Jill_the_Pill

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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
This argues we must drastically improve traffic safety, not just accept driving and covid risks.
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
My 21-yo daughter was previously completely healthy and fit, and she has now experienced a year of long covid. Already skinny, she lost 16 pounds because food didn't register as food (messed up smell and taste) and she couldn't c
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by Jill_the_Pill 5y ago
Electric windows and power steering are unlikely to be tracking your location.
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by Jill_the_Pill 6y ago
It's DARTH VADER! Of course he is committing a micro-macro-mega-aggression! Maybe Darth Vader isn't your best choice for standards of real-world social discourse?
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by Jill_the_Pill 6y ago
To wit, from the Atlantic this month: "The theory that things that improve our safety might provide a false sense of security and lead to reckless behavior is attractive—it’s contrarian and clever, and fits the “here’s something surpri
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by Jill_the_Pill 6y ago
>> a form of "I am very clever and counterintuitive" rationalization Speaking of a "stupid, hazardous fad," this self-congratulatory twist-of-thought is rampant and dangerous right now.
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by Jill_the_Pill 6y ago
Do you think they'd still be using USB drives and bothering to keep track of antique passwords in the future?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
It may be that when the Boy Cried Wolf, the wolf didn't show up precisely because the villagers had turned out with torches and successfully scared it away, unseen.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Winners Take All -- Anand Giridharadas Weapons of Math Destruction -- Cathy O'Neil Race After Technology -- Ruha Benjamin
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Food waste is my criticism as well. Two tablespoons of black beans? Two sticks of celery? And then do what with the rest?
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Ancient Greek Cosmology, Astral Lore, and Exact Sciences(cosmographia.net)
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
nobody: --- Cortana: Tell me what you would like to do. Me: Uninstall Cortana permanently, thoroughly and forever. Cortana: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Turning off one's microphone is not so uniformly easy that failing to do so justifies the epithet "stupid." Sometimes you can only deny permission to use the microphone, not turn it off entirely. Sometimes permissions are r
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
But it's not enough to know someone's code. So what if you do? Unless you can get the physical card without the owner knowing, what good would it do you?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Also not the OP, also have an older phone. I am of an older tech generation who sees this type of security as antithetical to anonymity.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I used to be really good at this. I would wake up with answers, first thought in the morning! But as I have gotten older, the "working on it" dreams have become disruptive and my sleep less sound when processing some problem.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Isn't that sort of the way the remnants of the IRA have gone?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
You are my hero.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I have two children at one of these schools, and we are not remotely wealthy. Just like they could fill the class with perfect SAT students, they could probably fill it entirely with children of the super-rich, but in both cases, the resul
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Just wondering: at the start of the school year, did anyone ever offer you an opportunity to opt out of having your child's photographs and behavioral record shared and stored with Class Dojo and the others?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I take it weekly. A much calmer experience than flying. Get to the station and just walk onto the train.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
>>> Which is going to happen regardless. It's not "happening," it's being done. By us. We can choose to stop.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Large quantities of carbon are taken from the ground and added to the atmosphere in the manufacture, transportation, sale, use, and disposal of consumer products.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
But then they discovered it is in fact not purely about self-discipline, but rather the degree of trust the child has in the marshmallow promiser. In an uncertain life, it makes sense to take whatever marshmallow is actually here now.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Ok, but considering that you very likely would continue to eat in the absence of meat, the replacement foods usually need cooking, refrigeration, and distribution. These things are not particular to meat and shouldn't factor into a co
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Someone's "remote" is always someone else's backyard.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I have used a chorded keyboard for Braille. It's extra quick because there are single "chords" for common combinations like [and] [the] and [ing]. Even longer words like "people" have short-hand versions of one o
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
My second child is starting at Yale this fall, and yes, the tuition struggle is real (trying to do it with no debt). My son has 3 summer jobs, and my daughter is moving off campus to save money. We might make that median this year, but on
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Fossil Free Yale kids are making a good effort, not mentioned in the article. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/12/08/ypd-arrests-48-peo...
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Yalies have been "rich enough to play poor" at least since the 90s. I remember seeing the son of a prominent senator at a picnic with a hole in the sleeve of his old (but probably expensive) sweater and a local friend commenting

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