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Thetexashammer

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  1. Minor question, but is it Nahlin, as in Nailin Palin, or like N'awlins LA.
  2. She wasn't wearing a hijab. I suspect you may not be "fully aware".
  3. I mean this in a not very friendlyish way, but do you realize how pretentiously you phrased this post? He is posting like an American. You are comparing his post to a racist. Our country is not made up of such "racists" and he is not one. I urge you to reread his post from the perspective of someone who isn't a pretentious douchebag, or like a normal person who doesn't walk around pretending to be the morality police. You are not morally superior to other posters and your faux superiority is repulsive.
  4. Just being ROTC doesn't get you financial benefits. You have to accept, and be worthy of, a military obligation to get the money.
  5. If you divide by a half, or a third, you are doubling or tripling your cost. #math
  6. This is another reason I hate the Brits. They talk like fags and their shit's all retarded.
  7. It's literally just amazing. If there were crimes, they would have been included in the impeachment. People here actually believe there are crimes, but the Dems simply declined to include them.
  8. But seriously, 9mm is so much better than 40 caliber.
  9. Oh, I apologize. It's not fair to you. I won't make fun of you anymore.
  10. Spiked wrote an excellent article about your kind. #twominuteshate https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/03/the-remainer-elites-are-the-true-bigots-of-brexit-britain/
  11. I've changed my mind. These are the people who should run my medical care and manage my retirement savings. They know what's best for me, even when I don't. They are competent, caring professionals. They only want the best for me and mine. I trust in their good motives. Their promises are as good as gold. Sign me up.
  12. Slow your roll there Jive Turkey. At least Bernie's been there. On his honeymoon. To the Soviet Union. Have you ever been to the Soviet Union?
  13. I don't really care if you suck your boyfriend's dick after he fucks you in the ass. That's your business, I don't judge.
  14. Was this post to me? It doesn't make any sense.
  15. The hundreds of people who have been released from death row make it a statistical certainty that we've executed many innocent people. I've been somewhat surprised that they haven't identified an actual innocent victim yet, but it won't change the argument all that much. A significant percentage of people who get convicted of all crimes are innocent.
  16. Is the diagnosis at this time strictly clinical? It doesn't appear they have any serology or PCR yet.
  17. TwiceHorn's comment was important because the misunderstanding of depression is what often leads people not to get help. The common understanding of depression is situational. That is true of clinicians as well, they themselves are unclear on the distinction. So they overtreat, throwing meds at everything. Which is a commonly held view among people who could be called subject matter experts. Call it a Type I error. I am a member of more than one profession where a diagnosis of depression can be a career limiting, or a career ending, maneuver. Unsurprisingly, there is an concentration of suicides within these groups. They don't get treatment. They feel empowered not to get treatment because they think they push through it. If you can just keep going, it'll work out. But it doesn't. Lives are ruined or ended because people don't get meds. Those same people would never think they could push through a torn ACL, or a tibia fracture. But the common cultural understanding is the depression is mere weakness. The reality is it is a medical illness that requires medication. You are helpless against the illness. Your patients have sought help, often not voluntarily. Of course they're on meds. It's the patients who need meds and don't get them that I am concerned about. From my foxhole, there's a shitload of those people. And many, many of them have bad outcomes. Put simply, the more you tell people that depression is a medical illness, and meds are the treament, the more lives will be saved. All the alpha males and females that think they can push through it are wrong, and they are risking their lives. Jevan Snead, it appears, did not have CTE. He was, very likely, an alpha male who did not seek treatment but did kill himself. The article does not disclose that he receieved any medical treatment for what was likely to be a serious medical condition, or that he had a real diagnosis, so who knows, but if he had been pharmacologically or otherwise treated, most likely they would have mentioned it. So I don't think it's off topic, I think it's entirely on topic. I think he's exactly the situation I'm describing. Anyway, that's my opinion from my foxhole. Many people who need meds aren't getting them and bad outcomes are happening. Type II error. You can treat a problem that occurs at the neurosynaptic level with talk therapy all day long, ut people need meds. But let's not just put it in the water supply, but let's find those folks who aren't seeking help and treat them. I want popular culture to understand it is a medical illness for which medical treatment is required. If they do, they'll get better and lives will be saved.
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