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I still can't believe people even used it before Musk bought it. Literally any other forum is more effective for engaging with others and being able to follow a discussion.

It's also extremely cruel. Like if someone really wants to kill themselves due to ongoing unsolvable pain, they should absolutely have that right. Suicide is a human right.

Sure, of course we should do our best to provide options to solve their pain...even if they feel it is unsolvable, it might not be. It is important we do everything to show them that it might actually be solvable. I'm not denying we need more of those supports for people considering suicide. But like, if they have tried absolutely everything and are in a constant state of pain then only a truly evil person would force them to continue to suffer. It's fundamentally immoral.

Children are able to understand why putting a suffering dog down in the right course of action, but somehow a majority of adults seem unable to draw the same conclusion around people with incurable terminal illnesses that make people suffer immensely (for example ALS).

K yeah, that sounds shitty and I'm sorry you had to deal with it. The fact that some of us, myself included, got quite lucky with good teachers who knew how to teach the content probably does make all the difference.

I strongly suspect there were both word problems used in your math classes and that compound interest was in the curriculum. But maybe there is somewhere there actually isn't. Generally, the curriculum documents are all publicly available online too so feel free to take a look. Although finding the curriculum from 10+ years ago can be hard if there have been changes.

Had you really never seen something like 'Joe currently owes $300 on his credit card with an annual interest rate of 22%. How much will he owe 2 years from now if he makes no payments and no new purchases'?

All you need is the compound interest formula. It could be about investments or a ball accelerating due to gravity and it's still just that same formula with different numbers plugged in.

I'm guessing no, since that would defeat the entire point of what they just said. I can relate to this.

People who want to maintain traditional gender roles don't want change. Feminists on the other hand would like to see more women in trades and more men in nursing/teaching and do want change.

The craziest part to me is when people act like it's the opposite way around.

Yes, just like how we all learned about how important it is to pay off credit card debt and the benefits of long term investing while in school (aka compound interest...in math class). Yet far too many people act like this is something that needs to be added to the curriculum when it's already there.

It's almost like we should focus on educating them about how to responsibly use the Internet instead of trying to censor their access to it (which as you pointed out, basically never works).

Does anyone actually think shutting down one specific website will make a meaningful difference? Like... really? Did shutting down Napster stop piracy? Did shutting down Silk Road stop online drug sales?

Yeah, and we could shut down the Internet all together... or we could be realistic about prevention.

And yes, I accessed lots of 'sensitive' material online as a kid well before this website existed. So I find it hard to blame this specific website...websites come and go. I do however absolutely blame the creep himself since they are the one who did something wrong. Not the website.

Moving forward, do you think you will save up more in an emergency fund than you did previously?

I cut my pizza into 100 slices today instead of 8, but I don't feel more full for some reason. Where could all my slices have gone?

It's like the early days of grey market weed dispensaries all over again!

Which I see as a good thing if it helps lead to legalization like last time.