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As a long time vaper, I never get any withdrawal symptoms after quitting - quite the opposite: the first week is still tolerable, but then the depression comes back and never leaves in 9 months of abstinence.

Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use in an Observational Trial

Results: Medicinal cannabis use was associated with lower self-reported depression, but not anxiety, at baseline. Medicinal cannabis users also reported superior sleep, quality of life, and less pain on average. Initiation of medicinal cannabis during the follow-up period was associated with significantly decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms, an effect that was not observed in Controls that never initiated cannabis use.

That’s barely evil. Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base:
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Does this make possible federated supply-demand matching, like dating, jobs, and any kind of marketplace?

Another victim of lawfare. If you design a crappy three-wheeler, you voluntarily step into the lawfare trap set by fossil fuel industry to sabotage you. The correct solution is for the velomobile industry to attack the unjust laws and make four-wheelers be treated the same as three-wheelers.

https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles

Trikes are only good for saving pennies at the cost of driveability and usability - they should not be incentivised by law. They are slow and teetery around curves, unless very low centre of gravity over the two-wheeled axle. Four-wheelers are more stable and can have a cargo space or a back seat between the rear wheels.

https://www.quora.com/When-a-3-wheeled-car-is-being-designed-how-will-it-be-calculated-if-the-car-will-topple-How-will-the-maximum-turning-speed-and-radius-for-safe-turning-be-found-out/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Sucks to walk and bike in a car dependent city?

We’re making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.
AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

If you’re so damn smart that you can see what trash is what, separate that trash! That’s a job for a tireless machine.

Not Fediverse, but an example of what works:

Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it’s all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; “How many apples…”. The excuse for AI tagging was “tags can be abused” when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.

They never made the obviously needed features of:

• being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like “What do you think everyone needs to know in 2025?”).
• the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I’d need to follow that topic from good writers only.