heraplem

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[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 13 hours ago

Doesn't always work that way for me, unfortunately. Weed often makes it impossible to avoid or ignore negative self-image problems that I'm usually constantly pushing down.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Weed can be very helpful for focus. Not necessarily very helpful for clear thinking, but it can be very good for getting started on something so that you can come back to it later when you're sober.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago

AI is not technically new, but generative AI was not a mature technology in 2014. It has come a long way since then.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's actually exactly in line with what the link above says.

In June 2015, the Cochrane Collaboration—a global independent network of researchers and health care professionals known for rigorous scientific reviews of public health policies—published an analysis of 20 key studies on water fluoridation. They found that while water fluoridation is effective at reducing tooth decay among children, “no studies that aimed to determine the effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing caries [cavities] in adults met the review’s inclusion criteria.”

In other words, water fluoridation might not make much difference for adults, but it can for children.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 4 points 5 days ago

Even trans people aren't beating the "nearly all mass shooters are men" statistic.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 22 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Counterpoint: I live in an area without fluoridated water, and I'm told that dentists can reliably identify people who didn't grow up here by the state of their teeth.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago

Well, that's a completely different argument.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If something is wrong, then it's wrong, regardless of how efficient or inefficient it is.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago

How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How about I just get to eat meat because I consider it far more humane to be more efficient about proteins?

What does this have to do with anything? This is bringing efficiency to an ethics fight.

[–] heraplem@leminal.space 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that that might change after this election. There's a real sense among liberal media (that I engage with) that a loss of this magnitude needs to be answered by a pretty substantial break with the status quo.

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