u/DeanoPreston

There's a nootropic subreddit, the one missing the "r" in the name where the mod has a company that sells researchy sounding drugs with alphanumeric soup for names. To protect the innocent, let's call this company "Everyscam".

Ever wonder how Everyscam gets away with selling big-pharma's prized research drugs without being sued into oblivion to protect their intellectual property?

Most of those drugs are abandoned. Basically failed pharmaceuticals being sold as nootropics. The rights to some of them have been sold to different companies, who try to find a use for them. There's one, let's call it JUNK-356 that was first tried as a treatment for MDD. When that didn't work it got trialed as an adjunct for MDD. Then it got trialed for various deficits like autism. The original creator dumped it.

So what's the chances that JUNK-356 will make you smarter? Probably zero. But the placebo effect is strong. Nobody is immune to it. If you think it is making you smarter, you might actually study harder and do better on tests, just because you think you can. So I guess that's worth something.

At least most of these failed drugs are probably safe. The creators conduct extensive safety trials before the actual testing begins.

Central planning and corruption in the USSR caused all sorts of weird shortages.

I was listening to Alexei Nalvany's autobiography. He said his mother had to get up at 5am to wait in line for what little food there was in the stores. And his father was an officer in the army so they had it a bit better.

As a child, his most prized possession was a colorful empty beer can from some western country. They had nothing like that there and even adults were amazed by it.

Meanwhile, there was virtually no social mobility. In a system where everyone was supposedly equal, peasant farmers were basically serfs.

The propaganda machine lied about everything. Trying to demonstrate Chernobyl was no big deal, thousands of people were ordered to work outside exposing them to radiation. When the right thing to do was to tell people to stay inside for a week or so.

There's plenty of stories out there. But people need to learn the hard way usually.

Imagine she deposed Janeway and is now running the ship.

Would be spicy

You say, but Deano, out of 193 countries in the world, the US ranks 3rd in gun violence.

Yes, but if you exclude Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Chicago from the stats guess what - our country's rank falls to 187 out of 193.

That puts us on par with countries that have the lowest rates of gun violence, such as many Western European nations.

Blue cities, or more accurately, the constituents of blue cities are the problem.

It might be normal, I don't know. Coming from Bose QC ultras which have no hiss, but my older QCs definitely had hiss

So, is this normal?