Can a subculture / subsociety become clinically mentally ill? I.e., "fear of big pharma" paranoia, or "fear of government" paranoia. The subcultures are real, the paranoia is real.... but is it clinical?
Discuss...
(and if you have a degree in sociology/anthro, I value your input here! :))
Follow-up: George Paget Thomson, one of the physicists who experimentally confirmed wave behavior of the electron, was the son of J. J. Thomson, the physicist credited with verifying that the electron is a distinct particle.
Dad showed that the electron is a particle, and his son, in an act of filial physics rebellion, showed that it’s a wave.
Some of us are children of the radical fringe from the 70s and 80s, and it's marked us. We didn't have orthodox schooling: our parents skirted the Man, damaging us in subtle ways, and we've spend years trying to recover, or, at least, function well enough in society.
be friends with strangers. that is what makes the best of the best of the internet - when you jump into conversation with someone without being super sensitive to their delicacies. Just talk, kindly, and in a friendly way!
Whoof, the 32kg kb is definitely on my strength edge. 1h swing eh, 2h swing doable. Deadlift fine. Squats, eh. Press NO. Snatch NO. Carries will be a good challenge.
Have to dig for more 2h moves and focus on mastery of the 24kg.
(not a subtoot but someone’s toot reminded me of it)
I love how the Millennials killed X thing highlights a frequent imbalance when it comes to economic talk. Why is it that millennials are blamed for simply not being interested in buying certain forms of shit, instead of say ‘demand for this product is real low, X company is failing to appeal to newer, younger markets’
If it’s a free market, why are millennials the framing device here instead of the companies?
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Cool! The EU's looking at tackling repairability and life expectancy of devices:
"Devices should also be easier to repair: batteries and other components should be freely accessible for replacement, unless safety dictates otherwise. Manufacturers will also need to give other companies access to their components so that consumers can visit those companies for repairs."
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"C is a perfectly good systems and applications language you just have to be a capable programmer" yeah well KDE Dolphin segfaults if you try to manipulate a folder you can read but not write, and the KDE/Qt team are up there in the pinnacle of C programmers, so maybe it's actually irredeemably bad?
You might know me from writing linguistics articles at The Toast (RIP)
These days I cohost a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (lingthusiasm.com) and I'm writing a book in defense of internet language which'll be out with Penguin in 2019 gretchenmcculloch.com/book