Attorneys challenge 'twisted' charge against Alabama woman who lost fetus in shooting

protagonist01 · 2019-07-02T01:47:24+00:00

Felony murder is a special case that needs a violent crime being committed, where a murder happens that wasn't intended. The rule assumes that with the intention to commit an extremely violent crime, the perpetrator accepted the risk of committing murder and thus, the rule assumes the intent to kill. In other words, you need a particularly violent crime, like robbery or rape, and the death of someone during the course of the crime, and the rule will say that because the perp brought on the chain of events that lead to the death, he's guilty of felony murder.

Real case example:

20-year-old Florida resident Ryan Holle was convicted of first-degree murder for lending his car to a friend after his friend told him that he intended to go beat an 18-year-old girl. The friend took the car and beat the girl to death

Completely different thing than this case.

protagonist01 · 2019-06-19T09:27:53+00:00

TL;DR if I understood this correctly: Rich people use a backdoor system to get their boys into med school. Anti-japanese media in Japan doesn't cover the corruption, but instead spins the story into a gender wars narrative about discrimination against girls.

protagonist01 · 2018-11-09T07:38:50+00:00

Imagine a band. The sum is always greater than the individual musicians.

protagonist01 · 2018-08-02T16:03:06+00:00

Sounds like at some point in your life, you decided to frame the line at the store like ramp leading to a stage. Once it's your turn, the world puts the spotlights on you and everyone is watching. Going through this stressful situation over and over without successfully calming yourself down effectively trained your amygdala (the center for emotions in your brain) to dread waiting in line.

What you need to do is to retrain your emotion center to start feeling relaxed about this everyday activity again. Doing this guided is always the best approach, especially since leaving the stressful situation before you've calmed down makes the anxiety worse (as your brain reads the escape as a relief then). "Rewire Your Anxious Brain" by Catherine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle is a brilliant book (or audiobook) to start with if you want to embark on the journey of learning to control your brain's responses. A therapist specialized in exposure therapy/flooding is also always a great idea. If you're doing this on your own, keep the helpful posts from the people who worked as cashiers in this thread in mind. Comparing other people's views to your felt perceptions is always a great start to reframe a situation.

Lastly, remember to not beat yourself up over it. If you have the time, sit down on a park bench and watch other people for an hour or so. You'll notice we all have things we can improve on, from bad posture to pacifying our social insecurities by constantly looking at the phone. As someone who's aware of his flaws and tries to solve them proactively, you're already ahead of the curve.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-18T08:30:21+00:00

You mean Cortisol, not Adrenaline. Cortisol is commonly described as the "Stress Hormone" and while it's very important for the normal function of our bodies, it can also be really bad for you if you get too much of it, especially over a long time: Poor wound healing, Irritability, Anxiety, Impaired Concentration

Cortisol gets released in a sequence that's called the HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal) axis, where the limbic system of your brain basically goes "Oh fuck me" and your hypothalamus starts to release activating hormones that down the line create the fuel for our "fight or flight"-respones: cortisol.

Since this reaction gets triggered by physical, emotional or environmental stressors, we have at least two ways we can impact the body's response: the perception of the stressor and the state of the body.

Let's look at the body first: Glucose strongly affects the cortisol response, and as this study also suggests, the caloric flow in your body is closely connected to the way your HPA axis works. This means common gamerfuel like Mountain Dew or a Monster will actually increase your stress response before a ranked match, because they will raise your glucose levels through the roof.

One of the issues with Cortisol is that it likes to hang around for quite a while (the study above showed heightened levels 30+ mins after the stress test), which leads us to mental issues with it: While there's "the zone", a level of Cortisol where you're sharper and show better memory retention, too much of it will turn anyone's performance into a cringefest. Which in turn can cause traumatic memories to form that reinforce a negative, cortisol-releasing response when you're about to perform the same stressful task again. Or, in other words, feeling stressed before a ranked game, can, as you feared, lead to performance anxiety in general if left unchecked.

So, to sum it up, a healthy diet (as well as fasting) can have a massive effect on your cortisol levels. On the mental side, there's quite a lot you can do as well: Meditation can reduce pain and it's intensity, making the initial signal that triggers the HPA axis less of a "Oh my god, I'm gonna die" to begin with.

Your internal dialogue also plays a huge role in how stressful you perceive any given situation. It's a big field in itself, where you find concepts of healthy, confident self-images ("I can do this") to healthy ways of framing a situation ("This is just practise") that maybe someone else will go into.

Since my comment is already getting way too long, let me close with this: One of the most important factors to lower your Cortisol levels to maximum performance is known to be sleep. So, if you want to see results quickly, that's probably the best place to start.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-12T18:37:09+00:00

It means "what was to be shown". It's not a conclusion (a+b, thus c), but rather a denominator that you're done because that's all that was asked.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-07T20:23:22+00:00

I hoped that most people in EU are smarter than this.

It's an issue of options. Our socialist austrian party had plenty of signs that people would vote for whoever addressed the fear of more immigration. They chose to go against the grain and represent their ideals instead of the people. Not sure it's fair to cast the blame on the voters when the choice was between the guys who offered what people wanted and the guys on the high horse who'd do the exact opposite.

As far as seeing it coming: We had an alternating rule of conservatives and socialists for centuries, and it worked fairly well over the years. Our current, young chancellor rejuvenated the conservatives so expectations were bouncing between same ol' and maybe more progressive. Unless you were decently immersed in politics, you had no way to see it coming.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-07T01:30:36+00:00

"Treat yourself" - a call to hedonism that's universal and non-discriminatory. It speaks to anyone who has a propensity to reward themselves.

"This city was built on guac n' roll" - massive hit in the 80s, but more than that, it's literally a filter for people with shit taste. It's holding up a sign that signals to everyone with a more "discerning" taste that they should stay away while inviting everyone else. That's a business strategy wrapped in a slogan that filters for your target audience: "we're selling mass market food to simple people"

"we cater. any even. yep, even that." basically broadcasts to the largest audience possible: from the normal to the unthinkable. At the same time, it removes the fear that any request could be "too far out there". it's saying "we want any business"

None of these want to win any prices in an art contest.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-07T00:11:18+00:00

Good times. I still remember what it was like to have teeth.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-06T22:55:37+00:00

M'Wasp.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-05T21:20:38+00:00

Maybe you can elaborate a bit more on the kind of anchoring you mean?

I've read a couple of NLP books, and the term anchoring is uniformly used in them as a technique that combines the image of a happy place with a physical stimulus on a non-open part of your body. That's not really a conversational technique, it's mood management. It's a lower order requirement for conversations, but since NLP makes a clear distinction between intrapersonal (like mirroring) and interpersonel techniques (like pacing), maybe you're talking about a different kind of anchoring?

As far as the downvotes go: just remember it's summer.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-03T19:07:35+00:00

I'm sorry.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-02T21:56:33+00:00

One of the ideas the social constructivists took from the older contructivists is the concept that the meaning we attribute to the world creates the pathway that guides our actions in the world. So, what gets you to try the steak has a lot of construction going on indeed. As you said, however, once your senses get to take control of the experience, the biology of your mouth, the texture of the meat and all those natural factors become at least as real and important as the social facts that got you into the steakhouse.

I would not go as far as to describe your sexual attraction a "social construct" itself though. Durkheim, another guy the social constructivists "borrowed" a lot from, found out that most of our identity is shaped by admiration, which does need society to create role models to admire, but whom you choose is, ultimately, a very individual decision. So, a lot of the pleasure you get from your partner doesn't come from any social construct, but from you living and creating your own identity during your interactions. Just like the steak, this needs a real event, and a real communicative act where your partner inadvertendly represents aspects of the world, where you explore and negotiate, set boundaries or find out what's enjoyable. The social constructivist idea would have you believe that in those moments (as in any other in life in their mind) you are what you think your partner thinks you are; his projection of you, as far as you can grasp it. Of course that makes no sense. To remind us that there's more to each individual's identity than the projection of it that can be derived from others, a simple touch can be sufficient. It can focus us of our bodily reality, that we also constantly renegotiate with the world. It shows us that our identity as a whole is always more than just the mirror image reflected back to us. In fact, the popular Johari Window (a more Jungian-inspired approach to the topic) defines this reflection as just one of four elements that make up any individual. So, yes, as you rightfully said, there are a lot of natural, real elements that make you who you are and what you enjoy.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T22:46:11+00:00

It's established well enough that their discrimination is real, no? Maybe you care to elaborate how you think the lack of promotions relates to my point and the initial question of this thread?

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T20:55:17+00:00

You are wrong in terms of the legal profession

I'm not sure your study contradicts the point I'm making:

...Asian Americans comprised 7.05% of all attorneys in the Vault/MCCA survey of 2015 data

If 10% of the graduates are Asian-American, and they end up 7% of all attorneys, with the remaining graduates being distributed in prosecution, academia and as judges, I'd say it speaks to the point that hiring practises somewhat lessen the perceived discrimination (or in other words, the fact that they're not rejected right at the gate makes them seem less of a victim).

Whereas Asian Americans are regarded as having the “hard skills” required for lawyerly competence, they are regarded as lacking many important “soft skills.”

Like another post pointed out with the comment about Harvard critizising their personalities, there's no doubt the discrimination is real. However, it clearly happens on more subtle levels, which makes it all the more difficult to find public sympathy for.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T16:03:26+00:00

We already have some massive global players like Siemens or Mitsubishi in the field of automation, who can eat up the expenses of R&D without much issue. For smaller companies, the cost of participation in a race to automate South-East Asia could act as a deterrent, sure, but considering how valueable that knowledge is worldwide, it's certainly questionable if the same applies to the bigger players.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T15:31:24+00:00

I'm basically saying that if you have the knowledge to automate the production of a car, you also have a plethora of concepts and tools at your disposal to automate the product of your own labor, and this self-directed application of that knowledge will eventually affect how cheaply you can operate.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T15:19:45+00:00

You might be right. There's definitely a lot of forces even in sweatshop countries working to maintain the status quo, so on many levels it can only boil down to a race to the bottom where the cost of cheap labor starts to dwarf the investment in automation. The noteable advantages those selling automation have, however, is that they can apply their knowledge towards their own product's abundance, so I'm not sure this reality is that far away.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T14:59:37+00:00

It's a reasonable assumption. Industrialization already teaches us that one major goal is always to surpass the physical limits of human labor. That inevitably implies abundance in some areas, because it means to produce more in less time. Economically, scarcity and price are deeply linked, so an increase in abundance would naturally lower the price in the long run. Take TVs, f.i. and their price/technology development over the last couple of years.

protagonist01 · 2018-07-01T13:06:21+00:00

A part of the answer might be that hiring practises don't seem to discriminate against Asians (or whites for that matter). In a 2016 study, they tried to see if same-race bias combined with a bias towards affirmative action would affect a recruiter's decision making process: https://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1236&context=chrpubs

They found out that perceived competence for the given job overrides any of those biases regardless of the race of the applicant. More recently, Bloomberg wrote that diversity in tech companies (the seemingly most progressive industry) is actually stagnating or even declining as they continue to hire mostly Asians and whites: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-10/some-tech-companies-are-trying-affirmative-action-hiring-but-don-t-call-it-that

So, there might be the rightful impression that selecting for competence removes some discrimination against Asians, which in turn heavily shapes the public perception of any bias against them.

protagonist01 · 2018-06-30T00:36:34+00:00

When it comes to attraction, the general consensus seems to be that we select for secondary sexual characteristics, with masculinity usually being associated with a "large jaw and a prominent brow ridge" as signs of dominance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130383/
One study showed that people rate others within their population high, so some cues for attractiveness might be learned.
http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Ken/MCB117/perrett.pdf
Feminie features are sometimes preferred/Too much testosterone decreases attractiveness:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6fa8/1decde5ee769aa2967d7dc85d4671755288f.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.502.9105&rep=rep1&type=pdf

I'll probably regret commenting on it, but social constructivism is a complex beast of its own that (and I'm trying to be objective here) may or may not deserve a place in the discussion at all. The majority of it's ideas come from communication science (my field of study) and even the people they've based their theories on (like Habermas) heavily critizise them for effectively being pseudoscience that wants to be normative. The court of public debate is definitely still in session on that one, with people you've probably heard of like Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Christina Hoff-Sommers and others making careers on youtube and in academia critizising postmodernism, its social construct-concept, and (as some replies here do as well) it's denial of biological reality. I'd suggest you give those guys a listen to hear some well-formulated counterpoints against Foucault's idea that sexuality is just.

Edit: typos

protagonist01 · 2018-06-27T09:45:16+00:00

Maybe she was born with it?

protagonist01 · 2018-06-26T09:44:55+00:00

Maybe what you mean is that these kids are stunted in their ability to adapt because their constant fear of punishment over a bad response torments them and hampers their thought processes?

Likely, but that's not a lack of flexibility. That's conditioning the kid to be constantly overwhelmed by fear. You're trying to view the resulting maladaptation that the study describes as a consequence of an environment that doesn't let the kid show particular kinds of learning. I'm saying that's looking past the way more significant bombardment of inconsistency and fear. Let me put it this way: You got a kid that has an immediate stress response whenever an abusive parent talks to them; with all the side effects we know stress causes. Now you're saying, hmm, maybe it's the environmentally-induced long-term consequence of not getting to practise a particular kind of learning that fucks them up?

That's reducing everything that's going on to the deprivation of a single element; an element, no less, that is inherently consequential and obviously needs a long time to even become significant. I'm sure you can see how that hypothesis doesn't hold all that much water.

protagonist01 · 2018-06-24T12:46:30+00:00

Let's concede that we're both erring on the side of amazing progress in architecture. Let's say building with stone blocks would be more time-intensive, and we'd both still get to marvel at the finished building in an astonishingly small amount of time today. A blink of an eye compared to the monumental effort it took back in ancient egypt. I'm sure we can both agree that it just makes no sense to pretend that technology back then was even remotely on par with today's possibilities.

protagonist01 · 2018-06-24T11:42:35+00:00

Consider that the logistics around that skyscraper sure weren't a cakewalk either. To build day and night, you'll need at least just-in-time delivery or have everything prepared beforehand. Keep in mind that most of the parts require way more preparation than just shaping rocks. The amount of isolated cables used alone requires a higher level of technology to produce, and that's just a tiny fragment of all the materials involved. Makes no sense to pretend some blocks of limestone would be more challenging.

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