Facebook is a bit like electricity or telephones (before texting and social media). You could live without electricity or phones but it would be difficult and inconvenient. Which is why they were both considered utilities and regulated as such.
The cats love to give advice, but do they ever take their own advice advice?
Men have always blamed women for bad things. Even though testosterone and the Y chromosome are responsible for most of the cruelty and destruction in the world.
There are so many (too many?) books about happiness. Isaac Asimov is instead famous for writing foundational science fiction, but could he have had a point when he speculated about happiness?
Using our imagination and creativity to make things is a good use of our brief time on Earth.
Metformin is the wonder drug! It prevents aging! You’ll live forever!
If you are interested in Metformin, here is a book called Age Later, written by a doctor who specializes in aging, and who is very excited about Metformin. And here are a few articles: Here’s a study about Metformin as a Tool to Target Aging. Here’s an article in The New York Times suggesting you Think Twice before taking Metformin. Here’s an article by Dave Asprey, the creator of Bulletproof Coffee, about why he stopped taking Metformin. Here’s a study about Metformin and sleep disorders. Here’s an article about whether Metformin affects sexual dysfunction. Here’s an article about how Metformin is not so good for aerobic exercise. And another even more interesting article about Metformin and exercise.
How do we decide who to vaccinate first?
The cats are being deliberately provocative, as cats often are. They know there are many other aspects to the decision of who to vaccinate first: moral, statistical, economic, distribution issues, hospital capability, and more.
It’s so easy to depress ourselves by looking at people who have more, do more, travel more, accomplish more than us. But there are many worlds where people have much harder lives than we do. Now, if only we would compare our world to those worlds we might be hugely content.
This is the last in the little series about free will. The first post is here, and the second is here.
The cats’ initial comic about free will was posted in 2019. More recently they read an article by Noah Yuval Harari and were inspired to create this comic.
This is the second in a series of posts about free will. The first post is here.
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