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“The high proportion of stimulant users in our population may be explained in part by our recruitment methods (e.g., recruiting from the subreddit r/adderall).”

I love this

That’s funny considering Microsoft is so tax averse when it comes to its own finances.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-to...

On the media podcast and Columbia journalism review

I wouldn’t call them impartial but the analysis is definitely fair and intelligent.

Airbus had similar issues a while back. The software was forcing the nose of the plane down and the pilots had to fight with it to bring the plane out of a dive.

Is it absolutely necessary for the computer to be adjusting the angle of attack?

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-untold-story-of-qf72-wh...

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2...

*edited to cite sources

According to the CDC-

Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States

From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose

Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid

In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999

On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html

Government spends billions waging war on marijuana while Purdue Pharma, Pill Mills, and The FDA kill the rest of us with Oxycontin