Congratulations, but not everybody is capable of reaching that conclusion on their own. Like you said, having good parents is a huge part of it. Good teachers too. But some conditions, like depression, bipolar and others, include low self-esteem or excessive self-blaming as a symptom, which in many cases totally precludes reaching the same conclusion as you unless a grown-up tells the kid that what's going on isn't their fault.
Now, if the grown-ups are actively calling the kid out for behaviors that are the result of an unmanaged condition, the prime example being a kid with ADHD or ADD who has trouble paying attention in class, and especially if they're assigning negative traits to the kid based on those behaviors, such as telling them that they're lazy or antisocial, then they're just making everything a lot worse and that kid is likely to self-blame for years, even after receiving a valid diagnosis.
It makes a huge subjective difference for the person afflicted, and I say this from experience. Like OP said, it's the difference between "I have a disease that causes X symptom" and "I'm a bad person for displaying X trait". And that is the difference between proactively finding ways to deal with X versus blaming and punishing yourself for it, which in most cases will only reinforce X. So in addition to the person having greater self-respect and self-love and thus a greater quality of life, it also helps them to manage their condition, even in the absence of treatment.
The odds that your dishes will get done are higher if you understand that the reason you're putting them off is because you have a condition and you need to be extra dilligent to compensate, as opposed to you telling yourself that you're a lazy piece of shit who is too worthless to do something as simple as washing the dishes, and by the way, remember last week when you let the dishes pile up for days before doing them? Yeah, here you go being a slovenly swine again because that's all you're ever good for, you waste of oxygen. Nobody loves you and you're going to die alone, so what's the point of doing dishes anyway? Just keep living in the filth like you deserve, you disgusting animal.
That's where my head used to take me pretty consistently before my diagnosis. Doing the dishes, making my bed, every simple chore brought down a cascade of self-humiliation and judgement, which in turn strengthened my executive dysfunction to the point where entire days would go by without a single productive task being done, no matter how small.
Now, I have trained to remind myself that completing the task is much better than dreading doing it, so I do it. I can't credit the diagnosis alone for this, as I'm also on medication. But a proper diagnosis is the first step without which none of the others can be taken.
To be perfectly fair to the Cheeto gremlin, which is a good deal more than he deserves:
Since he has been constantly surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for a long time, it is quite possible that he actually believes the economy is doing great due to nobody having the spine to tell him any different. All day every day it's "everything is going great, sir" and "you're the best President the planet has ever been graced with, sir" and "size doesn't matter and the female orgasm is a myth, sir".
It's still his own fault for creating such an environment with his incompetence and his fragile ego, of course. But he might honestly believe his own bullshit in this case.
No, that's the kind of thinking that prevents me from taking 13-year-old stoners on Lemmy seriously when they talk about helping them to rule "their" world like they're going to crown themselves Pharaoh of the Earth.
You made a distinction's between bricking and banning from online services which I don't believe is relevant, given that Switch 2 game cartriges don't actually contain games but only download codes. A Switch 2 that can't access online services isn't just banned from online multiplayer and Virtual Console. They also can't install or update games. Whatever is on it when it gets banned is all that will ever be on it legally. This is bricking by an obtuse path, but it's bricking all the same. And several people had this happen to them who did absolutely nothing wrong. But even if every last one of them had personally pirated the entire Switch 1 and 2 catalogs, that still doesn't justify a company handicapping a person's private property without any sort of due process.
The problem is that without evidence of mishandling, what can we achieve? How can we force Google to be more transparent? The only way I see is via the courts, and they require proof.
So the "age verification" boils down to the same level of security as that pop-up on PornHub asking if I'm over 18? And Newsom wants to create a legal precedent that can open the way to mandated State-controlled malware on every electronic device in the State just for that?
I mean, he's a politician. He's very aware that people can and do lie all the time. Which means that the stated goal of this legislation is very obviously not its actual goal.
I'm not. I would be if the USA had been a healthy democracy when he did that, but it wasn't. Trump just made evident the problems that had been festering for decades.
The USA is like the late Roman Empire. Most elected officials at the municipal, state and federal level are either corrupt or passive in the face of corruption. The news only occasionally reports truthfully on a political issue and that's probably only because the truth happened to coincide with the agenda they had already decided to push before the truth even happened. The wealth inequality is much higher than what is tolerable and growing at an accelerating rate. The population is either too beaten down to resist tyranny or too distracted by entertainment to care.
The only two possible paths for the country now are an all-out civil war or an inevitable march into an overt dictatorship.
Or Trump could die. That would be the best solution. And if we're really lucky, nobody will even have to assassinate him as is the patriotic duty of every single American; he's old and senile and his health is shit. He could die tomorrow. But he won't because this is the worst possible timeline.
Jim Carrey is antivaxx?