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> because it means you are implicitly deciding your current existence is not enough > that is what bothers me with religion as well: it is a rejection of ourselves and reality trad…

> I'm curious as to what differentiates cannabis from other psychedelics such that you think there is a healthy path to it and not to anything else. Experience. Also you're more li…

Imo there is no healthy situation that leads someone to any drugs past pot. At that point you enter a rabbithole

> Just curious, were they already fairly normal? I'm wondering if the benefits are only in a narrow group, setting, condition, etc. This is the problem: is anyone? Does anyone have…

Could you elaborate on the girlfriend, best friend, and other friend? How did their experiences play out? What about it changed them?

Of the people I've known who did hallucinogens, I knew them all before and after. NONE of them were better off afterward You can read all the "life changing experiences" that peopl…

People who (implicitly) say "you better do X or care about Y or else bad things will happen!!111!" it's like: what's going to happen? Am I going to spontaneously combust if I just …

FWIW Gonzalez v Google might not have as much of an impact as what the comments here indicate. > The case — Gonzalez v. Google — seeks to hold Google legally liable for a deadly 20…

As a recent grad, this doesn't at all seem surprising I had a class where literally half of the people in it cheated on the autograded assignments and got caught. Then after gettin…

In hindsight pompous would've been a better word

Why does the author write in such laughably pretentious language? > It is the emotional register that accounts for the Pavlovian alacrity with which we attend to our devices and th…

The TPP was more complicated than this and there was bipartisan opposition to it. The opposition to it wasn't merely Trump's isolationism but genuine concerns about the economic af…

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Except they post pay ranges and not a single salary. They could just make the pay ranges really big and use the ambiguity to avoid the intended effect Also I have no clue whether i…

> You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear It's like one setting in about:config > Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-…

> But, stuff like this should make Facebook employees angry. Zuckerberg is not a person to envy. It's a wonder he hasn't been pushed out yet. I'm pretty sure he's holding enough st…

> Facebook (Meta) cannot innovate. Their growth since inception is almost exclusively through acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Innovation at this point != success Jus…

> Would topic forums see a rise in popularity I highly doubt it > or would sites like Reddit draw in some of those users probably. I get the impression reddit is doing more marketi…

> Metaverse is an interesting idea It just seems like a mix of xbox kinect and roblox maybe zuck is just having a midlife crisis, who knows

This isn't what new grads actually do. They're in the same boat you're in, algo classes have a lot of theory but LC is a different beast entirely

I mean people buy google phones, it can't get a lot worse than them. And they aren't bad phones either. Imo at the end of the day people don't give two shits about privacy, conveni…

> cough Proton cough I'd take Proton any day over a neutered ad blocker

I can't see this panning over well without the supreme court establishing some sort of discretionary middle ground. One camp says the platforms are like newspapers, the other says …