Afton

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by Afton 7y ago
The is sort of the issue with most deviations from neurotypicality. It's a disease only when it stops you from doing what you and society wants you to do. That's why lots of people manage without treatment. But what are you recomm
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by Afton 7y ago
(2016)
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Other than the condescending tone, this comment is probably worth keeping. summary: there are extralegal, cheap, and convenient methods of collecting supplements/drugs that will be available to everyone with a credit card and the right
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> marxist paid trolls That phrase is the funniest I have heard in a long time.
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There are ~basically~ no employee shortages, only employee shortages at a given pay rate.
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Great point. Can you please indicate that you read it the linked text, and how the linked text emphasizes the criticisms you raise?
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I'm someone who is just never going to watch a video when someone says "Watch THIS!" with no further context. It's too expensive to find out if your advice is useful or not. So, while I know you are under no obligation
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Court challenge against Canada’s unfair voting system to be filed today(charterchallenge.ca)
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Less desirable probably means "people who are homeless and/or mentally ill, who use the free-bus ride as a heated place to hang out all day".
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fortran77 mixed up two famous linguists. He probably meant to refer to Steven Pinker. Here's a blog discussing it since I can't link to the book: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/i-could-ca
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'hysteria' is the key word here. A blanket ban on more than 7 days of opioid medication is a hysterical reaction to the current problem. Sure, root out the corruption. Blame people and companies and even put people in jail if you
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Thank you for sharing this. Someone I love has chronic pain managed with (legally prescribed) opioids, and they have constant low-level anxiety that a bureaucratic mixup will result in their medication being denied (or heaven forbid they lo
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Actually, yes. https://www.google.com/search?q=stress+productivity+curve
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by Afton 7y ago
There is automation for this for telemarketers: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
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Wow. That's your criticism? That they leaders aren't suffering enough? You and I have very different ideas about what incarceration is for.
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Put a bottle water in the freezer until it's frozen. Turn it on it's side. If you notice the ice-air line isn't vertical, you had a warming event.
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by Afton 7y ago
My spouse always asks me fold fitted sheets. But it doesn't seem that hard. 1. put two adjacent corner-pockets into each other, then do the same with the other side, then put those doubled pockets together. 2. Now you have an irregular
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There are a lot of really challenging questions about how to count languages, so I'd need to read the actual study to determine how they counted. But this is a pretty cool result actually. I'm also interested in how they quantifie
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You are not arguing against the substance of anything I have said.
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So...You shouldn't be able to protest something unless you personally experienced it? Like, if my buddy was sexually harassed, and I wanted to change the culture in my company to reduce the likelihood of this happening again, I shouldn
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by Afton 7y ago
I have no idea why her reporting or not reporting these incidents is relevant. Also not sure why this the protest was 'generic'. Your comment comes off as dismissive without any substance. Please feel free to elaborate.
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> If only we could make the basic step of getting the masses to understand why being obese isn't okay I don't think that this is the problem. The problem is that we don't really have a good way of helping people who are ob
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by Afton 7y ago
Let's take a step back. When I work somewhere, my job is much larger than 'deliver code'. It includes (and will show up on my Review) things like 'team building' and 'contributing to a non-hostile work environm
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From the actual article: ```She was one of six women who organized massive walkouts after reports that Google paid handsome sums to executives accused of sexual harassment.```
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Protesting against sexual harrassement and and equal compensation are just 'your politics'? huh.
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But the point isn't that e.g. walking fast is bad for your health, it's that when it isn't being explicitly trained for, it is a marker of health. Once you explicitly train it, then it stops being that marker, even though it
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by Afton 7y ago
It's not that it would degrade your health, it's that it wouldn't significantly impact it. Doing dedicated grip training, for example, will radically increase your grip strength (and I found it super fun to do/have), b
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Right, and presumably are useless once people try to game them. 'Useless' might be too strong a term, but you can't e.g. decrease your mortality by training your grip strength.
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With respect to your first and third paragraphs (I have no comment on the second) https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-... Inherent deadliness, ease-of-use, availability, ability to abort mi
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The point isn't that the lawsuit is going to ruin the company. It's that the lawsuit is going to cost the company money in almost every case where it happens, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit. The smart choice for the company i

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