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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3440 on: November 28, 2012, 07:18:50 AM »

Fortunately, this isn't scary in the least.

The Onion named Kim Jong Um as world's "sexiest man alive", which wouldn't even merit a footnote except for the fact that the China People's daily took it seriously and ran a fifty-five page spread to celebrate.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3441 on: November 29, 2012, 10:45:36 AM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3443 on: December 02, 2012, 12:39:11 PM »

John McAfee may be a little nuts

Apparently McAfee setup his own website, whoismcafee.com (Is that an Ayn Rand reference?), where he's been detailing his account of being on the run from Belize authorities.

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In a blog, which McAfee began after going on the lam, the fugitive has updated supporters and the media about his life as a fugitive, claiming that he disguised as a drunk German tourist and a peasant hawker to spy on the police investigation.

On Friday, McAfee gave an interview with CNN from an unknown location, during which he bemoaned the lack of baths and poor food available to him since going on the run.

And now he seems to have put up a false claim about being arrested, probably because he thought the police would fall for it and stop looking for him. Man is crazy.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3444 on: December 03, 2012, 08:38:06 AM »

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=health&url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57556754/aspergers-syndrome-dropped-from-american-psychiatric-association-manual/&catid=57556754

Asperger's Syndrome no longer recognized as a medical condition.

Is this something that happens regularly to terms that get adopted as common insults? Because I don't think "dumb", "lame", "idiot" or "retard" are in any modern medical manuals either.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3445 on: December 03, 2012, 09:48:49 AM »

They announced that it wouldn't be in the new DSM a while ago. It's also not going away, it's just getting wrapped up into the autism spectrum.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3446 on: December 03, 2012, 10:00:09 AM »

I thought it was there to begin with?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3447 on: December 03, 2012, 10:33:32 AM »

Asperger's is already commonly considered to be a high-functioning form of autism; not sure if that's been reflected in the DSM before or not.  If it has, then they're eliminating a redundancy; if it hasn't, then they're updating the manual to reflect something that most psychologists already agree on.

Is this something that happens regularly to terms that get adopted as common insults? Because I don't think "dumb", "lame", "idiot" or "retard" are in any modern medical manuals either.

I don't think that's what happened here but you're right; "dumb" has become "mute", "lame" has been replaced with a litany of different terms of varying specificity, "idiot", "imbecile", and "moron" have been replaced with profound, severe, and mild mental retardation, respectively.  And while "retardation" does appear in the literature, my experience is that psychologists and special educators use the word professionally among one another but, as you might expect, don't like using it in conversation with parents or students.

But again, I don't think Asperger's has been reclassified because people are worried about its increasingly common use as an insult, I think it's because doctors and educators have agreed that it belongs in the autism spectrum and shouldn't be classified as a separate and unrelated condition.  Their belief is that Asperger's sufferers will be better served, in terms of diagnosis and treatment, by being considered alongside other autists.  (Cuts both ways, of course: there are presumably people who have been diagnosed with autism but not Asperger's who do in fact have Asperger's.)

That's the theory, anyway, and I think it's sound -- but we'll see how it works out in the coming years.  My fiancee's going into special ed with autism as a specialty; she was a little surprised by the change but acknowledges it makes sense.  We'll see what happens.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3448 on: December 06, 2012, 04:19:39 AM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3449 on: December 06, 2012, 06:39:35 AM »

Asperger's is already commonly considered to be a high-functioning form of autism; not sure if that's been reflected in the DSM before or not.  If it has, then they're eliminating a redundancy; if it hasn't, then they're updating the manual to reflect something that most psychologists already agree on.

Is this something that happens regularly to terms that get adopted as common insults? Because I don't think "dumb", "lame", "idiot" or "retard" are in any modern medical manuals either.

I don't think that's what happened here but you're right; "dumb" has become "mute", "lame" has been replaced with a litany of different terms of varying specificity, "idiot", "imbecile", and "moron" have been replaced with profound, severe, and mild mental retardation, respectively.  And while "retardation" does appear in the literature, my experience is that psychologists and special educators use the word professionally among one another but, as you might expect, don't like using it in conversation with parents or students.

But again, I don't think Asperger's has been reclassified because people are worried about its increasingly common use as an insult, I think it's because doctors and educators have agreed that it belongs in the autism spectrum and shouldn't be classified as a separate and unrelated condition.  Their belief is that Asperger's sufferers will be better served, in terms of diagnosis and treatment, by being considered alongside other autists.  (Cuts both ways, of course: there are presumably people who have been diagnosed with autism but not Asperger's who do in fact have Asperger's.)

That's the theory, anyway, and I think it's sound -- but we'll see how it works out in the coming years.  My fiancee's going into special ed with autism as a specialty; she was a little surprised by the change but acknowledges it makes sense.  We'll see what happens.

My understanding with the DSM is that the last iteration had a lot of problems with misdiagnosis and too many individual disorders. The new version consolidates. The Asperger's classification had the dual issues of misdiagnosis (by professionals and self-diagnosis) and not being taken seriously enough because it wasn't just called 'autism'. With Asperger's going out the window, we'll have a whole lot less of angsty tumblr users claiming to have it and a whole lot more of parents and teachers understanding that they're not just dealing with someone who thinks a little differently - that it's a serious disorder that has some serious issues. The ties to autism were always there, but I think it put people too much in the comfort zone when they didn't have to say it.


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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3450 on: December 09, 2012, 07:27:50 AM »

More of a comment on society at large: apparently the new big thing in super conservative circles is this book titled "The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage". I mean, the Joy of Hate? Really? Are you trying? Are you even trying anymore?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3451 on: December 09, 2012, 08:15:15 AM »

More of a comment on society at large: apparently the new big thing in super conservative circles is this book titled "The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage". I mean, the Joy of Hate? Really? Are you trying? Are you even trying anymore?

Today I learned that Bill O'Reilly sure loves writing books about presidential assassinations.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3452 on: December 09, 2012, 09:55:03 AM »

Why do I get the feeling that there's a chapter titled "Ethnic Cleansing in America: Why Not Now?"
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3453 on: December 09, 2012, 10:16:15 AM »

"As well as pretentious music criticism, slow-moving ceiling fans, and snotty restaurant hostesses."

That guy just gets to the core of what's important in America.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3454 on: December 09, 2012, 10:40:38 AM »

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- The double standard: You can make fun of Christians, but God forbid Muslims. It's okay to call a woman any name imaginable, as long as she's a Republican. And no problem if you're a bigot, as long as you're politically correct about it.

The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3455 on: December 09, 2012, 02:13:18 PM »

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replacing the idiocy of open-mindness with a shrewd judgmentalism that rejects stupid ideas, notions, and people.

Like say, the contents and author of this book!
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3456 on: December 09, 2012, 02:31:27 PM »

I just keep coming back to the slow moving ceiling fans.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3457 on: December 09, 2012, 03:02:39 PM »

Whining about slow-moving ceiling fans in your book about whiners seems like the platonic ideal for American-conservatives.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3458 on: December 11, 2012, 05:08:50 PM »

I'll just let everything that has happened today make itself known.

I'm not sure about the "end of the world" but I do think the people who want to watch it burn have chosen this time to start getting a lot more proactive about it.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3459 on: December 11, 2012, 06:48:07 PM »

Er, which events are you speaking of? Because i don't see anything particularly worse than usual in the news, unless maybe you were talking about the North Korean missile launch?
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