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  • Apparently whatever you're using doesn't have letters in it, so I assume it also doesn't have words, since those tend to be made of letters. I'm fine with this. You can do whatever the voices and crystals are telling you.

  • The Taliban's methods of warfare, in and of themselves, don't even meet criterion A for a PTSD diagnosis. The man wouldn't necessarily have to be in combat to meet that, but it's a lot more likely if he did (which, by all evidence I've seen, he didn't).

    Being paranoid is not PTSD.

  • Do you have any evidence of the "war veteran" part of this, or literally anything to indicate that he has PTSD besides your own assertion that he "probably" has it? The only thing I can find is that he was in Afghanistan but never saw any combat. Are there things in Afghanistan that could cause PTSD? Sure. Is there any evidence that he has PTSD? Not that I've seen.

    You know who probably does have massive PTSD? The cuffed guy in the back that was almost executed by two cops because one of them was so effing stupid that he thought he'd been shot by an acorn. He did not "react accordingly." He reacted like a trigger-happy moron. The only useful part of this is that he's resigned.

  • I have a vague memory of trying this a year or two(?) ago but gave up trying again after I couldn’t get my account to transfer to steam, which I guess is required now. I’ll definitely be trying it again once I figure that out though.

  • Maybe it's one of those games I need to bounce off of two or three times before it clicks for me. The skills from gems confused me, but maybe I'm just judging it too soon?

    I was also trying to play it on my Steam Deck, and had some difficulty getting that to feel right, so maybe that's a factor too.

  • You’re starting to make me think I shouldn’t automatically assume some website’s ranking of truth is 100% reliable.

    What’s next, I have to start looking into claims people make for reliability?! This is really going to slow down my general read-the-headline-react-immediately policy.

  • Chicago people can never believe that anything they have could possibly exist anywhere else, or, even worse, have pre-existed the Chicago version, which is usually exactly the same or slightly worse.

    You can observe this in the wild; just start doing literally anything with a person from Chicago and at some point they will stop and mention "this is nice, but in Chicago we have..." and then go on to describe the same thing.

  • That's a really good point. From your article, she was apparently in there for like nine months, too, on "charges," so not because she was even convicted of anything yet.

    So, long enough to know about her, long enough to have done medical screening for underlying issues, and certainly more than long enough for them to release her pending trial, but I'd speculate that she didn't have the money to pay an exorbitant bail or the credit for a bondsman, so they just tossed her in with minimal oversight and zero care. If only she'd had the foresight to be born rich.

  • Five or so years ago I’d probably scroll right past an article like this and think nothing of it.

    Now, the “found unresponsive” just draws my suspicion, like “officer-involved shooting” where bullet holes seem to appear in people by magic.

    Might still be nothing, but immediate suspicion seems like the only sensible response anymore.

  • Pretty much everything Texas "goes through" can be laid at the feet of its right-wing government and its reactionary stance on just about everything (e.g., its ineffective energy infrastructure, low literacy rate).

    Your comment, with its lack of anything substantive beyond "yay liberals are inconvenienced" isn't exactly surprising, but it will always be disappointing.