Oh, you’re a debate pervert, not someone having a conversation. Kind of on me for not seeing that before now. Don’t worry about it, man. We’re done now.

“Summarize all the details of the article in the headline so that reading the article is unnecessary” is not an editorial standard held by any newspapers, to my knowledge.

Yeah, there’s a reason we don’t let children into casinos. Putting cute cartoons in the casino on their phone just makes it worse, if anything.

Journalists don’t write headlines for the most part, editors do. If you think the headline is bad you should email the newspaper, not the journalist, because they probably have no control over it.

And expecting a headline to be both succinct and completely explain the story is an unreasonable expectation. That’s why the article is there, to explain what the headline doesn’t. Despite what reddit and Twitter would have you believe, browsing a bunch of headlines is not reading the news.

Funnily enough there are different Hollywoods: Hollywood (obviously), East Hollywood, West Hollywood, North Hollywood, Hollywood Hills (this is the one near Hollywood that was on fire, but it was very small compared to the other 2 burning now), and Hollywood Hills West. There is no South Hollywood, but I might be missing some others. One of them is independent of the city of LA (WeHo) and another isn’t even bordering Hollywood (NoHo).

This has been your unscheduled autistic info dump about cities in LA County with Hollywood in the name.

Therapists love CBT because it is easy and works for most people, but there are absolutely people and situations where it doesn’t just not work but is actively harmful. Like when you’re in a toxic relationship, trying to reframe all the shit making you miserable isn’t going to help you the way that realizing your relationship is toxic and getting out of it will.

And a good therapist will know that and not use it in inappropriate situations… but C’s get degrees, as they say, and when it’s just a high paying job rather than a calling a lot of people are fine writing off those it doesn’t work for as difficult or treatment resistant.

I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water or anything, it’s useful in many situations. Therapists just need to be more open to trying other methods as well. The best therapy I ever had was literally just guided talking about what I’ve been through and how it made me feel, no judgement or work sheets (BLEGH). Sometimes that’s what people need.

Yup. They’re already trying to define drag as inherently sexual, and will target trans people based on this. Just going outside while trans will be exposing children to sexual material.

He had emphysema… they didn’t specifically connect it, but I would be shocked if the fires had no effect on his health. Ash causing strokes and heart failure are some of the specific things they warn about in the air quality warnings. There’s still ash everywhere because it hasn’t rained and they don’t expect it to for at least another week, probably longer. So every time a car goes by in the street it’s kicking up ash that people are breathing in.

To add to this, the lyrics during the section where Johnny plays are about four traditional fiddle songs that aren’t played in the song itself: Fire on the Mountain, The House of the Rising Sun, Ida Red, and Granny Will Your Dog Bite. I think in the same way that the lyrics of Tenacious D - Tribute make it clear that Tribute is a representation of the greatest song in the world and not the greatest song itself, the music we hear from Johnny’s section is supposed to represent but not be the music he played to beat the Devil.

Neuroscience answer: Dopamine is responsible for (among other things) motivation and the feeling of reward when you do something. People with ADHD have chronically low dopamine levels because they have more dopamine transporters than most people do in their brains, so their brains burn through it quickly.

In practice, people who are unmedicated tend to do whatever they can to try and get a little more dopamine to get them through the day. It’s why smoking, risk taking, illicit drug use, gambling addiction, etc are also correlated with ADHD: all those things give you a dopamine boost.

So when someone is sitting there scrolling through memes on the phone, they’re hunting for the dopamine. The dopamine is almost never at The Task. It’s incredibly frustrating to understand all that and still not really be able to do anything about it until it escalates into an emergency, at which point you don’t really need dopamine to deal with it anymore, now that you have adrenaline. But that’s obviously an unsustainable way to do things on a regular basis.

https://www.lapl.org/be-ready

LA Public Library has a great list of resources including mutual aid for the fires.

Some medical tools look crude even at regular size… they don’t call orthopedics bone carpenters for nothing!

I hate it when woke makes the wind gust 100 mph and carry embers for miles, to the extent that a 100 lane road surrounding a building still wouldn’t have stopped it from burning.

The 56-year-old was suspended by the club in 2021 for performing a fascist salute at the end of a match against Inter Milan.

Bernabe was filmed making the salute and chanting “duce, duce”, which translates as “leader, leader” and is commonly associated with former fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini.

“I did it and I don’t regret it because I admire Mussolini, he did great things for Italy as Franco did for Spain,” Bernabe said in 2021.

They fire him for showing his dick online and not for being openly fascist at one of the games they invited him to be at in an official capacity… oh, football culture.

The screencap in the article looks pretty dark to me? Is there something that needs to be dark that the example pic doesn’t show? Asking as someone that turns everything to dark mode.

I didn’t think it was ‘about’ anything other than how campy TOS was (which would surely be familiar to most people in 1991), but if anyone has other reads I’m interested.

Always check what the manual says to do. If you don’t have it it’s almost certainly uploaded somewhere.

I’d be worried about my cat chipping a tooth again, but she’s also a bit of a dumbass.

You can’t read text and view a person’s expression at the same time, but you can watch signing and see the expression (sometimes because it’s part of the sign itself).

For some Deaf people it’s also an issue that they aren’t as fluent in written English as they are in American Sign Language. Text isn’t going to help them if they can’t figure out what it means, or it’s going by too fast to comprehend.

Honestly “modern healthcare” was pushing it for a lot of them even when they were open, due to decades of cuts and lack of investment. The (now closed) hospital that was in the rural community I grew up in had a reputation for being a place you went if you had no other choice, or it was a very minor emergency even they couldn’t fuck up. My parents floored it to the nearest city (40 minute drive) every time my mom went into labor, despite the local hospital being maybe 15 minutes away max if you drove the speed limit.