Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Benn Jordan" channel.

They could always put the tax rates back where they used to be. Much of this wouldn't happen if the rich were actually thrown in real prison for tax evasion and bribing politicians. If after your 10th million dollars of income you have to pay back $9.5m it would greatly reduce the incentive to earn so much.
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It's betting a bit better. When I got diagnosed roughly 15 years ago, the only offered treatment was stimulants because at the time that's really all the medical establishment knew to try. Things have advanced somewhat since then in the sense that there's a much wider variety of medications and there's a lot more understanding that there are lifestyle adjustments that can be made to somewhat mitigate the impact.
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@erinm9445 People misunderstand that. A company's primary responsibility is seeking a profit within the regulations and laws that are in place. That does not mean that other considerations are required to be ignored in pursuit of profit. Treating customers like garbage is malpractice and isn't excused by seeking to maximize profits. There is no requirement that a publicly traded company "maximize shareholder equity," revenue, profit or any such nonsense. That is what they say to try and excuse their psychopathic behavior.
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@Morpholigical Often times that's the case, the things that modern mental health professionals are treating now are not the same things that Freud was treating, which is part of why his theories don't apply. (Obviously there were other issues, but he spent most of his time treating things that are relatively rare now) That being said, there is often times an underlying neurological situation that does need to be addressed, it's just that the way the criteria are written doesn't always make it clear what the real issue is. Hence, the lack of evidence of a physiological thing, they aren't looking at that, they're looking at it purely from a treatment perspective.
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@veence It really depends what the specific issue is. As long as you've got the cash, the US is probably the place to be for treatment for cancer and other serious illnesses. Which is the rub, as long as you've got the cash and it's not more run of the mill care that might help prevent having that trauma in the first place.
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@flamegod7 TBH, most of the reason why these vehicles are going to take so many more decades is that they are having to integrate with human drivers and pedestrians. They could make the process a lot easier by doing things such as putting up walls along the roads, switching from lane markers to center of lane lines and changing the paint to encode information to help the cars move through the city. Then just have most of the cars load themselves onto trains for city to city travel. It's still a big challenge, but doing things like that would likely move the timetables up consistently as that would be a much simpler environment for the cars to need to navigate.
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@lourias Yes, so can migraines. Personally, I have tinnitus and it can sound like all sorts of things. Ringing is sort of the classic, but tinnitus itself is often just a phantom sound that is generated in the nerves between the ears and the brain itself. It doesn't have to be ringing.
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That would be great, although a more achievable goal would be for electric cars to sound like actual real cars and at a reasonable volume as well. It's f-ed up that so many electric cars do have a speaker, but they're using it to make them sound like UFOs and the extra reaction time that entails.
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@PhantomofDeezzNuttzz Because we're completely ignored. It's as if we don't exist at all. Why is society in general obsessed over Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers and now Alphas?
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Self driving cars definitely will be there eventually, it's just a matter of when it happens. The fact that incompetent morons like Musk are screwing it up so badly does not mean that it's not coming. With the exception of some animals like deer that like to dash in random directions when startled, most other animals will figure it out and roads themselves will be engineered with ML cars in mind. At this point, it appears that we'll have nuclear fusion at some point in the foreseeable future, probably not soon enough really, but at least at this point there have been replicable test fires that did generate more energy than they put into it. The better question really is about the timing. That's a lot harder to say, but it will eventually happen, even if the roadways needed to have tallish fences on both sides with breaks where the cars are supposed to be entering or leaving the roadway. I also don't think we're anywhere near that point, it'll be at least a decade or two at the minimum and there probably will be a lot of road redesign to lower the bar a bit as well.
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The most disappointing thing here is the poor performance with headphones. There's a ton of people who would be willing to wear headphones while watching a movie at home for the emersion. I still remember watching Austin Powers with a 5.1 setup and hearing the water dripping in the background. It's a shame that it can be a bit of a pain to set that up if you can't run wires in the walls.
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@andy2641 Yes, and all because the DEA screwed up and failed to notice the opioid epidemic sooner and refuse to allow one of the major factories making one of the stimulant medications to go back to doing that. There were some minor compliance issues, but there weren't missing doses out there as a result, it was stupid BS like failing to write "canceled" along with the line through the line indicating a cancellation. And people aren't having fatal overdoses on Ritalin and adderall in any particularly alarming numbers. Off the top of my head, I can't recall the last time I heard of anybody asserting it as a cause of death.
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