survivors bias and nervous breakdown

I grew up believing that nervous breakdown was very rare, and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown was somewhat common. Years later I wonder if nervous breakdown was more frequent than I believed.

When I was young going to church they sometimes did this thing called testimony. In testimony people in the congregation could stand up and talk for a short time about their experience with God in their lives.

A theme I noticed back then was some would describe some difficult…

— argc (@tookalito) January 12, 2024

The Russian front

There was an interview on CTV News a couple of days ago. The talking head felt that if Russia won in Ukraine, then this was just the first phase in an eventual Russian invasion of Western Europe. The Ukrainian supporter theory was that the West should thus bring greatest effort to the Ukraine conflict. I thought about this a bit and what the West perhaps should do at this point at the end of 2023 and into the beginning of 2024

if the West is to fight Russia, as Ukraine supporters claim it will have to. if Russia indeed plans to conquer Ukraine and then continue into Western Europe. what is the best strategy. if this is inevitable

it seems logical to figure out where and when the fight should be in…

— argc (@tookalito) January 1, 2024