You’re being totally real and reasonable. Not sure why you’re getting any pushback on this. $40k in available credit is doable by having a few cards open, and anyone who has a history of paying on time should have no difficulty being approved.
If they ask about your weaknesses or growth areas, I’ve said something like this: “I like to ask questions about how my work fits into the bigger picture. Sometimes this can seem like I don’t want to do the work, but I just want to make sure I understand it first.” It’s a strength disguised as a weakness and I think I’ve gotten a good response to it.
That’s where medical and psychological diagnoses are different. Diabetes has biological markers that we can measure, and DSM disorders mostly* rely on matching behavior patterns to predetermined labels. One clinician might call it narcissistic personality disorder, and another might call it a fear-driven obsession with social acceptance. Which one is correct?
A major issue with the “mental health industrial complex” is that it quickly becomes tautological while appearing objective and empirical. What do we call someone who can’t empathize with others and constantly seeks admiration? NPD. What is NPD? It’s when someone can’t empathize with others and constantly seeks admiration.
I could make up a diagnosis of “greeting disorder” for people who feel compelled to smile and make eye contact when they meet someone. Then I could insist that people who meet these criteria “have” this disorder, but how is that useful?
*I say “mostly” because recent editions of the DSM include, for some reason, diagnoses like narcolepsy which can’t be diagnosed by psychological evaluation, but they can be diagnosed by medical testing.
I am a mental health professional, and I can tell you that even among professionals, personality disorder diagnoses are very controversial. What we call a PD virtually always results from significant early trauma. To me it feels cruel and unhelpful to pathologize our brain’s survival response.
Also, mental health professionals don’t have a monopoly on labeling someone’s behavior. I have no problem with people colloquially using the term “narcissist.” It carries a different weight when I use it in my work, but you don’t need a graduate degree to know what problematic behavior looks like.
I’ve seen similar price hikes here in Minneapolis. There’s a very popular restaurant serving mocktails for $15.50. It’s common to see a $18 burger with no fries. I’m certain it’s not unique to Minneapolis, but I’ve been to NYC and Paris recently and was shocked at how affordable the restaurants were. Either restaurant owners are conspiring to price-fix, or they’re following other industries and raising prices “because they can.”
I assume you know about transdermal patches, and that you just mean the powder form can’t be absorbed through the skin like the cops often claim.
Plexiglas tents? To cook them faster?
The submarine owner/grifter may have deserved it, but the sub was also carrying a child who was only there as a Father’s Day gift. And honestly, I don’t know much about the dad, but if his sin was being rich enough to charter a submarine I don’t consider that an automatic death sentence.
Oh boy I thought it meant something else! Updating my comment.
Went to the bathroom for 3 minutes, came back and my co-worker had been arrested for gooning joggers that morning public masturbation.
EDIT: This guy would park his car, start jerking off, then ask women for directions. That morning someone recognized him, and he freaked out and drove away. He got sober after that and turned things around.
I learned about torchiere style lamps a few years ago and I really like them. You’ve seen them before. They’re usually floor lamps and they point upwards to bounce the light off the ceiling. Unless you have a dark ceiling, they do a great job of spreading the light around the room without being too bright.
Smart bulbs are, of course, more customizable, but recently I’ve gone back to analog lights I can just turn on and off.
What’s your problem? If you had a financial windfall that meant you could retire, are you saying you wouldn’t?
I guess it’s good they acknowledge the need for an exception to the law, but even in the case I described it sounds like the person in danger would be waiting even longer to have their case reviewed. That said, I don’t know how long the process normally takes anyway, or if a name change is a viable protection from domestic violence.
Fuck this bullshit. And as usual, anti-trans laws don’t just hurt trans people. Anyone changing their name to escape abuse or domestic violence would have to broadcast their new information to the public.
Does India have a higher rate of violent sex crimes compared with other countries, or have I been propagandized? I don’t want to be the guy who says, “WTF is happening over there?” so I’m curious if something is, indeed, “happening over there.”
Was I not supposed to roll joints with this stuff when I was 18?
My parents were Catholic, so they never talked about sex per se. My “talk” was my dad saying, “I want you to remember to always respect women. And that means not doing anything inappropriate.” Very informative.
OP wasn’t arguing that Italian-American culture necessarily resembles Italian culture. Of course they’re different. You’re implying that the concept of “Italian-American culture” is superficial or illegitimate because it differs from the way that Europeans talk about international or intergenerational identities, and that’s some prescriptivist bullshit. “Genuine cultural identity”? Get out of here.
If the shooter was black they would have sent the SWAT team within an hour. I can’t believe the chief was saying this shit out loud. “We knocked on the door, he didn’t answer, there was nothing we could do.”
I’ve watched many videos of unarmed folks being beaten or shot by the cops, and this one turned my stomach. They were taking turns kicking and punching him in the face. I’m ashamed of this country for acquitting these fucking murderers.