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farrenkm t1_jeh3zhq wrote

Reply to comment by Dungeon_Master_Lucky in LPT: Distancing yourself from people can be one of the healthiest choices you can make. by incredibleinkpen

Agreed. It's not clear if OP meant completely, or just distancing from toxic people. Toxic people, absolutely; completely, not as a general position on mental health. (There's probably a small minority of people for whom this would work, but not many.)

But in terms of eliminating toxic people, family members aren't sacred here. If you have a parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, etc. who doesn't do your mental health any favors, it's okay to cut them out of you need to. Consider it carefully, but if it needs to be done, it's okay to do it.

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SatoriTWZ t1_jeh3zdg wrote

Reply to comment by robertjbrown in How could AI actually cause the extinction of Homo sapiens? by BeNiceToYerMom

but there, the danger lies in the human who controls the ai, not in the ai itself. the ai won't just be like "oh, you know what? i'll just not care about my directions and f* those humans up" but rather produce bad outcomes because of bad directions. but i think that ai is currently way too narrow to impose an existential threat and when it's general enough, it'll imo also be general enough to understand our directions correctly.

unless, of course, someone doesn't or wants it to cause damage and suffering, which is the whole point of my post.

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the_honeyman t1_jeh3y4k wrote

Reply to comment by arbitrarytrombone in Quick Fix? by ShroomHex

So you warm it up beforehand, rubber band some Hot Hands to the bottle, either tape it to your leg or wear baggy pants and be slick about emptying your pockets (nobody is going to pat you down, though they may ask you to turn out your pockets, so taping it to your leg is the way to go), and piss a little in the toilet first if you're that paranoid. No workplace is ordering observed tests, that's the parole system.

You aren't wrong the only 100% way is to take a break more than a month before. But some people have a medical need, and for those people, fake pee is 100% the way to go. Dilution, cleanses, all of that stuff is way more unreliable than sneaking a warmed up bottle of fake pee in.

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