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Growing up as a child whenever the family drove somewhere, if my dad saw someone with car trouble he would stop.

It helped that he was a real engineer and an excellent mechanic, but I think there was also a Christian duty in there as well for him.


Parker's Automotive is a pretty cool youtube channel, guy goes around in his truck and mostly does work for free. Seems like every day he's finding someone stopped in a lane.

I think he's been able to parlay it into an awesome youtube career, and the amount of people who stop on the street to sing his praises is unreal. Sometimes 15+ in one video, it's nuts. He's a hero to the people. Love to see it.


I try to stop when I can, and occasionally pick up a hitchhiker, but I don't risk it when I have kids in the car.

This TV show is horrendously bad.

I found it exceptionally good (season 1 at least).

Men can't have children.

That really should only matter for the direct maternity leave and maybe some disruption at work during pregnancy. The years of child raising after that point is probably more important for this?

By that stage most mothers have already formed emotional bonds to their children which can't easily (at all?) be replaced even by a father. Raising a child isn't some sort of equation, Marx.

So have paternity leave too so men can form those bonds.

Men can care for and raise children.

Which is a great backup, but they tend to be physically, psychologically and emotionally less suited to it. Most men are less motherly than most women. We are not blank slates.

Evidence?

Men are less "motherly" because we are discouraged by society from being that. Even your choice of words shows your prejudice.

I was my kids primary parent when married and a single dad after divorce. I am MUCH better suited to raising kids than my ex-wife was. That is largely a result of how I was raised to have empathy and care about people.


> Even your choice of words shows your prejudice.

My implication that being motherly is good for a primary child raiser shows my prejudice? It's actually just a random phenomenon detached from fitness?

What's your opinion of apple pie?


To try to remove the word motherly there, your comment could be written as:

Most men are worse parents than most women.

Do you think that is a good representation of what you are saying? Do you think it's true? Are men inherently worse at parenting, or is there something else at play?

And I would also like to know what your evidence is for that.


I think we are coming close to some of the issues causing the current fertility crisis.

Men and women play two different, complementary, and equally necessary roles when rearing children. Still, rearing children is more time-consuming for the woman than it is for the man.

> Men and women play two different, complementary, and equally necessary roles when rearing children.

Numerous studies and several meta analyses found no significant differences between children raised by 1 man and 1 woman, 2 men, or 2 women. Studies or interpretations which found differences made errors such as not controlling for divorce.[1]

[1] https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equali...


Big if true

People who don't want to die before taking a holiday.

> Microsoft Windows

> UNKLE

I was a huge DJ Shadow fan as a teen, getting as many albums, mixes and singles as I could find online.

DJ Shadow was involved in the production of UNKLE's first album Psyence Fiction. I recently discovered that there was an intro mix that wasn't on most CD copies of the album that has DJ Shadow mashing ~70 tracks together in just over 2 minutes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oRwnUM10mf4


>Psyence Fiction

Its kinda crazy, I loved that album in the 2000's, but hadn't really listened to it in about a decade until youtube brought it up again recently.



Thank you!


> Virtualdub

There's a blast from the past.

I remember using it to remux and join 2CD XviD movies into a single avi. Making sure to identify any duplicated key frames and delete them.

I still have a YouTube video I encoded with virtual dub ~20yrs ago.


It's just common sense that things would not be geared toward the patient's best outcome.

It's easier (read: cheaper) for the broken NHS and cash strapped government to shovel pills than it is to get someone to revamp their life.

Imagine the alternative cost of talking therapies for the NHS. There are three year waiting lists for them already.

Depression usually occurs for a causal reason, it just may not have been found for the individual yet. It could be poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive escapism as a response to unprocessed trauma etc. Ultimately though these causes require the patient to exert effort toward improving their life, and so they have to have willpower and motivation.

Thankfully exercise can now be prescribed by doctors in the UK!


> exercise can now be prescribed by doctors in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/22/gps-to-presc...


Life being stressful is the first Noble Truth.

Perhaps GPs in the future can prescribe mindfulness more often.

They do at least have an official NHS web page on the subject: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/tips-and-support/...


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