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  1. There definitely seems to be a correlation between electrical stimulation of the brain and depression. Despite the negative connotations of One Flew, electroshock therapy has remained a standby of mental health for treatment-resistant depression. I learned this in a very roundabout way. My Dad had a late in life brain injury thought to have been caused by an undiagnosed case of meningitis that led to a seizure disorder. Later in life, after he had had a seizure, he would go quite manic. Finally, a neurologist (who typically treat seizure disorders), referred him to a psychiatrist who explained that like an electro-shock treatment, a seizure was an electrical storm of the brain and that after a treatment or seizure, the brain had to "rewire" itself, and during that rewiring period, regions of the brain were more active than normal, eliminating depression. At least as far as it was understood. And that's a layman's understanding, but the psychiatrist said it doesn't go much deeper than that. Dad wasn't depressed, and may have been very slightly bipolar in regular life (very sharp temper), and with elderly brain function, so during his post-seizure rewiring phase, would go a little manic-crazy.
  2. I think it's a product of anti-intellectualism plus a tiny nugget of truth. As we're well aware, pharma relentlessly pushes a variety of chemical solutions to our various ills, some or many of them of dubious efficacy and with potentially horrific side effects like exploding taints. That plus Covid "vaccine injury" and that peculiar strain of anti-vaxxers that's been around for decades has seemed to coalesce around a skepticism of modern pharmacology. Then you can add in a faux moral dimension from the "bootstraps" crowd that thinks everyone should be able to lose weight at will, if they have enough will, and are moral defectives if they don't. I am always a tad wary of the latest miracle drug, but it seems that the semaglutide drugs are a massive net positive on the weight loss and metabolic disease fronts.
  3. Yeah, in sort of American-vernacular Yiddish. I am referring to Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the ubermensch is the secular human ideal. Of course none of these fuckwads is that, but I think they believe themselves to be.
  4. Motherfucker sees things clear as a bell and always has. His rank partisanship is even more contemptible, now.
  5. Actually, I think it's aerospace engineering, or mechanical or similar, IIRC. Accordingly, he's not dumb most likely. But a product of a probably slightly deficient education in humanities (most engineers suffer this, some make up for it with external reading, others don't) and a product of an echo chamber of his own.
  6. Cohen is a Cambridge graduate, after all, and as a classically educated Briton seems to have a pretty firm grip on the current dynamics in the world. Oddly enough, it seems most educated Britons do. I started reading the Slough House/Slow Horses novels, which began in 2010 with an alt-right villain. And have continued to criticize Trump and Brexit. The author is, of course, an Oxonian. And also been reading another set of British books, by a guy named Andy Maslen, this time mostly pulp ala Reacher and others, but the first book from 2015 centers around an alt-right coup.
  7. Eh, Cuban's still an asshole and greedhead. He just looks better by comparison these days. I do think, unlike many other tech bros, he has some inkling how fucking lucky he is to be where he is and that he isn't some ubermensch to whom the rules don't apply.
  8. How about geometric shapes of a certain population size? Has it ever occurred to you that statewide voting totals are a product of de facto voter suppression (my vote don't count who gives a shit) occurring in gerrymandered districts? The solution you propose is a bit ass-backward.
  9. Really, doesn't this look like the aftermath of the most brutal facefucking scene on pornhub? Somehow they cleaned Trump up in a real hurry and didn't get any jizz on his suit.
  10. Peter Navarro is a boob and nincompoop. If you didn't know before, that whole spectacle he put on in connection with his contempt of Congress trial and conviction should have convinced you. An utterly silly twat.
  11. Yeah it's one thing for the stupid, uneducated, gullible and tuned-out to think Trump would deliver on any economic promises. I won't even say the rest.
  12. Well, Ds have been painted as hysterical overreactors. Because there's not a lot they can actually do, they might actually do well to hold their water until shit starts coming home to roost in magaland.
  13. Iran and North Korea. LOL. At least if you'd said China, I could take you seriously.
  14. What, like the CHIPs Act? Great unemployment numbers? Inflation reduction leading the world? Some investment in infrastructure? And what great success did Trump have in his first term? Moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? You're not wealthy enough for his tax cuts to have helped you any, and they exploded the deficit. But I'm sure that's what you think you want.
  15. Well, the disinformation now is that Russia then was commie SoCIaLiStS. Now they're a Christian country. But the reality is the problem has always been Russia, regardless of the regime. Tsars, Soviets, oligarchs, it's always been shitty.
  16. Where's that cuntbag @HellesBier You wanted this, fuckstick. Now, reap!
  17. Don't be a fucktard. You saw what Trump did in his first term. Did you actually think he had any serious solutions for serious problems? Unless you think rampant bigotry and/or P2025 are serious solutions.
  18. Well, Trumpco told you they were telling you this.
  19. Well, the preacher says you can feel free to find or found another church./hornfans
  20. Because he's ceded power to a billionaire megalomaniac. Gonna try to tell us Biden ceded power to Soros?
  21. Denny Crane!
  22. In time, that could surely develop, if this holds. It will require that all NIL contracts be at least semi-public or open to inspection.
  23. I dunno, man. The standard floor for patent damages is a "reasonably royalty," that is the product of negotiation entered into prior to commencement of infringement (thus lacking the coercion of a lawsuit). Suffice it to say, despite a whole shit ton of licenses out there that theoretically could establish reasonable royalties, proving/determining what is one is pretty much a bitch, and hotly litigated in almost every instance. Various forensic accounting firms and databases have touted their "extensive license and royalty data" and they're almost uniformly full of shit.
  24. Love me some Kai. His bluesky is a good follow, Has this gem dandy.
  25. More deets. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/right-wing-teacher-fired-x-stiff-armed-salute/ And this: “The Internet was made for young beautiful people to break the rules and create new and interesting things. We are going to make the world beautiful again. Am I a Nazi? No lmao. I am not literally a Nazi. I am a secret fourth thing and we are coming to conquer the world.” The internet is fucking Satan.
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