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Comment Should not be necessary (Score 1) 134

I have 4 kids, and we do not allow any of them on social media. I cannot help but question the sanity of any parent that does.

my generation grew up with AOL chat rooms, and anonymous web forum, and all the toxicity and grooming that entails. We lived through the rise of porn from text, to stills, to grainy video, up through to the 4k fire hose that is internet porn today.

anyone letting their kid on social media, or onto the internet in general without guide rails in place, needs to have their head examined. I use pihole to monitor DNS lookups, and admin privileges on all their devices to keep tabs on what they are trying to use. No social media accounts until 16-18 (depending on the site). I know that if they are motivated, they can find ways around this stuff, but they will have to work for it until they are old enough to move out.

Comment Re:People that are otherwise rational (Score 2) 115

Also, our ancestors have been eating meat for thousands of years with no effect on the weather

That's a really big claim. You have not done the research or looked at the evidence to back it up. It's something you pulled out of your ass. Don't do that.

It is possible that our ancestors eating meat had an effect on the weather.

Comment Re:The world is ripping off China (Score 1) 50

It's very clear that you didn't read the article, don't understand the arguments involved, but SOMEHOW feel entitled to spout your opinion.

Why?? Why not just read the article and become smarter? You don't need to show your ignorance off to the world, you can easily read the article, become non-ignorant and say something informed.

Comment Re: Whats new? (Score 1) 50

The only reason th US is where it is right now is because the dollar is still the world currency. It remains so because you need dollars to buy oil.

People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

Comment Re:money and acturial medicines (Score 1) 237

Simply stated, the psychological industry has a monetary profit motive in getting more people on daily maintenance medicine. Each person on a daily maintenance medicine means 2 to 4 office visits per year allowing a psychologists to have a steady stream of paying customers.

This is much cheaper than actually going through the labor intensive process of psychoanalysis, so insurance companies like it.

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