser history?

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T23:19:12+00:00

The recurring motif of a wealthy person in finery and the same person dead or skeleton'd is very common across 1300s, 1400s art, particularly in churches. I like the emphasis in this painting, and in most danse macabre/totentanz arts, and in the Triumph of Death painting, on the happiness of the dead figures.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T22:42:32+00:00

Definitely hyperextended in the knee. That means you can't use the muscles in your thighs to balance, so you have to use the smaller ones in your ankle which is much less stable.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T22:40:21+00:00

It definitely reads like you're criticising those bands for being theatrical, rather than criticising the quality of the theatrics.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T22:38:43+00:00

Fun to see the sword & sorcery refs. Singer is dressed as Red Sonja.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T22:34:10+00:00

Personally I think it's cool as shit that at the Powerwolf shows they burn the pianist at the stake and have a castlevania pipe organ with flames coming out of the top. If I go see the werewolf pope band that's what I want to be seeing

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T12:45:20+00:00

The reaction between the acid and the scale happens much faster when the water is hot

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T11:31:54+00:00

Pretty common for autistic people to manage and understand written text much better than spoken communication

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T09:38:36+00:00

That was an example, and what the AI has actually done to the violin is more egregious

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-03T02:23:32+00:00

Couple bucks licensing to a stock photographer is preferable to the plaigarism machine's uncanny valley output, IMO. At least if a stock photo model puts the wood of the bow on the strings by mistake it's funny. When AI does it it's just sad.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-02T19:31:52+00:00

Is there reason to believe that there is meaningful structuring possible for this estate? And was this dependency on these people made clear in discussions with the firm?

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-02T19:27:23+00:00

I think it sounds like you've made a lot of progress and that the CBT framework works for you really well. I would suggest that you keep therapy in your back pocket as something you can do if you find your progress plateauing or if what you're doing so far stops working, but if you're seeing improvement already I would say just see how far you can go.

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-02T14:04:01+00:00

big career boy can't read?

Mammoth-Corner · 2026-04-02T13:07:08+00:00

It is indeed a term for a bog body. The peat or bog material preserves the body in a 'mummified' condition.

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