"My Pillow Guy" is the correct term...

There has been a lot of criticism of the DSM over the years, most of it justified. Labels like "borderline personality disorder" are almost so vague as to be unhelpful.

At the same time, nobody has come up with anything better. There is so much nuance that simple labels can never capture what is really going on.

If you wanted to really accurately capture someone's personality you would need dozens of scales, 0-100, like a sadistic variant of a table-top RPG. Many of these sliders would have similar competing effects, and any test you gave would never be able to single out a single value. Then, on top of that, people actively hide and deceive the real answers to questions, and the answers might change significantly from day to day.

The key takeaway here is that you can't self diagnose or treat using labels from the DSM or (even worse) western pop psy. Practicing self awareness, finding someone you trust enough to talk honestly with, and if feasible a really good psychologist (because there are plenty of mediocre ones out there, too) is more important.

I always get three things confused.

1. Mr Pillow
2. Pillow Pets
3. Pillow Pants

Pretty much sounds like they listen to someone on a drug trip.

Been married to the same women for 60 years and haven’t been shot.

A tangible example of an AI bot that will struggle is 100 years in the future when 90% of people are horrified by the idea of eating meat. We are already around 1/5 of the world not eating meat. This is a trend that could easily rise as a means of carbon footprint / climate change / zoonotic disease.

Who decides when the bot isn’t allowed to suggest eating red meat for an iron deficiency? Or rather can only suggest leafy greens like spinach?

Sometimes there isn’t an absolute right or wrong for preference. People should be allowed to eat meat or not, but someone will always be unhappy with either suggestion.

Transwomen are crazy, but a woman claiming to be a headless interdimentional being is a perfectly fine person to ask for legal advise.

That didn't work either, just ask the Soviets.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes, and I'm sure in 10 years this next generation will be coming up with their own version of "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" and launching themselves into a ruinous war.

I was really hoping Iraq/Afghanistan would finally put to bed the uniquely US delusion that you can accomplish anything whatsoever with air power alone, but I've been seeing more and more chatter that suggests otherwise. Depressing.

Maybe women don't like your eyes because you have the cold dead gaze of a man that believes carpet bombing is an option

Every republican voter is fascist scum.

The high alert was the main reason. The training and wasteful money was to counter the cost of shooting it down. I don’t know how much is grandstanding by gov officials but until recently they all seemed pretty concerned about it. Also the balloon was at an altitude that could interfere with planes, so we shot it down. Didn’t really cost us anything and gave some pilot a little training. The only thing that concerns me is now the whole world knows our capabilities. We can accurately track and shoot down a balloon sized object, with a almost no existent radar signature. I’m undecided if that’s a bad thing or a good thing for everyone to know.

That's a lot of bad analogies for someone not defending fascism.

They bless the rains down in Africa...

Is clown/chicken even a gender?

Amphetamine, Quatiapine, Sertraline, yes.

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It's school athletics that have been interested. It's actually medically relevant--are they being pushed too far? If body fat falls too low periods stop.

Whether a coach would actually do anything useful with the information is another matter, though.... It's all about winning today, not future harm.

The Catholics must be so proud.

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ITT: lmaomericans

Not just any candidate - he was the incumbent! It's already a bad oversight but when someone is already on the council it's baffling for this to not have been flagged ahead of time.

They didn't actually give a reason for saying it needed to be shot down. Justifying it by saying the practice is good is kind of bs that deserves nothing more than a whatever dude lol

Easy there, Mr. Blofeld.

It's Bill Gates in a trench coat.

Wow, you see your first mistake that derails any validity to your comment is that you think a therapist and a psychiatrist are the same thing. Which they absolutely are not. Its like comparing an EMT to a RN. I'd say the easiest and fastest way to spot a fake psychiatrist is their pharmacology knowledge. If you read the article, she did actually study and was on the path of becoming a psychiatrist, looks like she might just have never gained board certification to practice.