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@ergo @j
>autism people are immune
Not really. On the trans front at least, it has captured a lot of high functioning autists (and even low functioning ones too).

@j
>Hopefully they actually find salvation in the process
Dude... you know they wont.

@Autumn I guess it depends on how you count them. I'm looking at our schedule right now, and some of the vaccines supposedly protect against multiple diseases. So they're kinda a multi-vaccine in 1. And they're also multi-dose vaccines, that need booster shots.
If I count the unique vaccines in there, it's like 7 unique vaccines.
If I count every time there's the word "vaccine" in the line, there's like 12 injections till the age of 14.
If I count every disease covered in those multi-vaccine injections as a separate vaccine, I'm getting around 41. Could be more if I miscounted or misunderstood something.

But that's just obligatory vaccinations. There's also a few optional vaccines (like for varicella), and that seems to be another 10-12 doses altogether.

Do note, I live in what would be considered a second world country. You might want to check with other European countries too, like France, UK, Germany, to see how a country more comparable to US does things.

@j
n...n...n... nagger!
Nah.. compelled speech is gay, no matter what the mandatory word is.

@VD15
Yeah... that sounds pretty reasonable. You should check the specs, but unless it's some Celeron shit, I think you should be good.

@j Honestly, I'm not particularly convinced it functions as some kind of darwinian selective pressure. I've yet to see something that convinces me there's some specific trait that protects people from ideological brain washing and mind viruses.

It seems to me to be more of a luck of the dice situation. When and where you were born, what kind of parents you had, what your peer group is like, what kind of experiences and knowledge you randomly get exposed to in your life. I think these kinds of things are more likely to influence if you fall down any cult, including the progressive woke and trans ideology, than some genetic intelligence factor.

@M_39 @sun
My conclusion from this is that you're a sharply dressed serial killer...

I feel like maybe we should start a charity or something for step sisters that get stuck. What do you guys think?

@djsumdog
AI is still new, so I think it's a bit early to say it's making us stupider. It's even too early to say for sure if it will make us stupider in the future, though I think it has a great potential to change how we think or how we approach intellectual activities in general.

Having computers in our pockets and the internet certainly affected how we think, in that it allowed people to not rely on memorization as much, and it removed humans needing to use neurons on certain menial tasks, like basic math or spell checking.

So I think AI has the potential to do something similar, in reducing people's work on certain tasks associated with thinking. Now, whether this will actually make us stupider, or will allow humans to focus more energy on higher level thinking, that I don't know.

But I will say this: my English spelling is actually worse than it used to be, I occasionally forget common words or idioms (earlier I struggled to search up the word "lobotomy" because I just could remember it, and apparently "primitive brain surgery" is not a good enough descriptor to immediately bring "lobotomy" up), and my math isn't the best either.

So depending on what tasks we end up using AI for in the long run, I think there will be tasks that humans won't get enough practice in doing to be good at.

P.S. As for "we are making AI stupider", 100% true. Most of it for now is from the shitty filters programmers put, so that AI is politically correct. But it will start swinging into the "shit goes in, shit comes out" phenomenon, were AI starts getting trained on it's own increasingly worse shit.

@nyanide @j
It's not just one account. There are quite a few of them already. And the stories are quite similar. Almost every time, the psychologists completely ignored other mental health issues that the patients had, all their history, and pushed them into accepting that they were trans. A lot of sexual abuse too. And they were all from an era when they actually had to do some therapy. That's not even a requirement anymore these days.

But you are right that this is barely the start of the push-back. We won't get the full pendulum swing until we start seeing the young people who transitioned very recently start detransitioning in 10-15 years from now.

It will take time, but by the end of it, this period in medical history might have a worst reputation than lobotomies.

@j
Yes, but the backlash is barely beginning. He had this happen to him 17 years ago when you still had to do some therapy before being pushed into this. Meanwhile the peak of trans promotion hysteria was just a few years ago, and we're likely still there on the medical front. I'm terrified of how many people like him, in 10-15 years from now, we (the society) will have to find ways to help deal with the criminal injustice and trauma that was caused to them, because this craze has grown exponentially.
We have only a handful of public facing detransitioners from 10-20 years ago. God only knows how many detransitioners from today we'll have in 10-20 years going forward.

re: :alert: ARTHROPOD OF THE DAY :alert: 

@vayda Forbidden strawberry.

@beardalaxy I know my answer is very wishy-washy, and that's because we don't actually have solid evidence. Just a few computer models that would fit with everything else we know about the universe, which would help explain a few odd observations of very distant galaxies apparently having a preference of rotational direction (which normally you'd expect a 50/50 distribution of clockwise and anti-clockwise spin).

@beardalaxy For now, it might spin, but at a speed that is too slow to measure accurately... with the current tech. But yes, we have some clues that could point at the universe as a whole spinning.

@VD15 I don't think the temp is bad (it shouldn't be throttling as far as I know), but I don't think it shouldn't be that high with water cooling. The only things I can think of that you could check is if the thermal paste is ok, and make sure the AIO hasn't lost water.

@VD15 I know a Rubin... You sure it's not Rubin? Don't think I know any Rubens.

@p
>phosphorescence
I know there is some work being done in creating lasers with the help of bio phosphorescent dyes, but look at the thickness of those lasers. That's not lab equipment lasers. You definitely need some heavy equipment for that.
>crystallized milk solids
Excuse me, what?!

>bold to assume that the CIA was "hit by" something
Sure, once feminism took over, the letter agencies started doing the engineering too (which is why I mentioned the tit shrinking rays). But their agents are not immune from ideological crap.

>Okay, I *do* have a thing about tits
Case closed.

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