You think our medical, technological and scientific advances aren't helping society?
I get the complaints about the economy and wealth inequality and environmental impacts from dodgy corporations. But, that's not a technology problem, that's a government/regulation problem. We need to attack the bad practices of corporations and the ineffectiveness of government to do anything about it, not people who have found a new tool to be useful for their work.
No one quoted any piece. Heard immunity is a fairly simple concept about preventing the spread by having most people immune to it, so babies and others who can't be vaccinated are unlikely to ever be exposed to it.
It's not about mutations, but it is another issue if you allow something to spread it will have more opportunities to mutate and become more virulent
Yes, some healthy scepticism is great and very valuable. But, you do need to put some trust in experts, they are the ones who know the field well enough to share the important parts. When it comes to the mRNA vaccines, they were understood well enough to be almost certain that the risks of catching COVID far outweigh the risks of the vaccine, especially once you consider heard immunity and the impact it has on people at risk who can't take the vaccine. So at that point it becomes clearly the safest choice to get everyone to take it.
We were unable to study more refined and nuanced measures that may be more affected by GLP-1 use such as self-esteem, locus of control, happiness, relationship status other than marital status and relationship satisfaction
Looks like there's some big gaps in this study, so more research is needed. Anecdotally I'm sure it's been helping my mental health and self esteem.
Hmm, I'm from Australia and studied Mechanical Engineering, but I feel like I was already quite Scientifically literate before getting to high school. I know there's plenty of people who are not scientifically inclined here, but I think the majority still understand the core principals, from their school education. Is it not like that where you're from?
I'm not saying you should excuse anyone's bad behaviour. And that's a good point about people in power deserving to be held to higher standards. My point is more to take issue with the problematic behaviour specifically, without exaggerating or straw-manning.
The real way to convert people is to have a one on one discussion and find common ground first, seriously try to understand their side and motivations and then question it deeply. That can disarm them and actually get them to think about why they believe that stuff. Often people who hold stupid beliefs have never properly questioned them.
So, it doesn't really work in online forums. But, I firmly believe that spreading more hatred is just going to make things worse.
I completely understand why you would hate them so much, but when they feel that hatred directed towards them, it only makes things worse. I urge you to take a serious look at this channel which shows how people with fundamentally different views can find some common ground, under the right circumstances:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEnemiesProject/videos
They're obviously not going to completely convert anyone in a single discussion, but it shows how peoples minds can be opened up when you approach them with empathy and a real attempt to find common ground.
I hate republicans as much as the next non-republican, but one of the main problems we're facing is extreme polarisation and division. Straw-manning the other side like that isn't helping anyone except maybe your own ego.
They are real people who also want to live comfortably and be loved by their friends and family. They've just been brainwashed and haven't thought things through enough to brake free from it. So, they believe pretty much anything their cult tells them. It's horrible and it is stupid, but even smart people believe stupid things some times (even if it's less frequent).
We need to bring more humanity and cooperation into the world. Call out bad beliefs and behaviours instead of dehumanising the people.
Yeah, that 210 deaths due to cannabanoids piqued my interest. No one has ever been known to overdose using marijuana. But, synthetic cannabinoids can kill people. I found this from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:
AIHW analysis of the National Mortality Database showed that in 2024, cannabinoids were directly involved in 2.2% (or 43) of all drug-induced deaths, a decrease from 16.4% (325 deaths) in 2018 (Table NMD2). These numbers should be interpreted with caution due to a recent coding change surrounding the determination of the involvement of cannabis in drug-induced deaths. Prior to 2020, cannabis detected in the blood of a person who died from a multi-drug toxicity was assigned to T40.7 ‘Poisoning by cannabis (derivatives)’. Since 2020, T40.7 is assigned to drug-induced deaths only when cannabis is determined by the pathologist as contributing to the toxicity. Where cannabis is detected in the blood, but is not specified as contributing to the toxicity, it is coded as R78.3 ‘Finding of hallucinogen in blood’. For more information, see Technical notes.
The optimist in me hopes this will hurt one nation and be the start of their popularity decreasing. But the pessimist sees this as one more step towards replicating the hell hole that America has become.
I find this to be odd timing. This shit has been going on for ages and lately our government seems to have been mostly ignoring the travesties done in the name of Israel. So why are they applying these sanctions now?
When I was young I pirated because I didn't have an income and couldn't pay. Now I pirate because I don't want to give any money to terrible companies.
There was a period in the middle where I didn't pirate anything, but that's beside the point.
Definitely Poe's law coming in here. There's too many idiots on the internet so it's generally good to add a /s to be clear.
That's already been happening for a while. It's literally what the article is talking about.
You think our medical, technological and scientific advances aren't helping society?
I get the complaints about the economy and wealth inequality and environmental impacts from dodgy corporations. But, that's not a technology problem, that's a government/regulation problem. We need to attack the bad practices of corporations and the ineffectiveness of government to do anything about it, not people who have found a new tool to be useful for their work.
No one quoted any piece. Heard immunity is a fairly simple concept about preventing the spread by having most people immune to it, so babies and others who can't be vaccinated are unlikely to ever be exposed to it.
It's not about mutations, but it is another issue if you allow something to spread it will have more opportunities to mutate and become more virulent
This is not about the TSA line, this is a chat that most people would presume to be private
Yes, some healthy scepticism is great and very valuable. But, you do need to put some trust in experts, they are the ones who know the field well enough to share the important parts. When it comes to the mRNA vaccines, they were understood well enough to be almost certain that the risks of catching COVID far outweigh the risks of the vaccine, especially once you consider heard immunity and the impact it has on people at risk who can't take the vaccine. So at that point it becomes clearly the safest choice to get everyone to take it.
Looks like there's some big gaps in this study, so more research is needed. Anecdotally I'm sure it's been helping my mental health and self esteem.
That's interesting. I think sometimes I can visualise something quite well, but most of the time it feels more like what you're describing.
Hmm, I'm from Australia and studied Mechanical Engineering, but I feel like I was already quite Scientifically literate before getting to high school. I know there's plenty of people who are not scientifically inclined here, but I think the majority still understand the core principals, from their school education. Is it not like that where you're from?
I'm not saying you should excuse anyone's bad behaviour. And that's a good point about people in power deserving to be held to higher standards. My point is more to take issue with the problematic behaviour specifically, without exaggerating or straw-manning.
The real way to convert people is to have a one on one discussion and find common ground first, seriously try to understand their side and motivations and then question it deeply. That can disarm them and actually get them to think about why they believe that stuff. Often people who hold stupid beliefs have never properly questioned them.
So, it doesn't really work in online forums. But, I firmly believe that spreading more hatred is just going to make things worse.
I completely understand why you would hate them so much, but when they feel that hatred directed towards them, it only makes things worse. I urge you to take a serious look at this channel which shows how people with fundamentally different views can find some common ground, under the right circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/@TheEnemiesProject/videos
The first video they did was a trans woman and a MAGA woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQlarHFPoaM
They're obviously not going to completely convert anyone in a single discussion, but it shows how peoples minds can be opened up when you approach them with empathy and a real attempt to find common ground.
I hate republicans as much as the next non-republican, but one of the main problems we're facing is extreme polarisation and division. Straw-manning the other side like that isn't helping anyone except maybe your own ego.
They are real people who also want to live comfortably and be loved by their friends and family. They've just been brainwashed and haven't thought things through enough to brake free from it. So, they believe pretty much anything their cult tells them. It's horrible and it is stupid, but even smart people believe stupid things some times (even if it's less frequent).
We need to bring more humanity and cooperation into the world. Call out bad beliefs and behaviours instead of dehumanising the people.
Yeah, that 210 deaths due to cannabanoids piqued my interest. No one has ever been known to overdose using marijuana. But, synthetic cannabinoids can kill people. I found this from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alcohol/alcohol-tobacco-other-drugs-australia/contents/drug-types/cannabis
That states only 43 deaths for the same year. I would also guess that many, possibly all of them are due to multiple drugs.
The optimist in me hopes this will hurt one nation and be the start of their popularity decreasing. But the pessimist sees this as one more step towards replicating the hell hole that America has become.
I find this to be odd timing. This shit has been going on for ages and lately our government seems to have been mostly ignoring the travesties done in the name of Israel. So why are they applying these sanctions now?
Cool, don't get money out of the industry like the vast majority of the population want them to do. Instead put more money into it... Great job 👍
Like no one ever was
When I was young I pirated because I didn't have an income and couldn't pay. Now I pirate because I don't want to give any money to terrible companies.
There was a period in the middle where I didn't pirate anything, but that's beside the point.
I assumed they meant based on wealth