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by iammisc 5y ago
is this true? How is one elected with 14% of the vote?
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by iammisc 5y ago
I am vaccinated, but I don't understand this reaction to the unvaccinated. Unless the commenter above is much older than typical HN demographics, if they get covid they will likely get a cold and then be fine. This the overwhelmingly m
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by iammisc 5y ago
Exactly... We're expecting those affected negatively by the drug to come out in force to combat the LSD advocates. How can this be possible? Those given psychoses by these drugs end up in mental institutions, at best, on the streets at
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by iammisc 5y ago
I acknowledged this: > delayed substantially in Europe In the meantime, between when FDA approved v NHS, children became debilitated.
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by iammisc 5y ago
That doesn't matter though, because most people 'live' in this new space via Facebook, in the same way that a plurality of people 'live' in the physical world we inhabit via the nation of China (PRC being the most p
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by iammisc 5y ago
Facebook is a pseudo government with sovereinty over a type of resource that we have fully yet to understand as a species.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> sleep states and efficiency is indeed 'byzantine' and I don't see how you expect individual purchasers to understand it You charge people a lot of money for electricity, and then this motivates them to learn it. A lot of
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> Consumers shouldn't have to waste time sorting through products that are broken from day 1 in non-obvious ways. They're broken via legislation, not any fundamental part of the product.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Yes, it goes both ways, but it goes much further one way over the other. That's fair. For gene therapy, I was referring to Zolgensma, which was delayed substantially in Europe and forced many to seek treatment in America. The dela
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by iammisc 5y ago
And yet, while many american insurers cover expensive gene therapies, European autorhities simply pretend the drugs are unsafe and refuse to cover them. This sort of thing goes both ways
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Selection effects. The poor and elderly are likely to be on Medicare and other public programs. If you can't afford healthcare and get it for free of course you'll be happy It's like my charcoal Weber. I found it on the side
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Israel has a private system with lots of regulations. It is private though
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is due to the tying of healthcare unnecessarily to employment with discounts if negotiated that way, not a fundamental part of private healthcare. Said entrepreneur can also buy a plan from an exchange
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by iammisc 5y ago
You're contradicting yourself by claiming it's tied to employment and then saying you can buy it for a price. It's one or the other. Or you can claim the price makes it effectively tied to employment. I agree the cultural tie
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'm not 100% sure what meds my uncle takes, we all -- his wife and kids included -- just kinda put up with him and know how to deal. To be clear, I encourage anyone with any condition whatsoever, including 'normal' ones, to s
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by iammisc 5y ago
> In this line of thought your thoughts about banning thinking should be banned. No, because acknowledging the existence of such a thought does not imply thinking it. The flaw with your claims is the underlying belief that human thought
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by iammisc 5y ago
> But even if psychedelics were a causative risk in some mental disorders, shouldn't we as a society entrust adults to determine their own risk tolerance No, because such allowances are made with the assumption that people act reaso
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by iammisc 5y ago
Sorry, I figured doctor prescriptions were not included. My view is that they should be a controlled substance, the way they are now. You'd have to show amazing cognitive effects for an illness to legalize it for prescription. I don&#x
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by iammisc 5y ago
One drink of alcohol is unlikely to lead you to become unstable. I don't know about the others. I didn't call for a blanket ban. LSD may have therapeutic uses (other debilitating drugs like paracetamol do), but the self-dosing tha
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by iammisc 5y ago
The distortions while falling asleep is sleep paralysis. There's nothing weird about this. Every once in a while, i'll have this and there's an entity in my room. Once, everything in my room flew and the world 'cracked&#
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by iammisc 5y ago
One single dose of LSD can cause permanent psychosis, so this is not surprising. This is why drugs like LSD need to be absolutely banned. They can turn functioning people into permanently non-functioning ones. It is an incredibly dangerous
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by iammisc 5y ago
And he's mostly right. Americans are uniquely unable to stay rich for many generations. Most generational wealth in america disappears after a few generations. In my comment history, you'll find a few comments about the issue of c
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by iammisc 5y ago
My insight is that psychiatrists, and most doctors, are themselves mentally ill. The vast majority think too highly of themselves. Many think so highly of themselves they do not listen to patients because they view them as less capable. The
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by iammisc 5y ago
I believe that the rhetoric around defunding the police causes crime. If you accuse your own society of being evil, then it should come as no surprise that some take that as license to stop following its precepts. It's like how many le
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by iammisc 5y ago
Progressive is in quotes because that's what they call themselves. I have other names for them that are inappropriate for HN. And progressivism is not for individual freedoms by definition. Far from it. Progressivism refers to the impu
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by iammisc 5y ago
What policies did trump break that other heads of state did not? > OTOH, freedom of speech means private actors generally are free to decide what ideas to participate in relaying and what ideas not to. Legally sure, but it doesn't m
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by iammisc 5y ago
But inheritance taxes have existed pretty much everywhere, so that's hardly some unique characteristic that can be used to indicate a supposed American disdain for intergenerational wealth.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'm sorry, we weren't having an argument. Every comment you've made is also a statement of belief. I'm not interested in having a deep argument on this one (since it's all hypothetical). I was just replying to your
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Progressives never stopped protesting attempts to violate personal freedoms, What nonsense. Progressives in this country are currently advocating for people to be banned from doing normal every day activities unless they're carryi
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'll do a study. which democratic president was censored on Twitter? You're assuming all pages are equal. Censoring the Daily Wire is not the same as censoring the local stop climate change page, for example (not that DW has been

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