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  • Yeah I wasn’t answering to your anecdote, just trying to illuminate the purpose of those charts and that their rating is inherently subjective.

    Obviously being dismissive about it is not productive.

    Although there were times where we asked patients to reassess them, almost always when their answers were in the high end of the scale, a dude sitting totally chill drinking tea answering ‘10’ is not really believable and could cloud what’s happening. I mostly described it as “1 being a mild inconvenience and 10 being the strongest pain you have ever felt in your life”


  • Lupus@feddit.orgtoAusome Memes@lemmy.autism.placePain scale mysteries
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    It’s not about having an obective answer to your pain levels, that’s impossible since everybody experiences pain differently.

    I worked in the hospital for some time and it was my task to protocol those pain tables every day.

    At least where I worked the point of it was to have visualisation of the patients pain development over time.

    For example patients comes in and gives a 8 on the scale. He gets an operation and gives a 6 afterwards, after a week he gives a 5 but in the next week he gives 7 again - this development could tell us something about the healing process, maybe there’s an infection that would’ve slipped by if we didn’t see this unusual rise in pain levels.








  • I understand that now, my phrasing was poor and I also didn’t make it clear that I was trying to engage with the comment and underline the missing nuance and not with the conversation about walz, although i was also missing some nuance in my comment I agree.

    You lost the crowd immediately

    Yeah going back I can see that most didn’t make it past the first two sentences, that is on me. I guess after the first answers I was just angry people were unwilling to engage with the content of my comment, so I wasn’t able to see my own shortcomings without you pointing me at them.

    I appreciate the insight and the kindness of encouraging me to reflect that instead of just piling on. Thank you!


  • I agree with all that you said.

    I think the issue you’re running into is that the point here is Walz is being subjected to ad hominem to distract from a broader discussion on the nature of genocide because such discussions are bad for Israel and their conservative benefactors in the US.

    Ah yeah that makes sense, your rephrasing made me understand the issue.

    The Holocaust is unique in a particular sense, but that is not what Walz is talking about; in the context he is speaking, the Holocaust is not unique. Essentially, the Holocaust, as a vivid and well-documented case study, can and should be a window into the broader history of genocide and human rights abuse.

    I understand, I was trying to point out that nuance is important in that instance, the uniqueness of the event is a good cautionary tale and to diminish that into a too broad of a “genocide blanket” would take away from the unique problems genocide projects into our modern world.

    Similar to how antisemitism is a form of racism but in its “design” it is still a unique form of racism.

    Although my attempt was way less eloquent than yours.

    Thank you, that was the first comment that actually engaged with what I tried to say.





  • It wasn’t unique, it wasn’t a “one off”.

    I disagree with the premise, the Holocaust was unique. It was unique in its effectiveness, it was a meticulously planned machinery of death the world has never seen before or after. The Jews weren’t just killed where they could be found, they were caught, cataloged, transported, sorted and then murdered as effectively as possible. Death on a well planned assembly line.

    ** Does all that make it a quantifier, was this genocide more “genocidy” then others?

    No, just that the way it was carried out was unique, no more no less, but to deny that is just revisionism. **

    The unique framing appeals to conservatives as it feeds into exceptionalism and impunity. “We’re special!” It’s those people who only care about stuff when it happens to them.

    That’s just a disgusting take just someone very privileged is able to have.


  • Lupus@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUh oh
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    Who cares what this living example for why you should take your meds has to say?

    I feel like all this attention it brought him only amplified his mental disorders. I sincerely hope that he is getting the help he clearly needs and that the media will leave him alone for the sake of his sanity.