A high profile lawsuit might be seen as something which could also hurt their image. The entire population of The Villages would probably boycot Disney World. Hopefully Disney’s execs pay attention to public opinion and not just their golf buddies.
Right, do we not remember PRISM? Edward Snowden is still living in exile in Russia.
They don’t need to tap your router when they already tap the routes.
People are, in fact, hot garbage at risk assessment. See, for example, how many people refused to mask/vax during the height of the pandemic, and the concurrent death rates…
I am so placated right now.
Can we just stop putting these people with no background in health in charge of health systems? The hubris is astonishing.
I mean, what next, are we going to put a TV host in charge of the military, or a wrestling business executive in charge of education?
Right, like, who did you think you were making surveillance tools for? Because it wasn’t Mr. Rogers.
Not just suicide assistance chat bots, but suicide promotion chat bots.
sometimes it can be really disruptive and long-lasting. Why are we pretending that’s disordered?
Because if it’s “really disruptive” then a person might need support to be able to function well enough to, e.g., keep a roof over their head. Insurance companies require a label in order to pay out for that support, so there it is. If you’re grieving for 2 weeks plus 1 day, but still able to function, no one is going to arbitrarily slap a diagnosis on you.
Fwiw, “disordered” doesn’t necessarily mean abnormal in the context of mental health, it really just means causing problems (or, “really disruptive”). Indeed, it’s normal to grieve for more than 2 weeks, but our broader society is geared toward extracting profit from you, not toward making sure you can work through your emotions, so mental health professionals are often stuck with just trying to facilitate the least-bad outcomes. Also, as you said, sometimes the changes are just to appease insurers; the system is dumb, so sometimes you have to do nonsensical things in order to make it help people like it should.
As for narcolepsy/etc., yeah … As a mental health professional, I am also befuddled. I suppose a psychiatrist with appropriate training could diagnose and treat that, but normally it would be a sleep specialist.
Tl;Dr: the healthcare system itself doesn’t make sense, so we do things that don’t make sense in order to make it work for patients.
They’re allowed because who’s going to stop them?
They’re not allowed by law - they’re allowed simply by being in control of who enforces the law. This kind of government corruption would normally be investigated by the DOJ… Except it’s the DOJ doing it, and the only people who might be able to anything about that (the legislature and judiciary) are complicit.
And you can set up a pin code which, when entered on the unlock screen, erases the device instead of unlocking it.
Yes, but given that anyone can contribute anonymously, verifying every edit is a practical impossibility. Wikipedia relies on good faith in a world where bad faith isn’t exactly rare.
Especially when airports are considered borders.
Dickbaskets have an annoying habit of getting into positions of power.
It would also have to cause terror. The people using these websites live in such an abject state of terror about their own inferiority that this probably had no measurable effect anyway.
He said they’d be empowered. He never said they would do anything with that power.