Mercival

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[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Stockholm syndrome was made up to cover for police incompetence

[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I love how every single source emphasizes it's "single-planet", just because it's by Hello Games.

Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.

[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I love how just a year ago, he was the one to call out FTX.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and all that...

The whole industry seems like a criminal plot at this point.

 

Wonder if the intern is getting the boot, or a raise for this thumbnail

[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That being said, living in a post-soviet country, women still have a considerably harder job becoming accomplished academics.

Though that's at least partially due to globalization and the pressure to publish internationally to be worth a damn as a scientist.