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  • She may have spared herself a large amount of pain and agony and made a rational choice by dying. Many people with borderline personality disorder struggle for decades in misery and then end things decades later. The limited pleasure in those decades may not be worth the immense pain many feel. Perhaps she was highly rational and made an autonomous decision to terminate her suffering.

    The problem isn’t open information, the problem is they actively concealed information from her and didn’t list possible treatments, leading her to be shocked when she read it. Psychiatrists need to be open with patients and not hide things in records hoping they aren’t discovered by patients. She could have been discharged with something listing rule-out diagnosis and treatments for each one.

    Psychiatrists also overly emphasize a dogma of brains being unable to change because it’s more profitable to have lifetime patients, and this shapes how patients think about their possibilities. If an expert says you’re always going to be broken, very few will challenge that.






  • It’s duckduckgo. Search duckduckgo.com with the term “restaurants near me.” You’ll often get responses that are close to your IP location.

    That couldn’t happen unless DDG passes your IP address on to Bing. It’s possible they censor part of the IP and only pass part of it to Bing, but probably not.

    (Go ahead! Try it!)

    Since Bing sells to data brokers, data brokers know your IP is linked to a search for rambutan, even without fingerprinting your browser.

    I’m not calling duckduckgo.com a honeypot… I’m also not calling it not a honeypot. But it knows too much for something supposedly private.

    Any closed source firefox extension that has access to the browser display could be parsing the texts and selling it and your IP and other identifiers to data brokers. It’s part of how these extensions are profitable.

    Cloudflare also does highly advanced fingerprinting and has a script called cloudflare insights, so it seems likely that any cloudflare activity is generating marketing data.






  • I have dual citizenship with Russia and India, apparently. Where is all this hostility coming from? I’m not someone who elected Trump, especially since I apparently spend half my time in Russia and half in India.

    Unfortunately a large part of America is racist and are fine with less due process if it gets rid of brown people. People knew what they were getting when they voted Trump, and the Supreme Court saying brown skin can be used as part of a basis for detaining people to determine if they have legal immigration status is a sad and horrible reality. The loud urban part of America has protested, the quiet rural part has not – merely indicating they find it distasteful. I hope I am wrong and you are completely right and there is a sweeping change of power, kicking out all the MAGA Republicans.

    Also, calling me Ramesh is really not kind to the Indian Americans and Indians who use Lemmy. I think it’s less likely Lemmy users are named Vlad, but still, this is actually possibly hurtful to some people. “Garbage country” is also really a hurtful thing to say when Lemmy can be used worldwide.




  • I still don’t understand what you are getting at or if you are trolling.

    Do you think I am a paid person outside of the USA? Is that what you are saying?

    Actually, I estimated this statistic again and you’re right that 65% may be overly high.

    I based 65% on the fact that much of the USA is rural and rural USA is predominantly white and against immigration and against the changing racial makeup of the country.

    That right there is a good 50 percent of the country, approximately, and nearly all of them feel that way, except for the youngest people in those areas possibly. So that right there would be over 45%. I also think it’s a decent guess that 20 percent of people in cities support harsh immigration policies. 55-60% is a better guess. It is a guess, and there may be polls that contradict that statistic, but it’s also been shown that many racist people are either less likely to answer polls or simply lie when polled. It is a shockingly large amount of people who support a lot of ICE’s cruelty, even if they dislike some aspects of how it is being done. If you can provide a better estimate with reasoning, I’d be interested in reading it.




  • Unlike with most ice agents that can’t be identified, a judge can try to find out who arrested this woman by contacting the person running the airport.

    The federal judge could order that the person running the airport terminal be detained and provide information to the court about which department of homeland security employees were responsible. If the person refuses to answer, the person could be arrested and held in contempt in a cell until they comply.

    The federal judge could then issue an arrest for contempt of court orders for the department of homeland security officers responsible for violating the order and detain whoever deported this woman until she is brought back.

    If this judge did this, it would likely be appealed immediately to the supreme court who would side with trump who would oppose it, the homeland security officers would be released, and nothing else would be done.

    There is no mechanism to enforce a judicial order that protects immigrants when you have a supreme court that rubber stamps trump immigration policy.

    Although this is terrible, probably 55% of the country still supports harsh immigration policies, even policies that lack process and violate judicial orders, if it gets rid of more brown people, and they have elected the most ruthless anti-immigration anti-POC people to get that done. In general, many American conventions of “process” and “rights” have been illusory in nature for a long time: people had rights if they had money, otherwise there was no enforcement mechanism. Many of the most important rights, like a right to a jury trial, can be taken away by giving people a jury trial that is unfair (no meaningful representation, no meaningful investigation, evidence withheld, a jury that only represents a certain segment of society) and even now it is mostly impossible to appeal such sham trials. Now, a person of color, even with meaningful representation, has no rights if they are Latino and they can’t prove they were born inside the USA.

    Imagine that poor girl’s terror. She probably debated whether to stay at home and is so upset she decided to travel.



  • Musk is clearly a Nazi.

    First, there’s the Nazi salute. There’s no reason to do that unless you are a Nazi.

    Second, Nazis called Hitler my Furer, and he’s rewriting it this way specifically for this reason. It is an honorific title and he’s showing honor to Hitler.

    Third, Musk deflects from accusations he’s a Nazi (“that’s a crazy thing to say”) but he never responds by saying “What Hitler did was horrible and I’m not a Nazi and detest their ideology” which is what someone would say if not a Nazi.

    The scary thing about this is Musk will soon control a large robot army. At that point, he could appoint white supremacists to lead the robot army and pick up where Hitler left off. This is a real threat for Jewish people as well as other minorities.