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I gave one quote that is an example of the lack of thought, here’s another, “by spending millions of dollars on research into manipulating the human brain. But while the science ne…

The author seems not merely uninformed but a mix of unaware and unconcerned that they don’t know what they’re talking about. No discussion of hypnosis, Stockholm syndrome, and a ge…

“ and disrupt international drug cartels who are looking to smuggle fentanyl into our nation,” they said.” Just a totally absurd statement. Drug traffickers pour across the border …

“It also implies that explanations of belief in conspiracy theories need to accommodate the observation that beliefs in such theories vary much more between people than within peop…

Usenet didn’t have this problem. It’s not being online and interacting with others that’s the problem. It’s the money. And we’ve known that forever.

Arguably that’s the meta force behind social media. The platforms are designed to make people think in collectivist terms, which coincidentally (or not) makes things easier for mor…

I’d say a lot of that is genetic and or cultural. At the very least there are many of us who do not possess that instinct. We have much lower karma scores but we don’t care.

“the skill to stop being angry” Often that amounts to changing the people or circumstances in one’s life. That’s the point of therapy. A good therapist wouldn’t help a sexually abu…

Monks are doing it on easy mode. They have nothing to anger them, zero triggers. It’s the whole point of hermeticism. Remove all sources of stress. Desire nothing. Of course they a…

The world is nothing but edge cases. Expressing anger requires cooperation. If someone doesn’t want to listen, and you express anger at them anyway, is it not abuse?

I think the answer about why it’s so specific is if you just say you threw someone out of a window people might assume it was only one story high and not lethal. Defenestration tel…

Seems wise to get out in front of the impending backlash.

Seems like a good lens through which to view California politics, which is often dominated for better and worse by special interests like the trial lawyers, firefighters, etc…

Boycott please.

“Not only did we measure significant concentrations of PFAS in these containers, we can estimate the PFAS that were leaching off creating a direct path of exposure,” said study coa…

Probably going to be flame city in this thread, but I think it’s worth asking: is it possible that even with collateral damage (killing women and children because of hallucinations…

Weird, I feel like I read the opposite thing just last night; that historically, prior quakes didn’t cause tsmc to slow production significantly. Because earthquakes are expected t…

Right. Urbanism is a primary driver of racial strife and violence. Look at crime stats. Cities make people violent. Nature makes people calmer and less likely to commit violent act…

Suburbia isn’t famous for its total lack of sidewalks. It’s not famous for being unsafe to bike in either.

Not in the Bay Area. Or manhattan. City living is for the wealthy. Working folks live in cheaper places like East Palo Alto.

How do you feel about mopeds? You obviously hate cars, and seem to like bikes. Where is the equilibrium for you? Are pedal driven mopeds tolerable? Vespas? Sincere curiosity.

“AI will undermine trust that applicants know what they're doing?” Yes. Is that not obvious? It’s already a major problem in educational settings. I’ve seen video of people using i…

You don’t know latin I see. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a well known fallacy where one assumes that something that follows an event in time was caused by that event.

“Does it even matter?” Yes, it would have prevented this attack. It isn’t totally sufficient but it’s quick and easy and would have prevented this attack. “Most people don’t want ……

Check the GitHub profile of anybody that commits. Is there a photo of the person? Can you see a commit history and repos that help validate who they seem to be. In this instance, n…