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Can confirm. For example, Egypt made university education free (or very cheap) for all Egyptians. Nowadays, they are pumping out countless medical doctors who get employed all across the Middle East. Probably not the highest quality medical care, but it's still better than nothing.

Now that I think of it, many countries offer free or very affordable university education for their citizens. What's wrong with America? Even poor African countries make education accessible.

That's like using a mining bot in Minecraft. You just go AFK, and when you come back you have a stack of diamonds.

But wouldn't that mean you end up with as much debt as a small country?

Paul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn't even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.

How do you choose when every major’s terrible? That’s the thing — you don’t. Gotta catch them all, amarite?

Approximately 300 years ago, chemistry was still in a phase that resembles modern psychology. Instead of talking about electrons and atoms, chemists spoke about the affinity two compounds have for each other. Chemists observed reactions and made an affinity table of the results. Have a look at that picture, and you’ll see how messy it was back then.

They didn’t know what their materials were really made of or why they reacted. They were just observing the results, just like psychologists are still doing these days. Sure, there were interpretations and opinions, but most of them went out the window as soon as it became possible to analyze the elemental composition of the materials.

Since autism is defined based on its symptoms, the definition is inherently very nebulous. In medicine, you don’t clump every headache into the same category, because there are a million things that cause the same thing and in many cases you can find the root cause. You just need a few samples and long list of biochemical analyses to find most of them.

Psychology isn’t so lucky. Who knows how many different things got lumped into one big pile we call autism. Same goes for all the disorders too. I would argue that terms like depression and anxiety are about as useful as those 300 year old affinity tables.

Thanks for taking the time to share. Was a very interesting thing to read.

Speaking of autism, this is in the realm of psychology, which is still in its infancy. The terms and theories are far from stable, so you can expect everything to change within the next century. I’m pretty sure the term autism will eventually be divided into a number of distinct phenomena with overlapping symptoms.

Current psychology doesn’t really have the analysis methods that would allow us to formulate and test more proper theories. Currently psychology is largely based on observations, symptoms and opinions, which isn’t really the kind of foundation you would want for a serious science that makes serious predictions.

As a result, anything you read about psychology should be taken with a grain of salt. It’s a work in progress, so the results are only qualitative at best and completely wrong at worst.

It's also entirely possible that OP is an extreme case where even low doses can trigger various symptoms. It's all very complex when psychosomatic factors are involved, but you still have to consider the physiological factors too. In medicine and toxicology, it's really common that different people respond very differently to the same dose of the same compound.

If OP is a rare exception, their opinion should be viewed in that light. BTW that makes the opinion equally rare, and consequently unpopular.

Even UV (10…400 nm) can be harmful. Not all plants can handle that very well. Intensity plays a role too. Just a little bit of <400 nm radiation should be fine, but if you increase the power output, it’s going to start damaging the plant. Some plants actually produce compounds that mitigate the harmful effects of UV radiation.

And an organic life form. They tend to be very picky about the conditions they consider suitable. This involves variables like temperature, pressure, radiation, pH, water, concentration of several nutrients and so on. Once all of these are approximately right, the organism itself can handle all the fine tuning (AKA homeostasis).

Some life forms have a very narrow operational window, so you may be required to adjust the environment accordingly. For example, providing radiation in the 400-700 nm wavelength is usually acceptable. Radiation outside that range will not be utilized and may even have detrimental effects to DNA integrity.

The degree of hardening undoubtedly plays a role. Mild hardening appears to be entirely reversible, but there must also also be a threshold where irreversible reactions begin to occur in the starch matrix. At that point, applying mechanical force to separate the reaction products from the metal surface may be your only option. If that fails, pyrolysis should work regardless.

I was thinking of succulents and cacti. If you travel somewhere for 2 weeks and forgot to water the plants before you go, it's ok. Some plants can just handle it regardless. Once a week plants are pretty average IMO. Bonsai and orchids are high maintenance plants for those who need a new hobby.