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I enjoyed this conversation, and the fact Darío is a science communicator and briefly mentioned a connection with skeptical groups (I'm sure he'd find my personal interests to be "pseudoscientific") reminded me of an episode that happened to me a couple of years ago: I follow a very notorious AND skeptic science communicator on Twitter, and he retwitted a Tweet from his daughter that mentioned her life-long struggle with severe clinical depression. With nothing but good intentions I recommended to her psilocybin therapy which was beginning to make headlines due to its effectiveness to treat such cases... and she and all her followers treated me as if I had shown to her wearing an Atlantean headband and suggested a realignment of chakras using 5-D vibrations and crystals!

The girl chose to use electro-shock therapy instead.

I do hope it worked for her, but part of me wishes she would have been a little less skeptical and more open minded, like Darío was.

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Jun 27, 2022·edited Jun 28, 2022

Very interesting conversation. It seems like this mental health crisis has reached even the countries which are supposedly easy going and have less pressure in their societies than the US, Britain, Germany etc. Dario did point out that there is this stereotype of the hard working efficient German and the more relaxed easy going Spaniard, which according to him is wrong, as you have a lot of people from Spain working in very high intense scientific fields in Switzerland and Germany. There might be a difference between north and south Spain. North being more industrious and high paced, south being more agricultural slow paced, siestas etc. Although I heard even in Barcelona they have siestas. Just like Three Dog Night, I have never been to Spain but it still seems they have maintained their work-to-live culture amidst the onslaught of the "Protestant work ethic" coming from the US and alike.

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I enjoyed this discussion, even though I have really no experience with anything that was discussed. It was still a great listen.

I’ve been using voice to text on social media, and other places, for nearly a decade now. It has gotten better, but you still have to do a ton of heavy editing after nearly every paragraph. I had thoughts about writing a book a few years back, and it got so frustrating for me using the voice to text to do it. I can’t sit at a computer these days anymore, so I was trying to do my writing from a zero gravity chair with the voice function on my laptop. I spent more time editing than anything, and it got so frustrating I gave up. With that said, there might be some better programs out there you could use, I just haven’t researched them. I just wanted to share my experience.✌️

PS - If you want to see some examples of mistakes using voice to text, just look at the reply I made on the “pain” thread last night. I was so tired I forgot to edit.

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