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How does low infant mortality refutes the poor economic prospects of millenials, a generation having less kids than any to date? That is a complete non-sequitur.

Median household income is very marginally higher than ever, while debt is substantially higher. Cost of living isn't inclusive of the cost of education that is probably the biggest economic burden unique to millenials.

No one is debating that you can (momentarily) make a lot of money as a software dev without a degree. It still accounts for a small portion of the economy.

And outside of the context of the battles they were dependant on food and clothes they stole from civilians, which ended up killing millions

That sounds interesting but does it mean hours of doing a mundane grindy task like mining in EVE?

Having studied the Eastern Front extensively, incidents like this would not even have been significant enough to be recorded in the context of the Soviets or Germans.

Stalin and Zhukov both actively condoned the rape of women and the atrocities in East Prussia included the rape and crucifixion of women and elderly children and the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff which was equivalent to 5+ Titanics

It was a different order of magnitude of brutality on both sides

The firebombing would have brought the war industry to a halt but wouldn't have resulted in surrender.

The alternative would have been Operation Downfall, a conventional invasion expected to cause up to 10M casualties and involve chemical weapons.

For scale, the atomic bombings killed ~200K Japanese while the Japanese occupation of China alone killed 20M

For what it's worth Monday Night Combat was an excellent game

I've had quite the opposite experience. I've made maybe 20 real life friends that I met first on the internet (primarily Twitter) and almost all of them have proven to be at least as funny intelligent and likeable as online. Almost all of them I now just try to interact with IRL vs online.

I've never encountered this issue of expecting this cool person based on a manufactured illusion and then finding them to be mundane. And I know without the internet I might have more of a sense of community in general but I don't think I would have found people as unique and weirdly on my wavelength.

Regrowing literal hair follicles is seemingly more difficult as they are each small, complex organ attached to a muscle (arrector pili) and they become damaged by fibrosis from the inflammatory process of hair loss.

It seems trivial but it is actually a monumentally complex problem to address

This situation to me exemplifies the short-sightedness of millennial parents shoehorning their 5 year olds into wanting to be programmers because it was a meal ticket 2 years ago

True but that's probably 2 orders less. Ideally it would be done with electric vehicles at carbon neutral factories

IPs are crucial to understanding the actual carbon output. Often times analyses are simplified to the point that they discount that miners are using uncommonly cheap power sources like Icelandic geothermal

Given the razor thin margins of BTC the miners are heavily incented to use the cheapest energy possible. And as miners exploit cheaper energy they deploy more ASICs, raising difficulty and decreasing margins for the remainder. As such miners switch to economical power sources faster than perhaps any other industry and many operations have relocated accordingly

As of 2019, the absolute cheapest subsidy free energy in the world is Chilean solar power. In the next 5 years solar will indisputably become the cheapest if you consider the proliferation in China, Saudi Arabia's plans ect.

What is unique about mining vs almost everything else is that location is irrelevant. It doesn't need to be connected to any supply chain or residential areas. Accordingly we are seeing heavy investment to exploit areas that are very well suited to wind and solar but are hard to connect to the grid, meaning there is currently no demand even though there is potential supply. One such project is in Morocco

If BTC has merit as a network it will have staying power well past 10 years, at which point the carbon output should be null.

What you said still doesn't make sense. Binance coin lost value accordingly, why would the underlying asset stored in the bank lose value?

One crazy fact is that the development of the B-29 (which dropped the atom bomb) was actually more expensive than the Manhattan Project itself

$40M in theft for a $200B market cap coin is trivial and should have almost no bearing on the price.

When someone does a bank heist USD doesn't get devalued

How has such a shitty local government not gotten voted out? I understand the NIMBYism driving it and perverse incentives for housing owners but the approval rate has to be crazy low

Great idea- let's just ban the jobs while we are at it and the problem will be solved

If you look at the CFS forums they are trying all kinds of crazy experimental therapies, many of which have side-effects and few of which have any effects

Another interesting correlary is the pelvic floor dysfunction world. It is mostly a stress based illness which is best addressed by mental health treatment and relaxation but some people have gotten tons of invasive surgeries with reason to think they would even be helpful

It isn't just that the suffering from mental illness is real, it causes very real physical health issues and deeply disrupts your body's hormonal makeup via the HPA axis.

The strict delineation between physiological and psychological illnesses is mostly a Western construct and the unfortunate effect is that the CFS community has an obsession with proving that it is a 100% physical illness without any mental component. It shouldn't be necessary for them to assert that for them to be taken seriously. The same can be said of chronic Lyme, Fibromyalgia, IBS, many kinds of chronic pain

One fascinating thing is that there are people with non-physiological dissociative seizures (classified as a DSM mental illness). This population is actually much less likely to admit that their mental wellbeing has an effect on the incidence of these seizures than patients with conventional ones

Mitt Romney's deals at Bain Capital were overwhelmingly growth equity oriented

Have you read The Body Keeps the Score? Extremely well done book that comes to a similar conclusion

We're well beyond the era of "poorly approximated" virtual instrumentals. Most orchestration you hear nowadays is virtual and developers like Sample Modelling make stuff indistinguishable from the real thing

I'd much rather be able to just plug MIDI into a plug-in to get say a saxophone line for a song than having to buy a top tier saxophone, learn to play it in a perfectly soundproofed room with great microphone, DAC, ect.

Most notably you can't patent them

I have it and you 100% can. I've trained myself to not react to it and it has faded from my perception

Even more absurd to me than Cortes' conquest of Mexico was Pizarro's conquest of the Incas, an empire which was larger than both the Mayans or Aztec.

IIRC Cortes had ~1500 conquistadors on his side and Pizarro had ~500

If this were inclusive of coffee though I suspect the number would >90%

I trust you can understand caffeine is not equivalent to amphetamines

I'm also on Wellbutrin and Lamictal and think it is a very underrated combination.

I highly recommend you read The Body Keeps The Score. Immensely insightful and well researched book that will change the way you think about overcoming trauma

Having gone off antidepressants cold turkey 4+ times withdrawal stuff is wildly overblown, which is corroborated by almost all the literature

It probably has more to do with a relapse back into depressive symptoms than anything in most cases

There have been experiments directly relating the administration of inflammatory endotoxins to immediate depressive symptoms.

All of the stuff you mentioned pertains to inflammation. If gut bacteria is disharmonious or not getting enough fiber it consumes intestinal mucous which creates inflammation

Have you used classical psychedelics therapeutically?

If so how would you compare their efficacy for your issues