I fantasize about using the pear of anguish on all of the Epstein pedos.

Same. I fantasize about dark shit on a daily basis.

It’s not.

As a late gen x/early millenial, I was told to get a college degree in STEM. I did that, and got an MS and PhD. I finished my doctorate in 2008 just in time for the housing market to crash and forced austerity via republican wars and george bush. I spent 3 years in a postdoctoral fellowship, effectively making $10 hourly based on hours I worked VS salary. After my fellowship, in 2011, I could NOT find a job in my field, because there were no jobs. I gave up and leveraged my education into a different field.

I ended up working for the state, in a position that has nothing to do with my education, and only requires a high school diploma. I make $30 an hour now. 13 years after I finished my fellowship and gave up, I started having STEM companies cold calling me to offer me positions because they saved my resume. Best part was being offered $30 hourly, which is what I already make in a position that doesn’t require post secondary education. Telling them not to bother me unless they were prepared to offer me $60 hourly felt fucking amazing.

The point to my rambling is that whatever is “in demand” could change at a moments notice for any reason. If you’re going to spend 4-10 years of your life learning a particular skill set in a particular field of study, you should at least enjoy yourself and feel enthusiastic about what you are studying.

I’m not a Canadian, but if I came across Doug Ford slowly dying on the street, I’d step the fuck over his body and keep walking.

Dear Canada, please boycott us harder.

Sometime the only way you grow and learn is by making mistakes and experiencing the consequences of your actions.

That is what I meant. Before I finished reading the headline I thought this was taking place in America.

Neither am I.

I can’t say that these people will deserve their comeuppance,

Where in the comment did I say anyone deserved anything?

For a second I thought this occurred in America; seems like an every day event here. Dang Canada, are you ok?

The hard core MAGA voters don’t give a shit until it happens to them. There are so many stories about entrenched Trump districts having their local economies collapse because ICE rounded up all the brown workers in their town. They were happy to vote for Trump making excuses, “Trump doesn’t really mean that,” or, “Trump will only go after the bad ones.” Suddenly it’s, “This wasn’t what I voted for,” shocked pikachu face. Finally, there are a subset of people that once it does happen to them, will say things like, “Trump isn’t hurting the right people.” There were plenty of voters that were brown themselves, thinking they were part of the in-group. Some of these people are incredibly hateful. I can’t say that these people will deserve their comeuppance, but they absolutely need to experience it to have any hope of learning anything and adjusting their attitude and hate towards others.

I feel shame as an American. I’ve been making it through the day at work, and spending about an hour each day crying when I get home. When I think about all of the people being brutalized for existing I feel so deeply sad for them. I’m also fucking terrified that LGBT people will be next because I am one of those.

I thought it was the brittish that did that during the war of 1812?

The study does not take drug use into account, although it says it does, none of those results are published in the study or the supplemental index materials. This study is not well done, and as someone with a PhD in neuroscience, I would have given it a thumbs down if I had gotten to peer review it based on how drugs are talked about in the study vs no published results on that topic. One positive thing I will say is that Canada’s single payer system makes for a large population to conduct studies, and the findings indicating that people are being diagnosed earlier are crystal clear. What they don’t talk about is the rate at which people seek out medical help for mental health issues. One confounding thing about culture is that availing oneself of psychological help was often viewed as shameful or as a weakness among the boomer and older generations, it’s likely that fewer boomers sought out help or possibly waited until they were older with more sever symptoms before getting help and a diagnosis. It’s a complex issue with lots of confounding factors.

Without seeing the actual study, I reserve the right to think that this “scientist” published bullshit data and is full of bias.

How about all the microplastics and other chemicals in our environment that are now sitting inside of us doing god knows what, like maybe acting as a mutagen fucking up our gamete DNA. Mutagens cause mutations to gametes. So you can have a normal mother that is exposed to mutagens over time, the DNA in their eggs get mutations, and the DNA in the fucked up gamete get passed on to the offspring. So now you have an offspring that has a genetic propensity to develop a psychosis based disorder. Stimulant use absolutely can cause psychosis, as well as extended use of hallucinogens. Usually in weed caused psychosis, it’s an acute episode that clears once the drug is out of your body in a few hours to days. OP do you have a link to the full study? I’m wondering if their modeling and data sets allowed them to control for people that actually used stimulants vs no stimulants. This would require something like a 2 way anova where you factor drug use and age.

Here is a link to an actual study that tried to control for confounding factors like use of other types of drugs.

The lay person doesn’t have a background in microbiology, so they don’t know that the waste, (toxins,) created by bacteria being alive and doing their thing contributes to the symptoms of illness.

It is treason. Canada better charge them ASAP.

What the actual fuck? Buy shit from us or we will invade you. I’m fucking disgusted with my country.