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Finally a sum of money which is at least at the same scale as the wrongdoing.

They have to shut Monsanto down and sentence the decision makers.

Sure, but they are still responsible for the effects. That we can't forget.

Ignoring the complex system they have created is their fault

I'm mostly worried about soy and generally, this human interventionism.

Where you take something that has been with us for 2000 years and replace it with something else, on which it's impossible to have the same amount of data.

Same here, there's a lot to the idea of ying and yang.

It's really hard to discuss nuance here. But for someone who is proud of his moral superiority, you sure didn't try to see where I was coming from.

I'd say it's a layered thing. You start with the right core, but you layer some of these bad characteristics on top. Depending on your environment, you will have to deal with different kinds of people.

Your example is exactly what I mean by balance. But there are more. But itt difficult to showcase my point when your response just leaks out moral superiority, as if you know the backstory to these opinions.

Looking at the relationship between Trump and the media vs any "good guy" and the media. He can, would and did say everything he wanted, and no one batted an eye, it moved no one. Fundamentally a lot of people already thought he was bad, or that he says shit.

But take your "good guy" Joe. That if his image was built on pure goodness, one slip, one mistake and the press would be all over him.

What I'm trying to see is that the arsenal of weapons ( physical, mental) at a bad person's disposal is larger than a purely good person's.

And that is maintained with scale. I'm looking at the weapons bad politicians have and use, vs those that the purely good ones have at their disposal. Especially when the former have power.

There's more to this. But it's hard to have a discussion with someone, who can't see that some of the things bad people do, have a place in this world, and can be employed for a better purpose.

I am in my twenties. I feel the same, just not sure about the negative effects on longterm happiness.

I'm sure there's a balance there to be attained. But knowing you are capable of lying, being a jerk, cheating and what that gives you, is very powerful.

In general I think there's a lot to learn from bad people. Which is an idea lot of people dismiss.

It's not the same anti-evolutionary guude promoted by the EAT foundation is it?

"Approval is a helluva drug". And like any drug we need to overcome it. Quit cold turkey, so we can see it for what it is. Sure, you can dip yourself into it from time to time, but you'll be less of a victim. We have enough of those already

What happens when your stake is big enough in an outcome, that you start pulling strings, legal or not ,for that outcome to happen.

Dude just don't worry about it. A lot of people take offense at just about anything in 2018. They victimize themselves and then just try to shift the blame on you for lack of emotional development.

The toxicity in Snapchat comes from its filter culture, and how they're abused to create a fake and frankly disturbing and disgusting standard of beauty

Because it's easy is not an excuse. When you say that you become a victim and you lose any agency you might have had over this.

But to each his own.

I wouldn't say trade all rationality, but trade some of it in some circumstances. This is especially valid in the hacker news community, where most likely we spend our time in the part of the mind that works with reason.

If you want to try seeing the other side and start marrying the two sides, you should try acting classes. Words, video, lack the dimension to explain to you how that feels on your body.

Finally, someone is speaking about this.

You mean the effects of the negative manifestation of certain behaviours. So you are saying that my logical leap, that because there is "toxic masculinity" ( which is a gross simplification obviously) that a counterpart to that in the feminine side, is something I just made up.

I usually make statements drawing from observed behaviour and interactions. And I can't deny that if we look on a spectrum of behaviour, and on one side we have masculinity on the other we have femininity. If we go all the way to the left to the masculine side, there are behaviours there that are what the media says "toxic". But if we go on the otherside of the spectrum, to the extreme, and say that yeah, things are just rosy on the other side, we are doing a great disservice to the truth.

You've probably seen it, there are certainly examples. Emotional manipulation of the husband, emotional manipulation of the child about the husband.

I mean there are a lot of things someone displaying this type of behaviour, can do to hurt the relationship between the father and the child, even if she is the mother of the child.

I can't understand why your comment has been downvoted.

I don't want to take away from the results from the study. But it would be a great area to study the relationship between men and interaction with women, especially those displaying toxic femininity, in the context of fatherhood.

Don't know if anyone coined the term toxic femininity, but it should obviously be a field of study, just as toxic masculinity is.

Let me provide you an alternative perspective worth considering. Depending on the seriousness of your condition, having adenoids can result in having problems breathing normally( aka through the nose). Now obviously breathing is very important for your organism, and it will find ways to adapt, and you will find yourself breathing through your mouth.

Breathing through the mouth will encourage the development of a long face, cus tongue is not in its natural position, at the top of the palate. Your posture will change since having the mouth open is not the default position of the body for long periods of time. You might find your neck lunging forward. And these are just second and third order effects for not being to breathe properly during early childhood.

Jaws might not develop properly, teeth as well. And that is all the effects I know about.

Yes, I've had both my adenoids and tonsils removed, in the end. Not early enough though.

It messes around with your brain. Which in turn messes around with your mood, which in turn can affect your interactions, relationships and the downspiral can go even deeper. I stopped here.

I guess there are a lot of prerequisites for things to go on a downward spiral ( start young, be an introvert, have thin skin ), cus some people never get here. But if you find yourself having terrible mood issues, mental fog etc. and have a consistent porn watching habit, don't exclude porn as a possible source.

What momentmaker said, and more. You can check out more on yourbrainonporn.com.

Quit Facebook( which really means just access it 2mins per week on a Sunday, just because I'm on a few groups ). Close down Instafart.

Quit watching porn, after realising the health risks are not worth the benefits.

Quit buying sweets of any kind, especially sugary ones, for myself. I still buy chips for everyone when meeting with friends. I still eat sweets as long as they are made at home. And yes, I have cheat days. So it's not perfect.

The benefits trickled down, phone usage went down etc. etc.

So I got into the habit of quitting, and seeing things for what they are.

Please add lose yourself in your world of unrealistic fantasy. Watch porn, a lot of it. Allow yourself to get consumed by it. See people as objects. Then watch more porn.

Start gambling, with your money first, then with other peoples' money. You are entitled to that money even though it's theirs. Society owes you a lot already.

Even better, combine the two, do online strip poker. Do anything but face the often less colourful reality.

Who needs conspiracies when you have pure greed and unmanaged corporate interests.

In a bank robbery, if you are driving the getaway car you are not techinically the cause of the robbery, but you sure as hell enabled the robber to get away clean.

I see why he wouldn't agree even with the least intrusive advertising place. Because it's just a slippery slope from there. That starting point can be used in conversations to leverage the 'advertising model' further, and we can end up with another facebook, easily.

See, I don't want to defend Elon but he seems the most balanced among big tech executives, in that he is invested himself in the outcomes of the companies. He spends the long hours, or at least spent them in the past.

I think he is more self aware in general than other execs. He found away to mix self-interest with solving worlds problems. I mean there is still potential for things to go awry.

But at least he is not Facebook. He is not a casino owner or something similar.

With him I don't think you can separate the right reasons and the business reasons

I think it's sad, given how smart he is, that he is unaware of this dark side of connection and being connected and of facebook in general. So he's either to wrapped up in himself to realise, or at least acknowledge the dark side of what he's doing. Or even worse, he knows, and is aware but just continues to do so

I don't give advice but I just want to say this to a fellow man.

Be very careful reading too much into what a woman says in these contexts. What's really conclusive is what she does.

She might say she wants this, this, that. Don't really take that at face value. What matters in the end is what she does not what she says.

I've been on the side that's for automation, for technology, for progress. But I think it's getting way out of hand, way too fast.

Those who are smart have their own biases, and shortsightedness. Because you're smart, you tend to dwell in the complex and complicated stuff. And you think you see all the interactions that happen there. But owing to the number of variables around, there are bound to be some unforeseen second or third order effects that you couldn't account for. Things like, building something for a purpose and society deciding it can be used for something else.

Now I don't know if automation will have these types of effects. But I at least am humble enough to recognise that it could, and that the effects could be devastating. And judging by the speed at which the big companies want to get rid of these manual processes, it doesn't seem they think too much about how this would affect the struggling class.