But I don’t do anything unless prompted by a human.

Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.

That’s why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it’s basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.

Cannabis use was more common among: … Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

However we still don’t have definitive evidence of causation:

Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions

I don’t think any hominin of floresiensis-like size emerged from Africa. Just floresiensis on Flores and luzonensis on nearish Luzon. They’re probably descended from erectus that shrank “on site” so to speak.

They are some aboriginal australian stories about two other kinds of people - tall thin good ones and short stocky bad ones. I’ve wondered if that’s describing neanderthal, denisovan or some other close but extinct branches of homo.

There’s some evidence that mitchondria might be the reason life needs sleep. They can kill their cell and communicate with other mitochondria.

ATP production is super important, but they do a lot more than just creating that usable ‘currency’ of energy that inspired the ‘powerhouse’ idea.

Also, a certain amount of high school level medical knowledge is wrong and we don’t know it yet.

Mitochondria are probably way more complex and important than current textbook descriptions, gut biome and skin biome probably influence way more, etc.

Because it’s used to justify mistreatment in the real world.

It sounds like you’re giving too much credence to what mysogynists and incels say on the internet.

Are you sure? The users post history goes back 2 months and doesn’t show any.

Literally word for word my first thought.

Nationalize it. Take his company, his wealth and jail him for his crimes.

I don’t think it’s wise to believe tech oligarchs saying that orwellian surveillance tech cannot be exploited for orwellian surveillance.

Besides companies can just require employees to opt in - “we just built this fresh horror, how companies use it is up to them” doesn’t really fly.

Let’s just share the news please.

Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.

At it’s origins, the Latin script was an alphabet, not 1:1 symbol to word.

You have to go back through a chain of different scripts for different languages from different cultures that influenced it to get to heiroglyphs.

Chinese characters were logograms invented for Chinese and are logograms used for Chinese today. At their origin they were pretty much symbol = word and it mostly still is.

The chinese kinda did just make a character for each word though.

Modern chinese uses plenty of words with multiple characters but Old chinese didn’t really. So character = word was much closer to the truth around the time of the oracle bone inscriptions.

The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.

A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.

30% of US adults voted for trump.

Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.

Because trump is largely irrelevant.

His job is distraction-in-chief. He’s just a dumb patsy - a role he’s spent his life perfecting.

His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there’s nothing left to loot.