Psychotherapists treat mental health through comments.

Maybe he’s trying to perform above his IQ. Some people can’t learn some things.

The companies started it in the 1980s.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Maybe they are like that because we already ship them off to indoctrination camps between ages 7-13.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-public-schools-in-your-country-are-designed-to-make-kids-docile-obedient-workers-for-the-upper-class/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Every country has enough gullible people to vote for a professional liar with a Hollywood face.

Increased blood lead level in children has been correlated with decreases in intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, short-term memory, attention, reading and arithmetic ability, fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and social engagement. … The effect of lead on children’s cognitive abilities takes place at very low levels.

High blood lead levels in adults are also associated with decreases in cognitive performance and with psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety.

Lead poisoning # By organ system - Wikipedia

https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2 <- 427 ppm

Donate to organ reuse and research.

Collective human intelligence augmentation = Computer-aided collaboration = Crowd thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Who made this?

• I’d like it if it said Matrix is federated, Signal is not.
• Meta should be grouped together.
• Aren’t there other alternatives to Reddit than Lemmy, so there should be more arrows going out of Reddit?

Something should be said about fringe servers (I’d never say “instance” except “server = instance”) and defederation both ways being common, so your home server choice matters. The email comparison is broken and should include “in principle” and then continue with “in practice [real situation]”. This is a start:

I like the yellow bubble here, but it’s inaccurate in many ways:

The infograph we’re looking for should also say at least:

• Manipulation can be done by outside forces making fake users, not Fediverse programmers.
• Censorship is done by server administrators and community moderators, but (on Lemmy at least) community and its server censor your post, not your home server. Might show a scale of servers where lemmy.world is at the strict end.
• Your votes are public, you can be tracked, but it’s not done by default.
• On Lemmy, you shape your default firehose (‘all’) feed by muting (users, communities, servers), not by up/downvoting or following. A normal person will have to mute tens of communities for the feed to start looking tolerable. This is one of the many prices of freedom you will have to pay, as are bugs and user experience issues. (AFAIK, no fedi platform uses votes for feed shaping, but many commercial ones do.)
• The choices between apps or web-ui should be shown for each fedi platform.
• …

Prussian schooling everywhere.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-public-schools-in-your-country-are-designed-to-make-kids-docile-obedient-workers-for-the-upper-class/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

No. We’ve only scratched the surface of computer-aided collaboration. We could have a crowd thinking space with a consensus development environment, but instead progress has been opposed and we’re stuck with primitive wikis. My industry and career are standing still with extreme potential to improve humanity.

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

I wouldn’t dare have everything invested in one house. What if there’s a bubble about to burst? What if the house is hit by a disaster that insurance won’t cover? If I owned a house, I’d probably take some debt and buy foreign shares not related to house prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversification_(finance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(finance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

The backstory of Fallout:

You shouldn’t be paying any form of investor to pretend they can see into the future.

True, usually index funds outperform active investors, but there are special cases (third point below):
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/heres-when-active-mutual-funds-tend-to-outperform-index-funds.html

• Investors generally fare better in index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds versus their actively managed counterparts.
• The average investor pays about five times more to own an active fund relative to an index fund. This makes it tougher for active funds to outperform index funds, after fees.
• However, the lowest-cost active funds tend to beat the average index fund in categories like junk bonds, foreign stock and global real estate.

… A company isn’t affected by whether a fund invests or does not invest in them.

False. When you buy existing shares, they’ll see the increased demand and issue more shares, making more money from investors after you. Same as when you buy a stolen item, the thief reacts to increased demand by stealing another one.

… responsible funds are just for show …

Those “responsible” ESG-labeled funds (Environmental, Social And Governance) are too lax for modern investors’ thirst for good. We need tighter criteria. Commenter Squizzy here said tailored ethical funds exist: https://lemmy.world/comment/15070231

… donate the money to charities instead.

Good, but unsustainable. You can grow charity power by growing money in benefit corporations, such as Mozilla.

Indeed, Wikipedia: Proof of stake # Energy consumption

In 2021, a study by the University of London found that in general the energy consumption of the proof-of-work based Bitcoin was about a thousand times higher than that of the highest consuming proof-of-stake system that was studied even under the most favorable conditions and that most proof of stake systems cause less energy consumption in most configurations.

In January 2022, Erik Thedéen, the vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, called on the EU to ban the PoW model in favor of PoS because of the latter’s lower energy consumption.

Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake was estimated to have cut its energy use by 99%.

Crypto money is a waste of computation that could be used for something productive, like protein folding.

When investing in (most) companies, the money buys means of production for making a product someone can use. I like that.

Usually index funds outperform active investors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/24/heres-when-active-mutual-funds-tend-to-outperform-index-funds.html

• Investors generally fare better in index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds versus their actively managed counterparts.
• The average investor pays about five times more to own an active fund relative to an index fund. This makes it tougher for active funds to outperform index funds, after fees.
• However, the lowest-cost active funds tend to beat the average index fund in categories like junk bonds, foreign stock and global real estate.

That’s how the evil profit the most, and voting with your feet has limited effect. The correct solution is regulation and EU-mandated boycott.