Fear-mongering at it's best. The article's main intent is to scare into thinking that genetic problems are because of the cold that you had when you were little so that you might send money their way for "a new philanthropic foundation to focus on the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry and immunology." 90% of the article is superstion warning you that infertility is because you've been sick for decades and just don't know it, and 10% is asking for money. The only inkling of anything helpful is at the very end, when they recommend vitamin D supplements.

tl;dr: Give us money or die.

I see a lot of people calling BS on the basis that you can't properly analyse dreams through a computer, or that dreams don't have value to begin with.

We know. Or really, we don't. Psychologists and biologists don't understand dreams, and dream analysis is a centuries-old practice based off of pseudoscience and pop psychology. No one is asking for directives in life from this bot, it's just fun to see what our dreams mean from a third-person perspective. At it's best, it will help someone to break down what their subconscious is feeling. At it's worst, it will give someone meaningless words of encouragement.

In the end, even if companies made their deceptive/evil practices abundantly clear, I'm not sure it would stop many people. If Microsoft told people setting up Windows 11 that every ounce of profitable data will be used against them, most people would still accept it because the alternatives are less convenient.

This cynicism is justified, but maybe if we weren't so quick to dismiss good things they'd happen more often.

I get the overall sentiment and agree with it. However, politicians themselves don't listen to praises or criticism for the most part. Once they are elected, they don't have to work on making things better for their constituents. It's much easier to find a boogeyman or an issue to rouse the mob than do things. That is what our politics have become. Anything good needs years of cajoling and convincing to do and unfortunately the lingering positives for the politicians who did that will be quickly overpowered by a negative sentiment/boogeyman issue. The way things are at this point, only negatives have rentention power and we stopped dealing with positives anymore.

That's true, but I just think it doesn't have to be that way. The only thing politicians care about more than money is being re-elected, so perhaps if more people took note of the good, populace-serving things that politicians at least supported and made it a point to say that that's the cause of their vote, then maybe politicians would be more inspired to do similar things. As soon as people begin to discount good actions as flukes and uplift negatives as the reason why they aren't voting for someone, both sides get jaded very quickly and lose sight of their purpose.

Voters exist to reinforce positive behaviors in politicians, and politicians exist to exhibit those positive behaviors. You can't teach someone with punishment alone.

"Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture." A security breach memo is not the place to advertise how great your security is.

I do hope that you're learning good habits in tandem with your medicine. Stress-management and self-control habits start small but end up being just as effective, if not more than your medication.The idea isn't to make you dependent on a prescription to be productive, you're to learn how to manage your ADHD to the degree where you can lower your dosage.

I know, right? I heard Americans are born without half of their brain.

In my experience, elder folks prefer familiarity and convenience above all else. My parents were born in the '50s and hate to relearn their phones.

I've only seen QR code menus in big cities and the southwest U.S.

As with any art form, it takes getting creative to make something amazing. It's super helpful to know what each part of the camera does, but also what you can do in spite of them. One of the best lessons I learned in my high-school film class was that lighting is important, but never a limitation. The beginning of this article talks about avoiding/using certain lights, but I would argue against the need of having the perfect circumstances for a photo. The combination of two flashlights in the dark or car sunshades in the sunlight are creative ways to make any camera take sharp photos with meaning.