You’re insisting that the frameworks some people use to understand the world are all made up (to be fair you aren’t entirely wrong). But the power of positive thinking bullshit is peddled by every grifter and their mother and is often the stick used by people who aren’t willing to acknowledge that depression isn’t all in your head.

It’s akin to saying, just go for a run and you’ll feel better. You may be right, but you are completely neglecting that medication is also useful possibly above and beyond a nice jog.

People can better themselves, but this particular category of argument ignores a lot of realities for people that need more than a pep talk.

Also, introvert and extravert are nice short hand terms for “probabilistically, I gain or lose energy from the average social outing”.

Thanks I’m cured! All my anxieties and masking and difficulties socializing from overstimulation have gone away because of your uninformed happy thoughts. Why didn’t I try that before?!

Not defending overfeeding pets. This is for people that free feed their pets and don’t want the hassle of having to measure out food at specific times because it’s inconvenient.

We struggled with that transition when our cat got a bit fat so we did automated feeders. Which cost about as much as a month of those medications…

They don’t seem like they’re the types that are savvy enough to feel like it’s a problem.

None of those are up for reelection next time. I’m sure that wasn’t calculated by Schumer.

At the risk of lumping myself in with bullies (I don’t leave the house enough to be one or the victim of one), there’s space between here and there. We can be sympathetic that a bully is being abused at home or some other form of unhappiness causing a behavior while also condemning it. Like stopping someone looking at their phone from walking into the street. Pull them out and also yell at them for being a moron.

Some number can, with sympathy in addition to condemnation, change their behavior. The ones that don’t were given a chance and they can eat the consequences of being a cunt.

I was with you to the last paragraph. While dentistry does have a high suicide rate from what I remember, you’re making a lot of assumptions about a person whom we only know that their parents are rich and they did well in school.

That’s what they said.

Nussy is the one that made me throw up a bit.

She’s a rabid dog pointed a useful direction for once. Let her go to work, just don’t turn your back on her.

This is a good moment to also ask “do I want to understand the core concept?”.

This is a moment where I’m good with ignorance.

Well, without the files I’m going to assume worst case. Normal prostitution doesn’t need to go to a remote island that also has sex trafficked children.

The inverse of Clark’s saying: sufficiently explained magic is indistinguishable from science (credit: Girl Genius webcomic)

Correct, I just don’t feel like pretending that that’s a thing they might do and that it isn’t the racism causing the problem.

Except adjusting for race is not appropriate. They are a significant portion of his constituent population. It may help explain a factor as to why it’s higher in his state. But I’ll bet being in a red state is also a factor given things like doctors fleeing, budget cuts, etc.

Additionally, such stats are prone to reflecting biases in the system rather than actual medically relevant information. Do black women have worse outcomes because of biological reasons, or because they are treated worse. This is one of those stats you have to be careful with because a nontrivial amount of time, it’s damn near proof of racism.

If only states were capable of doing things to improve the lives of their residents above what the nation as a whole can do. Clearly it’s impossible. Woe be this poor powerless state politician.

Your justification doesn’t hold within its own logic. And doesn’t address how blatantly racist the statement itself is.

A lesser point: the writing is pretty bad even by who standards. Trying too hard to check inclusion boxes when they would be nailing it with a little less effort. A random line in Gatwas second season about it being illegal for nurses to not know sign language, despite the presence of universal translation, was a hamfisted attempt to force inclusivity. Good impulse, heinously bad execution.

A larger thing that stood out to me was a recent episode (first of his second season). They go to the planet, find the bad guy, turns out he’s a literal incel (feels like they didn’t have to be so on the head, but that bit is whatever) stalking the new companion. In the end he unceremoniously dies. The Doctor and the new companion shared a laugh.

The Doctor doesn’t laugh at death. Granted I’ve never watched the originals, but the other Doctors have no shortage of hang ups about it. The tenth goes out of his way to give the bad guys a chance to end peacefully on his debut episode before killing them with a frown. The fourteenth chastised a person for trying to take advantage of the bad guy hanging from a ledge in her debut episode. The eleventh was a showman, but treated a good man going to war with proper, barely restrained rage. The twelfth has a sizable plotline about his issues with soldiers that interferes with his relationship with Clara.

It just doesn’t feel like the Doctor that I grew attached to, even Jodie Whittaker (who I argue was a victim of bad writing). I blame Disney.

Similar genre with a tiny setup difference: portal fantasy. Think Narnia or Inuyasha in which characters return from the other world

I’m guessing existing while brown.

Or grooming children at church.