Society needs to hold these companies and their investors fully accountable for all the suffering caused by “AI”.
It won’t but it needs to
A century ago, somewhere around 8–10 percent of all psychiatric admissions in the US were caused by bromism.
Bromide sedatives vanished from the US market by 1989
(Though you can still get it by drinking, as one poor guy did, two to four liters of cola daily [!], if that cola contains “brominated vegetable oil.” Fortunately, the FDA removed brominated vegetable oil from US food products in 2024.)
This country and toxic substances. We find out something is bad and it takes centuries to get rid of it. Given the current lot of people in charge, they’ll just undo all this because bromide isn’t woke.
, two to four liters of cola daily [!],
impressive
it doesn’t seem like a big deal to stop using it but it also sounds like it’s only a problem if you have a ton of it.
There’s the issue of relatively acute poisoning vs chronic poisoning.
Much smaller quantities can be dangerous if taken regularly over a long period. One liter a day over 60 years might be equally problematic.
i was tired when i was reading about it but they seemed to think the bromide takes about a week to clear in adults, which was enough to get the medical use stopped.
Lmao that’s one of the cardinal rules! What do you say when someone offer you sodium bromide? Na Bro!
