Middle East, northern africa, pakistan

…and Turkey, the T in MENAPT.

Could you share the methods you used to learn as fast as you could ?

Obviously <OUTGROUP_IDEOLOGY> always was, and always will be a mass sociogenic illness.

I do wish <OUTGROUP_IDEOLOGY_MEMBERS> could just be rational for once and stop falling for demagogues and pseudoscience

heteronormativity include sexual behavior, but mostly contains other behavior. Like the way you dress, talk or present yourself, the activities or kind of play you do or like. Parent comment is mostly talking about non-sexual heteronormativity, which is often presented as the norm. An obvious example would be an adult insisting that pink is for girl and blue for boys, and shaming a kid for liking what's not the (hetero-)norm.

If I recall correctly, similar experiment have been tried lately, where the subject survive. (maybe because they were shorter than the navy's one)

However, the subjects stated afterward that they felt adequately oxygenated, but also were on the verge of panic due to the constant feeling of drowning induce by having your lungs filled with liquid.

None of them felt like they would be able to do any kind of productive task in this state.

Whenever I have a tiny bit of water “go down the wrong pipe” I think about how truly awful it must feel to drown. Just inhaling a teeny tiny amount of water is so uncomfortable and sometimes even scary even though you can still breath and you know everything will be perfectly fine. I can’t even imagine how awful that sensation must have been for the people involved in this experiment.

Indeed this response is what makes simulated drowning (waterboarding) a torture.

Peter Watts' Rifters series is premised on the development of this sort of technology for human use and goes into uncomfortable detail about the (false) feeling of drowning

Help her question and understand the underlying reason(s) why she wants to go into medicine. (status, money, wanting to help other, being intellectually challenge, curiosity for anatomy/biology, ...)

Find other fields where those wants can be better met by a deafblind person.

Help her reframe her initial idea into one of these field.

In this context it means ''to suck in', 'to absorb'

From context, it seemed clear that OP meant the opposite:

That this material would leak out potentially dangerous chemicals.

IIRC metformin may also cause fertility problem in men, after prolonged use (which is required to get slow-aging effect).

That is correct. Metformin has a number of downsides.

You will lose your appetite and it will be hard to want to eat. You will tend to lose weight and eat just enough.

It can make you nauseous and you will probably find the bitter taste and fishy (amine) smell of the pills to be repulsive.

It is not an easy drug to take, and like you said, it may also affect male fertility.

But it is well-studied and safe, and offers various benefits.

Longevity with weight loss and reduced risk of kids should be saleable

Infertility is not necessarily a problem.

If an AGI start putting utility value on human life, wouldn't it try to influence human reproduction and select for what it value. ie. Explicit eugenism.

Yes, all humans will not be put to waste, but what tells you they will be well-treated, or value what you currently value.

>why anything exists rather than nothing?

Physics answer "How" things are, if you want to know "Why" the answer is to be found in philosophy or religion.