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Life evolves in a certain environment, and usually anything that changes that environment will be bad. And some organisms adapt to that bad, and some don't.

An example of this is stuff like highly processed foods, coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, women in the workforce, and effects of fetal health. I am in favor of women's rights, but female stress and alcohol use and cigarette usage have all been found to affect prenatal health, and women in the workforce during pregnancy may be correlated with higher female stress. (I am in favor of women in science and working, that is not an anti-woman comment.)

So the human body is always signaling to other cells and neighboring cells and if there's plastic blocking the signaling, it's going to effect how cells grow and die and likely their epigenetic expression. The question is how much? If the microplastics are damaging cells, and they likely do but knowledge to be sure, then there's resulting healing processes that may increase inflammation, and inflammation has wide-ranging effects on organic systems.

I can't fathom that these microplastic don't impact prenatal health. Babies in utero are more impacted by smaller things because it changes the growth patterns.

It also seems very likely to me that having things like this, which could alter epigenetics and brain structure growth, would possibly result in more varied phenotypes (ie, more autism, more transgender people, etc) and more miscarriages. I say this as someone who is pro-LGBT, but a lot of these microplastics act as endocrine disruptors.

When you see Elon Musk doing so much Ketamine that he's starting to, according to some, lose it, and he's possibly using Ketamine for depression, it is likely because of how environmentally fucked the planet is. His whole angle is to get the fuck off this planet and try again somewhere else and it may or may not work.

This planet is environmentally fucked, and environmental problems show the core problem with Democracy: when you have scientific idiots choosing which psychopath to govern, it doesn't usually result in ecological harmony. Then all the communist governments are just trying to compete with the capitalist governments, fatally chugging along. The Scandanavian countries, with their death metal and embrace of nihilism, are filled with people who accept that we may all be doomed, although some of them are trying. Then you have pockets of liberals all over who are keyboard warriors while the real activists are few and far between. And it may not even matter if there is activism. It's almost certainly too late and we're all going to die. Try to look surprised when it happens.

It's likely the microplastics are making human stupidity increase, thereby leading people to ignore environmental logic, thereby leading to more microplastics, thereby increasing human stupidity, etc.

I would argue that defining mental illness by the DSM-6 is a really bad way of defining mental illness.

The same DSM previously said homosexuality and female hysteria were illnesses, and still causes black people to be diagnosed more frequently as anti-social because black children get labeled with conduct disorders more often that white children (quite likely due to racism), and still categories people as narcissistic based on a Greek myth. The DSM is so malleable and fluid because it was never based on science to begin with. Yes, these writers are oracles and soothsayers with Ph.D's, but anyone with enough time and money can buy credits for such an unrigorous "scientific" discipline.

It's really mostly only useful as an insurance billing tool, and one day there will be universal health care and hopefully the whole glossary of tripe can be forgotten, stored in the rare books section next to the textbooks about phrenology.

In defense of insurance companies, medical costs are astronomical because doctor professional associations protect doctor wages. Why do I need a 400 an hour doctor to prescribe an antibiotic for a bladder infection? Many people want to doctors and don't get admitted into medical school. Instead of delegating less difficult responsibilities to this interested group of people by creating a more tiered system of expertise, the AMA hoards all the decisions for the doctors, fleeces and extorts the public, then scapegoats the insurance industry which is trying to reduce unfair costs while taking a slice of the parasite pie. The gullible public eats the slop right up, blaming insurance companies, never batting an eye at the exploitation of the public by doctors.

never underestimate the rage of cult members threatened with the cognitive dissonance of all their cherished moronic views being wrong. the cult of mental health has spoken: down-vote

Plenty of people who are not scientologists believe psychiatry and psychology are corruption incarnate. Sometimes I wonder whether scientology was invented by psychiatry to discredit those who point out its lack of efficacy, cruelty, and financial exploitation of vulnerable and naive people.

If you give your ID to a 3rd party company in the US, it's impossible to know if they will delete you ID or whether you'll be added secretly to a facial recognition system.

The US is allowed to issue secret orders to companies demanding they do things in the interest of "security." They can also issue gag orders forcing companies to not talk about the secret orders. Therefore, any US company may be secretly forced to violate it's supposed terms. A company that collects biometric information seems like it would be especially likely to be targeted.

Facebook, Instagram, and other social media such as Linked In are likely the largest source of law enforcement information being fed to facial recognition systems. Given the dystopian "ideals" of some politicians, I consider it a risk and wouldn't do it. Your country may not be sharing that information with the US already.

Additionally, some of these companies have become the main way people get employed, rent things, or buy things. Because these companies serve a public function but are officially private, they can de-platform people for any reason, with no meaningful appeal, creating havoc and misery for an affected person. If you have been flagged to be banned, by giving them your ID, you will let them ban you based on a government document forever. Their system may have flagged you for verification, but it could have also flagged you to be banned forever based on TOS violations.

If you abandon your account, you can always create a new account, then later claim a hacker got you or your forgot your email password. If you provide an ID, you may be linking a government record to biometric information to something they can ban.

A company may also be claiming that they get rid of an ID but still keep a hash of some combination of biometric information.

In theory, anyone in Facebook in California should be able to submit a CCPA request to delete all information, including ban information, and then go on Facebook again, even after a lifetime ban. Anyone in the EU should be able to do this too through GDPR. But this doesn't happen, because Facebook lies and is also just a rebranding of Lifelog.

I would say this would make the DSM of mental illnesses arbitrary, but the DSM also contains at least 1 mental illness based on a Greek mythological character.

Much of the mental health industry is an intersection of religion, new age mumbo gumbo, a dash of science, capitalism, and what society finds socially acceptable. It was only in recent decades that homosexuality and female hysteria (which required clitoral stimulation as the cure) were removed from the hocus pocus DSM, which pretends to have scientific rigor and never has and likely never will.

Fun fact: after this post, I was finally messaged by Nicole. Time to go get butchered! ;-)

Columbia was already known to play loose with ethics (when it submitted information to US News & World report that inflated it's national ranking so much that US News removed them temporarily from the national rankings), and this just makes them seem to be a school that caves in to money and lacks integrity.

If a student at Columbia engaging in controversial speech can be subject to degree revocation, why would anyone with any ideas other than the banal choose to foster new, risky, or exciting ideas there?

so impressive, i wish i understood everything you did! how would xtls xray make the IP not seem like a VPN? What do you mean upgraded from http 2 to QUIC through nginx? How did you use tproxy with iptables rules? This is really cool stuff and I wish I understood more about it. Did you study computer science formally or just learn this on your own?

Which AI model is this?

It's official: everyone hates the idea

Well, don't blame me for my terrible ideas, blame my dealer

Oh, that is a cool idea. AITA-Bot or Human edition

No... This makes you seem real but based on that post I will always know you are AI.

That's wild. Clearly AI.

So the value is getting a reputation on Lemmy to then influence or peddle shit?

Or is it a testing ground?

No human writes like that.

ew

time to become secretly addicted to netbsd

Sometimes pretending to be too socially stupid to be deceptive has advantages. This seems naive.