Getting a divorce is really cheap if you just do it yourself. If they're capable of living together for 35 years, they should be able to manage signing a few documents together.

It does have to be free. It's open source software. If they tried to charge money for Chrome, people would just use Chromium or one of the other browsers based on it.

I didn't think the idea of a placebo effect is even valid for a treatment for which no placebo exists. At best, it's a thought experiment, but IMHO it's more of a distinction without a difference.

There's nothing wrong with using dyn if the problem calls for it. In most cases it's more idiomatic to use an enum to represent something like a strategy, but if your strategies are complicated entities in themselves, a trait is probably the right approach.

OTOH, fuck Iran, too, for arming Russia and what they do to their own people.

Damn that's harsh.

Your ignorance is showing. A hell of a lot of people do live in towns where the only options are a big box store, or equally shitty dollar stores.

How come only those two companies build those medical devices?

Not much demand, I'd imagine.

How come Scientology can fuck with them like that?

They have a lot of money, and that's all it takes.

Why do we still have religion and cults in positions of power?

Because the people who put them in power fall for their bullshit, same as it ever was.

The whole field of psychology has such an inhumane and crackpot history that they've brought this upon themselves.

Are people practicing psychiatry today responsible for the mistakes of people in the past who had similar goals but entirely different methods? Do you think prescribing medical treatments for mental disorders should automatically mean taking the blame for past mistakes?

Bonus tip: you can use that visit to withdraw all your money and close your accounts, then take it to a credit union.

Racism is when you think certain groups of people are biologically inferior. Thinking a culture can be dysfunctional is something else entirely. Nobody questions the propriety of saying the culture of a company or other organization is dysfunctional, so why would a country (or its dominant culture) be different?

Nobody bats an eye when people say Japanese and Korean work cultures are insane, for example, and nobody thinks it's racist when left-leaning Americans comment on the culture of their conservative countrymen. Nobody even seems to think "meanwhile in Russia" memes are inappropriate, even though they're an implicit commentary on Russian culture.

Now, I do think "culturally not inclined to do good" is unfair and painting with an overly broad brush, but I also think the persistent suffering of people in and around Russia can only be explained by something about Russian culture.

I think it's probably more correct to say Russia straddles the border between Europe and Asia. The people in charge are European, and Asian Russians are treated more like serfs and cannon fodder. Disclaimer: I am not a social scientist.