You can use solar to convert CO2 into syngas and do a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis followed by polymerization to get plastics.

Maybe it was intentionally compromised all along.

That seems biased: if you only notice the people who act out due to their mental health issues, you will not notice the people who use cannabis but don’t have any issues with mental health.

Furthermore, people with mental health issues are known to self-medicate, which will introduce a bias if the correlation is seen as causation.

”The folks I've known on MAOIs were pretty wrecked.”

And then one must consider that tobacco smoke and coffee both contain high levels of MAOIs.

THC cannot both ”cause nightmares” and ”block REM sleep”, because nightmares happen during REM sleep.

People who suffer from nightmares may benefit from less REM sleep. It’s much more refreshing to sleep in a non-REM state and wake up normally than it is to repeatedly wake up in cold sweat and be afraid to go to sleep again.

”There’s a difference between intoxication and treating the chemical imbalance behind depression or anxiety.”

There is no significant, rigorous evidence that depression or anxiety are caused by an inherent ”chemical imbalance”.

I won't call you an idiot, but assuming that all cases are simply people being sad is a bit simplistic.

Some people are going to be more susceptible to depression, for whatever reasons, and improving someone's surroundings is probably going to prevent or alleviate depression to an extent, but to people who are depressed now it's somewhat pointless advice.

There are plenty of historical records of people having anxiety or depression.

There's almost certainly a link between the prevalence and modern, always-on culture, but to suggest that it alone is the cause is blatantly wrong.

"Patient is chronically lonely" isn't really a diagnosis, even though it should be.

”The findings are based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 54 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) conducted worldwide over a 45 year period (1980-2025).”

This review seems dubious considering the huge gap in motivations and scientific rigor between 1980 and 2025.

That's classic with most cannabis studies. They sound like they started with a conclusion and then worked their way back fitting the data.

It would be easy, too. Find all studies on the subject, find correlations between some parameters and the results you want/don’t want, add those parameters in your inclusion/exclusion criteria.

Who even replicates review articles?

Well said. systemd is against the UNIX philosophy and shouldn’t be the default.

It’s not even a debate if these controls are problematic. The litmus test is to mentally substitute the age field for an ancestry field and place the system in 1930’s Germany.

Coincidently, that system was provided by IBM.

'Preventing children from buying guns is Nazism!'

Actually, this sentiment is a 'litmus test' for common sense.

We use age discrimination universally in all affairs, across the globe, across all cultures.

Of course the same thing is going to apply to 'content', it's just a lot harder and creates ugly externalizations.

It's a real problem, with no real solutions, at least not yet.

Nobody is arguing that gun shops shouldn’t check buyers’ ID. That’s a strawman.

The situation is more like we set up a new system of checkpoint booths on every highway at city limits, and anyone entering the city gets their ID checked, and that is justified by claiming that it’s so children can’t buy guns.

References to 'nanny state' are the strawman.

Also - your analogy is wrong - we are not 'age verifying' the whole web, we're 'age verifying' things that ostensibly should be 'age verified'.

Let's just say - 'porn' - to keep it simple.

Porn is to be 'age verified' on the web literally like it is in the city shop.

You don't have to present your ID to read CNN.

They're not saying 'present your id to get into the city, but into the porn shop'

Youre screaming strawman's and presenting strawmans.

The issue is more nuanced then you've presented.

You seem to have misunderstood the situation completely. The laws being passed in US states force OS level age and identity verification, shifting the responsibility away from individual websites.

yt-dlp was definitely the reason for the increased adoption mentioned in the post.

I wonder if the layoffs have a deeper connection to yt-dlp.