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Corporations factor those losses into their cost of business. Further demonstrating that you have no idea how anything actually works in the real world

Finally! Those of us suffering from chronic fatigue prior to Covid have been hoping to finally see some damn research published that might help us all out

I've only recently discovered Cat Power and I'm completely in love. How have I missed her for so long??

"All y'all are welcome, but you gotta act right."

One of my favorites. As an Appalachian person living in New England, can confirm people find my tendency to "y'all" endearing.

Jesus, you're everywhere. Yes, it's better to let someone get away with whatever cheap trash they carried out of a fucking Walmart than it is to endanger the public with high speed vehicles.

My sister lives near Huntington with my four nephews and niece. I don't want them accidentally hit by an out of control cop car because some poor person stole trash from a Walmart.

Yeah that famous de-escalation technique known as tazing someone. Please do everyone a favor and shut up. You don't know what you're talking about.

Those comic book movies are keeping theaters open, so there are screens even in existence to show Scorsese movies. He ought to be grateful.

Haha, no worries. I realized it wasn't clear that I wasn't just speculating lol. Like I get that someone with a bladed weapon is a threat, but if they're isolated from immediately harming another person, then trying to talk then down should always be the first option. It IS possible to talk a psychotic person into taking medications voluntarily, if you can calm them down a little. Or talk them into putting down a weapon so you can get them with an IM dose. (I'm kidding about the tranq gun lol, but seriously deploying something like that would be a better option than using an actual gun ffs.)

It's a little amazing to me how many members of the general public are chomping at the bit to dehumanize people with mental illnesses who get agitated. Y'all, I guarantee I've dosed your dementia grandma when she got wigged out and started kicking people and trying to yank out her IV line. Agitation is a temporary psychological state, not a character trait. People don't deserve to be murdered because they got flipped out.

I'm a nurse. We tranq people in healthcare regularly when they become a danger to others. "Danger to self and others" is not the moment where we worry too much about dosage calculations, allergies, or drug interactions. If you're about to hurt someone, you're getting intramuscular haldol. They will need immediate medical attention, but it's much better than murdering them.

Here's an idea: Maybe we shouldn't be trying to SUBDUE people who are having mental health crises. Maybe we should try some de-escalation. Maybe we should try to get them to accept sedating meds. Shit, maybe we should hit them with sedating meds from a fucking tranq gun. I can think of several steps along the path long before we arrive at "shucks, guess we had no other option but to murder them" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Boost. Was my favorite for years on the other platform, very happy to see it launched here