Someone call Dustin Hoffman!

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. | New York Times

Holy shit. We know that ChatGPT has a propensity to facilitate suicidal ideation, and has led to suicides. It not only fails to direct suicidal individuals to the proper help, but actually advances people toward taking action.

How many people has this killed?

I am a depression survivor. Depression is a disease and it can be deadly, but there is help.

If you are having suicidal thoughts, you can get help by texting or calling 988 in North America, or text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 in the UK.

Yep, if China is selling of its US bonds, they we have to ask who is going to buy them. Overall weakens the USD.

I think you just made my point, but harder. Debt is actually great for “the lenders,” i.e. whoever buys treasury bonds. If the government wants to spend money on something, they have to issue a bond. The bondholders are paying for it. If you run out of bondholders, you have to increase the interest offered to make it more appealing than other investments.

It’s not just “moving numbers on a ledger.”

That would be essentially the same as printing more money,* which is what leads to hyperinflation and the collapse of economies. The higher the total debt, the more taxes go into paying interest on debt, rather than services (the nurses and water engineers mentioned above). There is a whole other discussion on where that spending on services spending should be prioritized.

Where does that Tax money go? Obviously it’s a payment to bondholders, which are generally wealthy individuals, corporations, or nations, but can also be held by the US Government (maybe that’s what you mean by “moving numbers on a ledger?”).

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*The Fed does change the money supply through interest rates, which can generate inflation.

Debt is fine in a strong global economy, but it creates big problems when there is no market for the debt.

Someone is still paying for it - by buying Treasury bonds. The more debt, the more interest has to be paid to make it appealing. That means tax money going to pay (mostly wealthy) bondholders.

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Trump gets paid so why should he care?

To the downvotes: this specifically bans religious dress. Don’t you think it’s a little too convenient that the majority religion is one that doesn’t incorporate any type of religious dress? This law is designed to have an outsized effect on people who wear a keffiyeh, yarmulke, hijab, or turban.

For anyone unfamiliar, this is just extending an already contentious, anti-religion law.

Statement from a Muslim civil rights group

Statement from a Jewish civil rights group

Statement from a Sikh civil rights group

That’s exactly what this is and has been a long-standing campaign.

So basically, no Muslims or Jews or Sikhs allowed? Doesn’t seem that great to me.

Pretty interesting. I guess it depends in the end on what will be acceptable to the Congressional Budget Office. They hold the purse strings and a lot of the power in terms of actually providing services. Recognition by the house speaker would also be required for any votes.

Isn’t this the exact thing that Trump has been criticizing China for doing?

In terms of international law, isn’t that just an invasion??

Wild animals are never “harmless.”

Deer have killed people. Birds have killed people.

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So in the middle of planning his invasion of Venezuela, he noticed Colombia is right next door?

So tired of this woke garbage! Why can’t they make movies more like in the good ol 1950s? Oh, wait…

Milei is a monster, but Maduro is a tyrant who has

• overturned election results
• wiped out the free press
• eliminated the independent courts
• jailed thousands of opponents
• killed/dissapeared 20,000 of his own people
• made refugees of 8 million of his own people

Maybe count me skeptical of an article that characterizes that as “a beacon of national sovereignty and social progress.”

Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man

Makes sense. The 65-year-old man is a man, while 50% of the teenagers are girls/women.

This is potentially really great news. A strong, stable, and diverse Syrian government could have a tremendously positive impact on both the Syrian people and the entire region. Diverse coalitions are more resilient.