Lung cancer probably, just an educated guess

Journalism is dead at pretty much all the major news outlets. Its bought and paid for slop that maybe has a human editor if it's important enough to the wealthy prick that paid for it.

Is a p value of .05 normal for medicine?

Pretty cool, though.

Taking up smoking because they expect cancer to be cured in the future is like deciding to purposely crash your car because you know that broken bones can heal

Yeah I suspect they're smoking because of stress and lying about why

I refuse to believe that's actually truth and not some BS from a professional bullshitter like the palantir cto

Yes, 7+1 is 8. You didn't need screenshots for that :)

Do you know this thing called math?

2019+7= 2026 next year it'll be my 8th year which is 2027, 2019+8= 2027.

I quit when the pandemic started which it started in 2019, I quit in December of 2019.

I suppose my wording puzzles people sometimes.

@DojanParts of it are even pretty recent. The Friedman Doctrine, for example. "a company’s social responsibility is to increase its profits and maximize shareholder value". I call it the worst idea in capitalism. It's what's forcing companies to pollute and lie about it, to bribe politicians and to create misinformation campaigns. As long as it's legal, it is their responsibility to do all of that.The idea stems from 1970 and became popular during the 1980s. It is the most harmful idea in capitalism (which is not short of harmful ideas).

It is not even a good one. Is this really the most convincing argument the CTO of one of the most aggressive tech companies can come up with? Are these people just facades because with mental skills like this I don't think they can even run a lemonade stand. What even makes them useful, connections? Willingness to sacrifice their humanity for profit? A never ending obedience to shareholders?

Lots of words to not say you were off by one.

james spader was so hot in that movie

They hid their smoking and now smoke openly.

I’d be more convinced if they intentionally contracted AIDS because they were confident in their slop machine.

… I still wouldn’t use their products, but I’d believe that they believe the word guesser machine might cure cancer

I mean I fully believe they don't understand cause and effect and that curing something down the road doesn't prevent irreparable harm in the mean time.

Thank you. In all likelihood I'll keep it up ;)

For anyone interested, Allen Carr's book was the thing that finally worked to get me stopped, and then later NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) that I was taking for something unrelated seemed to really make me just forget about them altogether. There's something about NAC and various neurotransmitters that seems to have a positive effect on addictive/compulsive behavior. I had no idea at the time, this was before anyone knew that about NAC, but it seemed to help with the persistent thoughts once I had already quit.

I should've said next December will be my 8th year of not smoking cigarettes, for this December is my 7th year of not smoking smoking cigarettes. My wording confused you probably like it did a lot of other people. I suppose it inadvertently became a word problem.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I just realized you are under the delusion that covid started in 2020 and not 2019. That's why you keep saying I'm off by one, you're trolling!!!

he and bryan johnson has a fetish for young blood to live longer.

Which is only one of the several cancers caused by smoking, albeit a difficult one to treat.

AIDS is already pretty much solved for people with good access to healthcare.

Ebola works too

I don’t think it’s crazy to say that we will make lung cancer a treatable condition in our lifetimes.

Malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, etc. already can be cured with high recovery rate. And yet, I'm not going to willingly get those either.

All of them!

Pray tell how any non-tree plant removes emissions unless you chuck it into a five-kilometers-deep mine.

Trees specifically only ‘remove emissions’ if you plant more of them than get rotten or burnt.

Can you really be that fucking dense?
October 2026 minus December 2019 = 6 years, 10 months.

for this December is my 7th year of not smoking smoking cigarettes

Can you really be that fucking dense?

Can you?

More accurately: AI researchers are taking up smoking because of the immense pressure and burnout they're feeling.

I started self destructing since AI has slithered its way into aspects of my life that gave me a reason to exist.

Not because I think it’ll save me but because I just don’t give a shit about anything anymore thanks to it’s gross existence.

Algae gets eaten by plankton, which get eaten by whales, which then fall to the bottom of the ocean when dead, which then get eaten by scavengers that live in the ocean floor, which then turn into sediment when they die.

Also, any plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.

Do oceans not have bacteria that break down organic matter? Does ocean water not contain oxygen that combines with carbon during decomposition?

plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.

Is animal flesh not turned into shit? Are fertilizers carbon? Or do they rather provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium? And even if it is carbon, does shit dumped into fields not rot?

Your last proposition implies that it's the continuous production of shit and new plants that's keeping the carbon bound. But it means then that the humans are actually the store of carbon. Maybe we should chuck humans into five-kilometers-deep mine shafts.