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[bithubi]

US economic growth outpaces expectations

The US economy grew stronger than expectations in the last quarter of 2023. According to the data announced by the US Department of Commerce Office of Economic Analysis (BEA), GDP growth was 3.4 percent in the last quarter of 2023, with the latest information. The market expectation was that the growth rate, which was 3.2 percent with the leading numbers, would remain at the same level in the…

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[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[petnews2day]

Teen's medical expenditures almost R100k after dog attack in White River

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Teen's medical expenditures almost R100k after dog attack in White River

The household of a 17-year-old-old kid are taking legal action after he suffered a Rottweiler attack on October 24. Joel Burnhams is fortunate to be alive– had he not been as fit and strong as he is, he may not have actually been, stated his dad, Gavin. According to him, the medical expenses of the […]

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#after #almost #attack #dog #expenditures #medical #news #r100k #river #teen&8217;s #white #Dog News

[samaya-samachar]

Clarification sought from candidates not submitting expenditure details

The Election Commission has sought clarification from candidates who did not disclose the details of their expenses incurred in the local elections held in May 13 earlier this year. A total of 115,131 candidates have not submitted the details of election expenses yet. As per the election rule, they are required to submit their expenditure statement within 30 days of the announcement of the…

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[itstacharya]

Clarification sought from candidates not submitting expenditure details

The Election Commission has sought clarification from candidates who did not disclose the details of their expenses incurred in the local elections held in May 13 earlier this year. A total of 115,131 candidates have not submitted the details of election expenses yet. As per the election rule, they are required to submit their expenditure statement within 30 days of the announcement of the…

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#candidates #clarification #expenditures

[vipleaseus]

#VIPAutoLease #expenditures

[aerequets]

strawnya

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#anyways loid totally saw this outfit in a store and deemed it a necessary expenditure #handler is like #. a strawberry outfit. #yes because what if she needs it for school #a STRAWBERRY OUTFIT #i promise this was a logical expense and not because i wanted to see anya wear a little strawberry hat because that means nothing to me #spy x family #spy x family art #sxf #sxf art #anya forger #sxf anya #loid forger #sxf loid #bond forger #sxf bond #yor forger #sxf yor

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

#making both ends meet #making ends meet #income #expenditure #vintage illustration #illustration #falling

[sergle]

miss sergle what happened with the golden retriver mama?

AUHHHH I didn't get her... she was beautiful and cute (and way too small and aerodynamic in person to be a golden mix) but I just CAN'T justify bringing another dog into the house rn, I need to be financially prepared for that kind of thing and have some things set up in advance, and the timing just feels bad. If this had happened a few years from now I might've brought her home, bc she was clearly very smart and sweet... But dogs cost money!

#her shots and her neutering and daycare and her crate and food... #and the training process and getting her used to the house #It would be an undertaking- which I am CAPABLE of doing. but would be really irresponsible to do Right Now. #ik it's sad I really wanted her #I'm hoping someone else snags her #the woman who is/was taking care of her was so sweet also and was like hey come down any time to visit her while you decide! #and I feel so bad. I just can't justify the expenditure. #sergle answers

[branwendaughterofllyr]

I think all Sansa antis need a primer on soft power and how women wielded power in the actual Middle Ages and Renaissance.

#Very few women actually led armies and the ones who did almost exclusively did in symbolic capacities #like my girlie Caterina Sforza #Now piling on the benevolent lady symbolism???? that's like being a woman ruler 101 #also NEVER underestimate the power of household management #There's a reason why women would fight over who had the control over the household accounts because that's THE MONEY #theres a reason why we joke so much about book Jon being an accountant #because those boring and soft power aspects are sooooo important #why yes I have read an entire book about Elizabeth of York's expenditures and household accounts how could you have guessed?

[weirdlookindog]

Malcolm H. Smith - Capital Expenditure

(Fantasy Fiction - November 1954)

#malcolm h. smith #capital expenditure #fantasy fiction magazine #pulp a #horror art #witch #witchcraft #black magic #art #illustration

[day-at-rhodes-island]

Why I'm not a fan of the seaborn: complaint 2. This is definitely the less important issue, but I'm not going to let that stop me.

Before I get into it: I am currently doing real studies with evolutionary modeling, like publishable academic stuff, so I know what I'm talking about.

Evolution cannot happen to an individual creature. Ever. Pokemon lied to you. Evolution is the gradual change of gene frequencies in a population over time due to natural selection. Anything else is not evolution (in the context of biology). Whatever the endspeaker is doing is not evolving... unless it is.

One of the very few ways what we see might actually be evolution is if the seaborn are actually a symbiotic microorganism with a very short life cycle which can rearrange the cells of it's host (sort of like the Thing from The Thing). This would explain how so many things with radically different structures can be considered the seaborn, and it also quite handily explains how people can become seaborn. This headcanon alone allows me some relief from these fucking things.

For this next bit I'm going to put aside the fact that they can somehow just create meat when they need more, because if I account for that the "evolutionary" pathway they take makes even less sense.

So let's actually apply the concept of natural selection to the sea terrors shall we? To start off I would like to address the fact that the AEgirians didn't use their advanced technology to fight these things, because the seaborn would then evolve to that level and become unstoppable. That is not how this works.

Do you know what happens if you shoot a fish with a laser cannon? I'll give you a hint: it doesn't grow a laser cannon. Natural selection doesn't produce "better" gene frequencies, major negative traits disappear first and optimization or the emergence of new beneficial traits happens slowly afterwards.

The scenario is they are invading another creature's niche, and that creature is very effectively fighting back. So, which strategy is more likely to get you removed from the gene pool: continuing to push into enemy territory but with slightly better armor, or just staying the fuck away from the people with laser cannons? Evolution always takes the easy way out, not the best way, the easy way. Want to know why every terrestrial vertebrate has 4 limbs? Something crawled out of the ocean with four limbs, and it was simpler to move those ones around than make new ones.

Would the fish growing a laser cannon help them take over new environments, thus out-competing the ones who just stayed away? Sure, but there's no easy path to get there, so they would never get the chance to reach that point. (When talking about genetic algorithms, this is called a local maxima, look it up!)

In even a mildly realistic scenario of creatures like this actually being driven by natural selection, the situation would become a case of dealing with an exceptionally dangerous invasive species, rather than an existential threat to all other forms of life. As per my opinion in part 1, this would have been better.

The seaborn are presented as this purely natural selection driven menace, when in reality they're just the evil army of an ocean god-monster. The driving will to consume all other forms of life isn't natural selection talking, it's at best an excuse Ishar'mla uses so that He can get what He wants, and at worst a case of the writers genuinely trying to write a natural selection driven antagonist, assuming they understand the concept, and not bothering to check if they are right. And it really looks to me like the second one is more likely.

All they had to do was not make them the focus, not make them an existential threat. You can still do the themes of individuality vs conformity with a smaller-scale hive mind. You don't need another planetary-scale environmental threat, you have originium! I could forgive the poorly applied scientific principles, if they weren't such a mess narratively as well. If they had taken this approach the seaborn might have even been one of my favorite parts of this game (they have actually hinted at the possibility of the seaborn deciding that coexistence is actually the best survival strategy, and that would be super cool!). Unfortunately, as it is, the seaborn are bad.

Part 1

#all of this is me being VERY generous about letting science issues slide by the way #I didn't even mention energy expenditure #arknights #seaborn #ramblings

[devouringyourson]

like yes I believe dune is beautiful and a great achievement in filmmaking but let's not kid ourselves and pretend the commercial success is anything to do with it's thematic depth or stunning production design. if the cast didn't happen to be the youngest hottest stars right now i doubt the ticket sales would actually have covered production costs however gorgeous that storytelling is

#i think its a mixture but when you're dealing with those kinda expenditures and budgets you need to make eye watering box offife numbers #and its not the commentary on imperialism thats bringing them in sorry

[autogeneity]

someone suggested I consider one of them daily meal delivery things for the failure to prepare food problem, because apparently they've gotten a lot cheaper and so on

so I look things up. and yes they are cheaper. but they're fucking. 300 calorie “meals”. my brother in christ I am not going to eat 10 a day why are you doing this to me

#'fitness' pack #are you sure. bro are you sure the fitness pack for athletes should be giving people 0 subsistence #I am barely an 'athlete' and there are few days I go below 3k expenditure #I'm guessing they're just teeny tiny portion sizes because the actual nature of the foods does not seem particularly nutrient sparse #there is absolutely no reason a lasagna should starve me #m #whining #aaaage old complaint. same as it ever was #cw calories

[expatesque]

#and add in the tags what it was! #poll #expenditure

[vipleaseus]

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