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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>more like a state-supported official religion You might find The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Dr. Thomas Szasz interesting[1]. In this book Dr. Szasz historically sho
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>fit your worldview, and ignored all the critique around them. That's not objective science. ^This is an accurate description of western psychiatry in general, ironically, because 1) psychiatry is not objective science 2) psychiatry
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There are guidelines for determining if someone has depression and/or other mental health diseases, just like any other disease. Psychiatric diagnoses are not "just like any other disease". Medical pathology is objectiv
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I see a lot in here about the popular "chemical imbalance" theory, which is worth noting is more of a big pharma sales pitch at this point in time than actual objective science. Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect https:/
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I've read a bit about how taking cold showers can supposedly stimulate immune function. I wonder if there is any connection with the "shock" of jumping into a cold shower and the electro shock therapy detailed in the article.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>In 2013, Frances said that "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests"
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Those who are above the rule of law
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
oligarchy != billionaires club
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It doesn't seem so astonishing when you recognize the inordinate leverage the oligarchy has in controlling the government and framing the "public debate".
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This was one of many such killings/assassinations which ultimately crushed the momentum of the civil rights and anti-war movement of the 60's and 70's, and with it went the dream of a real democracy.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Buried somewhere deep inside their 1,000 page employment agreement is probably something along the lines of "you willingly agree to subject yourself to this obvious psychological torture and we are in no way responsible for the mental
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Reminds me of the Buckminster Fuller quote: >We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exis
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Does this mean police can't legally steal your money anymore?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Clinical therapy is social engineering
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
So the most logical interpretation of quantum physics is that reality is subjective , correct?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycholo
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Facebook is the biggest pimp in the world, and the billions of users are prostitutes. Except it's more about eyeballs and likes than genitals and cash. Both real pimps and Facebook don't care if their product has cheap viral conte
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Web developers of today are like the early printing press owners/operators.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
In the short term the so called "capitalists" may have received marginal profits by the selfish and stifling use of automation, just as a luddite may temporarily maintain their status quo by stifling automation. But in the long te
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
I think Dr. King said it well back in 1967: >we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than p
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
I don't mean to bash you because it is a valid point considering the current state of affairs, but this comment really highlights how we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>being against Silk Road selling it doesn't mean we also don't want Rx sales to be more closely scrutinized. Sure, I didn't mean to imply that, I'm just trying to find the root problem rather than attacking a branch o
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
There is a plethora of free hacking/social engineering training and tools on the internet. Anyone with internet access and a motive has a shot.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data. I don't think it is as easy to mitigate as you make it seem. Here is a study which details a real-life so
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
The mass production and overperscription of opiates by Big Pharma is not in societies best interest either. Where do you think that Fentanyl came from?
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Were there really any groundbreaking revelations out of the leak? I didn't think so. Couldn't it be to their advantage to purposefully leak a bunch of outdated and not-so-special tools (i.e. Notepad++ dll hijack) to misdirect thei
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Why are they the most likely suspect? Aside from the popular notion that they are. There are billions of people across the world who could have done this.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Agreed, especially considering the article is almost purely speculation: >We have no idea why, or where it will go next, and can only speculate.
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
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by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
I agree on all accounts. Facebook testing emotional manipulation is corporate psyops weapons development. Marshall McLuhan postulated back in the 1970 about the future of warfare: >World War I a railway war of centralization and encircl

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