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U.S. Suicides Reached a Record High Last Year
- zeroonetwothree 3y agohttps://archive.is/zt2fh https://archive.is/zt2fh
- Zigurd 3y agoUgh: captcha loop again. Last time I added a couple of DNS providers and it worked. Any new ideas? Root cause?
- papichulo4 3y ago[flagged]
- xoa 3y agoThe typical reason is using Cloudflare DNS for archive.today resolution. Even with multiple DNS entries, if 1.1.1.1 is at higher priority and tried by the system first (and doesn't time out) it won't help. Either have to switch to something else entirely, or manually specify to never use it there (which is what I do). I run Unbound on my network for example, and just setup entries for custom query forwarding for archive.[today|is|md|ph] though I still use 1.1.1.1 as the default.
- Workaccount2 3y agoIs it possible to write a script or plugin that reroutes your DNS request only for archive?
- xoa 3y agoAs I said I do it at the network level, but every OS should handle that anyway at the OS level as well (though I don't know off the top of my head if/how more locked down stuff like iOS exposes it). No need for any scripting yourself it's just basic functionality. On Unix-like (including macOS) you should generally be able to do it just by adding entries to /etc/resolver (if you're running a full recursive DNS locally obviously just modify that same as on another system). So a plain cat 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' > /etc/resolver/some.mydomain.com Would then tell any requests for some.mydomain.com to resolve through 192.168.1.1 (locally). In this case specifically it'd be cat 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolver/archive.today cat 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolver/archive.is cat 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolver/archive.md cat 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolver/archive.ph etc for all their various mirrors. Check manpages I guess for any differences but something close to that. Though note that irritatingly not all applications will necessarily pay attention to the OS resolver (by default, or at all) in the first place. If not and you can't switch you'll have to dig into prefs/workarounds for those specific ones. ---- As a meta-note to all this, this is the kind of manual change that is easy to set and then have just sit there for a decade and completely forget about, then have it potentially cause some head scratching if/when something changes on the far side. Always a good habit to keep an orderly record of such things, or have it as some sort of playbook for auto-setting up systems so you can comment it with the date and reason.
- Zigurd 3y agoThanks! Removing 1.1.1.1, even though it is second on the list did it, this time, anyway. What a pain and an obscure one, too!
- robg 3y agoI’m working with our local school board, consists of over 200 schools in a wealthy county. Even as I got my PhD in Neuroscience 20 years ago, it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. The teenage mental health crisis is only being addressed as a need basis. It’s like telling people oncologists are available when you get cancer. If we want better brain health it starts with building better brain tools.
- tayo42 3y agoWhat are some brain tools? Or wherever would you get started?
- hospitalJail 3y agoNot OP, but I loved the book Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Number 1 book of all time. You can turn yourself into a robot if you want.
- HPsquared 3y agoNeurons that fire together wire together. Edit: cybernetic corollary: neurons that we wire together, will fire together.
- robg 3y agoFrom the physiology, the biggest are how sleep and stress affect learning, memory, and attention. Seems obvious but I’ve yet to find a school district that starts even there.
- hospitalJail 3y ago> it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. k12 education is incredibly poor for our ROI. We get some algebra skills and reading skills. Hearing people say the words 'trust the science' means they didn't 'get' the scientific method. I cannot imagine why we don't have a 'health' class that teaches about the human body scientifically works. Teach about how addictions are formed, teach about how hormones/various neurochemicals impact our brains, when we experience them, etc... I currently am learning about these and there are all sorts of LPTs you get when you realize how the brain actually works.
- Podgajski 3y agoThree time attempter here. 50 something year old white make living homeless with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. Trying to end the stigma. Ask me anything.
- kenjackson 3y agoIs there one thing in your life that if it changed you think would make you want to stop trying to do this?
- Podgajski 3y agoStable housing. But flexibility with work is what kept me from keeping jobs even though I was bright enough to teach my self networking and land a job at Cusco in 1996 making more money than I dreamed of.
- galangalalgol 3y agoIf stable housing (and food) was separated from employment and your ability to fill out the correct forms on any specific timeline (i.e. it was just taken care of, clean and safe), what would be the remaining largest stressor?
- Podgajski 3y agoNothing but some of the environmental triggers like electromagnetic radiation, air pollution, and the weather. I’m very sensitive to having episodes in high temperature and high humid environments.
- kenjackson 3y agoThese both are things that we (society) should be able to provide. Unfortunatley, I don't know much about these things, but if you haven't do so already, I'd look to see what resources could help. This feels difficult, but I think solvable. Thank you for your response!
- barrysteve 3y ago
- robg 3y agoQuestions for all the knowledge workers here (i.e., people who use their brains for their living) here: 1. When did you get your first course on neuroscience and how brains work best? 2. Did you ever learn in school a tool kit for keeping your brain performing at its best?
- instagib 3y ago1. Is there a free online course you recommend/link? I got mine from chemistry professor in high school. 2. Not in school. In books on my own. Most toolkit info was mnemonics and memory palace type things but few about brain health, focus, activity level, sleep, meditation, and such available on podcasts today.
- Balgair 3y agoNeuroscientist here: 1. Grad school. I came in as a more tech/physics applicant and had to learn it all from a fire hose. The canonical book is Kandell: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kandel/dp/0071390111 https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande... But, please, don;t read that unless you're a neuroscientist. It's too much for a 'layperson' This one should be better for most casual people with an interest: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Mind-How-Brain-Works/dp/0393974464 https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Mind-How-Brain-Works/dp/0393... Honestly? Just ask chatGPT questions that you have. It's more than good enough for casual interest. 2. Nope. Not even as a person researching and doing experiments. Most US based academia is firmly in the camp of 'beatings will continue until morale improves'. They ignore almost all of their own findings about the need for sleep and learning and spaced repetition when it comes to teaching. Culture is hard to overcome. Nearly everything I've learned about optimal brain performance (if you can even consider that a thing, which I do not), I learned from reading papers (mostly reviews) and random internet garbage that somehow ended up being true.
- Spivak 3y agoThe 75+ category is interesting because at what point is it just being done and deciding to go out on your own terms peacefully than the long tail of falling apart? I have a great aunt that decided to forgo all her medical treatment because she was 78, had cancer and did everything she wanted to do. I guess that's suicide but if I were St. Peter at the pearly gates I don't think I would count it.
- apwell23 3y agowhy only men though?
- Podgajski 3y agoStigma. Economics. And men come last in the social safety system in the US.
- rawgabbit 3y agoMy understanding of Catholic teaching is what your grant aunt did was permissible under the concept of natural death. Under natural death, it is also permissible to receive pain alleviating palliative medications. https://www.usccb.org/resources/ethical-religious-directives-catholic-health-service-sixth-edition-2016-06_3.pdf https://www.usccb.org/resources/ethical-religious-directives... (Part 5 Issues in Care for the Seriously Ill and Dying) (56) A person has a moral obligation to use ordinary or proportionate means of preserving his or her life. Proportionate means are those that in the judgment of the patient offer a reasonable hope of benefit and do not entail an excessive burden or impose excessive expense on the family or the community. (61) Patients should be kept as free of pain as possible so that they may die comfortably and with dignity, and in the place where they wish to die. Since a person has the right to prepare for his or her death while fully conscious, he or she should not be deprived of consciousness without a compelling reason. Medicines capable of alleviating or suppressing pain may be given to a dying person, even if this therapy may indirectly shorten the person’s life so long as the intent is not to hasten death.
- somedude895 3y ago> Men 75 and older had the highest suicide rate last year at nearly 44 per 100,000 people This is so crazy to me. When I think of suicide I never picture a retiree taking his own life. There‘s a lot of talk about the mental health epidemic among teenagers. I wonder what causes this high a suicide rate among men 75+. Loneliness?
- giantg2 3y agoMost of the people I know who committed suicide were older men diagnosed with dementia. They are making a rational (maybe not reasonable) choice to end things rather than live as a zombie.
- somedude895 3y agoThanks, I hadn‘t thought of that. Certainly puts a different perspective on the statistics.
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoI dunno it sounds entirely reasonable to me. Everyone was sad when Robin Williams left us. I was too, but given his dementia diagnosis I completely understood and respected his position
- giantg2 3y agoI think what sounds reasonable would be mostly up to the individual and their situation, so I left it open ended. For example, one of them was in the very early stages and likely had a good year or two left before things got bad, so maybe they did it too early, or maybe not.
- falloutx 3y agoI am fairly sure its from a generation which was very attached to their spouses. They probably met their wife/husband when they were 18-20, and In my opinion lot of these men above 75 were suffering from death of their spouse or a good friend that they spent 2/3rds of their life with. Men are more vulnerable to emotional loss at that age and they are probably less connected with kids while women may just be holding on for seeing their kids even after the husband has died.
- juanani 3y ago[dead]
- apwell23 3y ago> Men 75 and older had the highest suicide rate last year at nearly 44 per 100,000 people 75 is a viable die-able age. This is my end of life plan if i am disabled, diseased or just not having fun in life. I don't get why only men are making this decision though.
- Podgajski 3y ago“ just not having fun in life.” That statement is incredible to me. Can you explain what not having fun would look like to you?
- jorts 3y agoChronic pain is the first thing that comes to mind for me.
- nervousvarun 3y agoChronic pain, immobility, severe mental disabilities (senility) etc. Is it really that hard to imagine a scenario where life isn't fun for someone at an advanced age?
- Podgajski 3y agoI can imagine what it’s like Not being fun, I can’t imagine what it’s like to kill myself just because I’m not having fun.
- unshavedyak 3y ago
- Podgajski 3y agoIt looks like the neoliberal economic takeover of the world after 2000 was the trigger for the rising dice rates. Or was it the internet? Or higher EMFs? Or all of it?
- novemp 3y agoSunlight is an EMF, genius.
- orangepurple 3y ago[flagged]
- hospitalJail 3y agoAfter actually learning the science of this: I have no idea if switching is a good idea. I'm so so so so glad I am not making any policies. Both righties and lefties are sooo overly confident in their opinions to the point where they become unscientific and damaging.
- orangepurple 3y agoMaking changes to the body with mutilation and hormones increases risk of severe complications including cancer. This isn't a political question.
- barrysteve 3y agoYes, many speakers like conviction and stand-alone facts. Shared evidence and scientific criticism is a lost art (or fading) in the public square. Unfortunately a lot of the science takes time and effort to dig in and understand.
- atomicfiredoll 3y agoThis is pure, uninformed speculation. These aren't new treatments. Modern medicine looks pretty confident this is the best treatment for certain patients at the current time to a degree that the opposite of your guess is true. You should become more informed about these things before commenting like this or people would be inclined to think you're just being inflammatory.
- orangepurple 3y agoThis is a normal viewpoint and it is not inflammatory. "Modern medicine" isn't a homogenous cohort and your generalizations are sweeping.
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- Bostonian 3y agoAccording to a graph in the article the suicide rate bottomed around the year 2000 and has since risen steadily. I wonder why. You could say that the strong economy in the late 1990s reduced the number of suicides, but since 2000 the uptrend is steady -- you don't see a temporary spike around the deep 2008-2009 recession.
- Podgajski 3y agoI would propose an environmental factor but afraid I will be laughed at.
- bilbo0s 3y agoWhat environmental factor?
- Podgajski 3y agoElectromagnetic radiation.
- cactusplant7374 3y agoWould you be willing to accept that this fear may be part of your schizoaffective disorder?
- stylepoints 3y ago[flagged]
- Podgajski 3y agoNo. In the past I did, but I ruled it out through the best placebo control tests I could do it myself. How could I have been in remission when I did not even know I was in a low EMF area? It was only when I looked back on my life after I discovered this possibility that I could trace my symptoms in part by how much EMF I was exposed to. For example, my worst episode I had in years was one they installed Wi-Fi in my work building in 1999. I was at network engineer. I did not know about this effect until four years ago. I find myself affected by both low frequency and RF radiation. I’m not saying that is the only trigger to my illness, just one of many environmental factors. The other is air pollution.
- instagib 3y ago“About half of people in the U.S. live in an area without a mental-health professional, federal data show, and some 8,500 more would be needed to fill the gap” The psychologists or psychiatrists that are accepting new patients have a 3-6 month wait for first appointment. 6-14 years of college/post doc/degree to become a psychologist depending on type and state. 12-16 years to become a psychiatrist and prescribe medications.
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