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Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent. – Brian Schatz	Found on CNN 11 months ago
Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person, – Arthur Kleinman	added by JokerGem 12 months ago
I have my son’s picture over my bed, and to wake up now and see it and know my son is dead is devastating. – Marsiah Emmanuel Collins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These new findings reveal critical areas for national and global focus to improve nutrition and reduce devastating burdens of diabetes. – Dariush Mozaffarian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s the end of an era, truly, i’ve never seen any other marquees at the Majestic Theater. To not see that mask there is going to be devastating. – Andrew Defrin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I definitely don’t think we need a death penalty. However, if Florida is going to have a death penalty … then it should be reliable and accurate, as reliable and accurate as a human criminal justice system can be, this return to non-unanimity is just devastating in terms of reliability. – Maria DeLiberato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we need to quit being uncomfortable talking about the intersection of climate change, racism, and disasters, the reality is we have long systemic racist problems across our country, and because of these things, when a disaster comes, it’s much more devastating. – Sally Ray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This Texas lawsuit is a clear and present danger to patients and providers all across the country. Washington will not sit by idly and risk the devastating consequences of inaction, washington is a pro-choice state, and no Texas judge will order us otherwise. – Jay Inslee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know how to put it into words. It was devastating. It’s much different seeing it firsthand than it is when you see it on TV hit another communities. – Jennifer Hobbs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A person’s appearance reflects their inner spirit. We must never forget this is not vanity. It is part of the human condition, these individuals have suffered devastating injuries and we have to help them deal psychologically with what we can change and what we cannot. – Peter Adamson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s impossible to deny that we are all in this together, we are all impacted in devastating ways, and we can not separate ourselves from the life we share this planet with. – Dmitry Kokh Mittermeier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The tragedy that happened in my state was the result of a depraved person and somebody very very sick. And the result has been absolutely devastating for the people in my community. Right now with the victims, the family and the people in my community – we are all mourning right now. – Bill Hagerty	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s sad. It’s devastating. I mean nobody expects to go to work and not come home you know, especially for something like that. – Chris Suglia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we are seeing is devastating impacts to our agricultural community and farmland. – Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This issue has been incredibly important to Meta for a very, very long time because the damage done is quite severe in the context of teens or adults, it can do damage to their reputation and familial relationships, and puts them in a very vulnerable position. It’s important that we find tools like this to help them regain control of what can be a very difficult and devastating situation. – Antigone Davis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That was very devastating and very painful. – White American	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The devastating impacts of Russia’s failing war of aggression will be felt for generations to come. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Voice of Democracy has served as an important mainstay of independent investigative reporting and objective criticism for years, hun Sen’s closure of VOD is a devastating blow to media freedom in the country and will have an impact across Cambodian society. – Phil Robertson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care. – Chase Strangio	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Following yesterday’s( Tuesday’s) update from the club that Christian had been pulled out alive, we are yet to confirm Christian’s whereabouts. As Nana Sechere can imagine, this continues to be a devastating time for his family and we are doing everything we can to locate Christian. – Christian Atsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Thousands of generous people stepped up to help Kentuckians impacted by devastating storms. Andy Beshear has repeatedly patted himself on the back, but in reality, hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments that we know of were incorrectly distributed to people during an election year who weren’t impacted. Gov. Beshear needs to come clean and answer important questions about the situation. – Andy Beshear	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s just devastating to see the frequency with which these mass shootings are taking place these days. – Ken Wainstein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Achieving higher levels of population immunity globally, either through infection and/or vaccination, may limit the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on morbidity and mortality, but there is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future. As such, long-term public health action is critically needed, while eliminating this virus from human and animal reservoirs is highly unlikely, mitigation of its devastating impact on morbidity and mortality is achievable and should continue to be a prioritized goal. – International Health Regulations	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Many of us feared that that decision would deal a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States, that it would have an immediate and irreversible impact on the lives of people across the country, and that the greatest burdens would be felt by people of color. And those of limited financial means, unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened. – Merrick Garland	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

– Arthur Kleinman

added by JokerGem
12 months ago

I have my son’s picture over my bed, and to wake up now and see it and know my son is dead is devastating.

– Marsiah Emmanuel Collins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These new findings reveal critical areas for national and global focus to improve nutrition and reduce devastating burdens of diabetes.

– Dariush Mozaffarian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s the end of an era, truly, i’ve never seen any other marquees at the Majestic Theater. To not see that mask there is going to be devastating.

– Andrew Defrin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I definitely don’t think we need a death penalty. However, if Florida is going to have a death penalty … then it should be reliable and accurate, as reliable and accurate as a human criminal justice system can be, this return to non-unanimity is just devastating in terms of reliability.

– Maria DeLiberato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we need to quit being uncomfortable talking about the intersection of climate change, racism, and disasters, the reality is we have long systemic racist problems across our country, and because of these things, when a disaster comes, it’s much more devastating.

– Sally Ray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This Texas lawsuit is a clear and present danger to patients and providers all across the country. Washington will not sit by idly and risk the devastating consequences of inaction, washington is a pro-choice state, and no Texas judge will order us otherwise.

– Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t know how to put it into words. It was devastating. It’s much different seeing it firsthand than it is when you see it on TV hit another communities.

– Jennifer Hobbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A person’s appearance reflects their inner spirit. We must never forget this is not vanity. It is part of the human condition, these individuals have suffered devastating injuries and we have to help them deal psychologically with what we can change and what we cannot.

– Peter Adamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s impossible to deny that we are all in this together, we are all impacted in devastating ways, and we can not separate ourselves from the life we share this planet with.

– Dmitry Kokh Mittermeier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tragedy that happened in my state was the result of a depraved person and somebody very very sick. And the result has been absolutely devastating for the people in my community. Right now with the victims, the family and the people in my community – we are all mourning right now.

– Bill Hagerty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s sad. It’s devastating. I mean nobody expects to go to work and not come home you know, especially for something like that.

– Chris Suglia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are seeing is devastating impacts to our agricultural community and farmland.

– Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This issue has been incredibly important to Meta for a very, very long time because the damage done is quite severe in the context of teens or adults, it can do damage to their reputation and familial relationships, and puts them in a very vulnerable position. It’s important that we find tools like this to help them regain control of what can be a very difficult and devastating situation.

– Antigone Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was very devastating and very painful.

– White American

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The devastating impacts of Russia’s failing war of aggression will be felt for generations to come.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Voice of Democracy has served as an important mainstay of independent investigative reporting and objective criticism for years, hun Sen’s closure of VOD is a devastating blow to media freedom in the country and will have an impact across Cambodian society.

– Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care.

– Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Following yesterday’s( Tuesday’s) update from the club that Christian had been pulled out alive, we are yet to confirm Christian’s whereabouts. As Nana Sechere can imagine, this continues to be a devastating time for his family and we are doing everything we can to locate Christian.

– Christian Atsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thousands of generous people stepped up to help Kentuckians impacted by devastating storms. Andy Beshear has repeatedly patted himself on the back, but in reality, hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments that we know of were incorrectly distributed to people during an election year who weren’t impacted. Gov. Beshear needs to come clean and answer important questions about the situation.

– Andy Beshear

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s just devastating to see the frequency with which these mass shootings are taking place these days.

– Ken Wainstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Achieving higher levels of population immunity globally, either through infection and/or vaccination, may limit the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on morbidity and mortality, but there is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future. As such, long-term public health action is critically needed, while eliminating this virus from human and animal reservoirs is highly unlikely, mitigation of its devastating impact on morbidity and mortality is achievable and should continue to be a prioritized goal.

– International Health Regulations

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of us feared that that decision would deal a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States, that it would have an immediate and irreversible impact on the lives of people across the country, and that the greatest burdens would be felt by people of color. And those of limited financial means, unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened.

– Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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