I’m not necessarily against this. Right now, social media companies can knowingly target children with sophisticated conditioning techniques that can and will steer their cognitive development. Although they know for a fact that they are manipulating children, they hide behind plausible deniability.
I don’t like age verification, but I don’t see an alternative. Between the robots and the advanced manipulation techniques, something has to give.
Yeah, I don’t get it. If the two examples linked above are his most offensive content, then this is a pretty low bar to ban someone. If the target of the criticism was priests or bankers, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Giving a demographic special treatment can turn indifference into resentment; it is not a path towards acceptance or equality.
I don’t know, man. I’m a Democrat because I support policies like marijuana legalization and free healthcare. The conflict in Iran is pretty low on my agenda. I wouldn’t feel particularly betrayed if he was my elected official.
I never understood bipartisanship. My opinions and beliefs span the entire political spectrum. It feels like people think that anything supported by Republicans must be anti-Democrat.
Lol. “Skyrim in space.”
I think it’s appropriate to round up in this situation. Personally, I catoragize people as “older” when they are between “middle age” and “elderly.”
I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time right now. I’m not particularly a fan of turn-based games, but I’m digging there interpretation of the genre. I like how each character has a limited amount of movement per turn and the ability to navigate through the entire environment. I’m surprised more developers don’t use a similar model.
? My stance on ADHD and amphetamine use isn’t political. Unfortunately, the history of ADHD is personal to me. Shire released their first amphetamine product within a few months of Perdue’s release of oxycontin. They used similar tactics to increase their userbase and bribed the same public officials.
…~10% of children in the united states either have taken or are taking amphetamine for a disease that didn’t really exist prior to the release of Adderall. This doesn’t seem fishy to you? Giving one of the most abusable psychoactives to a child is unlikely not to have an impact on their development.
The genius of an ADHD diagnosis is that it has a strong overlap with the side effects of long-term amphetamine use. It takes decades of research to prove harm, and even then it’s tricky. Still, It’s only a matter of time before it blows up into a Perdue level scandal. It’s why Shire sold their patent; it’s a liability issue.
I feel bad for the people dependent on amphetamine. Once the government cracks down on excessive and unethical prescriptions, a lot of people are in for a long withdrawal period. It took me a few years to learn how to function without it; I couldn’t have done it willingly.
It’s pretty funny. Every movie that depicts Louisiana shows the three blocks that include Bourbon Street/ the French Quarter. It looks beautiful, but the surrounding mile is the ghetto in each direction. I remember when one of the locals tried to sexual assault me when I was looking for marijuana; it’s hard sometimes, but I try not to miss it.
I also remember the time that my mom would go 20 minutes out of her way to work to avoid the interstate. Gang members were shooting motorists as part of their initiation. They eventually moved on to attacking homeless people, so she at least had that to be grateful for. It saved her time on her commute.
…aside from that, there is beautiful architecture. I think everyone should pay New Orleans a visit.
Lol. I feel like you need to move to Louisiana to get some perspective.
Dig into Shire Pharmaceutical. You might find the relationship between their marketing/lobbying, the DSM-IV, and the rate of ADHD diagnosis disturbing. As things stand right now, the diagnostic criteria are vague to the point where every child meets the definition of having this disorder.
…ill leave it at this. There is a reason Shire sold their highly profitable Vyvanse to Takeda Pharmaceutical before the patent expired. If amphetamine disappeared off the face of the earth, the rate of diagnosis would plummet.
…I don’t know about the rich people, but our poor people tend to want to stay. There has to be a reason for that, but I couldn’t tell you what it is.
I’ve seen penicillin and insulin mentioned quite a bit in these comments, but these two compounds were relatively low hanging fruits.
Penicillin in particular is an interesting example. While it’s development might have been in public institutions, it was largely the product of obscene defense expenditure. Things wouldn’t have worked out like they did if it didn’t have military applications.
Thats the thing about government research. Governments have narrow interests, and the average voter isn’t equipped to see the bigger picture. They’d prefer tax breaks over research if given an option. They wouldn’t want to pay for the research, but they’d expect the product of that research to be given for free.
I’m pretty sure their purpose is to stall the public until the Republicans can win an election. If a wealthy person just happened to be born in a Democrat state, then that is the ticket they run on. I’d love to find out how many of them have family and friends that are all conservative.
This is why this sort of useless regulation is genius. No one is going to sign a petition to protect step-porn. Since it would permanently exist in a public archive, our great, great, great grandchildren would think we were freaks. “We don’t know much about great uncle Johnathan, but he liked watching step-siblings fuck.”
Lead is much easier to purify than lithium.
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I have a feeling Bethesda’s executives ordered the development team to make it as un-controversial as possible. “I don’t give a damn if the game is terrible. You will lose your jobs if you compromise this merger.”
I hate the pay for ad-free subscription model. They use people’s personal data to optimize the experience, making their ads as annoying and disorienting as possible.
When Reddit first unveiled their subscription, they began spamming my phone with obnoxious herpes advertisements. The ad just said “Herpes?” in big purple letters. Since this particular subject invoked a sense of fear and anxiety, it made me more likely to pay for their removal.
The rotten egg analogy makes more sense. Each egg is completely sealed off from the others in the group. Since the shell is only permeable to gasses, one spoiled egg will not spoil the bunch.
Since a diet high in sugar does kill human cells and cancer cells are human cells, soda does in fact kill cancer.