EMDR absolutely can be used by professionals, but where I live, it is used exclusively and very rushed. You are given a pre-allocated block of, say, six sessions, where you are expected to pretty much immediately get into the traumatic memories from the first session, and if you are resistant, you’re told that you are wasting time.

That’s why I hate EMDR, because it is held up as the “evidence-backed” method and thus professionals are functionally forced into rushing it, because the insurance provider won’t pay for the likely months or years of therapy it takes to do therapy in a safe and healthy way.

Again, just from my own personal experience and that of my friends who have been through it.

Allowing a certificate without proper validation for local only networks is a terrible, terrible idea. I could super easily use this as a loophole to set up a honeypot public free wi-fi, redirect all traffic through a reverse proxy and man-in-the-middle every single HTTPS connection, effectively allowing me to harvest everyone’s passwords in a really quick and easy way.

Just use DNS verification. It’s not that hard.

To be clear, this is just my opinion, and it’s based on my experiences with psychiatrists as someone with pretty severe PTSD and other mental health issues.

Neither of those approaches tackles underlying emotional issues. They’re popular because they give an easy-to-follow framework for “treating” very complex emotional issues. CBT is especially bad IMO, because it’s more like teaching people how to mask and distract themselves from the effects of emotional issues rather than actually resolving them.

EMDR is like a “one neat trick” approach to tackling trauma, as if moving eyes around is some sort of magic spell to reverse trauma. In my experience, trauma is treated through reprocessing traumatic memories, and while EMDR does focus on reprocessing memories, it’s a brute force approach, rather than a careful and measured approach, where emotional issues are slowly and steadily unpicked at a pace which is comfortable to the client.

Most psychiatrists are fucking quacks. I’m firmly of the opinion that the state should just allocate every man, woman and child $50 a month for person-centred therapy. Not trash like CBT or EMDR.

I saw an AI-GENERATED ad for AI-GENERATED MUSIC that claimed it was made by real humans who had their livelihoods ruined by AI.

I consider cheat codes to be an accessibility tool for disabled gamers, and I think it is really sad that they are far less common than they once were, and it’s even sadder to see some devs/publishers (Ubisoft comes to mind) try to monetize cheat codes.

An opportunity to share one of my favourite StackOverflow questions of all time!

It’s well worth reading through the answers and the comments, but here’s a little sampler platter:

This will run for a lot more than hours. Assuming it loops at 1 GHz (which it won’t - it will be a lot slower than that), it will run for 10790283070806014188970 years. Which is about 83 billion times longer than the age of the universe.

damn - so maybe serveral threads generating guids is a better idea?

4 threads on a quad core processor would make it run in 20 billion times the age of the universe - so yeah, that would help a lot.

I have no problem with the people. I have a massive problem with the society. Criticising one does not mean that I have a personal problem with the people who comprise that society.

It’s all built on exploitation. Tourism is just another kind of exploitation. So, no, I think by telling people they should be thankful for their oppression, you were doing a shitty thing. That doesn’t mean you’re a shitty person, I just want you to reflect instead of brushing concerns under the rug.

Being “nice” won’t get us to where we need to be. Solidarity and class consciousness will.

It’s everyone’s fault, collectively. We all need to rise up and overthrow the ruling class. To achieve that, we need to actually talk about the problems our current society has without taking it all personally, and reflect on how the structure of our society has created the problems we have. It’s not about who specifically we have to blame, that’s a distraction.

I’m a huge star wars fan, every time I hear star wars fans complaining about Star Wars it’s literally just this:

fuck civic pride, are you kidding? you’re telling people who have been priced out of their hometowns to shut up and appreciate the surge of shady shops selling tacky trash

The good news is that there are a billion no-name brands in China etc. manufacturing drop-in replacement Arduino-compatible boards.

I got into microcontrollers through Arduino but very quickly moved to much cheaper (and tbh, better) third-party options.

So are you like, rich or something?

I’m not a fan of the Sex Pistols, I’m way too young really, I assumed you were!

In his book, Anger is an Energy, Johnny Rotten says:

“That line, ‘I wanna destroy the passerby,’ I was talking about all those kinds of people, the complacent ones that don’t contribute, that just sit by and moan and don’t actually do anything to better themselves or the situation for others. The non-participating moral majority. I just thought ‘passerby’ was a better phrase, gets to the point quicker. Rather than use twenty-two words, just one nailed it rather well.”

None of us are free until all of us are. If you’re happy benefiting from slave labor, I don’t have anything more to say to you.

I’m an anarchist. I advocate for anarchism. I’m not a fan of China at all. But Capitalism is way worse than anything China is doing. Capitalism is why we have kids working in sweat shops, conflict minerals being mined in war-torn countries, colonialism, slavery, and fascism. World War 2 was directly caused by capitalism.

https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/index.html

Thanks for the question, I’d be happy to expand a little bit - the basics of it go something like this: the more money you have, the easier it is to accumulate more money. Money can be used to purchase goods and services, including all sorts of propaganda. Over time, wealth will concentrate in fewer and fewer hands. This leads to progressively worse and worse inequality. This inequality is most harshly felt by the most vulnerable to begin with, but eventually it begins to impact more and more of the working class. As the working class begins to push back against the growing inequality, those in power are incentivized to shift the blame onto others, because they don’t want to give up their wealth and power. The wealthy will use their institutional power, their control over media apparatus, etc. to push a narrative that the problems felt by the working classes are caused by [whoever]. They also push all sorts of propaganda to divide the working class into smaller and smaller sub-groups - if you’ve seen stories in the news about how Millenials/Boomers/GenZ are ruining X/Y/Z, that’s an easy example of the ruling class sowing division among the working class. Eventually, as the inequality grows worse and worse, the poor suckers who bought into the ruling class’s propaganda begin to demand more and more extreme solutions to their problems - which obviously aren’t improving, because [whoever] isn’t actually responsible for their problems, it’s the ruling class.

Laws can’t solve this problem, because lawmakers can be bought. Elections can’t solve this problem either, because the problems are so deeply entrenched that even if we managed to elect leaders that truly do represent us, the ruling class have so much institutional power in other instruments of the state - the military, the police, the judiciary, the media, the education system, the civil service, the intelligence services (CIA, FBI, NSA, et al.) and so on - are controlled, directly or indirectly, by the ruling class. This is why we need a social revolution, we need to throw off the ruling class and never re-establish it. If there are rulers, then there will always be oppression.

I’d recommend taking a look at an anarchist FAQ for more information about the problems in society and how anarchism can solve them.

If we made an anarchist society and we all get wiped out by genocide, at least we would die as free men and women, fighting for our homes and our lives. In the present we die as slaves and give our lives to increase shareholder value.

People are so scared of uncertainty, and all of these “what if” questions are just thinly veiled fear and insecurity. I get it. But if we want to live in a better world, we need to find the courage to act.

The inevitable outcome of classical liberalism is fascism. A free market means the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands becomes inevitable. Then liberalism dies and is replaced by corporatiam. Classical liberalism is propaganda for capitalism. They made you a slave and called it freedom. And you love it.