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by Arete314159 4y ago
Note that even very expensive places can have this. e.g. Dublin / San Ramon in the Bay Area: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA0110009 Whenever I consider a town to live in, I google {town name} + {ewg
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I wasn't welfare-poor then I but I definitely had problems keeping a roof over my head. Rent was cheaper then compared to salaries, buying a house or condo was cheaper then relatively as well, health insurance cost less too. The cuts w
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by Arete314159 4y ago
By the 90's, though, everybody knew how it was spread, and it was pretty simple to choose to use condoms or abstain from sex, and not use IV drugs. Did everybody do so? No. But we had HIV-based sex ed in school and you knew what was up
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Yes, I remember the 80's as well, and while I have nostalgia for the bright colors and Lisa Frank aesthetic and music and so on, I have no desire to live in the 80's again. But the 90's were special. I personally have a time
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I agree with this article. In America, the 90's were post-Berlin-Wall, feminist enough that you could at least work and make an ok wage as a woman, the web boom meant there were decent jobs available even if all you had was an English
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by Arete314159 4y ago
While I don't know what IFR to use for China -- I'm not familiar enough with their vaccines nor their rate of vaccination -- remember that in general, there's one IFR for "sick people can go to the hospital" and ano
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by Arete314159 4y ago
The situation in China, which is just now beginning, will lead to deaths at a previously unimaginable scale. Estimates of deaths in the next 12 weeks range from 500,000, to 2 million, to > 10 million. With most of China too ill to work,
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I read an interesting study on this. It showed that obesity rates were lower in places like Colorado, and theorized that the reason was that they were at the headwaters of their water source, so there was less opportunity for contaminants t
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by Arete314159 4y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35778273/
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I am not a man, but this reminds me of a time years ago when I started to have allergic reactions to things several times a day. My allergist put me on a strict elimination diet of triggers. I could only use unscented products for bathing a
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by Arete314159 4y ago
It tracks a certain calculation of inflation. There are youtubers who can calculate it out very precisely. But in general terms it tracks inflation, and resets every 6 months.
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by Arete314159 4y ago
My mom separated from my dad and, with a young child, went back to grad school at age 40. She got her PhD at 55, and tenure at 67. While she's a very difficult person, I do admire this trait and willingness to reinvent herself, and I t
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by Arete314159 4y ago
The latest studies show that being vaccinated only reduces the risk of Long Covid by something like 20%. So while the vaccine is good for reducing acute sequelae -- much less hospitalization -- it's not doing that much for the folks
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Thank you for asking a question about Long Covid recovery times. This article goes into more detail than I can in just one post: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chr... But the TL
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by Arete314159 4y ago
FYI, telling a disabled person to get out more is not a great look. That said, the places I do get out to -- medical facilities -- are the places I've been talking about. In the red state I used to live in, I saw tons of unmasked or
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by Arete314159 4y ago
You're right, I'm making a lot of assumptions. OP asked each person for their opinion, not a crystal ball with 100% accuracy, I gave mine. That said, I've been a reluctant member of the disability community for several decade
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Sometimes things happen that change dynamics for generations or longer. The Black Plague changed worker-employer dynamics because of the shortage of workers. Software has made plenty of professions obsolete. etc. In this particular time,
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by Arete314159 4y ago
While recessions are normal, I don't think this one will be. There are some major changes happening in the world that are permanent. For instance, the Brookings Institute estimates that Long Covid has already taken up to 4 million Amer
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I'm planning to buy a lot of T-bills. Not treasury indices or funds: Actual T-Bills. A person might sell their holdings in like a TIPS fund when the general market crashes b/c they need liquidity. So you need the underlying treasu
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Ok, this article makes me enraged. Ten percent of women have endometriosis. That's 15 million people in the US. The typical wait time to diagnosis? DECADES. Most of the folks I know with Ehlers-Danlos didn't get diagnosed till the
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Those of us who had post-infectious disability were screaming about this since early 2020, unfortunately we were ignored in favor of "experts" who suggested we should let a virus with unknown long-term side effects rip through the
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by Arete314159 4y ago
We keep being fed the lie that we can solve climate change by buying different versions of the same stuff, no sacrifice involved. The best car is a train or a bus. Some situations definitely require cars, especially when folks are disabled
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Make an excel spreadsheet, list the things you want in a town. Then start researching towns and list whether they have those things, point by point. One thing I would suggest is that if you're moving, bear in mind that climate change i
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by Arete314159 4y ago
Your story is very familiar to me....I worked for years in a failing body, trying to make enough money to survive. It sounds like you've found treatments that help you, but if not the Center for Complex Diseases is great with both ME&#
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I have been where you are. It's terrible and the United States is a terrible place to have these kinds of problems. I have a few thoughts. 1. Focus on finances. You say you're behind on your car payments. With the upside-down stat
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Until a few weeks ago, both monkeypox and smallpox were listed as airborne diseases. It's been changed in public health doc's since monkeypox started to spread, but not because it
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by Arete314159 4y ago
For Americans, how much does it cost to get permanent residency? To my understanding, it's $500k for a golden visa from Spain, which is too rich for my blood.
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I used to really look up to him. But he chose to hang out with a convicted child sex abuser, so now I really question whether somebody with, at the very least, extremely poor judgement and empathy should be leading philanthropic missions. I
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I second this notion. I was actually super well-qualified for Harvard, because I happened to go to a feeder prep school and I took calculus, Latin, and Greek. But I had some class gaps if you will, and sometimes kids with worse grades and q
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by Arete314159 4y ago
I went to Harvard for 2 years, and started out strongly considering CS as a major, but eventually went into the humanities. I definitely did get discouraged. I think for me the biggest part was that their intro class at the time was for bot

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