Ah, I see what you’re saying – that’s a great point. It’s designed to be entrancing AND designed to actively try to be more entrancing.

I am glad your mom gave birth to you, friend.

Plus now you can relish the fact that she had to go through the pain of childbirth.

I dunno, I think there’s credence to considering it as a worry.

Like with an addictive substance: yeah, some people are going to be dangerously susceptible to it, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be any protections in place…

Now what the protections would be, I’ve got no clue. But I think a blanket, “They’d fall into psychosis anyway” is a little reductive.

Yes. For example I know in textiles especially, they were small enough to run under & between machines to get things without the factory having to them off. (Surprise surprise, guess how kids got maimed and/or killed…)

Since when can an executive order nullify a Constitutional Amendment??

Seem like a pretty open shut case to me…

It’s insane, because it’s not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It’s perfectly measured and…logical. A well made report.

pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons

Look, I’m not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they’re fucking REGULATED.

Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves… That’ll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you’ll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.

Yes, that was my first question: what about Photoshop as an image editor? What is a comparable replacement for that?

I don’t know how it stacks up price-wise, but I’d argue Bluebeam is a far superior PDF editing program. It even covers some word processing, Illustrator, and some PowerPoint adjacent things.

That being said, I can’t see it as practical for the average consumer.