Spendrill

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[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was hoping for IDS to be beaten, mainly for his part in the design of Universal Credit but it looks as if his constituency is, to quote The Thick Of It, built on a solid bed of cunts.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I think shame is her kink. Have you heard the one about her slave collar necklace?

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

The correct demonym is Pakistani. Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s the terms 'Paki' and 'Stani' were exclusively used by racists and racist organisations such as the National Front and British Movement.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Well, I agree that everybody is different in certain ways but one of the main lessons of being in group was the revelation that broadly speaking we all want the same things and a lot of the mis-aimed strategies we'd adopted was stopping us from getting that stuff. A lot of people came through that community throughout the course of a year and while some of the stories were absolutely horrific, the problems were much the same, person to person.

Yes, the therapy was less effective for some than others and drugs absolutely should be available as a first-aid but I think that people should be moved on to other therapy as soon as they can use it.

I'm particularly hopeful about the results we are now seeing from psychedelic research into treatment resistant depression as I think that there are people for whom talk therapy won't work but if you look at recent research into SSRIs it seems that some are barely improving on the placebo effect.

So yes I'm in favour of multiple approaches but it seems that SSRIs are outcompeting other treatments because the decisions are being made on the basis of cost and that means that those other treatments simply will not exist in the future.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Worked for me.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

It's a scam and we shouldn't be encouraging it. The thieves put the spikes up every day and then the crow distracts people while the thieves pick their pockets. The crows only get 15% of the proceeds.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

With all the nonsense that there is in the world why this particular nonsense? Lemme tell ya: friend of mine showed me a graph showing that we had historically low levels of CO~2~. Took me a while to catch on but it didn't have the Holocene individually marked, it was mostly concerning the epochs before mankind arrived. So the argument is totally irrelevant to the discussion of greenhouse gasses. Unless... unless you could convince yourself that there were lost civilisations that existed in distant pre-history. Of course there's absolutely zero evidence for these... must be a cover-up.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a funny thing, I used to a werewolf but I'm alright noo^ooo^ooow.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago
[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Classic British liberal. A liberal is the only one of those things that he is.

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