The AVERAGE American has over 9 gunshot wounds? Man things are getting bad in the US.
Note: The other statistics seem to mostly check out (see another guy's comment about that), which is great. It's just weird the gun one is so astronomically inaccurate.
It was the University of Texas at Dallas! The class was fantastic. Not only changed my understanding of how brains work, but changed it beyond what I thought was even possible.
I agree I think there is a very very gray line between physiological and psychological. There are some differences to be had, like tumors are actually just straight malicious, while disorders like psychopathy, ADHD, and autism can be argued to be different rather than strictly unhealthy (psychopaths make better soldiers, people with ADHD can be great in emergency rooms, people with autism can have all kinds of prodigy-like gifts). But many disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia are pretty much all unhealthly.
What would consitute medical evidence?
oh sure, mental illness, but...
There is no "but" to mental illness; Mental illness is by-defintion doing things that don't make sense, often the person performing the actions doesnt even understand why they are doing what they are doing (when extreme mental illness is involved). Motivations can be anything from visual hallucinations to "I dont know, I felt like a passenger while my body was doing things".
Saying "ok, but like y tho" is misunderstanding how mental illness works.
In my neurology class Whitman was the only case of the tumor clearly being a major driving factor.
I'm not saying the class was entirely comprehensive, or that the other cases were not medically-driven. The other cases we studied were psychologically driven (mental disorders) rather than physiological (e.g. tumor/cancer/head-trauma). I just wanted to say the tumor case might not be as likely as one might think.
While thats valid comment for the main post, for the Whitman case, he was in the military. Even with strict laws he would've still had easy access unless we're talking drastic changes of having military personel not having general firearm access.
Probably had nothing to do with the tumor
BRUH, this was his suicide note:
I do not quite understand what it is that compels me to type this letter. Perhaps it is to leave some vague reason for the actions I have recently performed. I do not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an average reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall when it started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts. These thoughts constantly recur, and it requires a tremendous mental effort to concentrate on useful and progressive tasks.[43]
In his note, Whitman went on to request an autopsy be performed on his remains after he was dead to determine if there had been a biological cause for his actions.
People in the 60's didnt just say "do an autopsy on me" unless something was severely wrong. There was little to no public understanding of neurology, the general public wouldn't even think to guess that a brain tumor could play such a role.
And not like Whitman suspected it a little bit; before the incident he went to many doctors for help. This was his note in his journal
"I talked with a Doctor once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I felt overwhelming violent impulses. After one visit, I never saw the Doctor again, and since then have been fighting my mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail."
He talked to friends about it and nobody would take him seriously because they just saw him as a respectable person with overblown concerns. His case is part of Neurology classes in Texas universities!
I make really small and really frequent commits. Like I'll commit all changes every 10 min regardless of if a feature is done or not, and basically use commits like an undo button.
I still use git history a lot (per file history usually) but even when browsing years and hundreds of commits into the past, I don't really need detailed/thoughtful messages to find the change I'm looking for. Binary search plus those 2 or 3 word message hints are lightning fast. And the number of times I commit vastly outweighs the number of times I browse the history.
When it comes to documentation and other people, feature-branches are my "OK I fully finished this thing; here's a summary". I'm also not afraid to squash a ton of useless commits together right before making a PR.
TDLR; spending more than 3 sec doesn't help future me or current me, so it's a waste of time
Thick khakis with thin sweatpants underneath are a pretty good alternative to lined pants.
Like the other guy was saying, wool socks and a ski jacket also make a big difference.
It's also possible to get completely comfy in 20° F with high wind, by either going the snowboarder route (earmuffs, goggles, etc) or by spending a bit more and get a full face longboarding or skydiving helmet (much lighter/smaller than a motorcycle helmet).
Is this an open source project?
That's good to see a lot of the statistics are close, and I appreciate the sources.
That said, for a full picture, I think you should mention that the average 20 year old doesn't have 18 gunshot wounds (365 wounds per 400 per year, is about 9.1 wounds per person per decade, or 18.2 wounds per 20 years per person)
So I'd appreciate if you include a bullet point about that.