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Even this post is propaganda. in c/[email protected]

Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It is a fair point, being obese and poor can definitely be a a horrific feedback loop to get out of.

In developed countries anyways, you don't really see it in places where food is scarce, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I'm more fascinated by the countertop. Although thin and probably composite rather than natural stone, it's still stone and that can get really expensive. It might honestly get more expensive to do this and fix it later than just do it right from the getgo.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here's a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography "I became Stockholm Syndrome".

There's also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

Basically when you're at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn't even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

The guy with a gun, whom they've been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.