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Halloween was explicitly banned in New England for most of our history.

I believe the Irish brought the tradition here much later and then American consumerism came along turning into what it has become

Personally I'm over it, candy is bad for you anyway.

There is a theory that the industrial and information revolutions rewarded certain types of neurodiversity more than what you was natural, I think that is entirely plausible.

While some of those traits may be prone to antisocial behavior, given the right social cooking conditions, they are also natural so I don't think people with those traits shouldn't be considered "cooked" from from brith either.

There are also seemingly neurotypical people who win the lottery and get cooked, I think it mostly comes from alienation because wealth changes how others around you act.

Not so hard to believe when they can replicate everything and experience anything in the holodek, outside the vacuum of starfleet the trek universe is not a utopia.

Cultural ages of relative sexual liberation and suppression is normal too. It's a material world so yeah there are material causes, but the way people are and respond to those pressures never change because we're still the same creatures as we were hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Times change but people don't.

Show me where on the doll China touched you XD

If only we took data privacy laws seriously here then we wouldn't be in such a predicament, just more consequences of our protectionist economy.

Extreme wealth seems to cook people's brains.

Yeah safety, that's what it's all about

Worst thing I ever did was donate twenty seven bucks to Bernie, RIP my SMS inbox lol. I'll never make a political contribution again.

I've heard Helium is a limited resource so if we have leaky wells here I think we should be preserving as much of that is possible, it's too bad it takes pressure from an unnecessary conflict to do the right thing here.

FINALLY! Helium is for welding and science not goddamn party balloons, hydrogen party balloons sounds way more fun anyway (just keep them away from birthday candles).

Thanks to these language models there is no such thing as closed source software anymore, eventually there will be an OS that runs everything.

It can remix things people have already documented but can it synthesize an entirely new thing?

> HR, social work, family courts, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, church leaders, and academics

Unfortunately the kind people attracted to these jobs are exactly the kind people we want to keep out of them.