Yup, I have this only because I live in a horribly expensive metro area in the US. The US is cursed by the fact that it came into enormous wealth and development right at the time when people could see only benefits and no downsides from car dependency. 

Taipei 101, Hudson Yards, the Prudential Mall in Boston - these are distinctly different from what one typically means by “mall” in America. Those other examples were built in city centers where clear demand for retail space existed. They are successful because there are people there who want to buy things. The normal …

Its really infuriating to hear people cite uncomfortable side effects (that last a day or two!!) or minuscule risks of serious side effects as their reasoning for not doing something that will definitely save others’ lives. Its especially infuriating knowing these are the same people who dismiss the significant and…

I’m pretty sure the Soviet Union also supported public schools, public roads, and massive tax funded arms races and foreign proxy wars. Its really not a great metric to use to label something good or bad. 

JD’s chart actually shows there are about as many parents without Bachelor’s degrees who rely on paid child care or child care provided by extended family than there are families who utilize a full time stay at home parent (42% vs 44%). Even counting the nightmarish arrangement of both parents working part time and…

“We” is a common way of referring to society as a whole.

Where is he on Chauvin though? Because part of me wonders if the clarity of the Taser/Glock case does have to do with our comfort in calling women incompetent.

Do you think Trump knows that a can of soup or tuna each cost about $1? I really can’t picture a crowd throwing more than $5 of soup at the cops. 

This is what I don’t get about leftists who support gun rights: the entire logic of gun rights advocates is white supremacist. It can’t be applied equally to citizens as rights normally, instead you get bizarre double standards like this - where a black man who was once found to be in possession of a handgun without a…

I’m confused by the coverage of this - has the Chicago DA’s office already declined to prosecute the officer? Is possible prosecution still being determined?

Yeah, but in the US doctors and their hospitals can’t bear to delay a billable procedure.

I find it so frustrating that people can spend this much time thinking and talking about insecurities and recognize where they are coming from without actually questioning the underlying assumptions of all of it - that a. beauty standards aren’t completely arbitrary and b. that being “beautiful” adds any actual value…

That BEAT page is linked to directly from the NHS page you’re citing, under the section for OSFED. I linked to the that because the NHS has no page describing atypical anorexia or other OSFED diagnoses.

Yes. I don’t think most people and even doctors, based on their actions, understand how detrimental ED behaviors can be on a persons’ health at “normal” and higher weights. The dangerous physical effects have much more to do with daily nutritional intake than body fat/muscle percentages.

I have a friend who told me she never asked for help while she was heavily restricting because she didn’t think anyone would believe her or see it as a problem because she wasn’t “successful” enough at reducing her weight.

BMI is, by definition, a deciding factor in eating disorder diagnoses, including in the UK.

Again, I disagree because the exact same issue exists in well funded private sector services. The yes/no mechanism is backed by the medical establishment at large. 

None, as far as I’m aware, of those actors were out in the beginning of their career when they made a name for themselves.

The thing I disagree with is that funding is a culprit. BMI is so accepted across medical fields that it is used to qualify/disqualify patients for care even at private hospitals in the US. Private clinics that charge exorbitant fees to eating disorder patients regularly turn people away for the sole reason that they…

The fact that a straight actor was cast in one of those roles is kind of the point. If gay actors are going to have careers they need to be cast as straight characters often because straight roles outnumber gays ones 100s to 1 and many gay roles go to straight actors.