I think people just want her to rot in prison instead of a psyc ward because they the think the psyc ward is getting off easy and she won’t be suffering as badly. Half of Americans are reactionary sadists, what’s new

She went to psychiatrists for extreme postpartum depression & stress and so was medicated on multiple antidepressants, but they never caught the warning signs for her psychosis. She experienced intense psychotic episodes (I think primarily from severe insomnia & postpartum mental issues) where she had delusions, hallucinated intrusive voices in her head, had dissociative out-of-body experiences, etc

She pleaded she was in a dream-like state where a voice in her head commanded her to kill her children and herself to save them so that they can all be with God together; so she strangled her kids before cutting her own wrists and jumping out the window. Just today there was a hung jury & mistrial over her defense’s insanity plea (which was to determine if she goes to a high-security psyc ward or to prison, neither of which are remotely humane in the US tbh)

Most people generally aren’t aware of the warning signs, he probably just assumed she was acting weird solely from depression and stress

My mom’s boyfriend went through a temporary psychosis episode last winter, and for the first month or so we genuinely had no idea; we just assumed he was extra quiet/ solemn and sometimes a little grumpy. It wasn’t until we pressed on some of his behaviors that it escalated to aggression and yelling at everyone, accusing us of poisoning him and messing with his vision, accusing my mom of being an undercover agent, the dog of having cameras in her eyes, then trying to run away with his passport, etc. All of these irrational things completely out of touch from his usual self seemed to come out of nowhere. (We called a crisis hotline and got him admitted to a psych ward, which I think ultimately saved his life before it was too late)

ANYONE of any age can experience psychosis for the first time (particularly from extreme stress, trauma, social isolation, and/or sleep deprivation); and when you enter that state you often distrust everyone around you, and so you may hide what’s on your mind. Or you may phase in and out of your psychosis, experience memory lapses of many prior mental delusions, and are trying your hardest to appear normal to others, especially if you feel obligated to remain stoic/ strong for others. And like every mental condition, there’s no universal presentation of it

Also possible researchers only hypothesized it, but the media is latching onto the hypothesis as hard fact for a sensationalist headline while using cherry-picked quotes, as often happens

Dems and urban people are a bit more likely to vote by mail

Humans can be tools for each other too. What if I use you as a stepstool to reach something for us on a high shelf? Is it a human-human-stepstool gestalt? What if me reaching that high item for us simultaneously makes me your handygrabber?

The pollution from their poop is environmentally destructive enough alone tbh. Same reason wolf poop is neutral to the environment but dog pop is a major biohazard, they harbor all sorts of foreign pathogens from cohabitation with humans and unnatural/processed food loaded in nutrients causing excess of nitrogen + changing how their guts evolved

Also 5000 years isnt nearly enough time for an ecosystem adapt to a non-native species,

Besides having less than half the average lifespan of indoor cats, I don’t think people realize just how damaging and invasive outdoor cats are for the environment

One they’re insanely efficient hunters responsible for hundreds of species of birds/ smaller animals’ extinctions & endangerments; which means native predators have less food and a harder time surviving as well. Ecosystems have a delicate balance and cats due to a lottt of damage

Two their processed diet & unnatural lifestyle around humans makes their poop full of countless harmful pathogens not native to the ecosystem; cat (and dog) poop are classified as literal biohazard pollutants by the EPA, in the same category as crude oil spills. Even by burying their poop, they contaminate the whole soil around it, eventually spreading foreign bacteria/parasites to plants -> insects -> lizards -> birds -> foxes, etc. Not to mention their poop’s nitrogen & contaminants eventually seep into groundwater -> freshwater -> the ocean -> marine life

Letting your cat roam outdoors is arguably a shittier thing to do to our planet than littering on a regular basis, sorry not sorry

Alcohol is lame and for chuds, compared to most other drugs it’s a shit buzz and literally destroys your health and kills braincells long-term (unlike weed and psychedelics, despite pop culture myths)

These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile,

Lmao why do I feel like he just had a phone call w Kim and Kim convinced him of all this by flattering him and using this framing

What kind of chuddy coworkers you got? All the ones I’ve had are just as smug while ignoring evidence on twice as many things. I’d kill to have a lib coworker who’s at least halfway in reality (and doesn’t harbor the same level of prejudice)

The other day I told my boomer “apolitical” coworker I’m minoring in environmental science, and he immediately starts ranting about how the climate’s always changed, species have always gone extinct, etc… I politely explain how the data shows human activity’s significantly amplified temperature variations and extinction events, and he tells me I’m a brainwashed college kid who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, and how “gen z thinks you know everything while having no life experience.” Mind you, this guy claims to have a “genius level IQ”

Lmao my first gay kiss was with a confused, left-ish, second-gen Guatemalan-American with homophobic, conservative, small-business-owning parents. He tried to impress me one time by telling me he was “kind of a communist”… but couple years later he accepts an internship with a Democratic congressman

Tbh most immigrants in the US (especially documented ones, and especially those who pursue citizenship) shouldn’t at all be seen as an accurate reflection of their native country’s culture. For one, most countries in the global south are multicultural with countless diverse local cultures and extreme sociopolitical differences region to region, not at all homogenous like chauvinist Americans assume. And two, it’s very difficult to legally move to America without a lot of money or connections, so many immigrants tend to have been the privileged few with radically different beliefs from most people in their home town. Basically a whole lot of selection bias

Even Mexicans living in the US, while typically not as reactionary as natural-born Americans, are mostly against Claudia Sheinbaum/ say she’s “in bed with the cartel,” despite most Mexicans in Mexico supporting her. My Mexican friend says those who choose to leave are often seen as “spiritually gringo” people lmao

America’s Vietnamese diaspora are mostly conservative and extremely anti-communist in general (especially first generation ones), I think there’s just a lot of them in Orange County. There were huge waves of Vietnamese immigrants in the 70s/80s, and the vast majority were from capitalist South Vietnam; privileged kulaks fleeing after the communist North won the war

Most older Vietnamese-Americans exclusively fly the outdated flag of South Vietnam, and will froth at the mouth if they see the modern unified flag 🇻🇳

Infanticide was common in prehistoric humans, not as a “culling the weak” thing, but as an alternative to abortion to ensure there were enough resources to ration among existing members of their community. And archaeological evidence suggests they didn’t have the heart to bludgeon them or anything; they just left newborns they couldn’t afford off in the wilderness

Food rationing was the norm in ancient humans. Especially among our sub-species, the homo sapien, even moreso than extinct human sub-species like homo neanderthal. Elderly and disabled members of one’s community would almost always be taken care of

how long have you had her compared to them? might change with time

I just don’t get why age gaps over a decade almost always seem to involve the man or masc being the older one and the woman or femme being younger

smoking’s definitely a good amount worse in the long-term. but there’s some evidence vaping may be worse in the short-term (e.g. more likely to develop a cough within your first year of vaping as opposed to smoking)

The average American works a good deal more than the average Japanese person

According to this, Latin Americans should be the gayest and Western Europeans should be the straightest. Ignore the gazillion pride flags at every corner in Berlin, Copenaghen, Amsterdam, etc… they just really like rainbows there

By “anti-Israel” he means “vaguely suggest Netanyahu should tone it down”