People have been saying this crap since the printing press was created.
Do printed books make us stupid?
Do newspapers make us stupid?
Do magazines make us stupid?
Do comic books make us stupid?
Does radio make us stupid?
Does TV make us stupid?
Does the Internet make us stupid?
Does texting make us stupid?
and now...
Does AI make us stupid.

Too late, AI, we've been stupid since we were born.

Our skills keep changing, but the only things that make us stupid are alcohol and drugs. Some would add attractive members of the opposite sex have a similar effect.

Real question is have we found anything that makes us intelligent, except for hard work and study.

No way we can tell if they are actually clean for at least a decade. Only then will tell all books and new, better tests actually confirm that the athletes are clean.

Growing companies always need new employees. Dying companies never need new employees.

If you hire good people then you can move them to new projects if their old jobs become obsolete. If you can't do that, you have no new projects worth anything.

Otherwise you can consider your management to be your 'real' employees and try to get everything else done as cheaply as possible, firing the people that did the actual work whenever possible. They do not matter. The ideas from our super big brained management is the only thing that matters.

I never said you could stop it, I said that the people doing it are irresponsible.

You replies that more people should do it... being irresponsible. Without any reason at all.

You appear think saying yay for my side is an argument. It only makes you look foolish.

  You want to convince someone, trying making a claim that something is a good idea, not just that you can't stop it.

You seem to be replying to someone else. You ignored my point entirely and made up a new one, not understanding what I am concerned about at all.

I am not saying toy guns are bad, I am saying real guns designed to look like toy guns are bad.

Here is a picture of a real, printed gun with the word "Nerf" printed on it, from: https://defcad.com/library/reb...

https://media.defcad.com/entityimages/888c94e4dca849148a73fcbf5547ff8b.png

The problem is not just that it is hard to regulate/stop. The problem is that the people doing it are not being responsible.

You see, you can print the guns out of any color. And multi-colors. It is totally possible to print it out of black plastic. Those look like guns.

But it is also totally possible to print it out of neon colored plastic.
And it is totally possible to add embellishments to the printed gun to make it look like a sci-fi blaster.

And people do this. They have competitions for best printed gun and for most fantastical. So people walk around with real guns that have minimal metal in them and look like a toy gun. You can walk in a comic book convention with these things. You can walk down the street after shooting someone and the cops will ignore you.

I am not saying I have a solution, I am saying that printed guns are a problem. I do not even know if it is possible to solve the problem. But the people that ignore these issues are fools.

There is little reason to extend trading hours overnight. It is less than 18 hours till you can trade again. Just gives you enough time to think and make sure.

Also, it lets business make announcements after the close. This gives people time to think about the announcement rather than go off hack cocked. There is a reason they close at 4 PM, rather than 5 PM.

But from Friday at 4 PM till Monday at 9:30 is over 60 hours. More than 3 times as long. More than 80 if Friday or Monday is a holiday.

Yes things happen after hours as much as on the weekend. But waiting less than a day is not a big deal, waiting 3 or even 4 days is a big deal.

Yes, the finance people deserve weekends off, but we can do 2 shifts.

It is true that subsidence does exist. It is also true that various actions including wave and wind deposit sand on the islands.

It is NOT true that climate change was lucrative. Climate change is a low margin industry. Oil, gas, and coal are extremely lucrative. Unless you try to reduce the impact of pollution, which makes them less lucrative.

It is true that other factors affect the island, but climate change is by far the most important cause. It is long term, consistent, and increasing. No other factor has any two of these qualities.

Those buildings that use heat pumps for heating also use heat pumps for cooling. I have never heard of a 'heat pump' that is not reversible.

1) The general accepted theory is STILL that Covid did not escape from the Wuhan institute. There is some evidence and some respected scientists argue for that theory but no consensus. The CIA calls it a 'low confidence theory'. The fact you think it turned out to be 'true' rather than possible discredits your opinion. Just do a quick google to find the generally accepted 'truth'.

2) When you said 'strategic move to not address', you failed to address who MADE the strategic move, a strong indication you are mistaken. Referring to a generic 'they' is how tin foil hat guys avoid the many issues with their own theories while trying to point out a possibly false issue with the generally accepted viewpoint.

3) There are definitely people out conspiring to lie to the general public. Just compare Russian Media with all other Media. Or Liberal American Media vs Conservative American Media. They both can't be true. And yes, the liars DO yell out "Conspiracy Theory" at the honest people.

4) The general real why things are accepted as 'conspiracy theory' rather than disputed is based not on poor evidence but on the poor quality of their arguments. We call people with bad evidence wrong, not conspiracy theorists. We call them Conspiracy theorists because their arguments are horrible. They look at things they do not understand and point out things they think are weird but they turn out to be normal. They ignore massive holes in their own arguments while looking at tiny things in the opponent.

I think your last point is the most important one. The total lack of knowledge about how the world works is the core issue.

I met people that thought Covid was created in China by US scientists because Obama did not want Americans to know he was doing biowarfare because it was 'illegal' under US law.

Trying to explain that it was totally legal for the US President to make whatever weapon he wanted, including bioweapons was HARDER than it was to convince them that it was a violation of an international treaty that the US had signed with China.

We still know very little about our genetic variations. Yes, we have mapped out most of the 'standard' basics, but there is so much variation it is astounding and we do not understand most of that at all.

Most importantly, we do not understand the various interactions of what little we do know

A prime example of the issue is Sickle Cell Disease and Malaria. The 'standard' gene is HBB. If you have two of them, you will not get Sickle Cell disease but you are particularly vulnerable to Malaria. There are areas of the world where 10% of children get Malaria. While Malaria does not always kill you, you can even get it multiple times. But it does kill a significant number of victims, even with treatment (particularly if you have other illnesses).

If you have one HBB gene and a variant called HBS gene, you will not get Sickle Cell disease, and you are an estimated 10 times less likely to get Malaria. That is, 1% of children rather than 10% get Malaria.

But if you have two copies of HBS gene, you get Sickle Cell disease and it reduces your life expectancy by about 20 years on average.

This is one example of interactions that we KNOW about. How man others exist that we have no idea about? What if a gene for autoimmune disease also makes you immune to cancer?

This is something that might be a good idea to consider testing in say another 100-200 years. Not now.

Yeah, they were cheating. That is not a crime. At least no in the US.

They got caught, and now a bunch of scum buckets are trying to make money/internet points out of their misery. Shmucks ignoring their rights, invading both their privacy and also not paying them anything for using their name/likeness.

I hate the idiots making games, jokes, and NFTs about this incident far more than the poor couple that were caught choking.