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> there is absolutely no doubt that eight hours or more of weekly gaming is evidence of depression for age groups 16 and up.

Since you're putting it forth as an absolute truth, surely you'd have no problem providing us all with a citation; would you be so kind?


It's quite easy to label something as a fad rather than to attempt to parse the data that supports the interventions they prescribed to the patients in the study (of which there is plenty).


You may be able to configure F.B. Purity [0] to your liking. I installed it last night after seeing it mentioned in another thread here and it's cut down on all of my newsfeed clutter.

[0]https://www.fbpurity.com/


You're right. HIV isn't just another communicable disease in someone with an undetectable viral load, it's just another untransmissible disease [0].

[0]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27209...


If you take diligent care to take the proper pill everyday, you can make in transmissible for your partner.

But the risk of you not doing so is _very high_ to your partner. As such, it should be disclosed. If there is trust between people, then its acceptable.


I would argue that the risk of someone not taking their medication is not "very high". The individual with HIV is highly incentivized to take their medication because it ensures their continued survival.


I wonder if people will view it as sufficient that a digital copy of 'them' (or at least something identical to them at the point of copying) exists, despite their original biological minds eventually perishing.

It excites me to think about discovering the origin of our consciousness and being able to transfer that.


At last, a use for all the tuition fees I've paid.

https://mega.nz/file/oB8z1aoJ#nm3pz9LO4uGMwMiQMh6SbO3PZmfTnR...


In order to predict suicide you'd need real-time data of wide variety of aspects of a human being (levels of pain, hopelessness, connectedness, capability for suicide, etc) in a way that is impossible to achieve at the moment (insufficient measures and insufficient data gathering techniques).


I've found Productive to be very helpful


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