Jill_the_Pill

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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
It's also crucial to do this kind of testing for users who are disabled, elderly, children, etc.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
An overlooked aspect: older or disabled people may not have the psychological situation of a hoarder, but getting rid of stuff can be physically demanding and some are just not up to it.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Also the term "food desert" is already being replaced by "food apartheid," which better highlights the structures and decisions behind the phenomenon.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
I also wonder about exposure in youth to nuclear weapons testing fallout. That might show an identifiable spatial or temporal pattern, maybe falling off in more recent years and clustered among downwinders worldwide.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Well ok, in the "already have it" vein, how about just taking stuff home in the boxes that the store receives its goods in? Ours has a pile near the registers. Then we break them down and use them as sheet mulch.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
They do make cloth reusables
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Do you know: is this tech useful for hot water radiator/boiler systems or is it just for air?
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Not to be really dumb about this (I don't have a heat pump, don't know exactly how they work, but have some interest in getting one) -- is it not possible to shut them off entirely for the fall? Are they hard to restart or someth
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Aw man, so it's not the Reverend Jim, as I was thinking the whole way through reading it?
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
You know, I'm under the (possibly wrong) impression that it's $9 per workspace per month, and as a professor, if you include all the workspaces I was maintaining for my past classes, I have . . . or had . . . about 25 of them wi
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Open lottery admission isn't the same as universal retention. Some charters and even magnets later "counsel out" admitted kids who act up, perform poorly on tests, or need expensive extra services, saying the school isn'
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
(now that our trust has been betrayed) Is Discord structured in a way that would prevent them ransoming all your stuff years into a project like this?
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
I've been using Slack to support my teaching, so I will probably go back to piazza. No custom gif emojis, and you have to put up with the recruiting, but it basically works.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
It's too bad consumer protection law has somewhat crumpled. This would be a great lawsuit.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
>> "The only way for this to work is if individuals maintain their own historical record." Why's that? We have long had effective institutional preservation of knowledge and historical records by public and university
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
We had them until year-before-last when the house diagonally across from us hired "Mosquito Joe" poison-spraying service. They didn't disappear with the arrival of LEDs about 5 years ago.
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by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
Whereas I solved it by instinct and am still not sure how. Maybe it is better to be lucky than good!
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
Came here to say this. It's maybe starting to feel a bit out-of-date, but it's still got the hook.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
What a sweet guy and a clear communicator. He should be training our public health officials in communication.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
The comparison is meaningless without knowing the needs of the two districts. Are the students in the thriftier district from wealthier households, for example, needing less support from school? Are there more ESL speakers in the costlier d
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
I think the idea of the article is, in part, that heating people is more efficient/economical than heating space.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
We wear seatbelts. And bras.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
After seven years reading philosophy, your definition of "human success" will likely have changed substantially.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
Maybe gun violence is the best analogy, as it is a situation where people's preferences and convenience are given priority over thousands of other people's lives.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
"So an ongoing disaster of a far larger magnitude than covid all told, which is only 20 years worth of automobile deaths so far." I'm sorry, this sentence makes no sense. 40k annual auto deaths is of larger magnitude than 40
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
It's 30-40,000 automobile deaths a year, which is bad enough. If it were a million, I certainly hope the government would step in. And if you drove anyway, illegally, knowing that it caused a million deaths a year, it would reveal you
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
You baby, this isn't your thread! :)
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
Ha! You inspired me to look up FOCUS, a language I once wasted a summer on. I guess it is still limping along out there, if somewhat unrecognizable.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
Yes, there was a fad for making mattresses that sort of fold into a weak, uncomfortable couch. That combo is called a futon here. Now they have frames that give them some supportive structure, but the earlier ones looked like this: https
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Digital Surveillance of US Caregivers(theguardian.com)
9 points by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago|4 comments

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