I'm calling BS on this guy. This never happened. It's some incel fantasy of his. If it had happened, there would have been a MASSIVE lawsuit and this would have been a front-page story on every major news outlet.
You will be exposed to a certain amount of social justice material at any company. At many companies this is just part of HR / compliance training. You sit through a day's worth of bullshit and then go back to your normal work. If the company wants more than that, if they require employees to be true believers there will likely be a social justice component to the interview / application process. If you experience this then you know not to take the job. Generally speaking, I would say that startups are more likely to push this stuff. The reason is that startups tend to hire younger people and offer them "culture perks" instead of market rate salaries. (we can't pay you market rate but we have a foosball table and we're woke af!)
I've recruited and worked at dozens of startups, and at least at the Seed -> A/B rounds, they seem to be laser focused on their product and surviving, so I haven't seen this at those early growth stages.
Once they get to C-round -> IPO and mature though I do start seeing this more.
For some people it leads to issues. Here are some of the possible issues one can encounter: depression, anxiety, loss of motivation, psychosis, low testosterone, lack of energy / motivation, loss of concentration, short-term memory loss, lung damage...
Whether or not an individual experiences any of these negative side effects will likely depend on a variety of different factors ranging from the person's personality, to their genes, their state of mental and physical health, how often they smoke, and what precisely they smoke. I'm not sure where you live or what kind of weed you smoke but a lot of weed on the streets of the US today has a dramatically higher level of THC than it did in the past. When the THC levels are much higher than the other cannabinoid compounds it increases the risk of psychosis.
So I think the bottom line here is that you need be careful and be mindful that weed is not "harmless." Growing up, we thought it was harmless because you can't overdose on it and people don't generally smoke all their money away the way some people do with other drugs. But it can still fuck you up. It just takes longer and does so in much more subtle ways.
I think you make make an important point here. Right now, I think many people (in the US, anyway) are now creating a counter-narrative to the previous "war on drugs" mentality that vastly overstated the dangers of cannabis and vastly understated the harm of criminalization. However, it is certainly possible to go too far with this counter-narrative, and at times, yeah, I do think that some people are practically pushing the use of powerful cannabis if if it were some sort of health elixir. It can absolutely be a harmful substance, let's not forget that.
I do believe that occasional use of mild cannabis is generally harmless for most people. But I am in agreement with you that all use (or perhaps even typical use) isn't necessary harmless.
> It can absolutely be a harmful substance, let's not forget that.
Less so than alcohol, let’s not forget that.
I don’t disagree with you, it can be harmful and doesn’t solve all problems, but the above can hopefully give some perspective.
People can waste extraordinary amounts of time with either, form some kind of dependency, but harm from direct consumption or secondary effects are, let’s say … „less common“.
Also to be considered is that any substance can be harmful if abused in excess; even "harmless" substances or beneficial substances. Even drinking too much water can lead to "water poisoning" [1]. It's even led to a death in a radio contest [2]. There's also the fact that not every person responds to every substance in exactly the same way. Some may experience adverse effects after minor exposure, where others may abuse a thing in excess and never display any outward signs of a negative effect.
> what kind of weed you smoke but a lot of weed on the streets of the US today has a dramatically higher level of THC than it did in the past
This is a good point. I live in Switzerland, we have a healthy cannabis market that is mostly dominated by growers from the 80s and 90s. We do have the "killer weed" the youth likes to smoke, but the majority of stuff i come in contact with are classic, medical or at least CBD heavy strains. Nobody in my circle likes getting super high, we all just enjoy the good ol' buzz.
> So I think the bottom line here is that you need be careful and be mindful that weed is not "harmless."
You are absolutely right. I also have a little hate for myself for starting way to early which surely didn't help my mental development.
However i am way more afraid of Sugars and excessive Chemicals in my food that are slowly poisoning me. So for health perspective i would rather spend my efforts quitting sugars or cigarette smoking for a start :)
> ... but a lot of weed on the streets of the US today has a dramatically higher level of THC than it did in the past.
There's some truth to this, but in a misleading way. Sure, in the '70's, the product we'd snag in the streets, leaves mainly, was in no way as potent contemporary product.
But, but, we were just as discerning then as now. Should we wish something a bit more potent, it was widely available. At that time, most product from Thailand, and a great deal from Afghanistan certainly compare.
In sum, if you wanted it, it was available for a price. So the belief, "much stronger than in the past," is somewhat of a canard.
I quit due to anxiety attacks. After 1 drag of basically anything (chronic, cheap shit, indica, sativa, you name it), it would take no longer than 1 minute to begin.
Every time I explain that, in roll the fans telling me I'm somehow doing it wrong. I smoked the shit daily for years, I knew the ins and out of weed.
It just leads to issues with some people, as you said.
>Every time I explain that, in roll the fans telling me I'm somehow doing it wrong.
"Wrong strain, bro"
I started experiencing cannabis induced panic attacks first year of college and quit after the second time. People were annoying about it for a few years but as time went on I found that more and more people had the same experience I did. MM is great but I think the recreational and unprescribed "benefits" are exaggerated. It's a shame we don't have more data.
I did shallow search and found this: "No interactions were found between cannabis and Fish Oil. This does not necessarily mean no interactions exist. Always consult your healthcare provider."
A pension offers a guaranteed income at a specific rate based on your salary at the time you retire. With 401(k) you get what you get based on how you invested and what the market did.
This is completely ridiculous woke peacocking. If only an African-American activist woman can understand the poem well enough to translate it than why bother translating it into Catalan or Dutch in the first place? For according to their logic, a Dutch or Catalonian reader wouldn't understand it anyway because they are not African-American!
I don’t know what kind of issues black people in the UK face because I do not live there. But as someone who has lived in Brooklyn, NY for decades, I know about the biggest problems that black people in the US face because I see it all around me.
Out of any demographic group here in the US, African-Americans have by far the highest teen pregnancy rate, the highest high school dropout rate, and the highest homicide rate. On the last point, according the CDC the leading cause of death amongst African-American males is homicide. (Black men killing other black men.) Almost none of the black youth here have any kind of relationship with their fathers. This is especially dangerous for males. A male who grows up poor without a father is much more likely to end up becoming a criminal.
The thing is, lecturing white people about their privilege won’t fix any of this because these are not things that are done TO the black community by whites. This is what the black community does to itself.
I’m not denying that racism exists or that terrible things have been done to black people historically. But that doesn’t account for all or even most of the top issues facing African-Americans today. When it comes to racism and the sins of the past (slavery, Jim Crow, etc.) some of us white people have more sympathy than others. (And to be sure, some of us very little). But it’s hard to listen to the same grievances over and over when there is no accountability for the mistakes that are constantly made by the community itself.
The disconnect is amplified even more when companies have onerous interview processes. If you require candidates to build an app for free, or some other time-consuming "take home" test a lot of candidates will simply ghost you because they haven't got the time or the inclination to jump through your hoops.
Therefore, "we only hire the best people who put up with our interview process."
