Seeing as how this topic isn’t part of Rule 3 for which the answer is to go seek professional help, nor is there a rule specific to stupid answers, I’m gonna go ahead with this one.

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Not really. If you need drugs to make yourself a better person, once you’ve made your life as that better person and the drugs run out, will that life still be compatible with the drugless you? Will you still be able to handle it? To like it? For it to like you? How desperate will you be to find an alternative?

And every drug has a downside, a cost both physical and mental. Have you informed yourself what that cost is? And I’m not talking about the success stories, if it’s not obvious, I’m talking about the ones that took any of these drugs and it failed them. Can you handle those kind of results? If you can’t take into account the cost of failure and whether it outweighs the cost of success, then that drug isn’t for you.

Also, I’d ignore the “go for it” type of comments. Their bias is the equivalent of a “bootstraps” type of success story and not that much reliable. A more reliable success story is that of fighter planes:

Initially, engineers looked at bullet holes in the fuselage to figure out which areas to strengthen and have fewer planes downed. When that didn’t work, some smartass said that if a hit downed a plane, then it won’t make it back to base. So the engineers strengthened the areas without bullet holes instead.

Well guess what, the downed planes won’t make it to Lemmy and tell their stories to you. Imagine that.

Yes. Not me, but yes.

That’s a 100% surefire way for me to have my phone snatched, no dice.

Nah, that’s just France.

Technically, you can drive full circle on the planet, but it involves riding ships in some places as they haven’t felt the need to build a bridge or tunnel.

Difference is between buying a brand for style and buying it for quality.

Some companies have quietly admitted that the only difference between their stuff and cheap knockoffs is the brand name and it’s fine for them because their customers don’t care.

Because phonetically, it’s “loos” vs “looz”. And people don’t care enough to know or apply the difference.

I’m not sure about everyone else, but in my case you assume correctly. The only reason I’d want a monster truck is to act like an overgrown child who wants to show off his big vroom vroom. Also, with a mandatory funny honk.

There are tiny little creatures living on your face that poop on it.

The title is clickbait, a regular thing for “magazines”, while the article itself clarifies things.

You aren’t wrong. It is in poor taste. More so considering the article says the comment was made by “fans” who felt disappointed her body shape didn’t fit their imagination.

Everything has pros and cons.

Most people tend to see only the pros of the things that favour them and downplay the cons that affect others. Which is why we come to hate each other so often.

For example, life and death are a cycle. Can’t have one without the other. People may have different goalposts on what deaths they think they’re willing to cause in order to survive, but whether it’s animals, plants or even microbial organisms, some living beings have to die in order for others to live. (But it’s fine because there’s so many of them and they can’t think or feel pain, probably. Eh, who cares anyway, gotta eat something!)

Due to the limitations of operating at a loss, a demerit is unavoidable. The problem is having to constantly fine tune the balance in order to do the least harm. And yet even that is a self-appointed right and responsibility in lack of anything else.

Whenever I see a “Fuck Cars” community post, I can’t help but remember that dragons fucking cars is/was a thing, that there is a parody country song about a dude loving his truck intimately and that dudes have been caught sticking their dingdongs in car exhaust pipes.

Read the holy book, pray and work. What else would you even need, unless you’re an infidel?

Muhammad, bring the stones!

Yeah, might be overthinking it. Possible there’s no need to worry about it being an issue.

Enjoy the party.

Depends. Which do you prefer, explaining the incorrect scars or the the correct vitiligo if needed?

It really depends on the doctor handling it. If they’re good, it’s nothing to worry about.

I heard a similar thing. But a bit more complicated. It wouldn’t be just the eyes, but all senses used by the brain to edit a filtered vision of reality.

And while the eyes take in everything they’re capable of, the brain only focuses on what it considers important. Which is probably false due to the many, many times one will search for something within their cone of vision, yet are unable to see it.

So while I’m not sure of the details, the brain can be thought of as choosy with what it shows.

Fear of responsibility perhaps?

Eugenics at face value, lol.

While eugenics might sound good on paper, they might not work that well in practice. Also on paper it is said that these genetic differences that often show up as disabilities are a natural barrier against super plagues that might wipe us all out in one go.

Fine tuning ourselves into more perfect, single characteristic beings would actually make us far more vulnerable to extinction.