If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn’t know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.

I know I told you my vulnerability to being accused of things I didn’t do, but this tendency doesn’t apply to internet comments. I don’t expect to have good faith conversations with anonymous strangers. I wish you the best with whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

I don’t think you understood what I wrote. You are offended on my behalf and I’m not offended. If you have difficulties with emotional regulation as well and are offended for yourself, that would be perfectly legitimate.

As a qualified cptsd haver, I am in no way offended by this accurate portrayal of my defensiveness when I feel like I may suffer damages over something I’m not guilty of. I assume others get upset about this as well.

Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

It could, or it could be decided the same way every war the US has waged for decades has been decided. It has been well established for all the world to see that even though it is not possible to outproduce the US’s military industrial complex, it is possible to win anyway if you don’t surrender for as long as it takes the US public to stop tolerating throwing away their children’s lives for nothing. The US military’s logic that weapons are all it takes to win a war has been tested over and over again it and it’s proven false very consistently. Iran can only lose if it surrenders. We have no victory condition again so we can’t win.

I like how we have reached a world economic stage where we have way more people than jobs available and the proposed solution of multiple governments is to increase unplanned pregnancies.

There are so many misconceptions about the brain and Alzheimer’s that I made my comment as public-facing as possible to address the incorrect but common belief that someone can go from having moderate to severe Alzheimer’s to going back to how they were before. I agree that this would be a breakthrough, but it should not be considered in place of actively taking preventative measures and taking warning signs seriously before there is a serious problem. I have found that Alzheimer’s is a subject so uncomfortable that in effect the average person would only want to think about it after it becomes a problem. The idea that it can be fully reversed may cause some people to be less likely to consider it before it becomes a problem.

As for the details of the brain, it’s still very mysterious and mainly we’ve learned how far beyond our comprehension really understanding the details of how it works can be. Having cared for hundreds of individuals suffering from dementia, mostly being cases of Alzheimer’s, it is very true that hippocampus damage is not the same as losing memories. In many cases I have observed that an old memory may not exactly be lost, but the access to the memory becomes lost until some other pathway is activated which causes that memory to become accessible. Restoring this kind of brain functionality could, as you say, re-create the connections to these memories and other info.

The most common damage of Alzheimer’s on average is Hippocampus damage. The Hippocampus is the part of the brain responsible for recording and storing memories. This means that depending on the extent of the damage to the Hippocampus the individual may be unlikely to form almost any new memories at all (typical of my guests, unfortunately). While the memories formed by a healthy hippocampus may still be accessible, the memories a damaged hippocampus didn’t record will never become accessible because they were never recorded. I agree I would still want to come back 80%, but it would be extremely jarring to have new concrete memories when my last ones were from decades ago.

This is aside from the total unpredictability as to how a newly recovered cortex may be different in myriad ways from the cortex which was destroyed. This is an area we don’t have human evidence on to my knowledge. Much better in my opinion to catch it as early as possible and prevent it than to suffer the consequences of the comfort of avoiding the topic since the assumption is it can be totally recovered from. Once again, this research is encouraging and I hope it eventually puts me out of a job. I only say this to encourage the better path for people with only a causal knowledge of these subjects.

On a human level, the only cure for Alzheimers is prevention. It can’t possibly be reversed. I say this because if you are reading this, you may have a loved one with Alzheimer’s and unfortunately the world is rife with hopeful myths and predatory personalities.

Imagine your brain is a computer. What this treatment apparently did was repair a severely damaged computer back to working order. Some parts of the computer either work or don’t work, so these newly repaired pieces can be considered totally repaired, or the damage “reversed.” However, some parts are impossible to recover. The severely damaged hard drive may be repaired to such a state that it is usable again, but the data which was contained on it before it was destroyed can’t be restored without time travel.

The higher brain functions we take for granted as humans, such as recounting and integrating our experiences, are beyond a brain being able to function or not. It matters a great deal to us and our identites what was stored in them.

If this treatment works perfectly, which I hope it will, it could restore function but can’t restore everything that person was before their severe brain damage. That’s the fantasy people generally want for their loved ones but it can’t be.

Please care for your loved ones as they are.

Addicts. They were/are in a vulnerable place and a religion took advantage of them nurturing their vulnerability and dependency to profit from them. It was this or heroin basically. It would be nice to live in a world which doesn’t traumatize people and then profit on their trauma-driven trigger responses.

It is racist. I hope one day you will undersand why it is instead of becoming defensive about it. Just know that regardless of your intentions or understanding, when you say this word other people will correctly interpret that you are being racist.

There are some cogent points in there, but the author fails to realize that the problem with capitalism is the capitalists themselves. The issues they complain about are the inevitable consequence of allowing capitalists to own the means of production rather than the people. Capitalists care less about being patriotic and doing good deeds than they do about their capital holdings, and an investment in corruption and cronyism is one of the safest bets capitalists with sufficient power can make.

Even though the view you expressed is a joke, there are people whose real life politics are a joke.

Living paycheck to paycheck in the US often means working over full time hours across a few part time jobs and still not always being able to pay all the bills every month. No one should be ok being a wage slave no matter where they live in the world.

The US public made the mistake of thinking they could keep the beast of capitalism tamed. China claims that even though there are capitalists, there is no capitalist class. This doesn’t look good for China’s socialist goals.

The nerve of CNBC to use the word “hoarding” and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.

Going to the gym is way easier than the infinite treadmill of trying to fix relationship which was never going to work. Having a stronger body helps to deal with the physical symptoms of trauma too. It can build confidence because working hard in the gym yields rewards but working too hard backfires. You have to listen to your own body and your own feelings rather than have them dictated to you by a toxic partner, or it won’t work.

That is quite a headline. I just got on but that’s already enough internet for today.