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As a long time vaper, I never get any withdrawal symptoms after quitting - quite the opposite: the first week is still tolerable, but then the depression comes back and never leaves in 9 months of abstinence.

Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use in an Observational Trial

Results: Medicinal cannabis use was associated with lower self-reported depression, but not anxiety, at baseline. Medicinal cannabis users also reported superior sleep, quality of life, and less pain on average. Initiation of medicinal cannabis during the follow-up period was associated with significantly decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms, an effect that was not observed in Controls that never initiated cannabis use.

That’s barely evil. Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base:
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Does this make possible federated supply-demand matching, like dating, jobs, and any kind of marketplace?

Just a credible threat.

Before a tankie comes in propagandising the 1992 consensus that says “there is one China, our China”, by which China means PRC (People’s Republic of China) and Taiwan’s ruling party KMT meant RoC (Republic of China), let me add some detail:

After effectively losing the Chinese civil war in 1949 by retreating to Taiwan, RoC martial law era ruling party KMT first threatened to retake China until 1991, and then diluted the plan into “reunification” and cosied up with China. Last time KMT said “one China” was in the 1992 consensus, at the end of martial law. Taiwanese people never agreed with KMT’s hubris or sucking-up, which shows in voting results since the martial law ended.

Now Taiwan is stuck with the official stance of “one China” because China’s (PRC) Anti-secession law of 2005 promises war if Taiwan changes its name from the old “Republic of China” (since 1911 in China, since 1945 on Taiwan) to “Republic of Taiwan”. They missed a chance to become officially Taiwan the country. Most parties in Taiwan support “status quo”, “don’t rock the boat”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Taiwan#Current_political_issues

We’re making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.
AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

If you’re so damn smart that you can see what trash is what, separate that trash! That’s a job for a tireless machine.

Commanding a bad/incompetent/overworked parent to become a good parent doesn’t make it so.