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Indus said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1749863430423466117

Maybe she's got a point!
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Not sure which case that's referring to. There have been two recently that fit that description.

www.theguardian.com

Anger mixes with grief after man’s conviction over Nottingham horror

Valdo Calocane, who killed three people and seriously injured three others, was well known to mental health services
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Killer in 2020 Reading stabbings was ‘indiscriminate’, inquest hears

Officer who led police investigation described Khairi Saadallah’s movements before attack in a park
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And, though I agree in principle that it's possible to be both mentally-ill _and_ a bad person, I don't think harsher punishments are really the answer. What most strikes me is that they both represent dismal failures of the mental health services (services which barely seem to exist any more).
 
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US approves F-16 fighter jet sale to Turkey, F-35s to Greece after Turkey OKs Sweden's entry to NATO

The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighters jets to Turkey following the Turkish government's ratification this week of Sweden's membership in NATO.
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Interesting under the table deals to get Sweden into NATO across the line.

What's even more interesting is after years of Turkey getting cozy with Russia, Turkey is doing an about turn.

I have a small conspiracy theory.. Turkey sees China not helping Russia as much lately and without China's help.. North Korea, Iran, Hamas, Houthis, etc just aren't going to keep Russia fighting for long.

Hopefully Russia falters in Ukraine despite the Republicans running roadblocks.
 
All relationships between people are fundamentally about power differences. People are essentially selfish and if they have any power over you they will exploit it to benefit themselves at your expense.
People are also usually hypocrites so will judge themselves by softer standards than they judge others (members of low-power outgroups will always be judged by far harsher standards).

This applies to both personal relationships and to politics.
 
pmv said:
All relationships between people are fundamentally about power differences. People are essentially selfish and if they have any power over you they will exploit it to benefit themselves at your expense.
People are also usually hypocrites so will judge themselves by softer standards than they judge others (members of low-power outgroups will always be judged by far harsher standards).

This applies to both personal relationships and to politics.
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Erm, I hate to be the one to tell you but that's not what relationships are supposed to be and if you experience that, you should probably not be in a relationship with that person. If you find you end up without many relationships that's okay, unless you were the one doing the exploiting of course.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
Erm, I hate to be the one to tell you but that's not what relationships are supposed to be and if you experience that, you should probably not be in a relationship with that person. If you find you end up without many relationships that's okay, unless you were the one doing the exploiting of course.
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By "relationship" I don't just mean romantic/sexual ones (just to be clear).

On the contrary, I wasn't really thinking of those at all, I mean friendships, family, and, perhaps most of all, interactions with "professionals" like doctors and teachers.
 
pmv said:
On the contrary, I wasn't really thinking of those at all, I mean friendships, family, and, perhaps most of all, interactions with "professionals" like doctors and teachers.
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Yeah. Interactions with complete strangers too. Some people interact with me like they had been waiting all their life to meet someone like me. There are others who couldn't care less if I exist or not. And then there are the ones who are like, this guy is so overrated. Why does everyone keep talking about him? And I tend to treat everyone the same. With dread.

Regarding doctors, my experience with two docs that I was consulting. One was my dad's acquaintance and it was my first time meeting him. I was asking him if my liver was fine. He asked what foods I ate. I said just veggies, rice, a bit of bread and maybe chicken. He asks why not red meat? I said I'm afraid it might be bad for my liver. He asked why? I said coz of the ammonia. He smiled and said, Ah! So you've done your homework. Then he proceeded to tap my abdominal sides hard with his fingers, making sounds. He said, you hear that? That's the sound a healthy liver makes.

Another time, I was asking a female doc to prescribe me metformin. She smiles and says, wow. No one's ever asked me that before! Then she asks stuff about my glucose issues and I start rambling and she listened intently. She seemed mildly impressed with my medical knowledge. But then she said, don't go on the internet. Read medical textbooks if you want to gain knowledge. She was a good doc though. Figured out a problem and probably saved me from some self inflicted grief.
 
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I mean, I post the thought on this thread because almost nobody I know agrees with me about this, but I feel it again and again in interactions with all sorts of people.

The curious thing is that power takes so many different forms - economic, political, social-status, or just a question of how prepared to use physical violence someone is.

Or there are even more complex power dynamics, like the person who has a much higher tolerance of acrimony and shouting matches than you do, so you have to kowtow to them to keep the peace.
 
One thing that strikes me about doctors, is that there seems to be contradictory requirements in the job - the huge level of responsibility the job entails seems to make it unbearably stressful for anyone not supremely self-confident.

But that very self-confidence that the job selects for seems to too often slide into arrogance and excessive-confidence and a lack of humility in the face of "unknown unknowns" (I eventually turned out to be correct in my repeated suggestion that maybe I had something rare that doctors don't know much about, after decades of having that suggestion dismissed out-of-hand).

I think it's not a million-miles away from the problems that afflict the police.
 
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I mean, I post the thought on this thread because almost nobody I know agrees with me about this, but I feel it again and again in interactions with all sorts of people.
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I know exactly how you feel because I'm usually at the lower end of the power struggles in daily interactions too. If people are nice to me, it means they really ARE nice.
 
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I think it's not a million-miles away from the problems that afflict the police.
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A few years of experience has something to do with it too. They become cocky and think they have seen it all and know it all. So dismiss probabilities. I mean there are doctors out there, a LOT of them, taking out appendices when an antibiotic will do the job and contain the problem.
 
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