There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can’t take it seriously. It’s like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

These are not studies on actual use on humans in the real world, it is on cells in a petri dish, so if you were to take from this “I don’t need to vax or mask, I take CBD” you’d be just like the Invermectin crowd.

They grow natively everywhere. The internet speads fertilizer.

“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.

I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

“The map is not the terrain” is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don’t fully have access to it, even about your self.

The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

Yeah that’s part of what I don’t know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don’t know though, and I wouldn’t want to find out the hard way.

Did your mother have any children that lived?

They just hadn’t worked out the distinction between “title” and “flap copy” yet.

Why are they so hot? Are they polyester? Liquid-repellant?

Depending what you find acceptable there are things you can do. For example at work we proxy through a mailgun account to do simple smtp notifications from bash scripts and webapps.I would imagine you could also proxy from an email server.

And you can at least manage your own email domain accounts via various webhosts. This may not meet your criteria for self hosted but its more independent then using gmail.

The jokes on you, the post you couldn’t read contains the winning lottery numbers.

Imagine being one of the people immortalized by being in one of those pictures the Onion always uses for this?

I. C. Wiener?

This is tangential, but their page behaves weirdly on my browser (using ironfox on grapheme). Bits of the page show up for an instant then disappear when I scroll.

Settle down, Heraclitus!

Audile is open source and on bdroid. Here is their privacy policy: https://github.com/aleksey-saenko/MusicRecognizer/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

To be fair you could call that following the empirical evidence despite it running against theory, which is good science.

Yeah it’s not very good for the structures or materials it’s growing on either.

With the editing of this, you can’t really get a proper sense of it.