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BabySinister t1_j6h05a1 wrote

Reply to comment by Bruno_Vieira in Study uncovers a surprising level of heterogeneity in psychopathy among condemned capital murderers: While a substantial proportion of the offenders exhibited heightened psychopathic features, others showed no signs of psychopathy by HeinieKaboobler

I don't know what might cause it, I'm just pointing out that it has been mentioned quite a lot that mental illness might be the driving factor, hence the usefulness of this research.

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Bruno_Vieira t1_j6gzpe3 wrote

Reply to comment by BabySinister in Study uncovers a surprising level of heterogeneity in psychopathy among condemned capital murderers: While a substantial proportion of the offenders exhibited heightened psychopathic features, others showed no signs of psychopathy by HeinieKaboobler

Idk if it is the guns, but humans kill other humans. They have been doing it since the beginning of time. The US has weird stats for developed nations in general, definitely not just mental illness. So in ur opinion that narrative has indeed affected the general population perception of crime? Like people seem to think it is tied to mental illness often? I would say it is likely tied to income inequality and social problems, but I am no specialist though.

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BabySinister t1_j6gzc7p wrote

Reply to comment by Bruno_Vieira in Study uncovers a surprising level of heterogeneity in psychopathy among condemned capital murderers: While a substantial proportion of the offenders exhibited heightened psychopathic features, others showed no signs of psychopathy by HeinieKaboobler

Recently in the whole second amendment debate it has been suggested quite frequently that the high murder rate of the USA is mostly due to mental illness and not so much due to lots of guns being available to the public.

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Bruno_Vieira t1_j6gx1zh wrote

Reply to comment by glitter_h1ppo in Study uncovers a surprising level of heterogeneity in psychopathy among condemned capital murderers: While a substantial proportion of the offenders exhibited heightened psychopathic features, others showed no signs of psychopathy by HeinieKaboobler

I mean, the main thing about it has always been lack of empathy right? Being impulsive does not make one a psychopath. I am sure a lot of the inmates are impulsive. Regardless, what this shows in my opinion is that most people seem to think of murder as something absolutely alien nowadays but it really isn’t. It can happen for several different reasons and it used to be extremely common. To assume that inmates who are locked for murder would be mostly psychopaths is extremely gullible. In my opinion it even shows a huge lack of understanding of the human nature and the human condition, not exactly a characteristic you’d expect to find in psychologists.

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glitter_h1ppo t1_j6gu3m3 wrote

Reply to comment by nitefang in Study uncovers a surprising level of heterogeneity in psychopathy among condemned capital murderers: While a substantial proportion of the offenders exhibited heightened psychopathic features, others showed no signs of psychopathy by HeinieKaboobler

Psychopathy involves a lot more than just emotional detachment. Psychopaths display novelty seeking, deceptiveness, callousness, narcissism, Machiavellianism, promiscuity, glibness, remorselessness and impulsivity. It's a very common constellation of traits.

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EmilyU1F984 t1_j6gmkg4 wrote

Reply to comment by eliteLord77 in Black and Hispanic hairdressers are exposed to a complex mixture of chemicals, many of them unknown, potentially hazardous, and undisclosed on product labels, researchers report. There are more than 700,000 hairdressers in the United States, more than 90% of whom are estimated to be women. by MistWeaver80

Those UV leds are cheap 400nm ones. That could be considered visible light. I mean it IS visible light.

You can cure the nail polish in the same 120 seconds by going out around noon in summer.

Soo unless you are avoiding the summer sun that much; LEDs won‘t make a difference.

The problem isn‘t UV LEDs it’s using 50W UV lamps where all of that energy is in the UV spectrum.

Rather than an LED lamp running on a 5V 2A USB supply..

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Devlos00 t1_j6gkhwf wrote

Reply to Black and Hispanic hairdressers are exposed to a complex mixture of chemicals, many of them unknown, potentially hazardous, and undisclosed on product labels, researchers report. There are more than 700,000 hairdressers in the United States, more than 90% of whom are estimated to be women. by MistWeaver80

Not joking I went into a hair place once trying to get a haircut, I turned away when I realized they only cut women but I would have left anyway. The fumes were visible. You could see vapors in the air and it was thick. I think it was smoke from extensions or a hair curler or straightener. There’s almost no way these people don’t realize this is bad, they probably just don’t know what to do about it.

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AIBNatUQ t1_j6gi6cs wrote

Reply to Magnetic solution removes toxic "forever chemicals" from water in seconds by chrisdh79

We are stoked to see our researcher's work here on Twitter. Thank you, Reddit community and u/chrisdh79 . We will now scale up testing and hope to have a commercially available product ready in the next three years. Because this method does not use electricity, it can be used in remote and off-grid communities, which is great for Australia and, eventually, overseas communities. Again, thank you all for your support. Excellent to read all the comments.

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