Of course! It’s always refreshing to engage with someone with good intentions.

So, this would only be a misrepresentation if the authors were claiming to look for causes of Autism.

Good science is based on testing a hypothesis. ‘What causes X’ is not a testable hypothesis, it’s too broad, the variables aren’t defined. ‘Does Y effect X?’ is a testable hypothesis, and a solid basis for initial research.

The question of ‘what causes autism’ is a huge one that can’t be answered by a single study. Each potential factor needs to be evaluated on its own merit, and this study does exactly that (with admittedly questionable results).

However, something like the recent HHS report is exactly the place where it’s wildly irresponsible to present only one potential hypothesis as a ‘cause’. That’s where we would expect a high level view of a range of established factors (since obviously there is no one ‘cause’).

I understand your passion here, but it’s a little misguided.

The goal of this study is not to try to determine a singular cause for autism. That’s some outside political bullshit that’s relevant in a broad sense, but not the stated purpose of this study.

They set out to look at a potential link between Tylenol and ADHD, so they look at studies involving Tylenol and ADHD. It’s pretty straightforward. P-Hacking would be selecting only studies that did show a positive correlation between Tylenol use and ADHD.

Your climate change metaphor is just wildly off base, I don’t know what to say here honestly.

As others here have pointed out, the study is mildly flawed but the real issue is that the inconclusive results are being wildly misrepresented.

A search for those terms returns any study that looks at those terms, regardless of whether or not a link is indicated. How else do you expect to determine the validity of a hypothesis if you don’t look at studies that test that hypothesis?

Let’s not run off with random bullshit. It’s an AI interpolated video to take it from 24fps to 60, and there’s some weirdness caused by that.

Running around screaming conspiracy about something so pointless and easily disproved just makes us all look stupid.

It’s most likely because the porn game website is just aggregate stealing games from other sites and throwing anything they can get on there.

It never hurts to keep an eye on what your kids are looking at and make sure the guardrails are still on, but remember the author had to go through a lot of hoops to get there. There’s nothing here to suggest there are porn games secretly hiding among reputable sites for kid friendly games, just that these sites hosting porn games are shamelessly stealing games from other sites.

Vent just refers to the general end of the butt. It’s the cloacal aperture that’s the all purpose asshole/penis/vagina. It’s really an all-in-one orifice, quite a time saver.

The steam deck is pretty much just a PC with a built in gamepad. You can put windows or any OS you want on it.

If you do grab this, definitely take a look at OpenJKDF2. It’s a rebuild of the game engine for modern machines and is almost necessary to have a good time with it.

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2

Based on what exactly? I’ve gone to one of his events, he’s pretty explicit about being a science educator. I can’t say I’ve seen him claim otherwise anywhere, though people definitely like to put those words in his mouth.

People also shouldn’t just be able to make money off of other people’s creations without limits.

IMO, ideally we would implement a system of ‘open licensing’ where people could freely use others IP as long as they pay a public, standardized percent of revenue based on the usage.

“Fan”

That’s the part that precludes payment. Fan works legally have to be free, that’s what makes it not copyright infringement.

I do, though not nearly as often as I’d like. I think people often get too hung up on how to meditate and try to force the ‘empty head’, but that’s like starting out on challenge mode. The most effective method for me is to sit somewhere outside (preferably a peaceful place) and focus my mind on listening. Nothing else, just listening for whatever sounds are around, and naming them. Wind, birds, water, construction noise, whatever it is, just touch each sound, then listen for another.

I guess it’s more of a mindfulness exercise technically, but it’s all the same concept. It’s grounding yourself in the physical world, quieting the constant chatter and focusing on something external and tangible.

Plenty of good moves are slow, it takes time to setup a deep story. I hope you’d give Casablanca or Schindler’s List more of a chance.

But Andor is a political thriller, it’s not a fun action/adventure. If you think the beginning is boring, you probably won’t enjoy the rest anyway, it’s not for everyone.

You gave up 2/3 of the way through the first story arc. With the 3rd episode it clocks in at about 2 hours, there’s your movie.

You stopped the movie a little over halfway through, what did you expect?

My understanding is that they were embryos from HIV infected parents, so they had very little chance of avoiding infection during birth. His argument is that their chances of survival were already so low, there’s little harm that could be done if the treatment wasn’t effective.

My dude, that’s not a toad, that’s a leopard frog.

You literally just rephrased exactly what they just said. Who do you think the ‘third of us who learn and try to repeat it but better’ was talking about?

What ‘good’ was he actually trying to do? Padme was in no actual danger, he just had dreams about her dying. A desire to force someone to live beyond their natural life through any possible means and despite all negative consequences is not ‘good’. There is no universe where murdering dozens of children is ok because he might be able to save his wife from something bad that might happen to her at some future point.

Having superpowers powered by emotion is dangerous, and the whole point of Jedi training is to understand and recognize your emotions, so that you don’t allow intense emotions to control your actions.

Anakin did not learn those lessons. Ignoring emotion is the antithesis of Jedi teaching, the entire point is to learn how to deal with them in a healthy way.

I don’t think you’re on the right track here. There are definitely existing laws in most states regarding ‘revenge porn’, creating sexual media of minors, Photoshop porn, all kinds of things that are very similar to ai generated deep fakes. In some cases ai deepfakes fall under existing laws, but often they don’t. Or, because of how the law is written, they exist in a legal grey area that will be argued in the courts for years.

Nowhere is anyone suggesting that making deepfakes should be prosecuted as rape, that’s just complete nonsense. The question is, where do new laws need to be written, or laws need to be updated to make sure ai porn is treated the same as other forms of illegal use of someone’s likeness to make porn.