Talcosis

I have unironically tried that. They looked at me like I was in fact crazy once I clarified that I did not wish to enroll a child in their arts and crafts thing.

Well…in the case of boats, the paint is kind of designed specifically to wear off. Ironically, to control biological growth!

I’ll be honest I don’t know how much the advice will work.

The advice is simple: do social stuff, be social, and you’ll end up in a social group.

That being said, the advice is (a) mind-numbingly “have you tried putting one foot in front of the other foot” for someone that knows how to make friends, and (b) the advice is damn near useless/impossible for someone that doesn’t know how to make friends.

Personally, I’m in group B. I don’t know how to find clubs where people do stuff. I don’t know how to find a place to volunteer.

And it caused a shitfit in 2012, before people started freaking out about depiction of suicide to the extent they do now.

It’s the verbal equivalent of Mar-a-Lago face.

Or, in gamer terms, it’s the current meta.

Disappointing sales iirc, complete change in gameplay from the original syndicate, and not much replayability. Plus, some of the mechanics are maybe a bit spicy for modern sensibilities.

Pretty sure Skrillex wrote an entire soundtrack entirely for the game

Alex Jones was partially correct, they are in fact turning the frogs gay, and this extends to people as well.

Specifically, endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are commonly used as plasticizers and flame retardants, disrupt your endocrine system. I.e. they fuck with your hormones.

Exposure to environmental stimuli, including such chemicals, can cause changes in sexual behavior and characteristics. This was the driving force of the plot of Jurassic Park.

This cannot be proven without seriously unethical human trials, but exposing a every other animal to EDCs during development can and does cause changes in sexual development.

Edit: other pollutants are causing societal effects as well, there was a study on crawfish out of NC a while back that found significant behavioral changes (less aggression, more foraging) among males that lived in a stream which was exposed to sewage, and therefore low level antidepressant medication.

I spent my teens and 20s achieving financial security and now I have a house and a career and zero women in my life.

Oh, don’t worry, fully autonomous AI terminators have already gotten confirmed kills in real life!

I don’t think it’s the entire goal, but I do think that it is a goal of certain people in this admin. I think Steven Miran’s section in project 2025 outlined a way to crash the value of the USD.

And it’s definitely for the purpose of creating company scrip.

Without dogging too far, it seems like the law is broadly worded enough to open the door for all sorts of SLAPP-type takedowns, a bit like how DMCA is weaponized against people that don’t have armies of lawyers.

Also, the other source (not the bill itself, mind you, so might be wrong) says “digitally generated”, not “AI generated”, which could be stretched to apply to any image manipulation, like cropping.

Then of course there’s the question of reliably differentiating between AI and non-AI. Which basically means whoever has the biggest legal cannon to fire at the other guy wins.

I got ‘soft banned’.

I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don’t use reddit.

This is an interesting corollary to the “anything you say can only be used against you in court” adage.

I actually wonder if it’s the opposite, to some extent? Giving you a prescription that costs 300$ for three cents of pill is a great way to make money, and mental health, being on a spectrum, can be diagnosed easily.

There’s probably some class difference, too. I’d expect extreme over-diagnosis (especially for the cool diagnoses that get you Xanax) among the wealthy with under-diagnosis among the poor.

Nah. Not really. Time zones don’t follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.

You’re not wrong (generally speaking, specifically speaking I use the NYT rent vs. ownership calculator to see if it’s worth buying or investing in the sp500)

But the problem here is entirely the lack of flexibility. Once an employer knows you are less flexible than the guy in the next cube, you’re picking up the slack of the guy that can up and move his ass to the next town over in a week.

Sit and do nothing.

Money is an abstraction of time and resources. If you are interested in investing time and resources, your only option is to wander off, come back later, and hope that the problem fixes itself.