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Fentanyl laced weed has been endlessly debunked. So where does the claim come from? Who keeps on believing that weed is laced with fent? Police do. Politicians do. People who want to believe it keep on believing it. It’s confirmation bias. It sails right through their tunnel vision. Of course fent is in weed! Because there’s a plot by nefarious... See more

What’s more, since data flows that are implemented with pure functions are relatively easy to manage, they largely avoid the need for more complex architecture to manage them. This is the ultimate spirit of Post-Architecture: To use simple, straight-forward tools to solve our problems so that we can not only postpone potentially risky architectural... See more

The term “dependence” has traditionally been used to describe “physical dependence,” which refers to the adaptations that result in withdrawal symptoms when drugs, such as alcohol and heroin, are discontinued. Physical dependence is also observed with certain psychoactive medications, such as antidepressants and beta-blockers. However, the

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But this is self-refuting. “If ‘good’ means only the local ideology,” Lewis continued, “how can those who invent the local ideology be guided by any idea of good themselves? The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.”

It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more

For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment”... See more

No physical process can grow indefinitely.

There are always friction terms in the dynamics equation that eventually become dominant (energy consumption, heat dissipation, quantum effects, thermal fluctuations, communication bandwidth, mass/energy density....).

Even processes that *appear* exponential on a long time scale are actually a succession of... See more