Has that got anything to do with whether I need a car or a bus?

Yeah we don’t have trucks here. Except for a few industrial people so you’re not making sense.

Hands up anyone who thinks my ancestors had public transport?!

Nah, lifestyle is well suited to the area.

We have roads here older than every American country and traditions even older.

The land and the people are one.

I agree.

Rural public transport could absolutely be way better, especially if it was viewed as a public service, not a business.

There’s plenty of places where even an optimised solution would mean cars aren’t needed.

That’s very true.

I think it’s a failure of imagination that the people running things believe public transport should turn a profit.

If it’s run well, the economic benefits cover the costs indirectly.

And still, there will be places where it isn’t the right answer, that an optimised and popular public transport system can not cover enough for people to be done with cars.

Utter tripe.

Where I live it’s dozens of little villages scattered about here and there, with four sizable towns.

Weaving public transport through all of those places is impractical.

I can’t function using public transport that’ll take me an hour or two to get between appointments in different places when it’s a fifteen minute drive.

To get close to that you need so many buses running empty and so many routes it’s insane.

Maybe let local people decide what’s right for them instead of making blanket proclamations for everyone and every place?

Removed by mod

Dunno.

Not familiar with that one.

Jellyfin is a good replacement for Plex

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That’s very fair!

Most therapists get into the profession because they were doing it already for free, unsafely and badly 🤣

Training let’s you keep doing it, but do it right.

You know how many cards there are in a deck?

People can shuffle them into a random order and then memorise the order, so it’s really not that many cards.

Each time you shuffle the deck it’s the same familiar cards, we can easily recognise and differentiate every card in the deck.

But how many different ways are there to arrange that deck of cards? How many possible combinations?

More than there are stars in the sky. Every shuffle is unique.

I love my job because I get to use familiar ideas to help people make sense of their own unique shuffle 😊

That’s not how I teach therapists to work.

We don’t use leading questions, we do really and genuinely want to understand and I’ve never worked with someone who wasn’t totally unique even if their story was superficially similar to another

A good therapist can feel like they’re reading your mind.

Emotional intelligence isn’t the only skill involved in that, still a big part of it.

Its like playing five degrees of Kevin Bacon but with Putin

That way they can describe the driver, assuming they survive.

Yup.

Guilt and shame do not motivate people to change.

They can motivate people to hide, but not to change.

May I suggest checking out the film “Get away” with Nick Frost and Ashling Bea.

Its absolutely excellent

“Gonna have to go lick my ass to get the taste out of my mouth”

Its not supposed to be rational

I wish.

Sleep is a stranger on the edge of my sight line.