I cleaned out my freezer this week and found an old chicken breast that had slipped to the bottom of the vegetable drawer. It must have been there for over six months.
It looked like it had dried up like leather, You could probably use it to repair an old pair of shoes. Its a generational thing, we used to have a cobblers in the high street where we used to have our leather shoes re-soled.
It didnt look good at all. You certainly would not want to eat it, though I noticed my pet cat tigger, looking at it, drooling, with an unsavoury look in her eyes.
If you cant keep a nice chicken breast in good order while it is frozen what chance a human body.
Although I have a masters degree I worked for 10 years, 3 nights each week, as a volunteer psychotherapist, providing free therapy to those that could least afford psychotherapy, those that needed it most.
I obviously had a day job too. I loved working for free, the benefits are huge, less stress and autonomy in how you choose to spend your time and skills and a greater sense of achievement.
If I had CBI I would work for free.
I am all for social devotional work backed with CBI.
CBI and work for free if you want to.
I can definitetely understand the sense of feeling more mentally stable without the daily stresses that come with not enough money to live on.
Most people who earn a decent salary are generally against CBI because of their own values around their own working ethic. There is nothing written anywhere that says that work is beneficial to a human being.
The money for nothing crowd always raises its ugly head when talking about any support that benefits human development especially of the poor.
As a retired therapist the majority of my lower socio-economic clients problems where due in full to the finanacial situation they found themselves in.
All therapists carry a sense of helplessnes when dealing with such clients becaue we cannot help them.
>Most people who earn a decent salary are generally against CBI because of their own values around their own working ethic. There is nothing written anywhere that says that work is beneficial to a human being.
I'm not against UBI, I just don't see how it can be done. It seems fundamentally impossible to finance at scale, which all of these experiments ignore. They are always experiments where a tiny number of people get money generated by a vast majority of people.
Which we have already, in the form of needs-based welfare.
People love meaning and purpose in their life and they typically find that in work as its a complex amalgamation of all sorts of challenges and rewards.
I believe UBI would be a net benefit for society it would enable the poorest to survive better and the rest of us more flexibility in how we life our lives.
would have been helpful if it was in English and not Spanish.
Enough of this pro AI therapist bullshit.
Empathic responses can be taught, that is true, however, for a human being to really experience empathy, as in the therapeutic healing, one must experience a whole lot more than the regurgitation of taught words.
As in all Therapy, being real, or authentic is at play here. A human being can easily distinguish between fake empathy and empathy that is authentic and genuine.
The best way to understand empathy is to watch a mother with her new born child in her arms while she is talking to her baby. Now study and imagine all the unspoken empathic responses between mother to baby and baby to mother.
Then think of AI as a substitute mother.
AI will never ever be able to reproduce the depth of empathy required for therapeutic change.
A simple undergraduate understanding of empathy:
Therapist notices that the client is clenching their fists and their stomach is moving up and down in a roling fashion while talking about an abusive family member.
Therapist responds: I noticed that when you are speaking about the family member you seem to get really angry and your stomach seems to roll.
Client; looks down at their stomach moving and their clenched fists. yes, I do feel angry all the time.
will AI ever be able to understand the link between the clench fists and the client being unaware of, and unable to express, their anger.
Its not cheating, some books can only be read, while others are improved with audio.
I prefer reading books, there is something special about holding a book in your hands, insering a book mark or jotting down something illegible in the margins.
I have read a massive amount of books in my time as a psychotherapist for 25 years.
For me, it is far better to read books to fully understand and examine the theories, concepts and methods illustrated by the authors. Marginalia comes to its fore.
However, I do listen to my fair share of audiobook. My main gripe with audiobooks is the readers voice. I cannot stand the squeeky, high pitched, robotic, nasally, sounds like AI, might well be AI, especially american female voices. Being British, just one paragraph and I am immediately put off and turn them off.
I have recently tried to listen to "Into the Into the Deep Wood 01, The Witch by Polina Volkova". I had to stop listening after a few paragraphs. If only the reader had a british voice.
I find switching back and forth between pages to find something you remember reading a few days ago is too difficult with an audiobook. No marginalia with audiobooks.
Do authors select who reads their books. maybe they do not. They should have readers from different countries and different languages.
My favourite audiobook reader is David Thorpe. I have the entire series of Mark Dawson's; John Milton, Beatrix Rose, Isabella Rose, Group 15, plus the novellas and more recently the Charlie cooper series.
I do not experience the same excitement reading those books.
I think that this question should be put by the electorate to all politicians before we choose to vote for them.
I personally have never voted for any of them. I did vote once in a local council election but that is it. Thats 50 years of not voting since I first became of age to vote at 18.
Not one politician has ever represented my views and beliefs about how society should be run for the betterment of its people.
As a complete idealist and fantasist, I would like society and work in particular to be managed as a devotional service. No pay for any work. You work because you value the society you want to live in and are prepared to contribute to make that happen. Especially no pay for any politicians or money/lobbying in politics at all.
Countries split up into political ideologies. If you like the right wing way of doing things then you go to live in a state or county that only those who voted for a right wing party live.
The same for left wing voters and all those who prefer the middle ground of politics and even communism and socialism. you live with those who voted the same as you and benefit from, or suffer, the consequences of your vote.
Not as it now is; you vote for the left, your party loses and you suffer right wing policies. The same could be said of a right wing voter, they voted for a right wing party, they lose and suffer left wing policies.
For me this is the best way. Imagine for a moment the recent hatred of immigration in the USA. If all Trump voters lived in the same state then only those people who voted for Trump would be affected by those policies. The rest of the USA people and states would not be affected at all.
You may choose to live in a state that offers; Equality, free housing, free medical care, Free education, free everything. Or you can choose a state that offers and follows the capitalist way.
we can then vote for what we believe in and truly expect to live in a society that offers what we believe to be right.
The British Heart Foundation has announced it is helping to train drivers who deliver parcels to Amazon customers across the UK in life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) so that they can respond to emergencies when out on the road. They are working in partnership with Amazon and more than 100 independent delivery companies across the UK, to offer free training to thousands of drivers.
Sorry your parcel was late. Our driver was saving someone's life. cool!
For me it has to be the most unattractive facial deformity of modern women.
Back in the mid 2000's my niece joined a facebook group called "say no to cameltoe".
we need the same thing for the modern day cameltoe lips. "say no to cameltoe lips".
Viewing faces with artificially altered lip size therefore powerfully influences attractiveness judgements. Outside the laboratory, cosmetic procedures to increase lip size are popular. Our findings indicate that (i) lip plumping will mostly appeal to women rather than men (who prefer thinner lips), and (ii) exposure to expanded lips renormalizes attractiveness to a larger baseline and may lead to lip dysmorphia.
The wonders of brexit on both sides of the channel.
I am pro europe, it used to be so easy to buy from Germany or France or the Netherlands.
12 keys @ £3 each, All that fuel, time, wages, packaging and staff that have handled those tiny little keyboards keys. The obscene costs of capitalism and every middle man earning his share.
I just bought a brand new keyboard for my old and still running Arch perfectly lenovo T450, £20 with delivery, a bargain.
Building a community for driving obsessive compulsive behaviours for people who cannot stick to a decison to; lose weight, do some more push-ups, do an extra 1000 steps per day.
Then share your failures, or even celebrations, to get support from other obsessive compulsive's, ultimately creating a community of people who become experts at shaming one and other.
Its new years resolutions on a daily basis that those non obsessive compulsive's are unable to maintain after January 2nd.
linked to your lovely health checker app to shame you some more and collect tons and tons of personal data
If you need an app to realise your goals then you are simply not ready, or more honestly cant be bothered, to apply yourself to that particular goal at that particular time.
I cleaned out my freezer this week and found an old chicken breast that had slipped to the bottom of the vegetable drawer. It must have been there for over six months.
It looked like it had dried up like leather, You could probably use it to repair an old pair of shoes. Its a generational thing, we used to have a cobblers in the high street where we used to have our leather shoes re-soled.
It didnt look good at all. You certainly would not want to eat it, though I noticed my pet cat tigger, looking at it, drooling, with an unsavoury look in her eyes.
If you cant keep a nice chicken breast in good order while it is frozen what chance a human body.
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