Ah, I was more referring to how the documentary was very critical of marketing to children, and how people campaigned against that in the years surrounding that.

I didn’t know about his alcoholism, thanks for bringing that to my attention. That said, eating waaay too much fast food and not exercising was pretty much the whole point - he wanted to show how bad that lifestyle was. IMO the only problem there is that he failed to disclose that he was also heavily drinking.

Exactly. Nobody in this thread remembers Super Size Me?

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I can’t count the number of times I start talking about executive dysfunction and someone immediately chirps in with “make a list, chunk it down, say you’re going to do this for 20 minutes and then take a break.” I eventually started asking in response, "Do you suggest to your depression patients simply not being sad? Do you tell your anxiety patients not to worry about stuff? Because that’s what I’m hearing, and it tells me you don’t

I find the practice of making daily to-do lists still helps, not because I’ll be able to necessarily do the thing for 20 minutes on the first try, but after those 20 minutes i might look down at my little note and be able to remember what it was I was supposed to be doing… and then I can have another attempt at maybe doing it in the next 20 minutes.

It may interest you to know that the switch still exists. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

Very true, the sword would have to pick a line to cut through the gender triangle.

Was going to suggest the sword might discern sex rather than gender, but we’d have a similar question of how the sword would classify intersex people.

Safety regulations are written in blood. Electrical fires were indeed a problem. It’s why there are rules on how many outlets need to be in a room, how spaced out they need to be (to curtail extension cord usage even when the builders are trying to be cheap and stingy with outlets). It’s the reason why we have breakers and GCFIs and RCBs and AFCIs. It’s the reason why we have electrical certification bodies like UL which won’t certify your cable or appliance if the cords are too thin.

There’s a lot of smart stuff we do behind the scenes to make dumb cords safe because even smart people make dumb mistakes.

Here I go once again with the email
Every week I hope that it’s from a female

Oh :( Not from a female

"i am depressed

“You have depression.”

“thank you doctor”