Your points are the most grounded out of usual fog of /. comments. The nature of addiction is not a single step line of middle school algebra. Alcoholism is not going to be the same as "internet addiction", and neither of those are the same as opioid addiction. Doctors prescribing pain medicine for patients who wonâ(TM)t eat less and walk more is not equal to tobacco companies testing additive slurries, or Facebook hiring psych PhDâ(TM)s as product managers.

As a fellow Gen Xer, I had a hard time buying the concept of game or internet addiction in the first place. I have watched and read over the years, and now give no time to people who refuse to read up properly before definitively stating that this is just a problem of cry babies and victim mentality. We certainly see plenty of that, but itâ(TM)s off topic to addiction as snowflakes have a different set of problems entirely.

Pardon, but do you believe a person to be intentionally disrespectful if addressing another by name only (sans title/pronoun)?

I agree that feminists are not the sort of group you can identify so inclusively for target, but I don't think you took the meaning of the second and third points at all after that speed bump. He's talking about a real problem that is mostly confined to university, but has a real danger of begging legitimized in society at large.

Top your point, blaming feminists in general for this is like blaming conservatives for Yiannopoulos or liberals for antifa bike lock professor.

The divisiveness is immature and unproductive, unless your goal is simply to prove how right you are to yourself and cohort. Or to get votes.

Yes sir. A narcissist is only to be taken seriously when they really are at the top of their field. This is clearly not the case here, as apogee can not coexist with a time sink such as trolling the /. comments.

Ad hominem is a recourse of a weak mind.

I think the point these guys are trying to get across is that choosing to spend advertising money away from a demographic is not the same as refusal to do business with someone from that demographic.

For your rental analogy. If I have an apartment on the south side of a town, and only spend money advertising around south side, I'm just doing business in a normal manner. If someone later realizes that most black people in town live on the north side, then make the connection to me advertising only on the south side, it is ridiculous to accuse my business of discrimination.

In the ad dashboard case, catching someone unticking "African American" on an advertising campaign does not equate with refusal to do business with black people. It's just as likely that any large advertiser would set up another campaign five minutes later in which they untick all but "African American". Then another product that would not appeal to straight couples. Or straight people in general.

Does that make sense?

I'm a Pauling fan myself, but he was dead wrong on vit C being a miracle. He was so used to being revolutionary that he couldn't let go of this one. Do a bit more reading on it. The mayo clinic tried to prove him right on vit C and cancer more than once. They found no benefit. Other research suggests mega dosing is worse than just useless. It feeds some problems. Mega dosing vit B (any of them) has recently been shown to correlate with higher risk of a number of life threatening health issues in men. Women are unaffected. Shhh. Don't tell the patriarchy. ;-) I buy lef.org multi vitamins. The mega dose ones that you are suppose to take 13 capsules a day of. I only take 1 capsule a day instead. I go for the micro dose of their astounding life extension mix.