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  1. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and accidentally save the country whereas your alternative would have been the same old wonderful magical grind that has done us so well?

  2. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I did it but everyone is different. I "handle" my alcohol whereas some people cannot--in any way shape or form of the imagination. Have you ever seen someone go completely off the rails after a few drinks? I have. Really super ugly--sad. The only way to deal with it is to lock them up and control their life/environment. That is a violation of their human rights.

  3. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    " pre-existing crime of enjoying video games"

    They are NOT enjoying them if they are addicted!

  4. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What you describe is not life and the fact that a lot of people would not question your definition is perhaps the reason for so much angst and turmoil in the western world.

  5. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is just addiction/gambling. There is no need for any other classification. Why do we have to have a codified law for everything named after the specific affliction. No such thing as a hate crime. Fucking cults.

  6. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention that the feelings of joy lead to a big drop were the person seeks the joy that created the drop to fix the drop. It doesn't just cut off with the joy part.

  7. Re: Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is but they run with it anyway.

  8. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have never been depressed...even in the slightest, there is no way you can possibly sympathize. I am very optimistic, rosey-eyed, but not goofy--level headed. I get waves of depression (probably not clinical) that shut me down for days. The whole time I'm trying to work through it and talk myself off the ledge. It is truly fucked up. I cannot imagine how it is for someone who is clinically depressed--how do they not end it all? You literally cannot care for anything under that subliminal mind fuck. I try to beat it out with intense excersize...and that does work to some extent but it is often just suppressed for a short while. It is not depression if you can get an ice cream cone or go for a run to get rid of the anxiety--or so they say.

    Due to my achievements in life, resulting from my constant optimism, I can't put my finger on where this is coming from. I sometimes theorize that some Soros character is beaming radio waves tuned to make successful white men crack up. Perhaps it is due to a testosterone reduction that comes with age? Staying super busy on creative projects seems to prevent it. I wouldn't try to grind this out on extra hours at Wal-Mart.

  9. Re:Just another type of Addiction on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on....it has a much lower barrier to entry and no cap on the impact other than totally failing to do anything with your life and ending up severely depressed.

  10. Re: Not a disorder on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Talented people usually do not survive University. You have to be somewhere in the realm of sociopathy-to-desperate-loser in order to value it and stick through. Perfect employees and managers they make.

  11. Re:Not a disorder on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It happens.

  12. Re:Not a disorder on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, we will never be able to have the conversation about gene therapy treatments to restore a male or female's desire for the opposite sex because we are already committed to the narrative that it is a lifestyle choice that gay people make. We are close to a cure, but we long ago silenced the people who dared entertain the notion that it could be reversed. Perhaps when we are ruled under the Chinese they will make the cure available. It won't be a choice then.

  13. Re:Acts occurred 2 years prior. Murder charge afte on 6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not murder. WTF

  14. Re:Don't tell your new boss the secrets, no fraud on 6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    I can't do it but execs can? Nah. It I know shit they need to make sure they keep me in their fold...otherwise...let the market sort it out.

  15. Re:Not sure why this is illegal on 6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah came here to say this sounds like a civil matter...not one which requires hundreds of thousands of my tax dollars to protect Jawbone's trade secrets.

  16. Back in 2000 friends and I would remove catalytic converters and other smog crap from VWs and have them tested at the smog stations. Never failed. Did it with other cars as well. Engines are so efficient these days that smog devices are likely just increasing fuel consumption.

  17. Car companies are not just discrete private enterprises. Governments have to have heavy industry available for possible world war. They protect them and other manufacturers.

  18. Yeah VW is the largest car company in the world. Too big to fail.

  19. There are grass-roots lobbying groups that are funded by regular individual citizens. Home School Legal Defense Association is one example. I can't imagine life without it. Actually I don't have to imagine...it would suck.

  20. Agreed. There is a lot of wishy-washy stuff going on with corporate boards. Sometimes they are just friends (rubber stamp) of the ceo/founder. Often they are just dysfunctional. The board actually does cause a lot of this shit because they are insulated from their own demands.

  21. .....aaaaaand passed on to consumers. All corporate levies/taxes are paid by the consumer.

  22. space usage is a major fucking concern at my home.

  23. I think it is mostly a design consideration to reduce manufacturing costs and allow more freedom to engineers and designers.

  24. I would expect NK to be getting their resources on the common market. Really the only way to keep the peace.

  25. Lithium ion batteries? They on the way out man. There are people at universities and independent labs close to production of batteries that will make everyone forget lithium ion like we forgot lead acid.