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collegeburner··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
idk i always got the idea that at that age women can be more emotionally vulnerable to some stuff. same reason their bullying goes for social attacks, shaming, talking shit behind ppls backs instead of physical violence mostly.
collegeburner··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
do you have somewhere where i can read more about this? i havent seen it before and am interested.
collegeburner··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
i always thought the same for a while but apparently its not as much any more. my guess is kinda like ig theyre more likely to make content and post vs guys so we see them more. they do seem to be more active users by a huge margin tho.
collegeburner··on TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
difference is tiktok and short video algos exploit ppls worse natures. like i know a few ppl whose feeds became e-thots doing dances in bikinis bc they wouldnt go seek it out but tiktok showed them that and their watch metrics or whatever were better. or ppl whose feed became far right shit bc it showed them some of that.

there's a lot of stuff we know isn't good and won't consciously choose to go watch. but short video shows us some of that and we subconsciously engage with it more instead of consciously choosing so we watch more and more.

this is hard for adults to deal with but way worse for kids with shitty impulse control.

collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
i urge you to talk to ppl who have run low income housing. from the people i know who done it they quit bc it cost more to maintain it with all the damage and crime then a modest blue collar unit. "building more housing" dont fix nothing if the ppl who live there treat it like shit attract crime and don't reliably pay.
collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
we used to have those in a lot of cities in america, ghettos and tenements. at least they were cheap ig. the problem is we still don't know what else we can do with those people. a lot of them just don't give a shit so we got 0 leverage to make them do anything.
collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
explain why the places with the worst homeless is the same ones with high taxes and liberal policies then. i used to give a shit but years of work on this problem and a lot of cities only made it worse.

literally all the progressives can come up with for a solution is "give more shit away free" when we used to give away less and didn't have the same problem. whatever the disease is that's not treating it.

collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
i'm not gonna pay a bum to quit living on my street. that's a glorified protection racket.
collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
i agree we gotta go back to enforcing laws. problem is then ppl just move they RVs.

like, we can't rly make them stop unless we take they RV, now we got 1 more homeless. or we could take them to prison, now we got 1 more prisoner. none of this fixes the problem bc it's rly hard to punish ppl who got nothing to lose.

collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
lol i've heard a few ppl pitching a "city for the homeless". build a government subsidized city in the most cheap ass land we can find in the country. away from everything else. free housing free food, nothing fancy. have them do jobs processing food or building weapons or whatever else the government needs. there's cops everywhere, you step out of line there's somebody there to taze your ass. imports and exports is controlled so they can't relapse on drugs.

oh wait, we got something like that... prison. it does a shit job at fixing homeless ppl.

collegeburner··on Illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
i really don't give a shit. like i know that's not a nice thing to say and it's not what i'm supposed to say but it's how i feel by this point. cities have been so destroyed and filled with literal shit and crime gone up and my friends get assaulted that they used up all their sympathy they got from us. to start force junkies into rehab and go back to institutionalizing ppl who are too crazy to survive.

i remember when i was younger ppl would carry food in their cars and hand it out to homeless with hungry signs. some of them would take it and be grateful and that was good. some of them would only want money (obv what that would be for) and so we move on. but it was good we could hand out some food. now most ppl i know aren't comfortable doing that any more. bc a bunch of them have been attacked when they wouldn't give cash. most of them not bad, but having a guy trying to pull open the door or grabbing the car is scary for most of us and really fucking scary for somebody like a small woman. so it's not that people don't still have sympathy for the honest guy down on his luck but there's too many of the bad ones now.

the problem is look at low income housing, people will tell you there's not enough. "oh just build more". but low income housing these days is really fucking bad. i have friends who are landlords and tried running low income housing and its awful how bad it gets torn up, how hard it is to get people to pay with rent and eviction moritoriums. and it only gets worse.

it cost more for them to run low income housing than blue-collar housing that's still not fancy but has better tenants. there's so much damage and crime around the low-income. remember austin bought that hotel for a homeless shelter and it got trashed to shit in like 2 weeks? same kinda problem.

so it ain't a simple problem to fix. and the moritoriums and rent control that cities keep adding only makes more people leave the low income housing business.

but all that aside me and a whole bunch of other people are just done. and if the homeless don't leave other people will, look at these cities rn. and once all the rich people are gone and all the middle class people are gone then they're really gonna be in trouble.

tbh our problem is we can't punish people who got nothing so laws don't mean nothing to them. like what do u even do to a person shitting in a downtown street? arrest them? put them where? now u spend money keeping them in jail and they will get out back on the street. and relapse rates out of rehab are shit specially since a lot of those people end up there from a court order so that ain't any kind of solution here.

collegeburner··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
theres a lotta bullshit but also theres some interesting studies that get posted sometimes. like any other place it aint all good but kinda a good meta feed.

probs not the best place to start tho ig

collegeburner··on Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast
fr its slick af and gives off mad apple commercial vibes
collegeburner··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
> since TV
collegeburner··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
tbh i think there's a special element on baldness but i dont know why. but we haven't elected a bald president since TV (when we rly started seeing them lots) even tho we've elected ppl who aren't otherwise as handsome so that says smth.
collegeburner··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
i mean understanding the endocrine system is hard. theres a lot of reasons why diff ppl got diff levels of hormones. so everybody's like "genetics" but really it can also be lifestyle factors (diet sleep exercise alcohol whatever) with also genetics.

btw antiandrogens also are good evidence against tension theory, they can legit restore some hair in places where it was lost, see ru58841.

collegeburner··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
r/tressless

theres some on r/moreplatesmoredates but thats more pharma oriented

collegeburner··on The richer people get, the more meat they eat
actually it's very sustainable for ppl in America. we export a shitton of food (and through that water), we just gotta stop. were one of the less dense countries and have plenty of arable land etc.

i do feel for the rest of the world tho, they prolly gonna have to take a downgrade in they standard of living.

source: https://www.agfoundation.org/common-questions/view/does-the-...

were a net exporter by $ and a lot of what we import is expensive shit without much calories (cofee, chocolate) not actually calories.

collegeburner··on The richer people get, the more meat they eat
theres a lot of shit thats "real food" but aint good for us. french fries in seed oils and a sugary coke is "real food" technically.
collegeburner··on Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down
https://killedbygoogle.com/ time to update lmao
collegeburner··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
yes lol but most of those just have to invest like 20% of their assets in esg or smth. esg is also more commonly exclude oil companies so they aren't the shareholders pushing that. it's kinda funny some of the big esg funds literally have energy companies as their top performing picks rn.
collegeburner··on Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes (2016)
lmao no. they're on board with vapes as a safer option bc it pulls them out of the long decline to nothing they was on
collegeburner··on Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes (2016)
they try offering in fruity flavors: "yall are trying to hook kids!"

they try offering in tobacco flavors: "that's not effective for cessation!"

wtf are they supposed to sell then?!

collegeburner··on Yes, social media is undermining democracy
except recommendation platforms are more popular all the time. ppl will choose the algo feed bc they like it more. idk why but everybody is taking america off the hook for wanting toxic shit and gravitating to it. its at least half a demand side problem.

if u want an example: tiktok has the for you page (algo discovery) and the following page (just ppl u follow). its the fyp where ppl spend time.

collegeburner··on Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
ooh looks cool! are yall going to support stuff like dietary preferences? and is it ad supported or?
collegeburner··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
they can't bc investors are scared af about what the future is. biden and his buddies been attacking oil and gas for years now then they wanna flip a switch and have everybody go back to investing in production. then 2 yrs from now they gonna go back to attacking it and straight up cancelling projects and refusing to permit shit and companies won't be able to pay off the assets.

it was a mistake to focus on attacking o&g when alternatives still aint ready yet.

collegeburner··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
a lot of economists use 2 consecutive quarters negative bc

1. the business cycle committee is slow af

2. they only cover the U.S. so we gotta have something a bit consistent across countries

collegeburner··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
i don't much like the former guy but there's def a slant. i'm pretty sure joe is this close sharpieing in "no" in front of "recession" on his slides.

up until literally 2 weeks ago the media was on about the "biden boom" (lmao)

collegeburner··on How I write React after 8 years
any tips or resources you seen good for optimizing react?
collegeburner··on A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach
shit like monkeypox is spreading mostly from promiscuous ppl rn. im saying ppl who do that and spread it need to be punished. like if ppl can get fined for not wearing a mask and spreading covid why is this any different. literally.

tbh the feeling's mutual.

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