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megaed99 t1_jaajmtd wrote

Reply to Does gene editing hold the key to improving mental health? | Research suggests traumatic childhood experiences embed themselves in our brains and put us at risk of mental illness, but epigenetic editing may offer us hope of removing them. by lughnasadh

I sure hope treatment of this sort can become mainstream. I know as well as my doctor that there certain features of myself that are naturally completely irreparable. I am either suicidal depressive or manic. If I am on my medication like I am now, I am a total sociopath who struggles to feel anything other than disinterest, anger or hatred. Unless of course I drink or do drugs.

If something could take all of this away from me, I would be the first to volunteer. It is complete and utter torture that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

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FalloutNano t1_jaajekc wrote

Reply to comment by StrionicRandom in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

Did you not read, or not understand my previous comment? Also, profanity isn’t wanted. Take it elsewhere or don’t reply.

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theluckyfrog t1_jaajdab wrote

Reply to This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

Is there a petition related to this anywhere? I feel like there should be a petition to let the govt know this is not what we mean by "work on the climate issue".

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TheInfernalVortex t1_jaaj1st wrote

Reply to comment by Undernown in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

And the worst thing is you have to store it under high pressure in big tanks and its extremely flammable. TANSTAAFL.

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EvilBit3514 t1_jaaidb3 wrote

Reply to comment by sigmatrophic in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

When Marx and Engels wrote "What the Bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers", this is what they meant. Capital twists the fabric of society, governance, justice, and people, wringing out profits into fewer and fewer hands. Eventually it all has to snap.

The rise of climate change, ecological disaster, and nuclear brinkmanship changes the game, though. Class struggle is becoming a matter of not just how we order society, but humanity existing at all.

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Rakshear t1_jaai02f wrote

Reply to The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

The problem being many People only seem intelligent and compassionate while they share your views and you share theirs, take Reddit as an example. Sure many mods on many threads help keep it all civil and peaceful, but how many subreddits are not just censored but controlled by mods who have nearly unchecked power in their sub? What happens when you say something they disagree with even though it doesn’t break the rules? Banned, silenced, and removed. That doesn’t happen often granted, at least in the subs I frequent and I haven’t been banned from any, but it does happen every now and then to some. Again this being Reddit, and subreddits being limited to certain topics most people who get banned did something as there is a suspension period before permanently banning, but still, some mods do power trip, and they go basically unchecked.

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NVincarnate t1_jaagolm wrote

Reply to Universal ethics/basic law for all people & global moral education: A new way to sustainability and peace? by fortin1984

Universally mandating peace sounds like a recipe for failure.

The core problem with world peace is that every culture is different and disagrees on what is ethically correct. The drinking age is different everywhere.

Trying to generalize universal rules over everyone everywhere seems like a waste of time.

Use technology to improve quality of living and access to basic rights (food, clothing, shelter, medical care, etc.) and see how quickly crime rates drop. Employing a universal law to control everyone in a certain direction while still allowing people to be homeless will never work or change anything.

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WetnessPensive t1_jaagiqj wrote

Reply to comment by colintbowers in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

We have studies that show that what passes for "democracies" are in fact highly anti democratic (in the sense that the laws they pass overwhelmingly favor a oligarchic minority, and uphold an exclusionary regime of property rights). So that's not really a good example.

The OP's post made me think of some kind of Star Trek future. Or maybe you could have an education system in which a computer selects the smartest people in various fields, and then randomly selects a group of them to lead for a set time, upon which they're replaced by another random selection.

You can even combine this with things like citizen's assemblies, or forms of participatory democracy. ie, the Big Brain Geniuses meet with randomly-chosen citizens to work on legislation, and if convinced by the Big Brain Geniuses, the citizens rubber stamp the legislation and push it up the chain to be enacted as law. This creates a kind of check on authoritarianism or on the Big Brain Geniuses steamrolling the populace.

And actually, some of this stuff has been tried in various countries to good effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette). What typically stands in the way of these methods being implemented is the usual thing: moneyed interests.

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