Winter is coming
Maybe in the West. I would have a hard time believing Chinese researchers feel this way.
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Sadly, social media is the new smoking.
I encourage everyone to read "the book of why" by Judea Pearl. It illustrates how "research" and "studies" were used to sew doubt about the dangers of smoking. That's where we're at with social media, BUT, we have new tools like causal inference that should decrease the length of time we deal with "no link found here" or "correlation is not causation" bs.
I would just add that the content of The Book of Why is amazing but damn is the audio book bad.
It might be the worst read book I can think of. I am not even sure why, it just so painful to get through with the way the voice actor speaks.
Hopefully it gets a new rendition at some point in the future.
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If I put myself in the head of an executive at a big company, I didn't get to this position to be on zoom calls.
I want to feel like the big cheese in an office with a bunch of people. I want my ass kissed in person. Work from home feels like a demotion.
It is not good for the "Corporate Culture".
grphtrdr commented on Is There a Case for Legalizing Heroin? newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/rakhodorkovsky
Flip that. What's the social value of criminalizing any drug consumption?
Profit and advertisement of these products should be banned, and the state should provide addicts with clean supplies at-cost to out compete criminal enterprises.
The amount of violence this would avoid in the Americas is staggering, and clearly desirable.
I think we are at the point in the United States that we almost have a moral responsibility to decriminalize all drugs just to assist with defunding the Mexican cartels.
When you add that in with what it would do to violence in the US directly, I don't see how someone can argue the other side from a moral perspective.
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