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@lemmy.worldYou can also use komf alongside komga/kavita to just scrape metadata automatically upon import. A bit finnicky to get going (a tampermonkey script is required to give it accessible setting on the komga page) but works very well and even has a gui for identifying results and selecting the correct option if the auto scrape fails similar to jellyfin
For the actual reader part I just use komga as a server and read through Mihon (one of the tachiyomi forks) on my ereader mostly. occasionally I’ll use paperback on my iphone (although recently I’ve been trying Tachimanga, which is basically an iOS tachiyomi fork). Loads library, can sort by tag/library/date added, reads most things very well, can sync read status with the komga server (and/or manga updates or whatever), etc.
I have something like this, it’s much older, doesn’t have the reels or the second foot pedal to send “n” (though I could probably rig that up pretty easily and may do so, good idea). It was like $20 from a reseller. I also have a “analog” one that just has a bulb inside of it to generate a small amount of vacuum but that thing isn’t worth using because it’s too weak. That one came free with some soldering iron or hot air gun or something
It’s handy I guess, but I find myself using tweezers a lot more because it’s easier to orient parts and I mainly do rework so I already have them out for poking and prodding stuff. Depends on what you’re doing. The vacuum handle is best for when you’re fully populating a board.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167702620921341 - the bigger takeaway from this one is that trigger warnings reinforce trauma as a central part of the traumatized individuals identity but they did find some incidence of drawback/harm
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625 meta finding no benefit and actually can cause an anticipatory reaction making the person more engaged with the material
There are others, this is just what grabbed from 30 seconds on google scholar. Its been a bit since I’ve done more serious lit review and it’s not like I keep a directory of papers I’ve read
The issue is the culture surrounding trigger warnings. Let’s be real here, people looking for trigger warnings are generally (perhaps overwhelmingly) not looking for material to help with their exposure therapy. They are looking for a “warning” to help them screen material to avoid. The issue is that this creates an unrealistic expectation that is incompatible with the real world. You can avoid suicide, sexual assault, eating disorders, or whatever in your media (maybe) but real life won’t sanitize itself or warn you. You will encounter these topics, whether through the news, careless speech from friends, or even intrusive thoughts of your own. Research continues to show that avoidance of upsetting topics can worsen anxiety and ptsd symptoms
To your final point the idea of it helping to create a choice isn’t even as clear cut as you describe
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026221097618 content warnings actually increase the likelihood someone will view problematic content. This point is further reinforced by similar findings in the meta linked above
So you have a system that ultimately makes creators feel like they’re doing something noble, that is likely at best useless and potentially harmful. Said system increases the likelihood that a person will view the problematic content but also enables the reality that a person will simply avoid the things that provoke their anxiety which again is more strongly established as harmful
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796712001064 - ptsd worsens with avoidance
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962184904000290 - anxiety disorders do the same
There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive
The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)
Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.
That said education on access to resources like 988 or other warm lines can lower suicide rates, maybe. Research is more mixed here because it’s difficult to prove causation
a virus perpetuates and replicates itself infecting other executables with its code, thus the name “virus”.
this is just shitty code that crashes hard. it’s not even particularly malicious, it doesn’t destroy anything
am a mental health provider, am listed in several insurance directories that I either no longer take or never took to begin with
It’s linked to another article but they describe why therapists stop taking insurance as a matter of complexity. This is true but another aspect is that some insurances simply pay significantly less than others. It’s a difficult thing to discuss because the low ones typically still pay like $60-80 an hour and on a surface level that sounds like a lot (because it is). But the reality is that doing therapy is complex. For one I typically lose about 30-50% of the good rates just to overhead (lower side is telehealth or home office, higher side is if you rent an office and can go even higher). More so if you’re actually planning for retirement and sick time, which a lot of therapists just ignore. Then you have to figure that we only get that rate for billable hours, which is 20-30 hours a week depending on how good you are. The rest of the time is admin bullshit, case collabs, screening new clients, etc all of which is unpaid.
So I can take the $70/hr insurance that barely covers my day to day, or I can limit myself to private pay and the ones that pay $100-140/hr. Even with the 100-140/hr ones I’m still probably making 60-70k on average because of stuff like no shows and cancellations (which is why more and more therapists are charging very high cancel fees)
But their main point of the complexity is a big one too. In my experience the insurances that pay low are the ones that are most likely to give me grief over payment. They’ll pay me very late (but if I submit billing 10 seconds late they’ll deny), they’ll clawback payments for the dumbest reasons and be the most aggressive about clawbacks (potentially meaning that I’ll suddenly get a note from them that I have to return $1000+ because they decided after paying me they shouldn’t have), and they’ll have the worst systems for submitting billing (requiring me to have hours of wasted time on hold with their shitty customer service)
It’s terrible that this person died and it’s worse that they spent almost $400/month for care that was never able to be delivered. It’s worse that this will probably result in no changes whatsoever. Even if harris’ Medicare for all prop passes it will take ages and the design is that there will still be a “two lane” system, where private supplementary insurance is still available for the rich. This will likely result in tons of providers that don’t bother taking Medicare because it’s more of a pain in the ass and pays less. So the government will finally give you insurance if you have none but it will be functionally useless like this article describes. End commercial insurance altogether
The important takeaway from this is that “supplements” have 0 oversight. The CBD, probiotics, vitamin d, etc that you buy could just be capsules of vegetable oil that does nothing at all. Or they could be asbestos and cyanide for all you know (that probably would lead to an investigation though). There’s also no safety regarding packing and handling, so it might literally be a guy with unwashed hands who just picked his butt loading your gelcaps in a dirty bathroom that someone just took a massive shit in. No one checks and verifies any of this and that’s why shills and hucksters jump onto this shit, it’s a completely unregulated market where can cut corners everywhere and say whatever you want as long as you include *not intended to treat any diseases and not evaluated by the fda
A $1200 thing you buy on instagram that sends “good waves” to your brain? Supplement. The cbd you buy at the gas station? Supplement. Doterra oils? Supplement. No regulation, no oversight, just robbing people based on their desperation to fix chronic pain and mental illness