People taking uncalibrated and unverified stuff and claiming life-changing benefits are why we are testing this in the first place.

> but can be largely controlled by the clinician/therapist/shamanic guide

From what I can tell this is a drug user myth, and one of the reasons these drugs are a drop in the bucket compared to other illegal drugs. A "trip sitter" is certainly a good idea, to avoid people hurting themselves as a result of drug-induced beliefs, but they won't save you from randomly having a bad trip, and once users have had a couple of those, they lose enthusiasm for the drug. LSD and friends are less affected by user expectation than other illegal drugs/alcohol.

See that's the narrative that Americans love to tell themselves. But in reality the Chinese know that hidden backdoors don't stay hidden, and their national interest is best served by making software and devices secure for everyone. They don't need to spy on their citizens with secret software backdoors when cameras are on every corner and social credit records are openly implemented.

They saw the idiotic attempts the Americans made with stuff like the clipper chip. They won't make that same mistake.

I have also worked with implementing right to know and can attest that some companies take it very lightly and are one annoyed customer away from a very stressful and potentially expensive process.

I also helped push Spotify to implement listening history across devices with a DSAR, after first asking politely and getting the answer that it "wasn't a feature they were prioritizing".

All credit to our Austrian backgammon developer. More people should be like that.

That's true to a certain degree in all countries. But let's not pretend that the couch fire that is the EU is comparable to the entire neighbourhood burned to ashes that is the USA.

Trying to tell an American to stop screaming shit about socialism is like trying to tell a small dog to stop barking.

I know reading comprehension is hard, but even the summary has specific examples of police creating a policy to hide their use of Flock cameras. We're not talking about Flock being honest to the public. We're talking about police behavior.

Deliberately obfuscating or misleading the public about the mass surveillance abuse is sure to go a long way towards rebuilding all that public trust lost from all those police shootings.

You enjoy your horse dewormer, I'll take the mRNA gene-editing.

They don't justify it. They just move the goalposts. "Oh the world didn't end this year? I mean next year obviously."

Clearly you know nothing about the spiritual satisfaction of using a hand-whittled oak NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 rather some soulless chip made in a factory.

These are the same lazy dolts that call them selves "Software Engineer" yet don't know shit on how software actual works beyond an ID, don't understand software developer ethics, and think the can be sloppy because "computers have a lot of RAM" completely blind to the idea there janky ass software isn't the only thing running on a computer.

Modern IDEs have lead to this industry being full undisciplined half wits.

I literally do. Stop being bad at your job.

"I know it is counter to modern coding practices"
it is not. It's literally best practice. Coders not doing this are bad at their job, and should be fired.

This is well put. I'd also add that people are relentlessly marketed to to consume more to support that economic growth. People from the 19th or early 20th century might well consider the amount of psychological pressure we get to buy things to be a relentless propaganda campaign.