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by _haoa 4y ago
Nailed it. This is also the same mechanism of action for almost any addiction. 1) Consume external drug 2) Receptors downregulate (thanks to homeostasis) 3) Need more of said drug or withdrawals kick in (analogous to needing to take externa
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by _haoa 4y ago
> Though if you believe the headlines, everybody probably should be hanged, and the planet would be better off without all of us. Resentment for the wealthy/elite is not a new concept, nor is it being "fed" to anyone with
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by _haoa 4y ago
Hit the nail on the head. Boomers grew up in an age without the internet, where government propaganda was spoonfed to them straight through their brand new living room television sets and doorstep newspapers. Just imagine: the only bastion
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by _haoa 4y ago
Right angles have a small box near the vertex which denotes it is a right angle [0]. This symbol doesn't have that box, so I don't think it's a right angle. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angle#&
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by _haoa 5y ago
There has been a rise in homelessness and people becoming disillusioned by the tethers of society, to the point that people are voluntarily retreating into cities and wildernesses to live freely off the land. Homelessness (particularly volu
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by _haoa 5y ago
Taking this as an opportunity to plug the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). Pay no attention to the tongue-in-cheek name, it has nothing to do with mass suicide or genocide, and merely advocates for us to stop breeding. From htt
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The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)(libcom.org)
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by _haoa 5y ago
Even Wikipedia engages in strategic censorship on behalf of the three letter agencies. Case in point: this article[0] was removed from Wikipedia without good reasoning. It would seem that the name of the article itself was inflammatory enou