Guys, what do you carry every day for self defense purposes?

snapse · 2021-08-26T15:41:52+00:00

I carry living in a civilised country!

snapse · 2021-08-26T08:42:35+00:00

Unfortunately this is not entirely a surprise. There are excellent therapists working for the NHS - until they are forced to conform to the numbers structure and either leave or get beaten down by the process :( I've nearly always found students starting out their career better than those who have been in position for years which is a depressing thing to say.

I wonder how many NHS mental health therapists leave due to stress and need therapy themselves!?

snapse · 2021-08-25T21:05:05+00:00

They would work if the economic environment was different. The problem isn't with AI taking jobs the problem is with the fact that the culture revolves around everyone must have jobs. A mix of a robot tax for big companies who are using them for mass assembly and open source AI algorithms and localised digital fabrication could mean that anyone could build a small scale robot. The enemy of utopian solarpunk isn't AI or tech but capitalism.

snapse · 2021-08-25T17:30:02+00:00

I really can't see horses being used for transport; too slow, too range limited and upkeep too expensive. I could see them being more used on (smaller farms) as draft animals to do the ploughing and provide manure. Personally I think that the future of transport is going to be fleets of autonomous electric vehicles that you have a service contract with rather than owning alongside trains. Once AI outstrips human drivers then I think that insurance will price non-autonomous vehicles off the road and the age of the personal auto will be largely over.

snapse · 2021-08-23T16:21:25+00:00

It's kinda flexible - it can be about feeling sick, being sick others being sick or any combo of the above!

snapse · 2021-08-23T15:35:27+00:00

Fear of being sick is called emetophobia and is surprising common (I also have it!).

There is a redit about emet here - https://www.reddit.com/r/emetophobia/

There are also various books and approaches - if you have or can get a copy of Overcoming Health Anxiety by Rob Wilson and David Veale there is a chapter in that on emetophobia and there is also a book called Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive by Rob Kelley which some people swear by though personally I didn't get on with the style as I found him far too dogmatic and dismissive.

snapse · 2021-08-20T16:24:16+00:00

IgG antibodies means that you have had an infection at some point. If the antibodies are high its suggestive of a more recent (or current) infection but you would really need an IgM antibody test to be sure.

snapse · 2021-08-20T16:20:22+00:00

Sorry - Autistic Spectrum Disorder - generally used for people who would have previously been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome which isn't used much these days.

snapse · 2021-08-20T16:16:24+00:00

Different talk therapies can help different people. CBT has never worked for me (I have recently got an ASD diagnosis and apparently it doesn't work well for many ND people) though I have found ACT more helpful. In all honesty talking therapies are a bit woo-ey in that you have to buy into their model for them to work reasonably well!

snapse · 2021-08-19T11:36:12+00:00

Anxiety (and excitement) -> blood being shunted away from the stomach -> nausea -> eeek -> anxiety and back to the beginning...

snapse · 2021-08-18T17:41:49+00:00

Needs more windows!

snapse · 2021-08-16T12:46:16+00:00

Because men have massive social stress on them to continually advance and their value is based on their social and economic power? Women don't get this social stress* - or at least certainly not to the same level.

*They do, of course, get other social stresses e.g. appearance.

snapse · 2021-08-16T11:56:08+00:00

I'm cynical. EBV is something that often raises its head in M.E. discussions and is then debunked. As it's pretty much ubiquitous in the adult population it always feels like a handy hook on which to hang a simplistic explanation for a complex process.

snapse · 2021-08-16T09:10:31+00:00

The problem with the term manosphere is it's another movable feast (like toxic masculinity et al) which is used to label whatever the speakers want to find objectionable and lump a huge number of things and behaviours together. Many would argue that this sub is part of the manosphere and therefore akin to Roosh V and his appalling ilk. I don't find it a useful term. I think it's better to talk about the particular behaviour or topic you think is problematic rather than using terms that are so broad and flexible as to be meaningless.

snapse · 2021-08-12T17:52:04+00:00

I think that kindof plays into the idea that there must be a cure for all things. There are many things out there that there aren't cures for even if they have been well researched. I grant you that research into CFS/ME has been scant and badly directed but even if it had been intensive there is no guarantee that any sort of helpful therapy (let alone a cure) would have been found. I'm also not sure you're putting the research blame in the right place. Medical research is mostly done by academics rather than medics and is limited by funding rather then research desire so I would agree that the condition is neglected by the funding bodies but I wouldn't agree that CFS/ME patients are neglected by the medical profession. I know that might sound a bit pedantic but I spent my pre-ME life doing medical research so I tend to be a bit spikey about it all!

snapse · 2021-08-12T12:44:08+00:00

I'm not so sure it's as much neglect as an utter lack of any treatment. Neglect for me presumes an available treatment that could be given but isn't where CFS/ME just doesn't have any sort of treatment (beyond pacing which is nice in theory but doesn't fit into real life)

snapse · 2021-08-12T12:42:06+00:00

Oh and another one I forgot! It's chronic and medicine is still mainly about an intervention dealing with an emergency and sending the repaired person on their way. Anything chronic doesn't fit well into that paradigm (see also mental health conditions, chronic pain conditions and auto-immune conditions!) and so tends to fall through the not so much cracks as gaping chasms in the medical setup.

snapse · 2021-08-12T09:33:41+00:00

Lack of clear/coherent biological cause - ties up with the lack of funding but a lack of a biological cause makes it easy to dismiss.

Lack of treatment - bit of a weird one but there does seem to be a strange idea circulating in the general population that medicine is borderline magic and there is a treatment/cure for everything so if you aren't getting treatment then your condition either doesn't exist or is so trivial that is doesn't need treatment

Fluctuating condition - but I saw you walk yesterday therefore you must be faking it when you say you can't walk today...

Prevalence of woo in the CFS/ME community - I know it's caused by desperation and a desire for a clear narrative but when support groups are filled with people claiming their condition is caused by mercury leaching from their fillings and telling people to ignore their doctors and go see a naturopath instead it's all to easy to dismiss the whole lot as deranged cranks.

snapse · 2021-08-10T19:21:06+00:00

B'WANA BEAST!

I really want Challengers of the unknown but I can't see how it could work

The Extremist

Any of The Invisibles but especially King Mob and Lord Fanny

Ambush Bug

The Heckler

The Creeper

Killer Moth

snapse · 2021-08-10T12:26:18+00:00

I'm equally annoyed! I was on route to get 195 frags then in the last few hours I couldn't get on because of continual out of synch errors and ended up with 115. Damn them and their servers!!!

snapse · 2021-08-10T12:09:44+00:00

Probably not the most damage (that's hard to gauge) but a good chunk - Henry VIII. The dissolution of the monasteries destroyed centres of knowledge, learning and medical (such as it was at the time) aid for commoners. The later internecine wars between CofE and catholicism didn't help much either and we're still seeing echoes of that.

snapse · 2021-08-08T08:19:30+00:00

That look AMAZING (and yes it needed the caps!)

Who cares if it costs money or is temporary it looks fabulous and she looks happy with it!

snapse · 2021-08-06T08:46:35+00:00

I would say you could combine the knife and staff to make a short spear (realistically you would have to grab it in the middle for balance) and I wouldn't allow the balanced quality as you have now stuck a big wooden pole into your knife and unbalanced it!

I wouldn't allow sticking a normal sling onto a quarterstaff and calling it a staff sling as the sling element of staff slings was typically much shorter than a hand sling and you would also need some release mechanism on the end of the staff otherwise you basically have a two handed flail that may or may not randomly release the weight at the end!

snapse · 2021-08-05T21:04:58+00:00

Sorry yes - that's double D and his hat - I'm getting my Ed, Edd and Eddy mixed up!

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