My personal theory is that Obi-Wan Kenobi kills himself in Star Wars as a deliberate, last-ditch attempt to save the entire Rebellion from what will happen if Darth Vader realizes who, exactly, is on the Millenium Falcon.

I think the only sure solution to poverty is a guaranteed minimum income. The talented would and could excel far beyond that but no citizen would have an excuse for living in poverty (beyond their right to do so, should they desire).

I think the reason this is true is because of technology. That vast swath of…

We need the application of hard work, but America has forgotten that.

As a person who does self medicate I can say that with my usage of LSD, shrooms, MDMA, and cannabis my depression has lessened severely. I have something called dysthymia, so I normally just feel pretty crappy, usually every couple of days. Now, instead of bad episodes a few times a week, I can go months without…

Thank you. Yeah, there are many more studies to be conducted. I really wish people would stop believing that the hallucinogenic trip and euphoria is the cure. Ideally we would have an antidepressant that gives people the benefits of LSD, Ketamine, MDMA and shrooms without the trip. I met the guy that was supplying me…

Having enough free time and access to technology to post dumb questions in a blog comments section.

I hear you, but it’s like if there was somebody drowning and instead of throwing that person a life preserver, we all just sat around and imagined innovative and disruptive ways to save a drowning life..

Like, sure, the Carnegie libraries were a good thing, but only relatively so and only because libraries used to be exclusively privately held. It’s a good thing that libraries today are less reliant on billionaires’ funding. Even when philanthropic programs are good, nationalization of them is the only correct future…

Huge, if true.

This is all great! I’m so glad that it helped you. And it really emphasizes that depression isn’t something you can talk yourself out of. As soon as the LSD re-stabilized your brain chemistry (or whatever!) you had the energy to get back on track with your life.

Yeah, but if you tax rich people at high rates, nobody will want to work hard to become rich or start businesses or create or invent. This is precisely why there were no rich people, businesses, or innovation back when the marginal tax rate was much higher for the wealthy.

Related, I self-medicated with LSD over the last year. I suffered from severe depression and attempted suicide by overdosing on opiates this year. My depression is (was?) clinical.

ok so now that’s MDMA and shrooms on the fast track to being recognized as legitimate medicine or at least having certain positive attributes, but “good people don’t smoke marijuana” is still the official stance our AG takes. Legalize and regulate ALL this shit already please; I’d like my money to go toward…

Even a 30 second review of the results show that in the country, most people went Clinton.

In NYC you could push a shopping cart full of bloody dismembered body parts down the sidewalk and everyone would just mind their own f-ing business.

I think a lot of our concerns regarding labor are going to look drastically out-dated within the next 20 years. ‘Progress’ in the forms we’ve seen will be almost a moot point.

The 70-ish years in Western society has been kind of a golden era in which the cost of living and the value of basic labor have largely been…

Well, this is the way that the world is now. This idea that you better cling to and love the job you have, regardless of fair pay, working conditions, etc. Meanwhile, we have chip away at the safeguards for not only fair hiring and employment but those services that are there should we lose that job for whatever…

To be honest, no, they don’t. My wife and I have been dealing with infertility for a few years now, and part of that ‘path of learning’ is that there are many, many people that have zero clue regarding the actual process of sexual reproduction. As it turns out, the people that don’t have solid parents, the ones most…

Georgia has a lotto funded state education program where you can get your tuition and books paid for by the state provided you maintain a 3.0. GPA.