+1 on this, paragraphs are meant to group ideas. The way they’re used here, there might as well be just a wall of text with no paragraph delineations at all.
I’m not sure I really needed “fart” to be censored to “f——“. Am I out of touch with how acceptable it is to use the word fart? Am I going to accidentally offend someone?
I actually graduated from WPI at the same time as this research was going on (2017), and I remember discussing this with a few graduate students who worked in the same lab but on other research.
All the students in the lab knew the research wasn't particularly exciting but that the research space had a lot of potential. There was a lot of hype on the campus when this article (and I think a few other similar ones) came out and started circulating, but I think it made the students who actually did the research uncomfortable, because it was made clear that their advisor had hyped the research for funding purposes.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, last month, a year ago. Stop comparing yourself to others, remap comparing yourself against others to comparing yourself against your past self.
"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin... Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug."[0]
What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?
As a software engineer who graduated college about a year ago -- with a degree in robotics engineering -- somehow the end has always seemed both near and far. Botnets and massive hacks aren't something I grew up with, but they feel commonplace ever since my introduction to the world of tech. I don't know if I'll even be surprised when the grey goo starts pouring out of my USB port, other than the surprise something else malicious didn't start pouring out first :)