Disagree.
I held up around the 1000 hours and above for years. Took days off when I had to. Went to work with many a hangover or mild illness.
When diagnosed with cancer and needed to lose the old withering prostate, I strung out out my sickies for a year, then moved on to LSL and Super.
Glad I had those 1000 hours.
Edit: Bugger all to do with US politics but what the heck.
Right, so you have vaccinations decreasing while autism diagnoseseses are increasing.
Fast and the Furious films cause autism therefore makes more sense.
but you haven’t considered delayed onset autism there wim have you
besides, minecraft causes autism, i thought that was common knowledge
Some stuff makes me madder than it should.
It really shouldn’t bother me if some people want to believe what has been scientifically disproved, and it shouldn’t bother me that the maths even for correlation doesn’t stack up.
Flat earthers, covid-deniers, climate change deniers, if you want to go around being a moron then fine.
They vote Wim. Big believers in owning the other team with the vote. Rigorous on that.
If this graphic is correct, doesn’t it show that the sharpest drop happened in Biden’s term? What’s that all about?
The Endless Frontier of 1945 identified science as delivering economic strength for the US. It wasn’t about US political dominance internationally in a post colonial world, but it helped to deliver the American Century.
The concept was about a centralised role of the Federal Government in basic scientific research , funding of Universities and specialist institutes, scholarships for post graduates from other countries, other countries buying US superiority in science and technology, international students flocking to US tertiary bodies at undergraduate and post graduate level.
However, in the current anti science climate, the fast buck to be made, the defunding of universities, the rise of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, the Endless Frontier has been corrupted and lost its way. Foreigners are no longer welcomed, export controls on S&T are being introduced, the shutters are up .
In its new form, the Endless Frontier is not going to return the US to the Golden Age of the American Century. Maybe it will be the Pacific or Indo Pacific Century, with Africa south of the Sahara still being plundered for its resources, civil wars with proxies ( as in Sudan) and aid dependent.
Devolution has been happening there for decades.
Home schooling…unschooling…QAnon didn’t disappear just because Biden won.
There is no or.
Or suggests the first claim is still a possibility.
If you want a completely baseless theory, then here’s mine.
The condition has become more recognised and understood over time.
Therefore more diagnoseseses.
People with autism that would have previously been diagnosed with something less helpful and more broad, have steadily become more accurately diagnosed.
People who were previously assessed as being a bit quiet, or thoughtful…
As the spectrum of these conditions became even further understood, for less obvious but still equally valid presentations…still more diagnoseseses.
And perhaps, just perhaps, even a little over-diagnosing, because now as then…some GP’s can be lazy so and so’s.
Just my personal conspiracy theory.
Yup and that’s absolutely reasonable
Think you’ll find it’s related to the Covid pandemic social response. The Covid vaccine became a political issue and that drove people to distrust vaccines in general.
It happened during Biden’s administration, but that was the timing of the main vaccine rollout, so more relates to that than the White House.
There has been an increase here, with some being diagnosed with mental illness because they don’t fit the norm.
Then there’s the anti DEI wave, which leads to less funding and support, exclusion rather than inclusivity, less diversity in the societal mix, them and us.
If you can’t think of some global events happening around 2020 which resulted in people getting weird and hysterical about medicines in general and vaccines in particular, I might have to ask if you spent those years in some sort of coma at all…
Correlation does not equal causation.
Anti-vax existed before covid, and got a lot more fans because people of a certain mindset read covid and vaccines as a (deliberate) means to control the population and oppress them, ironically fleeing into the open arms of a political party that didn’t even bother trying to hide that they were trying to do that.
I know there’s a lot going on, but this voter ID thing seems to be worrying some of the afflicted (by which I mean US citizens).
Seems to be a lot of grey area about married women being allowed to vote because they’ve changed their birth name.
The next election will be a hoot anyway, but that just adds to it.
