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Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical?

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  • Does heroin make a person better?

    • Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical?

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  • ADHD drugs improve people's ability to focus and concentrate even without effort on the part of the patient. So that's a counter-example.

    • Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical?

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  • Would it make a difference if you were taking the drug to makeup for a deficiency, or if you were taking it to surpass normal ability?

    • TIL "This is Spinal Tap" has a 7.9/11 rating on IMDB

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    • TIL "This is Spinal Tap" has a 7.9/11 rating on IMDB

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  • What movie critics do you follow?

    • TIL not everyone tells jokes on beggar's night

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  • "Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa."

    • Wow! Doom really can run on anything!

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  • Ugh. This picture makes me uncomfortable.

    • I hate that that happens

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  • There are no buffalo in Buffalo!

    • Radio station in Poland courts controversy with AI hosts

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  • It makes the radio a bit more engaging and interesting.

    • TIL there are approximately 13 sextillion transistors in existence

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  • Aha! I knew there was a coincidence somewhere! You tracked it down!

    • Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds

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  • Oh man, I wish I could give you more than one upvote. Thank you for this well reasoned defense of sex in movies.

    • Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds

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  • Ahh... that's an angle I hadn't thought of...

    • Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds

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  • Yeah but, sex scenes in movies and sex in porn are hardly even the same thing. They're so wildly different, I don't see how one could be a replacement for the other.

    • Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds

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  • Are you taking about Uglies? I feel like you described Uglies. I liked the adaptation, but a lot of critics didn't.

    • A Century of Progress

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  • This violates rule 3 of this community.

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  • I bet for a long while you'd be like, "What even are dollars?", since they hadn't been invented yet.

    • TIL that the tumbleweeds commonly found in the American West are Russian thistle. They are an invasive species from Asia that adapted well to the dry, open landscapes of the western U.S.

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  • Yep. They're like tribbles.

    • The war in Ukraine is about to become World War Three

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  • 🙂

    • McDonald's zeroes in on onions as the likely source of deadly E. coli outbreak

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  • Ah. I knew there was a Trump comment somewhere in here.

    • The war in Ukraine is about to become World War Three

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  • I mean, it's not literally a joke. I guess I'm just missing some context.