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No one said sex is "bad".

Support for explicit sexual content in public schools is the minority opinion. As such, it is up to supporters to present the case for it's benefits, and the responsibility of parents who hold those views to expose their children to descriptions and depictions of sexual acts.

>I can think of all sorts of stuff that’s objectionable in places like Florida but perfectly fine elsewhere

Can you name a tittle that Florida has removed from public schools but you feel is appropriate?

The DeSantis campaign is a very expensive disaster for DeSantis.

For political consultants it is a cash cow.

To me, this looks like a consultant selling the campaign on 'AI engagement' or something like that and fulfilling their contract with this garbage.

What metric tells you past generations did fine without them?

People moving back to cities from the suburbs are figuring out all over again why their ancestors left.

> The article suggests it's safer than current food additives, but I find that statement questionable. We don't understand the full effect of Melatonin on the human body, so I don't know how you can make that conclusion.

Only allowing substances for which we understand the full effect on the human body is not a mainstream criteria or standard used by any agency in the world. I'm not aware of any substance for which we have a full understanding of the effect on the human body.

>If I know for a fact that a company is about to collapse and I establish a short position, will anybody notice? It depends on a lot of factors, but I could make an assload of money on puts without nudging the market.

Assuming you are the only person who knows for sure that this company will collapse, technical analysis is the wrong tool to use and all other strategies, experts, big money players will also fail.

Assuming you aren't the only person who knows for sure that this company will collapse the price will reflect this knowledge.

>It's much like trying to predict a fire by watching a crowd running away and hit the fire alarm. You didn't predict the fire and you can't have predicted the fire. Maybe you could have noticed one person booking it for the exit and follow along, but you still didn't know what was happening and were going on blind faith.

It's nothing like that at all, and reasoning with analogy is pointless because the discussion becomes about the analogy not the issue at hand. But I will try. If people running away is people selling stock, it doesn't matter if there is a fire or not. Selling stock impacts price regardless of if the event is real or not. And as you know, having been in a building where the fire alarm was activated, people don't rush to the exists. Some small number leave right away. The vast majority won't enter the building. The remaining people look to others and as more leave the momentum builds until the mass moves out.

And once the fire department arrives and gives the ok they will go back in. But since we are talking about stocks, not all buyers won't be waiting for that. They'll have put their money elsewhere, money may go back into the stock slowly. Obviously this won't work on the top 3 most popular stocks in a raging bull market that everyone is paying attention to. In that case, people will be waiting to jump back in.

The prediction of a crop failure isn't a binary event and money isn't deployed in a binary strategy. It becomes more or less likely over time.

Also, the situation is very dynamic with an unknown and very large number of variables, even with something as seemingly simple as a crop failure. Such as such as a countries deciding to ban exports to secure food security, lack of access to fertilizer due to sanctions against major fertilizer producers in wheat producing countries, the politics of national and local water rights.

All these factors have parties with inside information acting on them (see members of congress trading stocks) which no player with big pockets will have access to but is all reflected in the price.

>You can predict situations like crop failure - if you're an expert in agriculture and have access to data that impacts crop yields.

Experts predict crop failures, big money acts on those predictions and moves securities price and volume, which technical analysts examine.

Therefore, the experts prediction is input for technical analysis.

The collective knowledge and opinion is dynamically reflected in the price and volume chart.

>This study almost has Illness as Metaphor vibes. Fight dementia by diligently training your mind, keeping disease at bay!

>Vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimers all seem to involve damage to brain structures. It strikes me as unlikely that you can chess your way out of this. The causality is likely reversed.

Do you have a problem with exercising your mind because it won't work or because of some other reason related to Illness as Metaphor?

Exercising your body to keep diseases at by is standard medical advice. Do you have an issue with that also?

I think we are saying the same thing. I'm confusing the specific phenomena of mass psychogenic illness, with general mass hysteria phenomena, as you pointed out in your original post.

In the George Floyd protest, the stress is lockdowns and the mass hysteria phenomena is the extreme and exaggerated reaction to G.F.'s death.

>People were cooped up for months in their homes, and angry at police for enforcing lockdowns and treating them like children.

The George Floyd protests were not anti-lockdown protests.

In the past, if you believed something just because it was on the internet you were seen as foolish.

You're not hearing what I said.

In Portugal drug possession, use are not criminal but they are illegal and carry penalties.

In BC possession for personal use is legal. There are no penalties.

That is not the same.

You're right, in your case you shouldn't need to see a doctor. However, that doesn't mean that there should be free access to any prescription drug. The system has serious issues that cause great harm to people like you. And we don't know what harm would exist with unrestricted access. Given the average person's confidence compared to their intelligence, and the effects of cognitive dissonance, bias, other thinking errors, it's reasonable to assume it will be worse.

Where I live pharmacists can diagnose and prescribe for some conditions. Other countries have similar systems that allow lower risk medications to be prescribed by people other than doctors for low risk conditions.

Ultimately, if you can't afford the doctors visit, I wonder if you can afford the medication. At least some asthma medication is expensive.

You don't know that you have asthma because you haven't been diagnosed by a doctor.

You see the benefit of unrestricted access to medicines but you completely ignore the harms. That's one sided thinking.

The world is full of things that can't be eliminated, but we benefit greatly from reducing their occurrence.

Portegues have lots of tools. They are sent to drug court which doesn't give the same protections to defendents as criminal courts.

They can be give a variety of punishments, like fine, ban from an area, associating with certain people, suspension of government support.

It shouldn't. Vancouver and Portugal have very different policy.

In Portugal drug possession, use are illegal. They aren't criminal but are illegal and carry penalties at special drug courts which give less protect to defendents.

Also, Vancouver's downtown core hardly had any families and things families need simply aren't available downtown.

>Someone could’ve made the same arguments about automating horse-drawn carriages.

They can't make the same argument because the experience is first hand and can't be faked.

>What's the point of research if some AI might do it better than me in 10-20 years?

You said you enjoy learning and working.

It's incorrect to say that Valve can't verify any content they are hosting is copyrighted.

They are obviously able to identify some copyright material.

Poppy Playtime - Mob Entertainment

It's amazing that if you had a site where 3rd parties uploaded copyright materials for download you would be held responsible.

But Amazon can freely and in great measure host counterfeit trade mark infringing goods for sale and profit from it.

People interact with the floor of their home differently than the floor of their workplace.

Free systems always excited and and continue to do so. Commit to them. Correct the mistake. If committing to them doesn't fix the mistake, then the choice was to have the social connections you wanted or not to. And given those choices, and what you want, choosing social media isn't a mistake.

It makes much more sense to ban facial recognition instead of addressing corruption and incompetence in a state like Illinois.

1.) Progressive voters get good feelings as they think they are helping 'minorities' and advancing social justice.

2.) Politicians please a large segment of voters.

3.) People who benefit from corruption are not threatened as the status quo is maintained.

4.) Politicians's in power is not threatened by the system as the status quo is maintained.

The corrupt system only negatively impacts people who can't afford a good private lawyer.

As opposed to not having those social connections?