I imagine because it's trite and largely debunked pseudoscience from that weirdly Puritanical natural health ideology.
Some people can't regulate insulin, some people can't digest lactose, some people have neurological structures that inhibit motivation, some people have gastric complexities that cause pain and discomfort with bowel movements, some people are prone to migraines... And yes some people have genuine conditions that affect their sleep which requires medical intervention.
The childish notion that medication is bad and people who use it simply aren't taking responsibility for their lives is not only stupid it's hurtful and dangerous.
Stop trying to bully people out of getting the help they need just because you personally don't need it.
Yeah people giving simplistic life advice generally don't understand the actual issues because they don't have the problem, it's painfully common especially with things like insomnia, anxiety, and similar 'just don't worry about things', 'have you tried not being depressed and just going out and doing stuff?', 'just lay down and wait until you sleep'
I can lay my head on a pillow after a long walk, no screen time and all the other shit they say and still spend the entire night caught in churning and bubbling anxiety that builds and builds until I'm as wired as a crackhead.
I'm not saying don't try things people suggest but I guess don't expect them to work and beat yourself up with them. If you can't find something that works for you then see a doctor about getting sleep drugs, while you meme seems to be pushing the Puritanical idea that anything but a natural life is bad that's totally stupid and op should be ashamed.
We're complex biological machines that go wrong in a myriad of ways, it's perfectly fine to require the addition of outside substances to moderate and control your health - honestly future generations will probably be shocked how few people used sleep aids.
Of course not every drug works the same on everyone and many can have negative side effects so it can take some shopping around but talk to medical professionals.
(Full disclosure I don't take medical sleep aids due to other complications but I know many who do and swear by them)
Yeah but there has to be some reality to it, sleep for a year makes sense because you're saying 'I'm super tired and I could sleep for a real long time' all of which is true, this is saying 'a majority of people in place A do this thing that is unknown in place B' which isn't even close to an approximation of reality.
Yeah these 'Americans eat food, Europeans OMG WTF CRAZY!!!' memes are getting out of hand, I really want to to know which exact bit of Europe they think is utopia.
Do you have any argument based on anything besides yelling and stomping your feet? So far all you've done is backtrack on your original statements and cry about how I'm not left wing enough, or the wrong kind of left wing or whatever your next childish attempt at defection from the topic is.
It's ok you can just say that you don't really understand the complexity of mass transit systems and that your original stance was nothing but kneejerk emotion - you don't need to keep making yourself look more foolish.
I'm sure you're very sweet really when you're not all flustered like this, take a moment to breathe and try to remember that being wrong doesn't have to be scary it can be exciting, it's learning and putting you on a better track for thinking about things in the future.
I'd wager I've been an active member of more leftwing movements than you, certainly since you seem to be in the very naive mindset of 'anyone who disagrees with me must be a right wing monster'
But I'll accept that as a 'yes we still need roads and you were right about the integrated transport network thing and first/last mile and the many areas where trains don't make sense economically or ecologically'
I think it's Mao in Contradictions that talks about how in the search for a better world you can't afford to hold resentment against tools simply because they were once in your enemies hands, or maybe it was Deng, but the point is if cars can help us in the structure of a better society we shouldn't reject them just because they can also be useful in a bad society.
Certainly we shouldn't resist improving them simply out of some emotive grudge.
I know what you mean but I don't think so, I'm genuinely fascinated by the thinking behind the original comment.
I watched some of the recorded live streams and the people in chat are generally being respectful, some idiots of course but less than I've seen on volcano streams and NASA launches tbh. It really seems unlikely that there's a shared audience with this and snuff movies.
Assuming, against all evidence, that they even exist. RedRoom was very clearly a LARP and while there have been many terrible things exposed as yet there has never been real evidence of anything resembling a murder for entertainment industry anywhere on the darkweb.
It's an easy rumour to propagate because by it's nature the expectation of proof is low, the classic 'no for real my buddy saw it' or 'i can't show you what I've seen, you don't want to see it anyway...' is all we can expect - it's something salacious and scary, forbidden knowledge... The ultimate ghost story.
Except of course we should expect more evidence of it if it existed, police and news reports for example. The commonly used in media 'my informant that looked at this thing that's illegal said...' when what they mean is 'i looked but I don't want to get arrested' - where are the documentaries with blurred footage of laptop screens? Where are the police reports saying 'we need a whole load of money to investigate this genuine problem?
There's no end of videos of people dying or being murdered online, but no evidence of any communities creating videos of murder for money. If that community does exist somewhere then it's certainly not the same people running it as are restreaming livecams of a Philadelphia street corner.
That's such a myopic view, it's given everyone the chance to speak and learn from each other which has resulted in a lot of shared understanding and growth.
You just want to sweep all the social problems back under the rug simply because you don't like seeing them.
I wonder if you'd carve out an exception for yourself, like you're using social media now - are you banning this conversation too?
Are you really trying to deny reality here? I understand you hate China and am even willing to belive it's ideological and not entirely racist but pretending they're not a global manufacturing powerhouse is next level nuts.
Yeah they'd be shocked that someone rich enough to run for president could be accused of rape 'why didn't he just have the girl committed to an asylum to keep her quiet?'
It's an interesting one, the Tom Swift series from around 1910 has him in rocket ships using wireless photo telephones, electric rifles, and all sorts of sci-fi before world war one - it doesn't have many female characters, certainly no gay characters.
There is a suffragette character arguing for the right to vote in the 1910 novel, a right women wouldn't gain for another ten years in the USA - so a hundred years ago they were in an era where the start of social change is beginning but to what extent people would expect that to continue is hard to say.
Metropolis is an interesting example too because they did have more advanced AI than we currently have - the maschinenmench Maria; an often submissive, vulnerable, emotional, manipulative, motherly and generally very stereotypically (for the time) feminine character.
I think people in the 1920s expected in the next century technology to advance a hundred miles and social issues to change maybe an inch. I can think of sci-fi from that era with black characters but none with an expectation of civil rights for those black characters.
I totally agree, a charity trying to raise awareness and help the problem should be running it.
I'm watching now and from what I can tell it doesn't appear to be a monetized account as no adverts have shown, there's not been a single donation either only a lot of comments about how awfull the situation is. there are moderators in the chat though it's impossible to tell on a recorded stream how many comments they're removing.
Really it's just a street cam, you can see loads of them in all sorts of areas - it's different because there are lots of people buying drugs and hanging around but they're doing it on a public street so why should this one be any different to the popular time square or rue de mars streams?
Overall my take-home is that after watching fifteen minutes of it I'm somewhat less likely to do heroin today, and that's probably a good thing. These people's lives haven't changed because I've seen them buy and consume drugs, when you're smoking crack on a cold street it's not like every one in you life can't tell. It's sad but it's a reality hiding from won't help either.
Are they though? Presenting this as some excess of capitalism is emotive but in reality they're likely to be making almost nothing from it. Their motivations might well be to draw attention to a bad situation, they might even donate money to drug addicts for all we know or be one themselves (or possibly drug addiction charities).
Seems like lazy journalism to write a whole story based on 'i watched ten minutes of a live stream' so I'm not willing to make judgements based on it.
I think it's just the journalist being silly, there is a tier on YouTube for a $500 donation because that's part of the YouTube system but has anyone ever used it for this stream? Incredibly doubtful.
I imagine like most webcam streams it makes very little money.
Edit - I've watched some and looked through the vods, no adverts so it's probably not monetized - likely due to showing drug use, also no one has donated in any of the sections I've looked at.
I imagine because it's trite and largely debunked pseudoscience from that weirdly Puritanical natural health ideology.
Some people can't regulate insulin, some people can't digest lactose, some people have neurological structures that inhibit motivation, some people have gastric complexities that cause pain and discomfort with bowel movements, some people are prone to migraines... And yes some people have genuine conditions that affect their sleep which requires medical intervention.
The childish notion that medication is bad and people who use it simply aren't taking responsibility for their lives is not only stupid it's hurtful and dangerous.
Stop trying to bully people out of getting the help they need just because you personally don't need it.