Arete314159

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by Arete314159 4y ago
Try your local Buy Nothing group. I got rid of some books I didn't think anyone would want, but they were excited about them.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I was always "geeky" and a little behind in terms of socio-emotional development. In recent years I started wondering if I was on the spectrum. But the more I've delved into it, I've come to the conclusion that no, it&#x
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by Arete314159 5y ago
+1 for having kids at a younger age. My dad was 44 when I was born and he died when I was 16 -- that sucked a lot. I think you should have a fair idea you'll live long enough to see your kid "launched" into the world -- say 2
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I got sick with a serious illness when I was 34. So I was super glad that I'd followed my crazy dreams of a career in the arts in my late 20's / early 30's. Sure, in retrospect I also wish I'd had better health insu
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I'm pretty sure if Covid had happened during a Hillary Clinton administration, she wouldn't have been stealing PPE and test supplies from state governors and stuff like that. Pretty sure 100's of thousands of people wouldn&#x
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Just a note before we overly romanticize Koestler, he convinced his wife to die in a suicide pact. He was ill, but his wife was not. I have trouble with this because I really liked Darkness at Noon, but if I have to wrestle with cognitive d
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by Arete314159 5y ago
"For that matter, what percentage of patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders are really suffering from autoimmune disorders? Research on the link between psychosis and autoimmune dysregulation is still in its infancy, but growing
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by Arete314159 5y ago
During an airborne plague? That's tough. I probably wouldn't date until something major shifted with being able to protect yourself....which is a terrible plan, I'm just telling you how I feel as of today.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
This makes it sound like there is only one kind of quota in the world. Speaking as a woman who worked in tech for many years, I saw a ton of mediocre dudes get promoted and a ton of super-talented women stay at the bottom rung. I also had w
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Agree 100%. I feel like the usability of the web peaked somewhere between 2000-2007. Ever since then it's been surveillance capitalism, manipulative social media, media consolidation, poorer quality news that's more beholden to la
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Oh sure, you can find it on a dolphin ....
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Most of the problems facing the world today (climate change, inequality) can only be addressed with large communities of people working in concert. By contrast, most of the communications technology out there right now is social media that
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I too was struck by the seeming pointlessness of the article. However there is a reason to give her the benefit of the doubt. Often women are socialized to subsume their own wants and desires into the greater wants of their families. Becaus
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I am high-risk, and PCR tests are imperfect, so a year ago I set about trying to answer the question: How long would a quarantine have to last to truly guarantee safety? Or at least, guarantee safety within an acceptable margin of error (li
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I love this idea for blue states. For red states, it would be DOA.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
What can we as consumers do to pressure Apple to have better working conditions?
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Yes, I find it harder to follow along audiobooks. Like if my reading comprehension is 100%, my audiobook comprehension is 75%. In practice this means that I am unable to listen to most novels as audiobooks, unless the writing style either h
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by Arete314159 5y ago
A programming language for "normal" people would not start counting at 0. For starters.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Probably TMI, but I have a very good sense of smell. I once figured out my coworker was pregnant because she basically smelled the same as a baby's fontanelle (I kept this to myself, I'm not insane).
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Other scientists have pointed out that hospitalizations and deaths are a lagging indicator. Nobody can say it's milder yet. Try again in 6 weeks.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I'm a woman. I've worked in office jobs. I frequently have noticed that getting "life" stuff done is very hard because office jobs were created in the 1950's, when they assumed everyone had a wife at home to take ca
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by Arete314159 5y ago
These days with everybody understaffed, making a doctor's appointment can be very time-consuming, as well! You might on hold / re-routed and the whole call could take 15 or 20 minutes, which is a lot in the middle of the day.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
This seems obvious, but you have to be willing to do a bit more work at the beginning before the assistant can help you do less work. Like, you have to have the time to explain processes to them soup-to-nuts, and then also occasional period
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I actually come from one of those so-called Great Families. Three generations back, there were 3 siblings who all had national or smaller success in creative, financial, and mathematical fields, including one who won a nobel prize. Many of
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by Arete314159 5y ago
Data point of one: I am disabled and don't move around a ton. When I do walk, I often have a limp. But I don't have MS. Facebook is constantly serving me ads about MS.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
This is what tobacco companies do. RJ Reynolds --> Altria. This is what oil companies do. British Petroleum --> BP. You rebrand because people have a bad taste in their mouth about you.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I'm so torn on this. In a perfect world, where human greed doesn't allow corner cutting, upscaling nuclear would be a potentially great choice. However, in the world we actually live in, even so-called "efficient" and &q
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by Arete314159 5y ago
I've really been holding out hope for K. Karikó. She put up with such monumental struggles. Obviously the MRNA Covid vaccine is a huge "prize" and vindication for her, but I'd love to see even more. She deserves it.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
All these articles seem to be like, "We ignored post-infectious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a few decades, and now we're just discovering it." see: Chronic Lyme, Epstein-Barr, et. al.
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by Arete314159 5y ago
That's very good advice, but another data point, I had a medical issue, and I had a very hard time qualifying for short term disability. My illness made me sick about 50% of the time, intermittently. The disability company told me that

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