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I would posit increased population, shift to cities, fewer close friends, less family relationships, less community, declining interdependency, lower standards of living, and less hope for the future all contribute to depression and so cognitive distortions.

What do you have to add of value? You take and make things too personally. Look in the mirror.

False equivalency. You should read more books.

I prefer tea leaves and coffee grounds. :)

HN has been gradually colonized by Trump truthers, anti-science, antivaxx, conspiracy theorist, uneducated individuals, trolls, and people outside startups who can't out down irrationality or their egos.

I don't see how this article is noteworthy or relevant for HN.

We don't need mainstream news, politics, geopolitics, or conspiracy theories here.

Some people believe almost nothing is under their control.

These people have external locus-of-control. They don't change the world because they kickback and let life happen to them. Mostly, it's religious types who think like this and say "it's god's plan." Bullshit. They're learned helplessness cowards.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read on HN.

https://www.active.com/health/articles/why-too-much-running-...

You should see the anorexic-looking treadmill runners at my gym who have no muscle type IIB. I bet they already have cardiomyopathies / hypertrophies and will regret their extremist, extremely-unwise lifestyles when their joints need to be replaced in 20 years.

Running is high-impact awful

Elliptical (HIIT - don't overdo it) balanced with weightlifting, music, and nutrition for oxidative stress.

Make it a habit.

For the cost of one less helicopter, $30M, buy 1500 $10k drones (deployed to cover the most territory fastest) and spend the rest on drone swarm operators OpEx.

Schlepping.. embrace the suck for $$.

Really nasty, lots of headaches, complexity, risks, and/or people think it's magic.

We need some FreeBSD ones too for fairness' sake. ;)

Walling-up an open garden

Damnatio memoriae if you don't agree to apologize 10x, cut off a pinky finger, and agree with the "correct" agenda.

This is how inverse totalitarianism "executes" people.. disables their access, shuts them out, and erases them from existence.

Interesting. So I'm over a std dev smarter than either parent and 6" taller than expected. Why can't embryos be screened for "Einsteins"? Anti-intellectuals gonna hate? Most ethical concerns apart from sabotaging an individual's genes are nervous-nelly bullshit. "Designer babies" hell yes. Every chance in life.

You have the choice of which random areas to gamble on buried in small printing of lengthy contracts.

Medicare isn't public universal healthcare. The prescription plans, Medicare Advantage plans, and medigap plans are run by for-profit companies. $300-500 per month, and many good companies, like Thrivent, are getting out of healthcare completely.

That's absolutely insane fraud. Checkups are bullshit anyhow, but online only is beyond the pale.

Don't do regular checkups, they're cash cows.

Where is he on the axis of evil?

Are we talking Lawrence Wilkerson, Rand Paul, Trump, Peter Hitchens, George Will, or Bill O'Reilly?

Which "some places?"

Secret how?

Is this a conspiracy theory?

The feckless GWB destroyed American education with the disaster that was NCLBA. Too much teaching to testing, and too many worthless teacher KPIs.

It makes me want to move to Finland or Singapore.

GATE in California served no material purpose except to spend money and, most likely, inventory civilian human capital (the G part) for future national security recruitment.

At the time, I didn't understand why I was pulled out of class except to discover how quickly I could arrange triangles and be plopped in front of a piano like a just-add-water circus monkey expected to be an instant concert pianist with this one weird trick.

The war on merit is to make it all about victimhood. Forced busing also ruined public schools because more affluent parents pulled their kids put and put them in private schools, and the number of public schools decreased dramatically.

Sucking, pinching, and/or adhesive.

Free returns. The sellers eat that. It's dumb and lazy buyers buying junk and not holding them accountable for the

GTFO now. It will become a miserable second-stringers sausage factory if it isn't already.

Diverticulitis, gout, hyperlipidemia, halitosis, ...

Climate change isn't the weather.

Climate is the average.

We are in a global warming emergency and no one is doing enough about it.

Let's consider that cultured meats are okay as future historically-correct delicacies. We are religiously-attached to meat agriculture now, but we must kick the habit because it's killing us and going to kill us: resource utilization, climate change, antibiotics resistance, and pandemics.

How about we design a specific protein product that is healthiest first? And then second: how to produce it as efficiently as possible?

There is always a space for tinkering. I took apart clocks and small appliances when I was 5. Eventually, my dad had me rebuilding carburetors using the kits because I wasn't strong enough to rebuild alternators yet.

Last month, I made Alexa-enabled "tea candle" lanterns by gutting WiFi bedside lights and using privacy paint on said lanterns. As diffusers, I reshaped the diffusers from the original lights. Where the circuit boards appear, I painted the back walls and PCBs matte black to hide them when the lights are on. I dremeled slots in the lantern bases for USB power.

What appears to be happening is the over-regulation of title combinations to collect more money by "solving" a professionalization problem that didn't need solving.

PE is good enough.

CE's play with mud. They can go to the beach, get some LEGO, or build a bridge of stones across a brook.

;-))

There are plenty of ways for CE's to "tinker" using civil and mechanical engineering statics and dynamics simulators.

I know of a civil engineer PE who is an expert in code interpretations of the ASME (not ASCE) boilers and pressure vessels (BPVC) codes. He acts as an expert witness and also makes interpretations for clients who are unsure about the code's meaning. He makes millions because the correct design and use of such items affect lives and property at immense scales.

Safety regulations are written in blood that is too easily washed-off.

That's asinine when there is no associated professional licensure requirement for cobbling together HTML for a mom&pop liquor store.

In the US, any type of (non-locomotive) engineer involved in critical engineering design, decisions, implementation, and manufacturing of large-scale or life-safety aspects can or should be a "professional engineer" (PE) so malpractice insurance (EPLI) will cover them and client/employers will hire them.

If I say I'm a witch doctor, there is no confusion that I'm not a doctor (of medicine).

My undergrad major was Computer Science & Engineering. Do I need an extra certificate to call myself "an engineer?" Nope.