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by banads 6y ago
Looking at US incarceration data over time, the causes are plainly obvious. Mass incarceration began shortly after the civil rights movement was ended, when Nixon launched the War on Drugs in 1971, and then skyrocketed in the 80s as even ha
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High doses of psychedelics literally induces schizophrenia in its users, albeit for a brief amount of time, so it makes sense why that could be dangerous for people already living in such a state
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What do you think about the research in question as it relates to social media?
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Cool story, its completely irrelevant to what happened last week in the US
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Yes, anyone trying to push these drugs on literally everyone is a fool. The reason people with pre-existing psychosis like schizophrenia are being ruled out of such studies is because the risk is plainly obvious. That's why doctors oft
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>They try to explain the experience and are fully convinced they learned some fundamental truth but can't explain it in any way that makes sense. Imagine trying to describe the color blue to a blind person, or the sound of music to
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We shouldn't make literally everyone take it, that's silly. The John's Hopkins studies do show sustained long term (6-12 months) clinical improvements for about 80% of test subjects -- from a single dose. No other psychopharm
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>I think that's a metaphor Maybe we could consider it purely metaphorical, if there hadn't been a rash of arsons across the US in recent weeks.
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>To be perfectly upfront with my own beliefs, I believe economic disparities is the mother of all other disparities and that many of these statistics that show disparities in outcomes for whites vs blacks are just echos of that economic
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Indeed, white people in the US on average live 3.5 years longer than black people in the US.[1] Did you know that an even greater health/life expectancy disparity exists between men and women? One gender on average lives 5.1 years long
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>Nobody on the far-left is advocating for the extreme violence I have seen many people talking about "burning the system to the ground".
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You're right, I think I misread their meaning. Even though still now that I understand it, tribes still exist across the world living in extremely inhospitable environments with very scarce resources, and they still manage to have much
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It can of course be superficial, but perhaps "the best minds" as it applies in this context could be measured by salary, education level/cost of education (i.e. how many Ivy Leaguers work at said companies)
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Civilized societies are definitely able to produce more food, and shelter at scale using industrial techniques.
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Hatred is a perfectly natural human emotion. If we forcibly prevent people from expressing their emotions with words and abdicate our responsibility to defuse hatred with dialogue, it will eventually boil over and be expressed with violence
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>Instead of “western” medicine, I prefer to call it “evidence based, tested with randomized controlled experiments, mechanism of action deduced ” medicine If that's the definition, then there are zero psychiatric drugs that can b
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>Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin in the brain. Indeed, their supposed effectiveness is the primary evidence for the chemical imbalance theory. But analyses of the pub
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>Having an abundance of natural resources that are easily accessible at a low tech level seems like it's a very large precondition to making this work Disagree, "civilized" societies have vast surpluses of the resources ne
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Heart disease kills ~650,000 people per year in the US, and is largely preventable with proper diet and exercise.
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Indeed, "I believe in Science " is an all to common phrase these days
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_...
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^This response is so blandly generic. >You can't decide Facebook is subject to a different set of laws or has fewer rights Oh but we can, that's what democracy and law makers are for, and if you've been keeping up with the
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Thanks for the clarification. You're right, access to the internet at large is more or less egalitarian; having your voice heard (and not hidden), is not though, and therein lies the problem. If a tree falls on the forest, and no one
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I agree with you. In my opinion, it seemed he was extremely likely to win reelection, before covid19 struck. Now, I think those odds have been diminished; the degree to which, though, I am not sure.
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Okay, but companies like Google, FB, and Twitter are already putting great efforts towards implementing that type of thing in production. Whats so difficult about letting a user toggle those existing filters on and off? Or allowing users mo
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by putting "parking lots" in quotations, I was meaning to ask for the alternative digital equivalent to major platforms like FB and Twitter.
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>You don't need to take a "shot" at a politician when that politician himself has done everything he can to create a public health catastrophe Are you sure about that? I was sure about that ("there's no way Trump
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Are there any other non-corporate "parking lots" with anywhere close to the same network effects?
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We don't need the metrics ourselves to have common sense: 1. Facebook's job as a corporation is to make money 2. Making money for FB is largely based on MAU 3. Playing politics and censoring the chosen world leaders of large porti
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Our neighborhoods (especially poor/black neighborhoods) are war zones, ever since Nixon declared them so in 1971. The war on drugs is the primary cause of police militarization and mass incarceration. It's like that Orwell quo

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