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Comment Re: ADHD does not exist (Score 1) 93

"The latter need to practise."

Did you just say tests are more about social skills than whatever is being tested?

What if some of us cringe at how arbitrary social skills are and have a gut instinct that tells us playing the current in-vogue social game cuts against our freedom to be ourselves, and cannot understand how you can be any different unless you just like being a conformist?

Remember when it was socially acceptable to smoke pot (Jimi Hendrix, Cheech and Chong) then it became cringe to talk about being your natural stoner self, then states started legalizing it again? Why should I learn to reverse course just because Nancy Reagan said "just say no"?

What if the cringe you feel at socially inadept me says a lot more about you, than about me?

Comment Re: Is it just my Alzheimer's? (Score 1) 65

How come I was handcuffed to a hospital bed and involuntarily institutionalized after one attempt? How come my brother had to use the dark web to get the horse tranquilizer he took to end his mental suffering? Why not remove the police's authority to forcefully restrain me as a threat to myself, and let me legally purchase the same pills my brother had to act criminally to get?

Comment Re: Is free speech the problem? (Score 1) 53

What if I am ostracized from real life society, and this is the last place I can try to make the case that you're all being unfair and we should legalize suicide? Why do you ban talk of suicide?

Also, how do you know I haven't extensively sought professional help, but it didn't help because the therapists didn't like me either, and had more important patients to focus on?

What is your solution to the problem of me? Why isn't legal suicide the most cost-effective and efficient solution?

Comment Re: Is free speech the problem? (Score 1) 53

Since the social world you've built has no place for me, and if I try to point out I'm nonviolently not cooperating, your sensibilities are offended and you deny my attempts to petition for redress of grievances, why not acknowledge suicide should be legal?

Why should I want to live in a society where I am not wanted or needed?

Also, what if my arguments actually give rise to painful cognitive dissonance in you, and so rather than change your thinking to accommodate the uncomfortable truths I bring up, you just want to ban the messenger?

Comment Re: Is margin arbitrarily larger than production c (Score 1) 44

Can you imagine how the manufacturer can make more from stock buybacks and other investments and financial hedges, such that actual shareholder profit increases significantly more than production costs?

In other words, why try to wall off financial revenue when you have companies such as Apple with huge cash hoards hard at work making financial profits?

Comment Is margin arbitrarily larger than production costs (Score 1) 44

"higher production costs don't always translate into higher consumer prices for a variety of reasons"

If your primary income comes from stocks do production costs become a rounding error?

I.e. if mobile mechanic Matthew Parker makes $10k from youtube for a video in which he gives away free parts and labor, does an increase of a couple dollars in the price of a fuel filter, or whatever, matter?

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