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  • It’s alternative medicine (ie not medicine) and pseudoscience (ie not science). Chiropractic injury rate may seem lower in some cases for two reasons: significantly more people without injuries visit chiropractors and some forms of real medicine do carry real risks, eg real surgery carries obvious risks.

    Your primary argument for chiropractors is that some real therapists use some of the same techniques, so why not go for real medicine instead?









  • That’s slightly misleading, I think. There are no arrays in Lua, every Lua data structure is a table (sometimes pretending to be something else) and you can have anything as a key as long as it’s not nil. There’s also no integers, Lua only has a single number type which is floating point. This is perfectly valid:

    local tbl = {}
    local f = function() error(":(") end
    
    tbl[tbl] = tbl
    tbl[f] = tbl
    tbl["tbl"] = tbl
    
    print(tbl)
    -- table: 0x557a907f0f40
    print(tbl[tbl], tbl[f], tbl["tbl"])
    -- table: 0x557a907f0f40	table: 0x557a907f0f40	table: 0x557a907f0f40
    
    for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
      print(key, "=", value)
    end
    -- tbl	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40
    -- function: 0x557a907edff0	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40
    -- table: 0x557a907f0f40	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40
    
    print(type(1), type(-0.5), type(math.pi), type(math.maxinteger))
    -- number	number	number	number
    


  • Everyone understands that, that’s a surface-level reading not some secret hidden meaning. The problem is if you take more than a second to think about it instead of just taking the story at face value you see the real relationship here.

    You have one horrifically vile being ruining someone’s life even though the victim worships them. The victim continues to worship them in spite of their atrocities just because they’re powerful.

    It’s touted as a story about how you should just keep blind faith in the powerful but that’s really the exact opposite of what it shows. And it’s more relevant now than ever, I’m sure it’ll take you no effort at all to think of another toxic parasocial relationship.