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When has police running around shooting people ever fixed anything

>Of the various things that have been discussed as causes, one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-god-the-answer-to-the-suicid....

Because that isn't a cause

Here's some excerpts on a study about religion and suicide:

>We found that past suicide attempts were more common among depressed patients with a religious affiliation

>Suicide ideation was greater among depressed patients who considered religion more important, and those who attended services more frequently

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990512/

If you search for articles and studies on blue light and sleep the overwhelming majority (that I was able to find) say that there is an effect. I posted a number of sources in another comment

There are lots of studies and articles discussing the affects of blue light on melatonin and sleep

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30311830

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717723/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/how-blue-light-affe...

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/block-blue-light-to-sle...

https://brighamhealthhub.org/prevention/using-light-emitting...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-why-is-blue-l...

That guy sounds like a real POS

>All public encryption algorithms have backdoors in their implementation and sometimes (as with Elliptic Curve standards from NIST adopted in the browser) in their spec

Lets see your proofs demonstrating this

>Phone passwords are for protecting things from your family.

That's a bit of a sad, unusual sentiment

There have been, and continue to be, a variety of reasons to leave Github

edit: Ah I see you work for Microsoft. In that case it's not surprising you are stating that there are no reasons to leave

Looks like it's time to find a new service. This is very disappointing

Apparently on this site it does. I had a conversation where I made a joke about Alexa glasses spying on us all in public instead of just in the privacy of people's homes now and got downvoted to oblivion because apparently you aren't allowed to care about privacy if you own a phone. The amount of whataboutisms on this site where people try to invalidate others opinions or critiques is incredible and makes it very difficult to have any kind of genuine discussion. I imagine it's partially because there are plenty of Google/Facebook/Amazon employees on this site so it's in their best interest to shut down any pro-privacy discussion

>What I find most valuable is it programs itself. Am I cold? Turn it up a bit, hot? Turn it down a bit. Suddenly I have stopped having to adjust it at all.

Is that a problem most people have? I bought my house a few years ago and haven't touched my thermostat since I originally set it up years ago

Numberphile has a couple videos about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30VF3cSIYQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Vj_7Y2-xY

It's the US government, so you're far more likely to have to "suicide" someone else than kill yourself

> You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Very good.

No, I'm definitely not. Manifest destiny is just colonialism fueled by racism

>Some alabamans post an app on the app store so they can avoid the national guard. It's linked to secessionist alabamans avoiding and even attacking the guard. Apple takes it down, then puts it back up, then takes it back down

>"Good" you say.

No, I certainly wouldn't

Likely because you are addicted to the dopamine from eating lots of sugary/fatty foods or otherwise eating poorly. It would be like saying you try to drink water and stay hydrated, but you're at your happiest when drinking beer

So tyrannical oppression is ok because it stops the citizens from bringing attention to the tyrannical oppression through protests? That is absolutely not better; sometimes violence is required to spur change unfortunately

It certainly isn't. If you are active on social media and post something you care about only for it to get no likes the majority of people would feel significantly worse than simply enjoying something and not posting it on the internet for praise/approval from strangers and acquaintances. I'm very happy to have not had instagram, twitter, facebook, etc. for the majority of my early education

When my dad grew up (in Washington) he was able to pay his college tuition in full and save for a downpayment on his home by working in the kitchen at the university. Nowadays, if you went to University full time and then purchased a house out of college with your only income being a minor kitchen job at whatever school you attended you'd likely have $100k+ of debt

Ah yes, another case of "We must stop the pedophiles and terrorists, so please just allow us to monitor everything you do at all times"

I don't buy this justification. It's like the people talking about mass surveillance saying,

"I understand that people feel like unchecked government mass surveillance might feel like a slipper slope towards egregious abuse, but it's worth it to catch all the evil terrorists and pedophiles"

Sure the Golden State Killer was a terrible person, but I'm not willing to just blindly trust and accept that the government should be able to access and use whatever data they want to keep me "safe."

Personally, I fall into the "Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither" camp

Ah yes, all us youngings reaping the rewards of those that have come before us. Insane housing and real estate prices that few can afford, insane university tuition that few can afford, the pharmaceutical industry pushing dangerous drugs with impunity, the war on drugs costing trillions of dollars and leading to the militarization of police and a massive amount of incarcerated non-violent offenders, the destruction of the environment being covered up and lobbied for by massive oil and gas corporations, social security being depleted before I'll ever get to utilize it, huge downturns in the economy caused by irresponsible spending and lending, and countless other "rewards" from the older generations that we now have to fix while simultaneously getting whined at about how we're all lazy slackers that are really causing the downfall of society. I don't buy into the "end of history" thinking, but it is incredible how many people take no responsibility for things that happened during their life time and completely ignore all of the extreme negative impacts those had on younger generations and society as a whole

>Believe it or not, there are people who give a shit about well-being at FB.

If people really cared about the well being of others, they wouldn't work at Facebook. I'm sure the fat checks are nice though

>Not sure why your comment is so aggressive and defensive.

Especially given Facebook's atrocious track record

>It's pretty funny how you imply I'm saying facebook is evil because it makes me feel good

Yup, I've found its a typical reaction from Facebook employees on this site to attack commenters and rationalize any time negative critiques are brought up, although the extreme defensiveness is pretty telling

What a surprise that someone who works at Google would support another mass surveillance company. Some of us care about privacy, morals, and mental health more than big checks

>I don't use Facebook.

As should everyone

>Facebook is a threat to democracy/society/open web/news

It is

>Something something stealing/selling/sharing data.

Because that is their business model, being a googler you should be well aware

>Something something tracking users.

Again, because they are and it's something you're well aware of

Do you think there is more potential harm, both to an individual and to the people they come in contact with, from getting vaccinated or not getting vaccinated?

Yes I agree, going to the extreme in either direction is not healthy

I'd be curious to learn how many of these children actually decided to engage in activism themselves. If there's anything I learned while in competitive sports, it's that parents have no problem forcing their kids into things the kids don't care about because they want their kids to be famous professional athletes and I imagine this situation is similar.

It can go the other way as well. My parents were helicopter parents that thought they were doing their best by shielding me "from the horrors of the world" and I suffer from related anxiety orders and social problems. I would've rather been exposed to more and had the ability to form my own opinions

>I cannot see anything good coming from turning young children into activists

Kids get more reposts/retweets/shares so the parents can rake in that ad/sponsorship money by making them public figures