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More bloated vaporware… all sales, no prevails.

Shelterin. Sounds like folks response to a tornado in Kentucky.

On another note, folic acid seems to reduce the risk of suicide. https://neurosciencenews.com/folic-acid-suicide-21568/

Too late.

Indeed, you’re right. I’ve found myself doing that more frequently lately. Such are the modern times.

You’re obviously trolling, but you’re also half right. Psilocybin HAS shown tremendous progress and promise under guided conditions in helping treat depression, but you said “mental illness” which is rather clearly different and thus needlessly sloppy on your part. Maybe don’t throw so many stones in glass houses berating others when your own claim was plainly inaccurate and remedially false. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/psilocybin-treatment-for-major-depression-effective-for-up-to-a-year-for-most-patients-study-shows

Agreed. On the Hitler front, I've been getting strong "invade Poland and Belgium to exterminate those we dislike" vibes from major geopolitical players (Xi, Putin, others) these days. Depends a bit on TSMC management and how willing they are to facilitate relocations at the expense of the company. Also whether the Taiwanese government could help to facilitate such a rapid transfer while also trying in parallel to defend themselves against one of the largest most powerful countries on the planet. Main issue is they're semiconductor manufacturing, and those types of cleanrooms and fabs aren't exactly easy, quick, or cheap to setup. They'd need to partner or somehow join forces with the their competitors like the Nvidias and Applied Materials and Tokyo Electrons etc. of the world, but capitalism makes the incentive to do so pretty weak. We won't know how they respond until / if such an invasion happens, so we could equally be saying they'll use unicorn farts to teleport themselves into another dimension... it would rest on similar footing right now.

No. Not here. Not this thread. That discussion belongs in Speculations, or at least in Medical Science bc that’s what more of us will require to avoid going (joining the hordes of the ?) completely mad should that actually come to pass. My money’s on China. To get everyone to focus their attention on the explosion and scramble faster to seek out warmth for winter instead of focusing on any of the other things they don’t want us (or our various intelligences) paying attention to right now. Subterfuge, as it were, with a poke in the eye to the countries Hitler was working to conquer. But now I’ve gone and done it and Godwin’d the damn thread. I’ll see myself out.

Haste is their intent, but not their velocity. The line to leave the country is already 20 miles long with stick cars sitting still like the worst rush hour traffic ever. I don’t know what 20 miles converts to in Celsius, but it’s an exodus of about 260,000 people, just shy of the 300K he called up.

Protest against conscription?

Yes. We’re playing cosmic billiards here. A mistake could cause a lunar impact. Details matter though and the engineers would likely calculate trajectories to minimize that risk.

Not just religious, but in any cult. The leader becomes the god figure. Worshiped and can do no wrong. Outsiders can’t be trusted. They’re lying. Not just Scientology, but MAGA. Not that it matters to each of these individual human people indentured in their servitude, but given the vast size of Indias population it would be better to normalize your metric. Instead of saying highest total number of X, say total X per Y-millions of people. Once done, then you can see how many people this represents as a percentage of each country’s population. We share a desire for the number here to be zero and not to get distracted with accuracy or math, but if you’re going to start comparing regions and generational epochs at least ensure the numbers are normalized.

Never doubt the power of passionate individuals banding together to change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has. Whether a critical mass of people decided enough was enough, or specific individuals in power decided enough was enough (or some combination of both), I do not know.

Brain injury?

As I type this, Iran is in revolt. Women by the thousands are out in the streets burning their hijabs after a young girl died in custody of the “morality police” for issues with her head covering / hijab. Where does this land on the anarchy scale under discussion here? What about when government agents start using exaggerated crowd control on them?

Three days ago: Then this was updated last 18 days ago: I’d say another update to the Russia section is in order. * Section update needed

Beastie Boys

Yeah, books are different from vaccines, but with neither is banning them equivalent to ignoring them. I’m scratching my head a bit at why this even needs explaining

Maybe I can frame the query a new way: If those (or other similarly amazing song writers alive or dead) were to write a new piece about democracy in the form they find most ideal, what lyrics would be included? What words and concepts would fill the versus, choruses, and bridges? We have lots of good judges like that, even some who were put on the bench by ungood appointers. What mechanism could we design to address the ungood judges when they’re found? I believe this is done as a type of impeachment nowadays.

no

AFAIK, ignoring a book is different from banning one

This should be played following each time Trump speaks, especially to large crowds:

I’m not either. I wrote and deleted and wrote and deleted a few times. This isn’t entirely on topic nor a good reply to your excellent comment, but it at least touches on some themes that have been in the aether for me. Voting is secure, but voters minds are not. The electorate has been hacked. I believe the “malware” involves telling more stories about what “better” looks like / could look like… then singing and repeating those stories to EVERYONE within earshot. Even the most blinkered fools among us cemented into echo chambers of their own making can still listen to and hear and engage with a song. Songs that don’t just get sung, but felt. Deep inside. Songs that loosen dormant childhoods and dreams past their Sell By dates. And if sung right and about the right things, those blinkered fools may hear new sounds that break through their chamber of echos. If the pictures we paint with the brush of ideas happens to pop just right, then they might even start tapping their foot along with us, along to the beat of our songs… but even if the songs are not very good, we need to do more singing with each other, proverbially and publicly. We need to describe how the future can be better, how we truly can make “better” a reality if we agree enough is enough, join hands, and choose to share a common purpose. We need to envision how truly far we can go if we’d simply stop flinging feces and actively choose instead to work, sing, and dance… together. tl;dr: Change hearts and minds. Grow the numbers. Organize. Make it happen. It’s been working for the bad guys, and there are fewer of them than us.

Yep, agree with that

Right, those who don't so easily or often fall into the "not affluent enough" category.