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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Have you tried generic modafinil from India?
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Nixon advisor John Ehrlichman told a journalist that the main purpose of the War on Drugs was to attack Nixon's "enemies" and that they knew the WOD was based on lies about drugs: > "You want to know what this was rea
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He has a childish idea that the purpose of surveilance is to detect the bad people, the enemies. From his first SIGINT Philosopher column: > I guess if we were a corporation, we could make our mission statement (or "corporate philos
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> “When Jonas Salk asked rhetorically “Would you patent the sun?” during his famous television interview with Edward R. Murrow, he did not mention that the lawyers from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had looked into pate
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A counter-argument would be that you don't need to have good handwriting to be an effective writer, and you don't need to have good draftsmanship to be an effective artist. "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, yo
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One bias is so-called "stereotype threat". > negative stereotypes raise inhibiting doubts and high-pressure anxieties in a test-taker's mind... even passing reminders that someone belongs to one group or another, such as a
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> Human trafficking is, essentially, modern slavery. Almost all "human trafficking" is willing migrants paying someone to help them cross a border (into US, EU, etc).
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> The worst instance, her father said, occurred last fall, when she fell a quarter of a mile from the finish of the state cross-country final and was out for 40 minutes. What?? This does not sound healthy, especially as there is more and
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How is it biased? This is the issue we are talking about.
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A review by NIDA scientists explains that "neurotoxicity" arguments were based on overdosing animals, and that similar effects are seen with SSRI anti-depressants: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Jan;189(4):407-24. 3,4-Methylenedi
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Wouldn't it be better if A, B, C, and you joined together and hired some professional lawyers and negotiators to work on your behalf (ie organized labor, union)?
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Yes, you look it up on a website.
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TED speakers do take questions from the people in the audience and there is a comments section on the TED website, videos usually get lots of discussion. Some nice things about TED/TEDx: * They have made intellectual talks "cool&q
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Yes, please to basic income. Economic dependency is a problem for both women and men. Many people stay in unhappy and unhealthy relationships because of money, and many people stay in jobs that they hate and that are harmful to society beca
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Very sad, but typical story. > “What’s a bad day?” I ask the class, when I’m done reading. “A school day,” Lea... says. Lea has always seemed perky and upbeat. I start to laugh as if Lea’s comment is a joke, but no one else does. Her eye
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How often does it really happen that CPS or the police are involved when a kid walks alone to grandma's or builds a tree-house? These are rare, shocking cases that get into the news and are discussed on the internet. Please be careful
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It's not "unintentional" that DARPA funded research has military applications.
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"School is a Prison", 45 min interview with Prof Peter Gray, Boston College, author of "Free to Learn" about democratic free schools and non-compulsory education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_DJAZ-By
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
Greyhound and other inter-state buses require ID.
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Holacracy seems to be taking some good ideas and packaging them with strange ideas, like saying that people should not talk about personal topics at work. What about the Brazilian engineering firm Semco? Follows a non-hierarchical, self-org
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> status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization Supposedly hunter-gatherer societies are fairly non-heirarchical (hunter-gatherer bands not tribal farmer/herders). They use humor to take do
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Please, stop with the paranoia. The majority of US middle-aged and young adults have experience with illicit drugs. Illicit drug use is extremely common in the US.
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Most people who use alcohol are not addicted. In the same way, most people who use other drugs, like methamphetamine and cocaine, are not addicted and do not need or want "treatment".
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In democratic free schools, like Sudbury Valley School, students are free to follow their interests without any compulsory courses or exams. In follow-up studies, former students are happy and successful even though they were never formally
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Children should do boring, pointless assignments to teach them "the importance of following orders and doing their job -- even or especially if they don't care about it"? This doesn't make sense to me. It's dehumani
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Isn't there often "informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership" hiding within traditional hierachical structures? It's often not fully apparent from the organizational chart who has real power and influence.
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Rate of suicide is around 1 per 10,000 people per year. But rate of murder-suicide is much lower.
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A small study will lack statistical power to detect small effect sizes, but a small study could still detect a large effect.
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He mentions dissociatives, like ketamine, not LSD.
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Safety-freaks get concerned about one story of a kid injuring themselves or getting kidnapped. Watch out that you aren't likewise getting worried about rare scare-stories. It's very unlikely that someone would call the police on y

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