Hey, dementia is a great disease.

At first, only you notice it.
Then everyone else notices it, too.
Then, only everyone around you notices it and you don't.
And then life's great again.

Reference.

You may quietly drop your geek card in the box provided on your way out.

Yes they do. Just try it! It might solve your problem.

It sure will solve ours...

The EU pretty much eliminated the power connector market. Well, unless you count that the sockets are so flimsy now that you should very, very, VERY carefully plug it in lest you break it out of the phone...

Great! Thanks for the tip, I immediately ... wait, what's that smell?

Oh c'mon, from time to time having a laugh at the expense of the bullies that beat us up during high school really helps coping with it.

It's not like they can kill themselves that way (sadly, but something we can't change). At least let them fry their toys, hoping that this will teach them that learning can keep you from doing stupid things.

The main problem is that psychoactive drugs have VASTLY different effects depending on your baseline of operation. Especially with you're dealing with a drug like an SSRI, which by itself doesn't put something into your body but rather keeps your body from eliminating something.

That first and foremost requires something to exist, and the lack thereof IS exactly the problem.

Is it me or is it considerable bullshit to examine the effect in a healthy specimen?

Well, that's exactly the problem, that being the judge yourself is usually anything but easy. It may seem odd for someone who never experienced it, but for you, very little changes. You don't really notice it. Because your "baseline" remains the same. That it changes relatively doesn't really register until much, much later.

That's one of the reasons why so many people interrupt or abandon their therapy. Because you DO notice the side effects very quickly...

Considering how Europe currently has problems getting rid of its food (due to the Russia embargo), I doubt they'd be all too unhappy to step in should the US decide to stop feeding China.

'cause it's the same cheap crap that you pay lots of money otherwise just 'cause it has a silly picture and/or a certain name on it?

China circumvented that by arriving already at where the US is still heading: A rather small sliver of rich people oppressing a mass of poor ones, while at the same time ensuring that there is little upwards mobility, but just enough to create the odd success story to keep everyone believing in the dream.

That way you can effectively eliminate a middle class. But don't worry, the US is working hard to get rid of what's left of its middle class, then the two countries will be on par again.

So? Neither are our democracies anymore.

It's a victimless crime. Or rather, a crime where the victim deserves it. It kinda cancels itself out.

Then are you offering the correct premise or should I keep guessing 'til we both lose interest?