This! So much this. What was used as a flex in the education is a terrible liability when they are expected to adult.

If you are incapable of handling anxiety and stress, your employment opportunities shrink dramatically. And even if you do get hired in some of these jobs, you will wash out pronto,

Bastards won't let me bring my emotional support stripper into the classroom. Tatianna relieves all of my stress.

Exactly. After getting through the teen years - which has anxiety, then college - which has a lot of anxiety, they will enter the workforce - and find out just how much anxiety there can be. You might get extra time on a test because of anxiety, but that isn't going to fly when you miss hard deadlines.

I think there has to be some sort of talk therapy for kids to be able to handle anxiety. If you feel anxious, explore that with a therapist. It is not going away, and you cannot be shielded from it forever. Children need to understand that, and that a certain amount of resilience is needed to become a full fledged adult.

I'm dealing with that right now. I was called back from retirement to work at a job that all the new hires were failing. A lot of responsibility, and some stressful moments. They stressed out, and either became belligerent or so anxious they stopped functioning. Granted, not everyone wants to be in that sort of work, but the rewards are also great. Stressful, anxious moments? Sure. A countdown to a Rocket launch invokes some anxiety. I feel concerns until my project is finished. Just natural. When the day is done, I'm happy about it.

But calling back the old dude because the young people can't handle it tells us a lot, and it isn't good.

AC can also be for responding to a post in a topic you have already moderated in. I always note that I'm posting AC to avoid mod point destruction.

Seriously though - unless I have mod points and read at -1, I just set the message level at 1, and hide any posts lower than that. And I mostly ignore any replies by AC's. If you want no posts on anything you disagree with, there are much, much better places for you to post from than Slashdot.

Why would you demand that those people should be silenced? Slashdot's mod system is not perfect, but it is better than most. They can spout whatever nonsense they want, you don't have to see any of their posts, or even know they posted something. It's like you can personally shadow ban them, and see less things that upset you.

In today's world, your opinion can get you fired. But yes, seeing a person's handle and history is a good thing.

It is true, if I had to use my real name, I would post differently, and definitely less. Some of my conclusions are based on research, and they are not popular with some people. But it is good to have the conversations, I'm happy to write on unpopular topics. I'm a true Cassandra.

Full disclosure - I am happy to troll some people if I think they deserve it - I ain't perfect.

So for the Anonymous Cowards I have two things to note. First is that they can be identified quite often on their writing style.

Second is that just set that pointer thingamajig doohickey to 1 and you'll not see many of those AC posts, except the ones that might be good and get some upvotes. Problem cured.

ADHD does indeed exist. So does overdiagnosis.

I had an intern at work once who was ADHD. Really intelligent, infectiously enthusiastic, and one of the most likable people ever. But he couldn't finish a project if his life depended on it. We accommodated him by getting him in at the start of projects, then letting him move on to the start of the next one. We knew it, he knew it. We all even laughed about it.

My son was diagnosed with ADHD - largely based on them trying to diminish his possible impact based on his size and strength. I'm not kidding, in grade school his teachers claimed every male child had ADHD. Most were put on Ritalin - I refused.

I definitely would have been id ADHD was a thing back them. I fidgeted, I daydreamed. I was freaking bored. If they took the time to compare my grades against my daydreaming, they would have figured out I needed challenged, not knowing the material already.

If they had put me on Ritalin, it would just have destroyed my drive and spark.

Of course, there are children who do have actual ADHD, But your child dealing with ADHD is not the same thing as my son's teachers in grade school diagnosing every male child with ADHD. Doctors rubber stamped the diagnosis, most of the boys were placed on Ritalin. I refused - to some threats "But Mr Olsoc, your boy is big and strong, you'll be liable if anything happens. I told them I did not know size and strength was part of the ADHD diagnosis.

And I would definitely been diagnosed as ADHD myself. I stared out the window, daydreaming. I fidgeted. Because I was bored silly. But that isn't something you can treat with drugs. And Ritalin would have destroyed the spark and drive inside me that I used to achieve success in life.

The problem isn't that there are any diagnoses, it is the sheer volume of them. I suspect there are less of them now, as the damage to young males brains has shown up. Now, "anxiety" - a normal part of life - is the new touchstone. And rather than have students figure out how to cope with them, more of a talking therapy approach, we're having schools accommodate them. This will not work when they hit the workforce.

That's where we are going to end up.

Anxiety is a part of life, always has been. Somehow we have tried to make inability to cope with anxiety a weird flex.

ADHD has been expanded. In my son's grade school class 100 percent of the boys were diagnosed with ADHD - by their teachers. Doctors rubber stamped the diagnosis. I refused to allow my son to be placed on them, despite the schools threats. He turned out normal. Many had Ritalin related problems.

These poor kids needed to be taught that anxiety at times is 100 percent normal, not that it is everyone else's job to accommodate and encourage their anxiety. Gawd, when those poor kids get into the workforce it is going to be rough for them.

What is your solution to this however, a person who needs extra time or to bring mommy along because they have anxiety - how are they going to be accommodated when they graduate and look for a job?

Of course, there are mental conditions. We can argue about what they are, or are not, but these numbers tell us something is a little off. 45 percent of students at the law school cited have mental issues? That defies belief.

People who need extra time in college to take tests because. of anxiety, will not be able to function upon graduation, and try to get employment. They won't get extra time to meet hard deadlines, they won't be able to raise families, they will need the one-two punch of antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics.

All that said, it is more likely to be the sort of issue like able bodied people trying to get handicapped parking placards.

The results of Trump's re-election are not my argument. It is a disaster that will take a long time to recover from.

It is not about the American people suddenly becoming fascist. The recent elections showed that, as Democrats showed significant recovery. In my state, classic Republican overreach was exposed, as they tried to recall judges they thought were too liberal, and they were rejected.

I notice you claim "You think it was important in your political success". You very much show the mindset that if a person does not share every one of your values, they are the enemy. You are claiming this about a person (me) who has not voted for a Republican for over 25 years with the exception of Arlen Spector.

The "Here is what you believe, no deviation allowed, or you will be cast out" shows that Democrats are attempting to install a monoculture just like Republican Newt Gingrich did in the 1990's.

The transgender issue is not specifically about People playing dressup. People have pretended to be the opposite sex for many many years. Big fat hairy deal. Do not care.

There are certainly some who oppose it on religious grounds.

There are certainly some people who just reject what the "other side" accepts.

There are some people who are likely projecting their own sexual identity issues.

However, the transgender issue is part of a larger issue, Postmodern social destruction/deconstruction.

It is about compelled speech, where you are forced to use pronouns - whatever the pronounist says they are, and if you do not, you lose your career. There are some cases in the courts now - it is not something I made up. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/v... https://ulccaselaw.com/ulc-cas...

It is about people claiming to be inclusive, yet reject a lot of others. Racist/sexists/ageists that hate mature white men.

note: I've been called racist because I state that race is a social construct, and (back to science) is based on ridiculously small genetic differences. Homo sapiens sapiens is what we have - a person of high melanin count is just a person of high melanin count, a tiny local environment adaptation. By the supposed inclusive people's definition, an albino is a different race, and people of "mixed race" are their own separate race.

The transgender thing is just one of many issues. It is often cited because it involves medical experiments on children. It is often cited because public schools have been determined to supersede parental authority, in cases not involving any abuse or lack of care, the schools have the court granted authority, not a loving family. These are all provable facts. I've provided the citations many times.

And there is a Rubicon they crossed - messing with peoples children. A lot of people have some thoughts on that, there is history of experimenting on children - a very uncomfortable one.

For this group, it gets even stranger - actual women are now Birthing people, Lactating people, Menstruating people. Reducing actual women to nothing more than producing more humans. Then they wonder why actual women are insulted by some postmodern return to old school "women's place" arguments. NARAL claims. that all people can give birth, and some on the far left actually believe that.

A group so deranged and biology rejecting that they believe that actual men should be allowed to play on women's teams. Which usually results in actual vagina bearing women quitting the respective sports. Do you approve of pushing women out of sports so biological men can play women's sports?

Some claim it isn't that many, so it is just collateral damage. Do you care?

While many in far left academia simply do not care about or even hate sports, what is your solution to the many people who do consider them important.

Sports are a very important activity for women. In many sports, women do not have the physical attributes to compete with males. They do have attributes to compete with each other. The values of teamwork, learning to accept defeat as well as victory, and the obvious exercise health benefits are there for them. Most all actual participants in women's sports find the far left's demands for men to play on their teams upsetting and repugnant.

My suggestion is for the Democrats to return to less divisive matters, support of the working class, accept that male and female are equal, yet have physical differences that do not impact that equality. Acceptance of sexuality variations. And to lose the concept that women can win elections while casting men out of the equation. Equality for all, not an exclusive club.

And I expect pushback on that.

Windows NT used to give you a whole bunch of details when it hit a BSoD - NT4 bluescreens were wildly informative, but to the average user, completely useless. It was just a bunch of numbers that had no meaning to them or provide them with any pointer to what the problem was. It didn't help that many drivers adopted the 8.3 naming convention making it even more obscure.

Also completely useless because the screenful of information was there but you couldn't do anything with it - you couldn't print it or anything. Windows 2000 simplified it a lot but was still mostly useless - now instead of a screenful, it just showed the stop code with parameters and the module that triggered it. But again, mostly useless information.

The information was contained in the kernel core dumps = the critical bits in the minidumps that it creates that could be loaded into a debugger, or a full dump file. These were much more useful because you could do a post-mortem examination using a debugger with full symbols. (The data for the dump files was written to the swapfile - since the BSoD meant the kernel could not be trusted you couldn't trust the filesystem or disk block driver stack to be working, so the BSoD code would write the core dump to the known blocks of swapfile using direct disk access - it's why there are "text mode" drivers). The next reboot when the kernel starts and initializes the filesystem, before it starts swapfile it checks the swapfile for the dump and if it's there copies it to a new file.

But there were a lot of stop codes that were completely odd but the cause was hardware. There was one that basically said you had bad RAM, another one that would tell you your CPU was overheating. a third that would happen if your disk was dying, and some of the odder ones caused when your GPU was dying and causing PCI bus errors.

It was straightaway - if you see this error, replace RAM. If you see this error, check the heatsink. This error means your disk is dying. You never saw the errors for anything else.

Not worried about transvestites at all. You're displaying the knee jerk reaction to any criticism, anything not full support, as if trans people are perfect, and can never be criticized. Sorry homie - ain't no one above criticism.

At this point, I know a few, mostly through interactions in stores. I'm pleasant, even chatted with them. In a world where there are a fir number pf people who do have a problem with them, they appreciate a person who treats them as human. I'll note more than half of them stopped. Some just figured that as a gay person, they didn't need to "play dress-up" others decided a more traditional approach was the way.

No, mon ami, if you paid attention, it is not the transgender people I have issue with so much. They are just people, with all the pluses and minuses that individuals have. My issue is with the doctors who enjoy experimenting on them, who seem to be in a hurry to get really invasive with them, and were working the age down at which they start amputating primary and secondary sex organs on children way too young. It is the academics who preach that an ever increasing number of people are not the gender they were assigned at birth, and hose who believe that these children will never change their minds - we see this in the denigration of detransitioners. It is the schools that have been given the right to hide gender affirming treatment to children from the child's parent.

Assuming you are of the age of majority, I fully support you doing anything to your body you wish. As long as you aren't doing harm to others, you are free to take any measure on your body you feel like.

Here is what happens when your attitude that all things transgender are above reproach. Read this, and tell me that this is a great way to handle the issue https://www.newstatesman.com/p....

One of my favorite parts of the Tavistock Center FTA "From the middle of 2014, puberty blockers became routine clinical practice. On top of this, the service moved from an “age” to a “stage” approach, whereby access to medical interventions would be dictated by an individual child’s stage of puberty – in this case Tanner stage 2 – not their age. Provided a child had reached this early stage of puberty they could potentially be referred for puberty blockers. “Twelve is an arbitrary age,” Carmichael told the press at the time. Those starting puberty “aged nine or ten” could be considered for treatment from now on."

You think this is appropriate?

I was having a conversation with a friend, a real small government type. His premise was that all government jobs were corrupt, and always will be. So privatize everything. I noted that it is people who are corrupt, so when we get rid of corrupt guvmint, where are the corrupt people going to work?

Private enterprise is at least as corrupt as government workers. Belay that - more corrupt. It is surprising how many decent, honest people work in government. Yeah, at the top at present it's really sketchy - but look where they came from.

I had been saying for many years that we have a need to stop ignoring the working class, they eventually get pretty pissed. When K Harris told the president of the Teamsters she would win with or without them, I said to myself "No you won't". See, not everyone is Union, but so many are Union adjacent. Harris and the DNC thought they would carry the election on the votes of angry liberal women, thinking that laborers - mainly male - were unimportant. Those are the people the present situation hits hard. And Cheeto and his merry band haven't done anything for them either. This is not remotely a good situation.

Time for some introspection.

No, I mean the concept that biological sex is an option. I'm right around the center of teh left right spectrum, and I understand that genetics can determine if someone iOS male or female, and that has become a real stumbling block for the Democrats, Ask Seth Moulton, who when he said he didn't want biological male running over his daughters. The Democrats tried to cancel him, make him resign, even though his voting record was favoring their positions on other matters.

So they ended up twisting themselves into knots, first sayin that a man is a woman if he says so. Then it got awkward - they even resorted to calling actual women "Birthing people" or Lactating people". Which by the way, reduces women to nothing more than breeding stock, and yes, many women were insulted.

So the Democrats tried to place women under the tyranny of men, and reduces them to nothing more than baby machines. All the while, refusing to accept genetics.

It is the problem when progressives work very hard to eventually become not progressive. The far right eventually takes on some not far right aspects.

People in here attempt to claim I'm transphobic. No. I fully support people over the age of consent to do whatever they wish with their bodies, be it amputation of their penis or breasts. I support them dressing as they wish. Just not for people who cannot give legal consent in other matters, as you would have to admit, removal of one's penis is a life altering amputation to say the least. Pretty hard to come back from that if you change your mind, and teenagers are often a bit confused about their sexuality.