I grew up in the shittiest state and even we took Spanish. Middle school though. I’d say if we ever get through this racist fest, the basics of French, Spanish, and Chinese would be nice in elementary. Maybe with more advanced options for Spanish in later years since that’s our best chance for cultural immersion if they leave our Latina/Latino brothers and sisters alone for 5 seconds.

I wonder if they make them to fit couch fuckers.

I think they usually do not attempt diagnosis before people are around 21. Maybe has to do with prefrontal lobe development. The reason is that kids are just stupid and do things that might be considered antisocial but are just growing up. Since there is a great stigma attached to those personality disorders, even in the mental health industry, they typically don’t want to risk the mistake of incorrectly diagnosing it.

Some psychopaths are highly functional and seem to be useful at times. I’d rather have a psychopath trauma surgeon for example. But I do think they will make the planet uninhabitable with all the wars and data centers. I’ve toyed with the idea of eliminating the genetic component through DNA tech, but then it opens Pandora’s box for eliminating depression and all other sorts of things that can be natural adaptations or responses to environments, so the next thing you know we would just have perfect people without the imperfections that make us human.

It’s a fascinating topic. After being the target of a malignant psychopath I read some books (after I moved away). I found myself wondering which one of us was really flawed. Is it us for having empathy and vulnerability, or them for the damage they do? After deciding that they are creating barricades for climate change efforts (oil companies repressing clean energy tech, Trump killing wind farm efforts, bombing things constantly), I have come to the conclusion that they will contribute so much to the destruction of our species that it must be them that is flawed. We’ll say rather, the condition is flawed since you’re right about recognizing individuals as people and not their mental diagnoses.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8374040/

This study puts it at 4.5% , which is way more than is listed in Wikipedia.

I think it’s just “antisocial” traits. I also think it might have been updated to exclude sociopathy, but I read books about this a long time ago, so not sure. Psychopaths are Machiavellian, have no empathy, and are narcissistic, iirc. It’s called the dark triad. Narcissists still experience anxiety, so they are different that way. Borderline folks often feel bad about themselves rather than having a grandiose sense of self, and I think they only have periods of lack of empathy during episodes. Really, I’m not sure borderline folks count in the 4%. I’m also not sure sociopaths and psychopaths are still classified separately in DSM.

I can try to find. The 4% is the population rate of being without empathy. So that would cover sociopathy, psychopathy, and narcissistic personality disorder. It’s still damaging and terrifying.

I don’t think that works these days.

More like 10 million psychopaths. 4% psychopathy rate.

I got off everything other than Lemmy after Trump won. It definitely has helped, but we’re not deleting Facebook or deGoogling our way out of world collapse. …well, at least short term anyway. Most people I know cannot even connect their everyday habits with the consequences they experience.

Guess you missed neighborhood checkpoint videos in Minneapolis. They were blocking streets and checking IDs to make sure people driving through lived there rather than ICE agents from out of town. Citizens have busted ICE’s balls to keep citizens from being arrested. Those guys are pitiful sissy losers.

But yeah, progress is certainly hard to see sometimes.

Steve Bannon said to “flood the zone.” That’s what they are doing.

Don’t also forget that the pedophiles run every country it seems. What a mess!

I’ve noticed that stress is beginning to show in society. When you order groceries, much of the order is wrong. People are using employee assistance programs in certain cases for stress related issues. Many of my friends can’t stand to watch the news. I’m fucked in the head from doom scrolling. I know a person who had a party recently and said the only thing she wanted for her bday was for nobody to bring up politics. It’s awful honestly and I’m crashing out. My health is impacted. Like, a lot.

It’s invalidating that some don’t see all this.

When I can see the boogers piling up.

I went to Europe in 2007 or something and a pair of Levis were stupid expensive. They just make that shit up and create value out of bullshit. Levis have been $30 when they last raised minimum wage in The 90s. These prices make no sense.

If you switch to Arch you have security vulnerabilities due to firewall not being setup automatically and some other issues. If you don’t know, probably better to stick with Endeavor. I have Arch and love but it’s a pain in the ass when combined with Hyprland, which is also a bit bleeding edge and hard to maintain.

I can’t imagine the confusion you have saved yourself to not learn 400 different package managers and all the other qwirky differences beween distro types.

That’s an easy to understand answer. I got it now! ;)

Oh shit it’s in French too? I’ve been under a rock.

Why is there a ü in the answers?

Edit: Thanks for explaining everyone. I have no idea how I missed that my whole life. I had no idea. It could be because I’m in Western Hemisphere but not sure.