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by honkycat 5y ago
I'm not sure how this relates to anti-vaxx, which I am extremely anti-anti vaxx. I'm saying we cannot interpret this research study the way people want to. Correlation != causation, and the results on this seem murky in general, a
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The reason this is surprising is because THC is the psychoactive ingredient in weed. CBD is mostly accepted as a milder agent, and has had medications containing it approved by the FDA, like EPIDIOLEX.
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1. Many years of anti-cannabis propaganda and the war on drugs, despite never really studying the effects of cannabis, makes people skeptical of research like this. 2. This article in no way states that cannabis usage causes schizophrenia.
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What a bizarre take. Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia is one of the most severe, tragic, and random of them. Even someone skeptical of broader mental health can watch a video of a schizophrenic person and see that there is somethi
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No, because people with mental health issues like bipolar or schizo or even ADHD tend to self medicate with drugs before seeking help, if they ever do.
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by honkycat 5y ago
You want to go mano a mano with this person? If you call them out, it will thread through the company, and will eventually land back on your lap. And you will have to deal with a bunch of scrutiny. Keep your head down, and call out when thi
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by honkycat 5y ago
> The loans are exactly why the colleges were able to continue jacking up the prices. This is partly true. The US also DID use to subsidize more University tuition. However: Agreed. The loans are dumb. They feed into the issue in exactl
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Endowments. They are lining their pockets with it. A lot of Unis are becoming investment firms that happen to supplement their income with a school attached to them. Sports team boondoggles are a popular way to spend tuition money. Administ
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Neoliberalism at its finest. Trim the fat until you cut into the bone. And we wonder why we have a staffing crisis in our medical field! This is BAD. NEWS. for us Americans. How are we supposed to compete on an international scale if we are
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When I opened a consulting firm, the biggest mistakes we made were always about saying yes instead of no: 1. Taking on clients who did not have their shit together. They were always high maintenance, never satisfied with the work, and const
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Really glad I read this. I quite like my current job, but this really resonated: > By volume, I’m referring to the total number of obligations that you’re committed to complete—from answering a minor question to finishing a major project
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by honkycat 5y ago
> Why, in 2 years of this pandemic, have we not devoted the resources to expanding bed capacity and staffing hospitals? When have we ( assuming you are US, forgive me ) ever devoted resources to anything other than the military industria
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How so? ``` Among more than 2.5 million vaccinated HCO members who were 16 years of age or older, 54 cases met the criteria for myocarditis. The estimated incidence per 100,000 persons who had received at least one dose of vaccine was 2.13
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by honkycat 5y ago
85% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were among those not fully vaccinated.[0] 90% of people who are dying from covid are unvaccinated.[1] 10 in 100,000 people in your likely age range experience myocarditis.[2] However, yeah, if you have had a
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by honkycat 5y ago
Going to echo: Bash is bad. Bash is a feature-impoverished language and belongs in the dustbin. I don't understand why we script with one hand tied behind our back. With Python I can install "click" and get great argument par
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I always say: "Code happens." Software quality cannot be pinned to a single individual. Software quality emerges from your software development process. So, for me, it is more: "Who approved this shit?"
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> "they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day” This boss does not sound good to work for. This is a bad response. It is patronizing and dismissive. Expect to hear this sort of thing constantly, and expect to work a lo
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Evolution is proven to exist outside of a benevolent creator, whereas there is zero basis for intelligent design. In fact, I posit that evolution isn't really incompatible with christianity. The exception is for an absurdist literal in
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by honkycat 5y ago
I have always felt that the Chicken/Egg question was obvious. We have to assume there is a line between "creature that is almost exactly like a chicken" and "a chicken." A proto-chicken laid an egg. That egg after f
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You are going to continue working with upwork after costing you 10% of your income and doing nothing to help you?? After they garnish your wages and make you work for free for two months?!? And all because you didn't use their idiotic
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by honkycat 5y ago
No, this is what you said: > Psychiatric medication often simply numbs your brain so it stops being worried about things that legitimately and truly torment it. It reduces your sensitivity, it knocks off your normal brain chemicals balan
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> then a proper cure has to involve fixing society Where did I say that society is perfect, and that the only thing making people depressed is chemical imbalance? I agree that our current society can be stressful, and that environmental
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Yuval Noah Harari clearly meant that tongue-in-cheech, not to be taken literally.
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> Einstein for example nearly died of starvation, yet he kept working. Citation needed. I'm unable to find any sources that back this up. Einstein was known as a mathematical GENIUS far beyond his years, even as a young person.
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This happened to my personal trainer recently. He ignored it for way too long, and it damaged his lungs and his heart badly enough that he now needs a heart transplant, and his lungs will never even remotely perform at a decent level anymor
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This feedback does not sound particularly constructive. If they wanted something done faster or better: Well isn't that special? Look at the special boy who wants work to magically go faster with 0 additional work coming from higher up
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by honkycat 5y ago
Stay organized. Keep a list of tasks you need to accomplish, check them off as you accomplish them.[0] Buy a folder to keep your hand-outs in. Your syllabus is important. It has EVERYTHING on it! The University gym is probably the cheapest
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And what is more important? Saying "nice" things, or actually passing legislation that affects the main lever of power in our country? "They say things very far left( arguable ), but the way they govern is extremely moderate.
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Small government. So you are in favor of defunding the military?
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The mistake you are making is that you think I consider our current administration and democratic leaders remotely competent or aligning with my values. They do not. I agree they are useless on purpose. That is my point.

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