Damn, that’s terrible. Thank you for the links (although I’m not going to read them all, to preserve my sanity)

Ohhh, that makes sense.

Interestingly, I just heard this on another lemmy post about alcohol. It wasn’t well received there, lol

I’m not very familiar with this stuff, but it sounds terrible. When has this happened in the past?

Are you referring to the comments ITT or the comments on the linked post? I read through all of the comments here and only saw one or two comments that seemed to line up with your implications.

The “dying at 25” thing is the result of a common misrepresentation of data. Infant mortality rates were significantly higher in the past, so the average gets thrown off. But, if you remove those data points (to reflect post-infancy mortality), you’d be living roughly the same amount of time.

Title is true even without the last two words.

Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.

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A few years ago I was friends with a cohort of soon-to-be Psychologists, and it was a well known fact that your options for easy employment* were either to get a job as a therapist for a major health corp and make little money and have to deal with the terrible admin, or make 2-3x working for a tech company but having to incur the karmic debt of trying to give Jolly West and James Mitchell a run for their money in the Lawful Evil competition.

*Private practice, teaching, and/or research have their own hurdles that are typically too high a barrier for entry for new grads

Memes aside, my friends and I genuinely would have murdered these things with rocks had they come out before we’d turned 18.

We speak more or less the same language, as I’m sure you’re aware. I’m Danish, by the way.

I don’t understand what your point is, though. I get that you don’t like guns, but I’m having a hard time understanding where all of the other stuff is coming from.

What are you trying to accomplish with this comment

I’m having a hard time understanding the point you’re trying to make.

I think you’d be shocked at how diverse the gun laws are from state to state.

This is one of my (many) issues with reddit. The underlaying structure causes some users to modulate their behavior in order to stay in social good graces. At least a few years ago, some subs would ban you for being a member of a sub they didn’t like, or if you didn’t have enough karma, or whatever. Considering that karma is determined by the community, agreeing with the average opinion is incentivized and the converse is the same. This actively discourages discourse, while encouraging circlejerking. I’m not implying that people are just going around and posting “this, 100 times this” on everything so they can max out their karma score, but I do think it’s leading to an unhealthy smoothing of opinions that’s gone too far into the realm of banality.

While I do think it’s good to run everything we say through Socrates’ triple filter because that’s aligned with the higher ideal of caring for the state of the community, I don’t think we should concern ourselves with the question, “will other people like me for saying this”.

Actual lol

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

I’d be all for it if it meant the other shit would go away. I’d rather see Mountain Dew (instead of Altitude Precipitation or whatever) in the Sims if it meant no microtransactions and other annoying ads. But it’s EA, that’s not gonna happen, we’ll just get Mountain Dew in the Sims AND ads AND microtransactions.

U.S. Patent 8246454B2 is a real thing.