Jill_the_Pill

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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   "we've been infected by production line, Deming style, efficiency focus" Could you say more about this? I'm trying to form an opinion on this Deming-ism. My impression is that the actual Mr. Deming gave different advic
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   > "why should I care for someone else's child" Because those children will grow and join society. When you are old, some will be your doctors and some will be the attendants pushing your wheelchair. They will vote and dr
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   Children in poverty should not have to rely your discretionary, strings-attached, judgement-laden charity. They need good public services fully funded by your mandatory, fair, and sufficient taxes.
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   So, which do we consider more important: some kind of theoretical economic nudge, or actual children without homes, without adequate food, healthcare, and education?
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   The counter-argument goes like this: Prudent or not, the deed is done; the child is here now and has real needs now. Get over punishing the child for being born and do the right thing.
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   Having just completed a dissertation in LaTex, with figures online in Overleaf and Dropbox (some of them screenshots), scripts and data spread across two computers and an external hard drive, desperate last minute plot text changes right in
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   Does not work for me using f.lux at night and mono-vision contact lenses for bifocal vision. In fact, in a few cases the blue looks in the foreground.
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   My kids call it "cat food granola bars."
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   by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

   Surprised you lump those together. Seitan is the best, but I've never found a tempeh recipe we can tolerate.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    That sounds like a collective choice, not a logical consequence. Would you ever want to be one of 5% working surrounded by starving people? Or would you work toward some sort of redistribution -- either of resources or hours? edit: on ref
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Well, you don't spend the rest of your time drooling, you know. You volunteer, get politically active, take care of others, cook and garden, get exercise and sunshine, chat with friends and family, do creative projects, clean, do smal
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Environment?
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Dealership's just getting ready for autonomous vehicles that try to sneak out.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Thanks for the link. It was fun reading it again for the first time in 30 years!
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Maybe they are now self-censoring and therefore are even less fun or weird?
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Maybe they are downvoting because the apocalypse would have destroyed the physical infrastructure needed for such surveillance? It's sort of dystopia or the other; you can't have both!
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Folks like to think of 1984 as disturbingly prescient, but I think of Solzhenitsyn's In the First Circle often these days. The plot involves the use of a voiceprint (developed by imprisoned scientists) to identify the speaker in a bug
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Ad for apple products?
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Don't sit on your computer. It's fragile.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    We might also consider that getting rid of stuff takes more physical and mental energy (and time) than some people have available to them. My late aunt's house may have looked like that of a hoarder, but really, she just couldn't
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    I remember reading a "how-to" about blinding public surveillance cameras -- not sure how many folks actually did so.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    The plastic liners leach into acidic foods.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Who says it's just about quantity? Persistence and danger matter immensely, and some waste remains deadly for many thousands of years. It sounds like management of toxic solar waste is merely labor-intensive.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    I also learned a ton of LaTeX this year --- not nearly as much as you though! I still feel quite disorganized about it. The syntax and cross-referencing come fairly easy (maybe because I did some TeX long ago), but thinking and writing in
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    One consideration is that obesity has a snowball effect. I think I remember reading once that the average annual weight gain at midlife is 3 pounds. So over a 5-year period, those who made the attempt may have actually been down 15 pound
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    I can do that technically, but I really have no direct instinct for if that is the size of a big parking lot, a small town or a whole county.
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    He's a Canadian bluffing American units. I'm not sure we'd do much better with hectares and kilometers!
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    I agree; you should save if you can. But perhaps you should not expect it to last until your retirement (or perhaps even you yourself will not last until your retirement) as climate disasters become more common and deadly. I was responding
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Is that even close to what I said? [edit: but on second thought, maybe more of us should consider donating some portion of our retirement savings to those who have had their entire lives wiped out by disaster and are immediate distress. Th
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    by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago

    Start here: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd