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BurningBrightly26 karma

Basically, it would be similar if the wealthy German south had seperatistic tendencies

It has. Some Bavarians often enough cough up an (unconstitutional) idea that they could become an independent country again, and "we pay for everything and if you don't do as we say we LEAVE". It's not even a new thing, happens every few years for decades now.

BurningBrightly9 karma

Complex traumatization early on also leaves kids open for other forms of abuse and makes for very confusing situations.

When I was sexually abused as a child, I knew it was utterly wrong and disgusting, but at the same time, life at home was so much worse that it was in a very twisted way "nice" to be wanted for once. I wasn't physically hurt (in hindsight probably more to not leave evidence than out of any actual care for me) and in a gross way cherished. That had its own appeal. So much that I was jealous when a classmate told me that he abused her too.

Which was the most difficult part to heal. If I in any way wanted/enjoyed the sexual abuse, maybe that meant I was so bad that I deserved everything else that happened, too.

It's something that's still not emphasized enough in trauma healing. There can be enjoyable physical, emotional, mental reactions during horrible events. The current narrative claims there's only ever one or the other. Enjoy one bit and it wasn't a bad experience at all. Both the public and the victims need help accepting that both can and commonly does happen at the same time and that does NOT absolve the perpetrators ONE BIT.

The "good" parts can be a lot harder to come to terms with than the horrors.

BurningBrightly4 karma

Flying and diving are probably mentioned because they can both be the reasons behind embolisms that can clog up the same little artery. The front half of the spinal cord is fed by a single artery that comes from the aorta somewhere in the bottom half of the chest. Where exactly varies a lot from individual to individual. Spinal infarction there isn't even thaaat uncommon, or ripping it off in an accident. That little bright line going into the spine, up and then down again: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Germano_Melissano/publication/26773038/figure/fig2/AS:277454020202497@1443161601306/Figure-2-Non-invasive-imaging-of-the-arteria-radicularis-magna-ARM-using-A-computed.png

The back half of the spinal cord has two arteries, it's much less vulnerable if something goes wrong.

BurningBrightly1 karma

If you don't save anything about my searches, how could I train the engine to give me more relevant results?

A general voting on the quality of results doesn't help all that much when users are looking for very different levels of information sources. Some want the original study and some are happy with the HuffPost click-bait summary.

BurningBrightly1 karma

At what point do you have a chance to "break even" in the US? Or attract sponsors?

Here, even for European Championships in one of the less common competitions, there's no way you'd even get your travel costs and sign up fees back if you won. Show jumping, maybe, dressage, already less popular. A teacher was eventing for a while, 800€ a weekend just to keep the total point level high enough to compete in that class some more... it gets prohibitively expensive quickly.