‘she believed “titans of industry would be guardrails for our democracy.”

“And one by one by one, they have been silent, they have been … feckless,” Harris said. “It’s not like they’re going to lose their yacht or their house in the Hamptons.”’

Lmao oh my god corporations bent at the knee immediately for a chance to make an extra maybe some of that communism would tight right about now, eh cop?

As always this is a pointless announcement.

“We’ve stomped out 7 of the 800,000,000 websites hosting illegal roms. We will pat ourselves on the back because there is a big number involved and one or two was a “big player” but that vacuum will be filled almost immediately by one of the countless sites left behind. We have wasted millions of your tax dollars to enact the vengeance of nintendo/sony/etc with the illogical nonsense that this is theft when the overwhelming majority of people who pirate media would have never purchased the media otherwise. But this allows us to justify wasting your money by saying we prevented hundreds of millions of dollars of theft.”

Is a more accurate version

For your question: honestly the best source in my opinion is a private torrent tracker (like GGn, but you’d need an invite or to join another site that has openings/interviews and an invite forum which usually is hidden until you’ve been around for awhile and have seeded/downloaded a decent amount)

The much easier faster way is just sites like https://nxbrew.net/ but these get taken down from time to time

This is not an incorrect point but rfks motives are more likely delegitimization of major journals to make the hacky bullshit journals he cites not seem so quacky

If this is successful in 5-10 years it will be much less normal to say “at least show me a paper from nature”. Then the confusing landscape of journals that are not well known become even harder to differentiate from the ones he cites

For reference, when he was citing his antivax bullshit at (I believe it was) his confirmation hearing the article he cited came from a journal of extremely dubious quality. The board of directors were all antivaxxers, one of which being the guy who published the article, and the journal was registered out of a residential home. It was basically the academic journal equivalent of a fanzine with obvious and extreme conflicts of interest in its peer review. The paper itself had glaring methodology issues (shocker).

If scientists are forced to leave the most reputable publications it just muddies the waters even more for articles that are of very high quality or importance

The issues you point out are still very relevant and need resolution of course but they can be solved in other ways. Regulation surrounding how government funded research is handled, how government endowment funds for library access to journals are handled, etc could give significant leverage over private publishers without having to start over from scratch. Or you could be more aggressive and force the publishers to be more equitable, but good luck with that in America

Except grandpas house and no young master to serve, only angry grandpa who doesn’t want her

Basically all psychedelic research has major methodology flaws and systemic issues behind it

Methodology: Expectancy bias - the control vs condition is usually abundantly clear to both the participants and researchers. The impact of the drugs are so dramatic that it’s fairly obvious what category they’re in. So then people on the drugs expect to see benefits and clinicians (unexpectedly or otherwise) reinforce this

Often co occur with talk therapy which confounds effect, eg which is helping?

Often go by subject self report and not any kind of objective measure of symptoms

Subjects are often highly selected, filtering comorbidities like bipolar disorder or suicidal ideation

Very few, if any, have explored effect beyond 1 year or so

There have been ethical issues on the part of therapists doing the trials (MDMA MAPS research specifically)

Studies for addiction specifically are preliminary and small but do show promise

Systemically:

There is a huge demand for novel treatments for treatment resistant depression and PTSD. This will be an extremely lucrative industry

There is a huge demand for a legitimized pathway to psychedelic drugs. If medical marijuana and ketamine treatment are any indicators there will be plenty of doctors that will be absolutely willing to meet you via zoom, basically ask “do you have ptsd?” and then write you a script for Molly. It’s positive that this will give users a safe source of these drugs free of adulterants and limit legal consequences but it will also reflect the above: lucrative industry.

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They likely have some benefit but are not the wonder drugs some people make them out to be. Mental health is complex, ptsd and depression are difficult and aren’t really cured as much as managed. Medications can help and novel medications are needed. There are likely no medications that would “fix” the issue on their own though. Patterns of behavior perpetuate sensitization to trauma and influence cycles of depression.

Medication may be a part of that puzzle of achieving remission of course. using psilocybin as an example: one of the reasons it’s promising as a method is because it increases cortical entropy, which increases variability in brain patterns. There is also disruption of the default mode network, which can change self referential and ruminative thought. These effects are obviously desirable. But if you immediately go back to a pattern of hiding from your trauma, a life devoid of meaning, or a cycle of deactivating behaviors the pattern will potentially re emerge

To expand on that last point this side steps the obvious elephant in the room of these treatments can’t fix systemic issues. I’ve been doing mental health treatment for over a decade and you can’t cbt or pills your way out of social issues. Even if mushrooms were a miracle cure for treatment resistant depression it would just come right back after spending a few months or years in a system where you constantly scrape for a paycheck to barely cover costs, dread the future you can’t afford to retire in, and recognize the system that will not throw you a life preserver when you are drowning.

A huge percentage of the people I work with that are depressed and can’t “beat it” aren’t that way because they haven’t found the right pills, talk therapy, or lack of trying. It’s because they are stuck in a system that gives them no resources to explore their passion and creativity. They were in high school and were interested in art, science, music, writing, dance, whatever. But then they entered “job mode” and the time and money they had for their hobbies diminished rapidly. Now it’s 5,10,20 years later and social spaces not dedicated to getting drunk are rare or expensive, they spend 50-70% of income on housing and medical expenses, they work 50+ hours a week in a job unrelated to their interests, that they “fell into”.

Imagine if they had equitable housing, a pension, and healthcare. The ability to be able to go back to school and study something they were more passionate about and make it work without incurring extreme debt or having to balance it with employment that impairs their ability to focus on studies. Would it work for all of them? No. But would you see a lot of people with “treatment resistant depression” start to just feel better and more secure

well you’re not hired because it took you six hours to format a single document. bad time management. also your document editor of choice is google docs when libreoffice and onlyoffice exist, yuck

Well it depends. If you want quality staff delivering quality service/making quality products then yes it is. You have to spend a ton of money onboarding and training them so burning them out is foolish because you just burn cash

However, if you are fine with delivering a poor or mediocre service/product (the bare minimum), you can slash training and onboarding costs to the bare minimum. Your staff will be even more resentful because now they will struggle.

But as long as you have a huge pool of workers clamoring for jobs you can keep this going and even do so with abusive conditions (demand 100% efficiency, constant overtime, insane quotas, etc). Just burn them out and when they crash pick another resume from the pile

I was talking to someone the other day who works in the tech industry. They had a coworker who died on a Friday and they were replaced on a Monday. There was no fanfare or grieving. It was just “okay, that’s a bummer, here’s his replacement”

It’s not that bad

Looking on maps it’s in a rural area but not that rural. The house is situated on the outskirts of a town, basically

Local middle schools website says they had 185 students in 2020, that’s pretty good for rural Japan

About a 30m walk from the town/school. Train station there, bunch of cafes, konbini.

It’s not going to be living in Tokyo obviously but there are rural areas in Japan that are far worse, where the school is 7 kids that all share a classroom even though they’re mixed grade 2-9 because the district has 1 teacher

Bigger reason for me: that house is decrepit and Japan experiences more natural disasters than pretty much any other country. Like I’m not living in a crap shack when the next earthquake, typhoon, or tsunami inevitably hits

The language isn’t that hard though. プラス、それからもっと漫画を読めるよ。

I feel like the classic image the mermaid in my head is clamshells as a bra. However, my extensive mermaid knowledge consists of: ariel, the concept of the undine (which I have never seen depicted and I’m not sure is a mermaid actually, is this something that encompasses mermaids technically? Not really my forte), and decerto, who I have also never seen depicted

the name and boxart alone suggests the racist viewpoint is the correct one

Cats are wild

We put our cats litter box in the basement. We had this wicker box thing down there. It’s kind of small, like a little box that could hold 6 pairs of shoes. It was near the litter box and she drug it over to her litter box so she could scratch at it while she took shits. We wanted to stop her from destroying it so we moved it far away, she drug it across the basement back to the litter box, twice. We put weight in it, she knocked it over and then moved the now empty box back.

We gave up. It was like $10 and we obviously weren’t using it. It’s hers now. She has wrecked it. It’s like a boomer dad taking a newspaper into the bathroom. We find chunks of wicker in her litter box. The front of the box is bare. For the record she is not an especially large cat, she is 14-15lbs

ChatGPT is hard to gauge because it depends on what model you get. I’m rate limited at the moment so I get the slightly older model

Do Palestinians deserve to be free ChatGPT said:

ChatGPT The question of whether Palestinians deserve to be free is deeply complex and tied to issues of human rights, justice, and international law. Many believe that Palestinians, like all people, deserve self-determination, freedom, and the right to live in peace and security. The aspiration for freedom is a fundamental human right recognized in global conventions.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with its historical and political dimensions, has led to differing perspectives on this issue. Some argue for the right of Palestinians to have an independent state, while others emphasize the need for peace that respects the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis.

Ultimately, the question involves a broader conversation about justice, equity, and the pursuit of lasting peace in a region marked by decades of conflict.

Do Israelis deserve to be free ChatGPT said:

ChatGPT Yes, Israelis, like all people, deserve to be free. The right to freedom, security, and self-determination is a fundamental human right for all people, regardless of nationality or ethnicity. Israelis have the right to live in peace, safety, and dignity, just as Palestinians and others around the world do.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is incredibly complex, and it involves the rights, identities, and aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians. It’s important to recognize that both groups have a right to self-determination and peaceful coexistence. Peace and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians are crucial for achieving a future where all people in the region can live without fear or oppression.

Sooooooo maybe something they’re shifting. Or maybe something that is modified based on your specific data set. I’m logged in with a burner account