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maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:40:48 EST 
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I think I have an idea what causes the session problems, but I kind of hope that I'm not right, because if I am, its going to be a BITCH to fix. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:38:06 EST
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@kevie @nybill Yeah, subscriptions to users on old statusnet users get dicey sometimes. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:28:32 EST
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@gameragodzilla I think anyone suggesting that people seeking social status through identifying with mental disorders isn't a part of this "mental health crisis" the USA is facing is not a factor, are lying to themselves at best. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:26:11 EST
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@kevie @nybill I see him normally which is weird, but federating with old StatusNet instances gets really dodgy sometimes. RDN has issues with that too. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:25:38 EST
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"He claims LG wouldn't help him with perform factory reset of the device."
Someone should have helped Slashdot with perform basic grammar, it seems. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:06:33 EST
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@infogab You have to draw a line somewheres, lest you enable their mental disorder. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:05:51 EST
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@infogab With police funding here in Canada being cut, I'll give you a few guesses what kinds of programs are often first on the chopping block. The budget of my old service is literally half what it used to be, and I lament the many people that probably aren't served as a result. I think there's some give and take to be had here. Managing malingerers is a trick… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 12:01:36 EST
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@infogab Very much so. It presents impairment after all. But it can be very complicated to try to treat when people refuse to seek treatment. Many of them even espouse elaborate constructions of pseudoscience to try to assert that the clinical psychology is wrong about them, which in turn reinforces the existing problem of self-misdiagnosis, because other peopl… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:56:53 EST
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@infogab There's a few distinct flavours of this and modern psych is just starting to come to proper grips with it, so I reserve the right to be wrong about saying this, but in my experience a lot of people seem to have a sort of confused hypochrondria about mental illness. They become so convinced they have one disorder, and they require it for their social capita… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:55:08 EST
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@verius I try to comment more generally on principles in situations like this for just this reason; what you do otherwise is end up constructing elaborate flow-chart-requiring apparatus surrounding what is and is not okay. Look at how complicated it is to actually properly unpack the privilege knapsack for an example of that. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:52:11 EST
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@verius Yeah, semantically-speaking, "shooting a gun" would be firing a gun at another gun. Which you can absolutely do, but isn't usually what people actually mean. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:50:45 EST
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@infogab The individuals I'm speaking to tend to actually be actively resistant to seeking professional help because they build identities around having that particular disorder, which they use to accumulate social capital, so they would be at direct risk of losing social credit if they sought professional assistance and had that identity invalidated by the actual di… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:48:33 EST
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@takeshitakenji I have an account there I have never posted on that I use to kind of see what's going on and .. yes, yes it is. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:48:12 EST
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@infogab Oh god, I had the rant about homeless people yesterday, yeah. It's a touchy subject for me, because *I* have been homeless and need of attention myself, when I was much younger. Long story short, my coming out to my parents as homosexual went over about as well as eastern European peace treaties, and they turfed me out onto the street, so that point in m… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:46:04 EST
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@verius If we're going to be pedantic, the proper terminology with firearms is "fire" or "discharge" the firearm, not "shoot" the firearm. You are not discharging the firearm, at your own firearm. To shoot something is to discharge a firearm at it.
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maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:45:03 EST
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@takeshitakenji Pretty much runs off to gab.ai when people stop stroking their ego. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:44:35 EST
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@verius At the risk of channelling rms, if you let them do it when its "okay", they will keep moving the line of when it's "okay" until its clearly on the line of "never okay". Look at Microsoft, for instance. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:41:05 EST
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@infogab If anything I would encourage anyone unsure about their feelings and whether they present a legitimate disorder to go seek a professional because that is someone that has the knowledge to say, and irrespective of whether we would consider it a "proper disorder" that person can help you through whatever difficulty it is you may be having - for instance, helpi… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:38:07 EST
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@infogab Sure, many disorders are on a spectrum anyways, such as Autism now under the DSM, but at the same time, there are a great many people who claim self-diagnosed disorders whom have never actually been treated for them, and they tend to be very obviously not affected by the disorder they claim (though some may have other disorders such as NPD as I've already mentioned) -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2016 11:34:42 EST
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@infogab Not to mention the very personal aspect of dealing with mental disorders myself, but I try not to get on about them for kind of this reason, really. Try and fail sometimes, but c'est la vie.
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