Yep. And yep.

People probably said similar at the fall of every empire throughout history. People will endure and build anew. Life finds a way.

Yeah people don’t get this. Many of those people may agree with you and were simply lucky enough to get comfortable in life. They are certainly not the main contributors to inequality in our society.

Hey now, they used to be more KKK aligned!

I was gonna say, I don’t think metal has a higher rate of nazis. You look at country and you basically have to accept they’re all MAGAts (another reason to just avoid country). I think most people in metal are pretty progressive, that’s why they’re in metal. Honestly Dero Goi is a great example: he jumped down a conservative rabbit hole and left metal.

If anything, it’s just that the nazis are always a vocal minority and when they’re into metal it’s some confirmation bias for close minded people who don’t like metal.

Exactly. Luckily I’m in a field where true experiments are possible, but I have many colleagues who can’t ethically run true experiments. It’s surveys or nothing for the most part. They have very advanced statistics to account for the lack of control in their research.

Me: needing to become a programmer because the professor for my graduate stats class has a hard on for R…

What? As a neuroscientist: caffeine is not “technically a drug” it is a drug. And yes, people are absolutely addicted to it. That “craving” you’re talking about is withdrawal and it’s real. Doesn’t matter if “billions*” drink it every day. It’s no mental gymnastics to say that there are millions if not billions of coffee addicts. Addict is not a defined term in the psych/neuro field so I would argue that that many people who would go through withdrawal without it are all addicted.

Wtf does it matter what other drugs are out there? Not everything is a competition. Current dependence on caffeine in our society is absolutely a problem as a result of too much stress and work pressure on everyone. Caffeine is not a cure to that.

Tl;dr: Yes caffeine is objectively a drug and yes very many people are addicted to it.

*Citation needed

There’s definitely already stuff like that for Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster.

FYI Durmstrang is from Hungary.

MS18 actually. Genuinely the brightest handheld flashlight in the world.

Blackbriar are pretty cool.

Lord of the Lost are one of my favorites but are getting bigger especially with Eurovision this year.

Warkings keep slapping.

Earth is great to listen to if you’re trying to read or write and just need to block out other noise. Apparently the guy behind the band was roommates with Curt Cobain.

This is a Bernese Mountain Dog…