The Luddites fear atomic energy and everything else they don't understand.

There may be good reason to fear technology you do understand but that's a separate issue.

They also hate the idea of cleaning up the nuclear waste our grandparents left us, which really is our moral imperative.

Whenever a simple metric is used to grant money and status that metric will be gamed and abused.

Hiring committees could be less lazy and more curious but that would take real thought and effort.

It seems pretty plausible that sub-recreational doses of psychedelics could reduce anxiety, but we have to be mindful that anxiety evolved in our species for a reason. Like inflammation, it’s a natural and critically important protective process that gets out of control in modern lifestyles. It’s unpleasant but pharmaceutically banishing it could leave patients vulnerable.

One of the biggest risks psychedelic therapy will expose patients to are the therapists overseeing their treatment. Psychedelic therapy has an appalling track record of abuse by therapists, including both sexual and economic exploitation. Advocates for psychedelic therapy claim it will “open you up” and I think they’re absolutely correct. But there are other ways to say “open you up” that mean the same thing but set off alarm bells: becoming more suggestible and compliant for example. If the therapist uses psychedelics himself he may have “opened himself up” to some bad ideas about therapist-patient boundaries.

Likewise people microdosing to enhance creativity should exercise caution. Psychedelics absolutely can in some instances unlock creativity by turning down excessive self criticism, but those criitical facilities play an essential role in the parts of the creative process that come after coming up with out of the box ideas. Self reports of microdosing effectiveness should be taken cautiously, due to their potential negative impact on metacognition. Those might be like the drunk who feels more confident driving after a few drinks.

No doubt these drugs have tremendous potential to treat extreme crippling anxiety. They probably even have nootropic potential. But their beneficial effect s come by suppressing natural mental processes that serve important purposes, and the promising results we have come from self reports or clinical reports from advocate researchers. I’ve been following this because I’ve been interested in experimenting with psychedelics for years, but what I have learned has convinced me to hold off until there is evidence and protocols for safe use that would persuade a skeptic.

I had to look this up. It actually seems pretty nifty:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techradar.com%2Ffeat...

(yes, Bob, we know you don't have these use cases)

Millennials like to say "drop" to mean "release".

"Taylor Perry dropped a new album."

Even Zoomers find it tiresome.

Because I was looking for this information I asked it "what is the length of a honda 41411-VH8-640 flexible drive shaft?".

It thought I was looking for car parts.

I asked Grok and it knew I had one of two string trimmer base models but didn't have the answer either.

Grok recommended 25 websites to look at but I already stupidly spent an hour looking at websites instead of spending twenty minutes taking apart the brush cutter and measuring it with a tape and calipers.

Humanity is safe for now.

no pun intended...

* start your video for a few seconds
* go to the you tab with history
* click the video (in the leftmost position)

It will stop at the end of that video because it doesn't think it's on a playlist or anything.

Everything else seems to autoplay on mobile despite whatever settings.

Or use SmartTubeNext if you are using AndroidTV which is infinitely configurable.

Same here.

I have an Android-based TCL display and I can (and do) turn it all off.

Except for volume normalization, which I have set to medium.

Very failed directors have actors whisper and light the whole scene too dark to cover up for their lack of talent.

Besides 'unconscionable clauses' being void, the sellers likely have a tortuous interference of contract claim too.

Unfortunately two things: they can't afford to take on Amazon because the Courts system is not a Justice system and this class-action isn't on behalf of the sellers.

The reason it's unconscionable is that Amazon charges various fees that a seller does not have to pay on his own website so his cost can be lower with direct sales. This hits small businesses hardest that are trying to make entry into a market.

Huge brands don't care.

If an ICE costs $25K and an EV costs $45K then they need to account for the pollution created by earning that $20K difference, which they seem to ignore.

Almost all earning includes the expenditure of energy.

For a median income earner that $20K of spending can be close to a year's work (earnings above basic living expenses).

And then there are substitution effects.

Half-analyses of this type are worse than not doing them.

People don't have to do this.

We have alarms to alert when the temperature is out of whack.

Maybe once a month some calibration data should be gathered.

And, yes, the alarms should not be on the Internet.

OK, I looked it up.

Yes, mammals need acetylcholinesterase too.

Brave's e2ee sync chains are even more of a killer feature than adblocking, IMO.

I know so many Brave users that I suspect it's not being reported separately in their headline number.

>the de minimis being $800 dates to 1934, when you could
>probably buy a complete *house* from Sears for that price.

Nah, I keep seeing $1,092 for that.

*whew*. saved from cheap foreign houses!

however, they seem to have started as low as $360 in some earlier years.

They're going to have trouble in Court claiming they have a unique and different definition of "household" than the law defines.

FTC isn't pleased with Google's behavior in recent years.

"Pray I don't alter it further" may have worked when they were partnering with the previous Administration to censor the base of the current Administration.

It's like nobody has a home IP and a random mobile IP because it's 2001 or something.

Maybe they'll just kill Premium and try to force everybody onto YouTube TV. At some point every successful corporation tries to squeeze more out of their customer base and kills it off. We just saw VMware attempt something like this. LinkedIn is a ghost town nowadays for the same reason. Many "subscription model" companies are doing the same.

It's not just bottom-line revenue if you're driving the customer base to the competition. Maybe for a few quarters it is, but then you've lost market dominance.

Big opportunity for Rumble and Odysee if they can pick up free money. Rumble seems unable to - they position themselves for the deplatformed but then tie creator revenue to Paypal which already canceled the deplatformeds' accounts.

It's all so strange but buying infinite hard drives is a difficult business model for sure.