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Thank you for claryfying! Would you mind to elaborate on that? I'm not a huge fan of Darkthrone and while I know that many of their songs are anti-judaism I don't remember any raci…

"Popular" is pretty hard to define in a genre like black metal. Looking at "The greatest black metal bands" [0] I found 6 bands where at least one of the members has ties to right-…

Anti-religious music seems to invite anti-semitic people, so I'd guess there are more racist bands in black metal than in other genres. But the majority of black metal bands are no…

Which Burzum album do you consider to have overtly antisemitic messages? Varg only started being a Neo-Nazi in prison and after releasing most of his influential music. So this say…

That sounds pretty harsh. Did your wife talk to her doctor about the withdrawal symptoms? When I quit, I've taken it for about two years. I was able to prevent the brain zaps by ma…

To me, it felt like the moment after some limb went numb and you start to feel it again, just for the whole body. And I had some visual effects like everything being brighter for a…

Venlafaxine seems to be one of the worst SNRIs/SSRIs wrt discontinuation syndrome. Except for the nausea, I had the same experiences when quitting cold turkey. The most problematic…

Could be that one: http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety1.html

Yeah, you're right. We're probably on the same page about both of these methods being coercive. My initial point was just that there's probably a big number of cases of mental illn…

But is it any more coercive than putting those kids into psychiatric care and putting them on drugs that just make them not feel anything anymore? I'm schizotypal myself and I can …

Another point that this article does not discuss is that in many of the "less coercive" societies, schizophrenia or related diseases are not seen as a disease or problematic at all…

This applies only to philosophy because it is about always using the first link in the article.

> We're all just people who want to spend our days doing and making things in a way that feels valuable "doing and making things in a way that feels valuable" requires a belief tha…

> One key thing people need to learn is: Slides exist to supplement what is being said. Agreed. In my opinion, the slides should supplement the presentation and sum it up in as few…