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New comment by tsol in "Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers"

tsol — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:11:05 +0000

I question how accurately using a survey alone really answers this question. Some people would never admit(or even think) they're against free speech--at least until they see speech they deem too dangerous to be allowed. We have seen this on college campuses lately. We've seen this during the 'War on Terror'. It's the same result even if their initial beliefs are different.

New comment by tsol in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

tsol — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:18:23 +0000

Sounds more like he's saying killing civilians naturally makes people mad at you. We shouldn't avoid talking about this because of this fear of terrorism. In fact some would say when army kils someones family, they will look at us as the terrorists and demand it not be accepted like you

New comment by tsol in "US FDA Expected to Lift Restrictions on Dozen Peptides Previously Banned"

tsol — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:04:22 +0000

The reason they were banned is because they never went through complete safety testing. There are still unknowns. For example BPC-157 is used for recovery from injury and has good reviews.. but there are also a small number of people who say after taking it they become depressed and emotionally numb for months. Another odd symptom some people report is insensitivity to stimulants.

Some reported they don't even feel powerful stimulants like Adderall anymore. And if you're reliant on a stimulant for adhd treatment, you're kind of screwed. No one can tell you why it happens and you basically have to wait weeks to months for the effects to wear off.

If you don't even know all the risks how can you make an informed decision? It's all very experimental and while there are success stories there are also much less talked about horror stories.

New comment by tsol in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

tsol — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:08:37 +0000

I didn't read that as saying anything about your character; it's an understandable way to react. It is an indictment of the system that people have to feel that way when it really shouldn't have to feel that way.

New comment by tsol in "KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge"

tsol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:38:32 +0000

The incentive isn't to make a better product, it's to make a more profitable product. Sometimes that leads to improvements in quality but much of the time it's the opposite

New comment by tsol in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

tsol — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:35:10 +0000

I thought you were going to go somewhere else with that. With excess clothing they'll unload it in Africa and Asia for cheap, weakening local clothes manufacturers. A bit of what happened with Tom's Shoes

New comment by tsol in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

tsol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:08:50 +0000

Seems like it would be hard to fake. The was she tells it she put her finger on the pad and the OS unlocked the account. Sounds very difficult to do

New comment by tsol in "Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time"

tsol — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:37 +0000

In the USA we manage to do that without turning the internet off by just saying they were resisting the police.

New comment by tsol in "Wooden compass with single red arrow leads people with dementia to their homes"

tsol — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:20:02 +0000

Ah good point. I think the solution to this is simple. A second, smaller compass that points towards the first one

New comment by tsol in "An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil"

tsol — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:43:38 +0000

OP did call him AI. If the underlying research is valid rather than AI generated it can still be valuable. Seems like this guy is using an AI persona essentially to communicate his ideas.

New comment by tsol in "Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life"

tsol — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:39:01 +0000

Unfortunately one of the common responses is "cancer is still deadly doesn't seem like they're doing anything but getting rich". These therapies aren't widely known and people are willing to throw them out for that reason.

New comment by tsol in "Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall"

tsol — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:15:15 +0000

Parasites used to be ubiquitous before we had medication to kill them. There's even a (not very well supported) theory that these parasites helped with allergies by moderating immune system. They releasing chemicals to lower immune activity in order to protect themselves, so the idea that we had these for thousands of years and basically are made to have them is intriguing. It's called "helminthic therapy" and it's considered alternative medicine but there is some academic interest. Results in clinical trials have been mixed. Perhaps the future is just synthetic hookworm proteins that regulate your immune system as our ancestors once had.

New comment by tsol in "Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say"

tsol — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:58:29 +0000

What I heard is he called the police tip line and left a message but didn't hear back for two days. After two days he left this tip and then was made a person of interest. This is just what I heard, not sure if there's more to this story.

New comment by tsol in "Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say"

tsol — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:55:56 +0000

I haven't heard any clear motives yet. Some people are saying it's simply a case of someone who was a genius that ended up in a mediocre place in life, leading to to killing. Still that story is so common in America I don't see how it leads to killing innocent children at your alma mater? It makes no sense to me.

But as with many of these situations the truth might not make sense-- sometimes it's simply irrational thinking by someone mentally unwell. It reminds me a bit of the Reiner killings as well, considering there too there's no clear motive except maybe a hypothetical mental break. Truthfully, we might just never have a satisfying answer as to why this tragedy happened.

New comment by tsol in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

tsol — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:25:44 +0000

People seem to disagree with this comment but it makes sense. Lots of people get no genuine sexually or emotional attention sure to severe disabilities, cultural incompatibility, weight issues, or simply because they don't know how to socialize properly. It's odd to say they can't live a full life, just because they didn't kiss a girl in the 9th grade.

If relationships are so key to the human experience, the incels would be right. They argue society should feel bad for them and accommodate them, because not being able to get sexual attention keeps them from having a normal life.

Not that I agree with them, but it seems odd to place so much value on relationships, except when people complain it's a problem they can't get one. I have a severely disabled friend who talks about wanting to get married every day. No one has ever shown him that kind of affection and I don't think anyone ever will. That's life for some people unfortunately. If you keep telling them they're missing out on the most important part of life of course it just makes them more frustrated

New comment by tsol in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

tsol — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:13:15 +0000

Judging by the follow up that reveals he was cheating on his lover as well and had been doing it for years he seems to agree with your last two lines. He got the most out of life, but hurt his lover, wife and daughter in the process

New comment by tsol in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

tsol — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:11:05 +0000

He wanted to have a different life, but he didn't embrace it. Instead he lied to his wife and lover. In a more recent update he was cheating on his way lover as well, so he comes out looking pretty bad. At the end of the story everyone in his family is hurt by his actions. Send like he wasted his life and hers if that was the best he could do

New comment by tsol in "At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA"

tsol — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:11:56 +0000

>Over 100 institutions – hospitals, prisons and schools – in the US and Canada were involved.

I thought this was something that happened in one or two labs somewhere. It's surprising how far reaching this was. Giving nitrous oxide, lsd, and amphetamines to kids see if you can control their minds is insane.

New comment by tsol in "Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs"

tsol — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:00:25 +0000

Did they respond differently depending on what race they thought you were? I'm surprised they would even do that honestly. I thought they were trained on text conversations which presumably wouldn't have any of that to learn from.

New comment by tsol in "Stinkbug Leg Organ Hosts Symbiotic Fungi That Protect Eggs from Parasitic Wasps"

tsol — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:16:57 +0000

Yeah it looks very AI, which is disappointing because I wanted to know what they really liked like. The picture looks like a more vibrant and reddish version of the kind we have in the Midwestern United States