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I'd be more interested in criticism of the content, rather than the format. There's aiming for serious, and then there's just posturing.

...It's like they have no idea what "Evidence" actually means, or frankly what the hell Snowden actually did; it wasn't selling hacking tools on the black market!

It's not really that the original relates to this blog post, as much as it's just one of the best essays written in the English language in a long time. (big IMO)

The constant exchange between the west coast of the US and Japan is so regular!

I would imagine it's the same thinking that puts multiplayer in every game, and just generally wants to keep a live connection to everything, always.

Given the limited google search results, it would appear to be a very neo neologism.

Nothing about the impending IoT seems planned, standardized, and remotely designed with the consumer's best interest in mind. That being said, consumers for their part seem almost eager to throw their money away for truly dubious improvements. What isn't a bad idea from the get go is often a good idea ruined with careless implementation.

Oh the folk cures are the best! The ancient Greek ones were literally and figuratively, batshit. IIRC To treat epilepsy it was recommend that you eat the heart of a black donkey beneath the light of the moon on some specific night.

Foolproof!

Similar story here, from the POV of someone with moderate anxiety, and very mild depression (probably as a result of the anxiety). Medication made me feel less, which was preferable to anxiety, but CBT was a set of tools I've continued to use. I had so little insight into my own thought processes, and the ways in which I was unintentionally reinforcing my own anxieties. It's taken a lot of effort, over a lot of years, but with that basic set of tools I don't need medication and I don't have anxiety or panic attacks. Ever.

Still, if you did have that set of tools going in, but for whatever biological reason it didn't matter, then I would guess that CBT would be dust in the wind for you.

I think the immense amount of constant work is the biggest challenge. It may be that the use case for CBT is a lot narrower than current practice is selling it as. For mild to moderate anxiety though, it's pretty amazing if you stick with it, especially since the alternatives are all basically chemical.

Oh god yes. My "Cannot unsee" file is overwhelmingly dermatological, or burns.