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by zwkrt 6y ago
I have undiagnosed ADD. I know partially because I observe my own behavior, but also because once at a party I took adderall and while everyone else frantically danced themselves into a heavy sweat, I was compelled to go into the kitchen a
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Definitely true. In my experience taking mushrooms when in a depressed state was transformative. My experience taking them when I’m doing well is that they tend to make me question parts of myself or society that I truly believe are useful
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by zwkrt 6y ago
And who’s responsibility is that? WSB has been rallying around GameStop for over a month. It has 2 million subscribers. GME shows up 10s of times per day. There have been endless squabbles over it. If some rubberneckers come in now and lose
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by zwkrt 6y ago
The majority of all e-brokers have made the same choice. This isn’t about Robinhood being for dummies or selling your data or any of that.
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If you’re doing all that it seems like a lot of cognitive dissonance to keep using the internet. It is optional, you know!
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In the context of human experience I don’t really understand the difference between having a memory of a person helping and having an experience of a person helping. The imaginary person is imaginary and a coping mechanism either way, right
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I disagree that people should be disallowed from leaving a warzone because if they were allowed to leave all that would be left is the warmongers. That outcome seems like the most humanitarian and egalitarian in a warzone. I wouldn’t want t
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by zwkrt 6y ago
If someone killed themselves then they most likely experienced negative emotions very strongly. Not everyone does. The insight that can be gained about existence from someone with such an extreme phenomenological experience (i.e, someone wh
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Every single person on this earth has a right to children, not just the right kind of rich person. Normally it’s wealthier people who decide not to have kids anyway, so why not make it less economically straining for those who do!?
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Even if that were possible it wouldn’t really explain why you got this ad vs some other one, so the explanation would fall flat. That is just “how” you got it not “why” you got it.
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What is an advertisement other than a calculated bet that X% of people will change their behavior because of it? What is a personalized ad other than a bet that /you/ will change /your/ behavior because of it? Facebook p
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I disagree that it is like it is paying for the food. If I had youtube premium and my entire $10 went to only the creators of the videos I watched using some egalitarian algorithm, then I would be into it. However, it is actually more like
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by zwkrt 6y ago
I can't believe that you actually decided to be held hostage by google and pay them to remove content that they would otherwise only put in front of you if you were looking. Its like paying a restaurant not to harass you and then going
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> No opinion on this particular issue Perfect for a comment on Hacker News(TM)!
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It’s always strange when random Internet people pull the correlation versus causation card on an actual doctor.
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I bought an Alcatel flip phone without GPS capability. Cost me $40 minus the price I got for selling my iPhone. Now my data is useless!
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Tomato, tomato, I guess. I think on mushrooms “because that’s just how it is” is a completely unconvincing argument. Which it is normally as well, but adults seem to kind of just go with it.
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Actually my thoughts I would have described at the time as being very conservative, albeit along the libertarian bent. I believed that there should be no intervening forces in the world to stop people from freely acting.
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I didn’t say that I still believed the things I felt on mushrooms, only that they impacted me. I still buy pizzas with money, but I now look at people with lots of money and boring/stressful lives the way people look at animals in the
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I don’t know if there is an industrialized society on the planet which can integrate these types of experiences. Capital and spirituality* do not mix; science and spirituality* do not mix. *where “spirituality” is defined as knowing that yo
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by zwkrt 6y ago
I have only taken psychadellic mushrooms on two occasions. But on both of those occasions I found that they clued me into the fact that all the various mental abstractions we have built for ourselves in life and society are not necessarily
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by zwkrt 6y ago
It would be nice to have a discussion about this topic because I actually do agree with you, but I feel like I can’t really engage in whataboutism. If you can’t see the differences between (for instance) people who believe in climate scienc
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The UFO shows that I see on the history channel and the like are completely disheartening to me. The problem is not the people believe in UFOs or that there are shows about them; rather it seems the show is intentionally stroking a specific
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> growth and progress or stagnation and extinction? A false dichotomy, since humans are uniquely able to harmonize with any environment through observation and planning. The need to buy stuff is the only reason we think of “progress or s
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“People at google are pretty product focused” Oh so they just don’t think about it at all. To be product focused is just to do what your boss tells you to do. Sometimes the easiest way to go about things is just to fully embody one’s role a
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One day we will have a full biological understanding of anxiety and mental health, at which point people will no longer need to change the world around them.
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Living in a household with many people who view their gender in nonstandard ways has really opened my eyes to the ways in which most people are completely and blindly entrenched in gender expression. Especially men. The other day I overhear
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The point of the article is that Harvard and other such universities do get your foot in some special doors, but that those doors are mostly to self-serving jobs that enforce the status quo. Noam Chomsky was right to constantly point out th
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by zwkrt 6y ago
A few points: - rhetoric about loving your job tends to come from a very small minority of people who do not have an absolutely mind-, body-, and soul-crushing job. Rich people like to talk about working at Wendy’s as some sort of “introduc
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Let’s take your specific example, even though Nestle isn’t a “tech” company. Does Nestle do everything in its power to ensure it isn’t receiving products from slaves or from wholesalers dealing in slave-produced goods? Does it have as a par

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