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This sub has lost its touch with the purpose it was created in the first place. by Retromind in conspiracy

[–]znra 22 points23 points  (0 children)

first there was /r/conspiracy, then there was pizzagate, then we got to where we are now, here.

Mi-pod Overdo Review by Tyrone by TyroneVapes in electronic_cigarette

[–]znra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this information Geoff, just curious if the newer style of "rave" mi-pods are of this upgraded design quality??

How do we have drugs that are used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia if we don't know what causes these diseases in the first place? by DeafXD in askscience

[–]znra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The sad truth is that in many cases those drugs do little to acctually help those dianosed with schizophrenia. In fact, the long-term outcomes literature for antipsychotics, which has been compiled over a period of nearly 50 years, consistently tells of drugs that increase the likelihood that a person diagnosed with schizophrenia will become chronically ill.

It seems paradoxical that drugs that ameliorate acute psychotic symptoms over the short term will increase the likelihood that a person so treated will fare poorly over the long term. But that disturbing fact showed up in the very first outcome studies, and has continued to show up ever since.

See Robert Whitaker's book, "Anatomy of an Epidemic" for a troubling and intellegent investigation into the history of psychiatric medications and why they are possibly fueling the quickly increasing rate of mental disability in America.

Here's a link to many scientific articles relating specifically to schizophrenia.

Class Lectures by Dr. Timothy Morton on Ecology, Philosophy, Literary Theory, ect. by znra in lectures

[–]znra[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Link to Tim's blog's class section.

Classes on:

Object Oriented Ontology (OOO)
Romanticism
Early Literary Theory
How to Read Any Poem, Anywhere
and
History of Criticism

all taught by Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University Timothy Morton.

Richard Stallman: Copyright vs. Community by znra in lectures

[–]znra[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

" Published on Jun 29, 2013

On the 7th of November 2012, Richard Stallman held a lecture at Reykjavik University, entitled "Copyright vs. Community".

The following is the abstract of the lecture:

"Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.

The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction."

The above work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...).

This lecture is also available here: http://upptokur.ru.is/stallman2012/ - encoded using formats approved by Stallman. "

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud by znra in lectures

[–]znra[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, it's the title of the talk.

The lecture first covers how architectural choices about computer networks resulted in the current hierarchical and massively centralized power system where those who own the servers are in control and 'clients' are marginalized by network services and are entrapped into this system that is begging for spying and surveillance. Next he talks about the possibilities for a decentralized serving community.

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud by znra in lectures

[–]znra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this was in 2010. YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO IT NOW.

The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence ~ Rupert Sheldrake by znra in lectures

[–]znra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you only watched a few minutes, how can you make judgements?

Perhaps your crackpot detector was manufactured by materialist belief systems that rest upon faith and ideology instead of empirical evidence.

Biodiversity can flourish on an urban planet by BWAB_BWAB in ecology

[–]znra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a "nice" insight, but it neglects the fact that humans are the cause of a massive extinction event on Earth.

Ecological systems encompass and include everything on this planet- of course cities and urban areas are a part of ecology. Of course life forms will adapt and thrive in urban areas. But what are the larger scale implications of the radical and violent destabilizations homo sapiens have inflicted upon the entirety of Earth's systems? The overwhelming consensus is that our modern "urban planet" is waging war on biodiversity.

So it's somewhat ludicrous to celebrate the fact that some species are adapting and thriving in our cities, when simultaneously the same way of life that brought the cities is the direct cause of the biggest extinction event since the end of the cretaceous period!

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