I'm pretty sure I'm hell banned, but forget about all the chemicals of the brain.
Read anything by Irving Kirsch.
He used The Freedom of Information Act to study All the antidepressants studies that were sent to the FDA by the pill pushers, Not just the cherry picked studies, but All.
He found they basically don't work better than Placebo.
Personally, I think the "Happy" drugs have been the biggest con job the American suffering have ever endured. At least we know opioids work--for awhile. Antidepesssnts just make Dr. Wealthy more wealthy.
My hope is most of these wonder drugs are sued into history, along with those mandatory doctor office visits.
Ask yourself this--why do Psychiatrists have the highest rate of suicide if these drugs work?
I'm glad we have residents whom picked an easy speciality upon graduation, but these drugs have such low efficy rates they should be illegal, or over the counter, with the exception of a few. Trazadone can be nasty. A bad reaction is cured by a needle to the middle part of the brain.
Most are easy on the body, but don't do anything besides make an Artist (Medicine is an art, and Psychiatrists are the milking to the bone.) wealthy.
I'm not into the "Throw it all away trend. That whole minimalism trend the wealthy can experiment with.", but when it comes to paying for a mini-storage (I'm just assuming); it's a win, win.
I worked at two mini-storages whilein college on the weekends.
I learned men and women valued different possessions.
In 99% of the cases, the rent/fees did not add up, but we like our stuff. I get it.
Once a month, an angry customer would empty their unit into a dumptster. The owner had signs up about dumping, but I wasen't paid enough to deal with the person who was at their last bit of hope, and decided Saturday was the day to finally dump it all. One out of 50 customers finally realized that junk they were hanging onto was not worth it.
I did talk one guy out of getting rid of his first edition books though. I was watching him throw away case after case of books into the dumptster. I was sweeping near the dumptster. The first book I picked out of the trash, was a signed book by Hemingway. I knew he wasen't crazy, but he was angry with life.
There was a part of me that just wanted him to leave, and my broke ass could make some good money selling the books.
I decided to tell him forcefully that he was being rash. He took his books out of the trash, and put them back in his unit.
I left the job a few weeks later. Always wondered how his life turned out.
(If you ever have to use a mini-storage: 1. Prorate the rent to the 1 day of the month. Mini-storage owners love late fees. Pick a mini-storage with cameras. People steal, even the mini-storage owners. If renting on the top floor, and the owner only used chicken wire to enclose the ceiling of the unit; you are taking a risk. It's easy to get into your unit. Realize the hardest part of storage is moving your crap in. Most people leave their belongings in way to long. The mini-storage owners know this, and that's why you see ploys like 1st month free bs. I've always felt the government should provide all homeless individuals with free lockers. I saw so many people trying to live out of their car whike renting a unit. I only was one guy who succeed year, after year. My Mini-storage rant is over.)
Only on this over moderated site would you be downvoted for telling us the truth. America is in deep trouble. Why do tech companies know they can exploit most workers with their apps? America has way too many desperate people. Amazon, Uber, and the rest, know they will get hungry people to drive, and deliver food, to guys like the founder of this site. Oh yea, his “Insightful” writing is community college level, and lacks heart, or substance. But we lick his boots because we don’t want to offend the spoiled American? After all, we are all going to be at the rich boys club one day? To you that have that cushy tech job with just watch what happens when you hit fifty, or get eaten up by a monopoly. Why do I feel like 99% of you people actually think you will succeed in America? I guarantee it will be a handful out of thousands, unless you have the proverbial empathetic wealthy parent. Hacker News has become a place where wealthy boys can feel good about their lives, filled with delusional fan boys who believe they will be Zuck boys eventually. I was hellbanned for no good reason years ago, so you probably can’t read this, but I needed to write, even to know one. (Oh yea, ban a person from commenting. Don’t email him without permission, and degrade them with petty demands, especially without agreeing to any TOS. Hellbaning is caddy. I still read these comments daily, but quality is lacking. It seems like every comment is filtered for, what’s the word—-conformity? America was not built on Conformity!
It’s no wonder authors can’t make a living these days.
1. $300 for an article. Sometimes they get generous, and give an extra $100.
2. They then give $300 to a nonprofit of their choice, and they get the write off.
3. I noticed Billy’s famous tax dodge 501c3 is front and center.
4. The sweethearts throw in an extra $25 to revise an article. Dam—that’s nice of them. And I imagine they don’t compensate with time spend spent with editors?
5. Why not be generous and give a percentage of clicks? Give the authors something to work towards?
6. On the positive, I’m assuming the author owns their work, and can pull it at anytime, but I’m probably mistaken? They probably have a 30 years ownership for the huge sum of $300?
7. The greed of these monopolies is astounding. I am eagerly waiting for the day, they are Regulated/Unionized. Don’t like being fair——fine; you have the rest of the world to exploit. I imagine, I’ll get a lot of flack from HN boys, but one day the party will be over, and you might see the Internet from a different perspective? The internet has ruined so many small businesses.
8. In all fairness, DO is not a monopoly. My rage is over the true monopolies, that get people to do things for free, or essentially free. I’m just projecting? I used to make a good part time living teaching people how to repair watches, but I can’t compete with free. My tutorials were more comprehensive than the free stuff, but the big boys pretty much ruined my gig.