aalleavitch

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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Because the medicalization of depression is a convenient way to avoid thinking about the fact that it is a prominent feature of the status quo, not some aberration. Pollution correlates with industrial manufacturing and warehouse work envir
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I'm pretty confident that depression is not a result of air pollution, but rather that both air pollution and depression are results of industrialization. The problem is not chemical. The problem is how we live.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I already pay to recycle. How has my clearly irrational behavior somehow defeated your ironclad game theory logic?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> (Peacocks signal with their tails that they are healthy and strong, even though they have no society they live in, so no inequality and class struggles). And yet many animals have very little sexual dimorphism and exhibit very little s
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
You give the individual too much credit. If the majority wanted to take away your guns, they would. The majority also can take away your right to self-determine, that's the entire basis of law and criminal punishment. If laws were base
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
What is attractive in society is always aligned to the values of that society. Contrary to what evopscyh would have you believe, there is massive cultural variation in the standards of attractiveness. Wealth inequality itself is the most ma
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I disagree completely, trust is rare in gated communities and police states. The more harshly the law is enforced, the more clear the sign that people do not trust each other to follow it. Trust is most easily maintained by people simply ha
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> Women just have to learn to deal with such men You're not even considering the idea it could be different. Many people have lived in communities where they don't lock their doors because they were actually able to trust the p
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
On the one hand, you're not wrong in that we exacerbate the psychological damage to victims of abuse by our treatment of sexuality, and we do so on many levels. Part of the reason why victims feel so much shame about what they've
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Right? Imagine the horror of companies having to take strong ethical stances on the use of their software and how their company influences the world around them. If companies had to care about ensuring that the fruits of their labor had imp
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
"Look, I don't explode the atomic bombs I just make and sell them"? If people were more cognizant of the effects the things they made put out into the world, we'd be living in a better one. Claiming you have no responsib
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
"Politically neutral" is a nonsense concept. You can make a politically flexible organization, you can make an organization that tries to operate orthogonally to the existing political powers in the world, but if you do something
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
And claiming that something is apolitical doesn't make it so. Are you going to present an actual argument? The reality of the world is that no company operates in a vacuum. If a political organization gains power it wouldn't have
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Pretending you have nothing to do with the consequences of your actions doesn't make it so. Saying you're "apolitical" only means that you bury your head in the sand regarding the very real political consequences of your
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This is bullshit, nothing is apolitical. To pretend otherwise is the height of dishonesty. Claiming that there are no political consequences for your actions is simply burying your head in the sand. You have a measurable effect on the world
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I didn't mean to talk down to you or invalidate your completely justified response to your own situation, I apologize. Nor did I mean in any way to belittle your accomplishments or the amount you have already done for others. You are a
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Your story alone is enough to make you an effective activist. There is nothing more powerful than lived experience. You may be surprised at the amount of help that you will be able to find if you go to the people who are fighting to prevent
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I don't think that the real cure for depression can be bought or sold. Bruce Alexander is talking about addiction here, but I think everything he is describing absolutely applies for depression: https://www.youtube.com/
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I wouldn't dismiss a meta-analysis out of hand, but at the same time...isn't there a strong pressure to publish an effect above placebo? They rated 73% of the studies as having a moderate risk of bias, and certainty of the evidenc
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
What does it say about our society when suicide becomes a "rational decision"? Are we really so helpless to change the conditions of the people around us who are suffering that we would throw up our hands and write it off as a los
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
You are not alone. It is not you that is broken, it is the world around us that is broken. Things cannot continue the way they are. This system we live under, it corrupts everything. It inserts a fundamental tension into every human interac
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
The question we should be asking is if regular marketing is ethical.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
All marketing is “neuromarketing”. It’s fundamentally a practice of exploiting human psychology to drive their behavior. Also yes, all marketing is fundamentally unethical if it is done by a profit-driven company.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
The sovereign wealth fund, which is the real champion of Norway's current situation, is the result of nationalizing their natural oil reserves. Effectively, making the natural resources of Norway the property of all the Norwegian peopl
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
https://twitter.com/smutcollecter/status/1194116947786551297...
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> Where does my use or possession end? For example, I trade two sheep for a bicycle which I need for transportation to get to my job. Can someone come along and take my bicycle any time I'm not using it? If so, how is this theft ju
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> Property is an informational concept more than a legal one. The concept of "mine" is present at a very young age, and clearly present in various animal groups. All money and contracts indicating ownership of property mean not
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
There's a pretty hilarious screenshot going around showing that the bot accounts tweeting support for the coup are not very sophisticated either (they're literally copy and pasted).
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Between that and the natural gas, Bolivia will be a key natural resource in the eventual solar-dominated energy economy.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I assume, or at least hope, that this is an attempt at mockery. Only, CIA meddling in South American politics is a historical fact, and massively so. Where do you think the term banana republic comes from?

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