CentipedeFarrier

It’s kinda beautiful to watch.

I hope it matters. Probably won’t, but maybe. Stranger things have happened…

Honestly, about time.

The scaled-up child/scaled-down man dummy that’s been used for ages is not a good representation of female anatomy.

Hope it goes into use.

Can someone ELI5?

I read it and… best I’ve got is it might be related to blockchain, maybe?

I do refute that “fact”, though.

I personally would rather be an amputee on the side of the road with no shelter than be kept prisoner in my own body with the use of drugs and restraints. That’s literally my worst nightmare. And I’m not “severely mentally ill”.

You don’t know what reasons she has for doing what she does, but what IS completely, abundantly, crystal clear, is that she herself considers the position she is presently in to be better than whatever she would potentially deal with under care. And you don’t know why she came to this conclusion. Maybe she was institutionalized when she was young and was abused or whatever and has ptsd about it. Maybe she knows someone else who was.

Or yeah, maybe she’s so mentally ill that it’s forcing her to deny care. I strongly doubt it, but maybe. And we’ll never know unless we fix everything else first. So. Kinda moot point, isn’t it?

looks like 2000-2001

It’s… compelling in a really bad B-movie sort of way. Like the idea is great, and some of the scene design and concept is really cool, but it’s genuinely hard to watch in a lot of places between the acting (Cleo herself has a screaming habit, at least early on - I don’t recall if she grew out of it, and is dumb as shit imo) and that it’s clearly meant to be a sex-appeal-hook. Basically fishing for Xena fan crossover, but done so poorly it basically flopped.

Fun to watch, but don’t expect too much :)

Yes, however it’s mostly a refutation to your prior comment that severely mentally ill people refuse treatment as a direct consequence of being mentally ill. This is only rarely the case. The vast majority of those severely mentally ill people are still people capable of learning about stuff and doing cost-benefit analysis for their own lives. They make rational decisions to the best of their ability. This ability may be flawed, but that’s the case for all people. Nobody has a pure, 100% complete and accurate view of things.

They refuse treatment largely because the system is horrible. Would they still refuse if the system wasn’t horrible? Most of them probably would not, because struggling is really hard. Most of them would get themselves the help they feel they need if they honestly thought there would be a good outcome.

But what they think they need and what the system or society thinks they need aren’t necessarily the same thing. Maybe all they really -need- is a place to exist exactly as they are, with zero medical intervention, with a clean environment where they feel safe and secure. If that’s all you felt you needed, would you risk being drugged for the rest of your life? I sure as hell wouldn’t, no matter how bad my experience of existence is. At least I have agency.

And honestly until we reach that point, where mental healthcare is supportive to the individual and genuinely helps them live whatever they feel is a fulfilling life, discussing what to do with the minuscule remaining fraction of sufferers (a number we genuinely can’t even quantify at this point) is sort of dumb, and seems like a pretty big distraction from doing anything better for everyone who isn’t in that camp.

Only thing I can think of reading this is the Cleopatra 2525 intro theme

And the satirical futurama reference

If the system was actually helpful to people, and severely ill patients still didn’t want help, you might have a point. Right now though, the system doesn’t help most people, it harms them actively, so we don’t actually know how many people would still refuse quality care.

And let’s be serious here, the number of people so mentally ill they can’t be trusted to make a decision about whether or not to take offered help…? Really really small percentage. We definitely shouldn’t be structuring the entire system based on edge cases, even if those edge cases have a legitimate need for that sort of inhumane treatment (a premise I strongly question).

Forcing someone to undergo potentially mind-altering medical treatment (because they absolutely will drug someone who fights against being there) and probably abuse (just check the stats) at the hands of the system isn’t humanitarian either.

This is one of those situations where all you can really do is make sure the options are as good as they can be, so people want to choose to get help, and we are not even remotely doing that.

Of all the things to be annoyed about in this pic, I think the thing that gets me the most is that you still have to remove some of the husk. The whole point is to do less work? Too bad, do it anyway.

It’s like they thought it would be corn lingerie “no no, make sure you leave some of the husk on to enhance the sexiness! See, just show the cleavage in front here.”

Ah that’s great thanks!

That sounds interesting, you got a link?

Subtle.

I vote horizon forbidden west because the world is -so engaging- even more than the original imo. Even the side quest chains are beautiful and moving. They did a very good job with it.

I haven’t played GoW though, so I’m definitely biased.

Cool.

Are there any Linux distros that are good with both touchscreen and fingerprint scanners? I have a laptop that needs a bigger hard drive, so might as well get a new OS, and its touchscreen with a fingerprint scanner. I use it to look stuff up when I’m using another computer, and to download stuff. That’s about it now that I have a “real gaming computer”.

I use Ubuntu on my other computers, and I like it well enough. I’ve tried mint cinnamon and did not particularly like it. I’m sure ubuntu would be fine to use again, but I’d like to try something else.