Thought this passage was especially well written

These mislabellings are harmful, not because there is anything shameful about the possibility that someone could be living with a psychological condition. Rather, what is shameful is that women and other people of marginalized gender identities are still treated as unreliable reporters on our own bodies. It is harmful because this gendered misdiagnosis obstructs access to necessary medical care, disincentivizes biomedical research on certain diseases, and even prevents us from seeking support for comorbid mental health symptoms out of concern that doing so could further damage our credibility.

Unpopular opinion: “top talent” is a meaningless capitalistic word to justify crazy wealth disparities

I say this as someone who went to one of the “highest ranked” unis in the world. Most of all this prestige and “top talent” stuff is bullshit designed to keep the rich rich.

Cool. My second option was an australian charity that is running a similar project and their highest salary seems to be 80k USD. So I’ll go with that one.

That’s what I was thinking.

I know america has this elitist managment culture of that values people who “earn their worth” and are “entrepreneurial” or whatever, but that doesn’t ever justify a million dollar salary to me.

Well I’m going to give to another charity obviously.

Because I don’t want half my donation to go towards massive salaries.

Non-profits pay fixed salaries. Instead of having an owner who “profits” all the extra money left over.

I’m not living in america. In my country this really isn’t a thing. Most charities have a sort of “everyone gets the same salary” policy which is usually around the median salary in the country.

This charity was just running a cool project I wanted to donate too. I dont care what the american system is like, no one deserves 1 million a year while there are people starving.

The court’s decision follows dramatic revelations of alleged foreign influence on the contest. Earlier this week, the Romanian government declassified intelligence files that strongly suggested to a Russian-backed campaign to corrupt the election.

The documents said 25,000 pro-Georgescu accounts on social media app TikTok burst into action just two weeks before the first-round vote.

Yep I think the move is harsh. But this is literally happening in every other democracy and they are just pretending it isn’t. Kudos to romania for tackling the issue head-on.

i mean for such a massive propaganda tool, thats a good deal

Giving similar vibes to the FBI sketch of the dude who killed logging CEO’s

Idk maybe not everyone has a first language of english and had english lessons.

Like english is literally my fourth best spoken language. And I’m disabked with cognitive issues.

theres a character called poopybutthole in rick and morty

Check the description of the community.

It’s meant to be an inclusive version of “whitepeopletwitter”.

Is your username a reference to rick and morty ahahha

Bojack Horseman with the on point social commentary.

Damn. Guess I’ll have to find another career path.

It tends to actually be a worse problen in europe than the US.

In the US the problem is more that doctors tend to diagnose you with something you don’t have and prescribe drugs that won’t help you (pharmaceuticals thanks).

In europe, where the government strongly controls the medical system, the government has promoted rules that minimise the costs of disability benefits and delegitimise disabling illness as “hysteria” or whatever, so that the government doesn’t have to pay as much disability benefits.

Take the UK for example, Sir Simon Wessely, who based his career on claiming ME (and now Long COVID) are all in the mind, which was disproven later on. Where is he now? He was knighted by the Queen, serves on the board of directors of the NHS, leads the government’s Science Media Center. Oh and he also earns massive commissions on being a consultant for disability insurance companies.

His famous quote, which is linked to him advising UK parliament in the 90s, is “[disability] Benefits will actually make these patients worse” (because he believed they were malingerers). A quote that probably led to hundreds of deaths of people with ME starving to death.

Having worked for advocacy groups for my disease, this is literally a universal issue and affects even the best systems. The only cases where this tends not to be an issue are extremely expensive private doctors who take all the time in the world to investigate for you.

For Ukraine, only NATO membership makes sense to end the war.

There is literally nothing else that can prevent Russia from invading. They broke their word in 2014, then again in 2022, without NATO membership, Ukraine will just get invaded again and again by Russia until it’s a satellite state or fully annexed.