Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
And the mobs kissing.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The weird thing is that potassium salt is really cheap and available. I use it with some Mio to make water drinks that have an actual appreciable amount of potassium in them.
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> It makes sense to me to generally conclude: liars happen, but generally dishonesty isn't something that's considered moral/ethical by society. Most people don't bald-faced lie about stuff, when they do its consider
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Teaching others. Specifically, I learned to program in elementary school (2nd generation programmer), but when I was in 6th grade my school system had its first programming class. Unfortunately, the teacher didn't know how to program s
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I don't know what the answer is either and it scares me. I'm about as well armed as a person can be when it comes to being able to suss out what I'm being told: I've been online for 30 years (and thus understand how info
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm not a fan of this either. In addition to what you've said, it ignores that one reason these 'alternative' sites have been so successful is that they often are good at pointing out the mistakes and misleading nature o
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Yes, I am seriously mentally ill. I'm in therapy, on medication, and currently orienting my life to focus on getting better (I stepped back from career progression). Do you think I introduce myself as, "Hi, I'm Mezzie, my t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Personally, I've learned to deal with it. (Not saying everybody else should, but that I personally have coping mechanisms in place precisely because there's no way anybody could guess my triggers). It's not envy. It's a
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I downvoted because before the comment was edited, it contained a snide 'that sounds like a you problem'. Others may have been reacting to that as well as it's not a productive addition to the discussion. (Also why I was snar
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Is mentioning your story includes a graphic depiction of rape difficult? I had a rather frank discussion with a fellow author who gave me that one without warning me. My point is that there are conditions where yes, that's difficu
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AO3's system was actually what I was comparing the idea to, mentally. Running AO3 does take a fair amount of $ (although a lot of it does go towards legal and server costs), and the tagging system is centrally managed. I think that peo
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It's possible, but I doubt that would come to pass for two logistical reasons (putting on my librarian hat): 1.) Nobody would want to pay for a central organization/group to make the ontology or labeling system. That would be a co
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I appreciate that, but I don't think it's necessary. It's more a commentary on the fact that trigger warnings are so varied and personal that accurately making them for all of us PTSD sufferers puts a huge mental burden on pe
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I generally agree. I mean 'triggered' in the PTSD sense of the term since I have PTSD. I'm nominally the population served by trigger warnings, but I find the cultural practices around them not helpful because they assume a c
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I struggle with trigger/content warnings as someone with PTSD stemming from severe childhood neglect/abuse (e.g. I was allowed to just rot in the basement for a week with a fever of 104+ as a child). The reason is because there se
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> I don’t see how inexpensive clothes or $4 at McD’s is a splurge. I'm supporting 2 people on 15/hr. Those are splurges. The 'splurge' is not being cold for 15 minutes on my way to work or having a night where I can
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My point is that education is not a guaranteed get out of poverty free card because it still requires you never needing a break, never having any health issues, never having to stop to support family or loved ones, etc. You also have less s
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Nope. The reason I'm my sister's caretaker is because our parents won't/can't do it. My dad is a bootstraps guy who refuses to help and my mom isn't financially responsible. I'm the most responsible&#x2F
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by Mezzie 4y ago
If you're on SSI, you're not allowed more than 2k in savings and assets. Other assistance programs also have asset limits. And a splurge for the impoverished isn't '$50 here and there'. My last 'splurge' w
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yup, the incentives when you're poor are perverse. The welfare cliff is real: I still remember my mom's bitching growing up about how she got a dollar per hour raise and lost her childcare assistance, so that raise cost her hundre
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It depends on the assistance program, but yeah, this is one reason poor people make 'stupid' financial choices. Resaleability is a concern in my purchasing habits as someone whose financial life is likely to fluctuate throughout m
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There are 12 million people under 65 living on social security benefits due to being disabled. ~38 million people are in poverty in the US right now. You can't just dismiss almost a third of people in poverty to make your argument work
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I have an advanced degree (not PhD, Master's) and I ended up poor again. Disability! If you grow up poor, you can make it out as long as nothing goes wrong. You have no grace. The clock's ticking. Oh, and you'd best be prep
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And good luck getting a better job without nice clothes, a decent haircut, and some makeup (if you're female). But if you buy those things, you're being 'wasteful'.
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Yes, and currently I use my SNAP on junk food. If it were restricted, I'd have major issues eating because what is and isn't healthy would be determined by upper-middle class people who work in think tanks and based off of some we
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They can't talk about it. I'm a first generation college grad (both undergrad and grad school) raised by blue collar peeps (sort of - it's complicated). In professional environments, talking about your life or the impacts of
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> If you're starving, or homeless, or unemployed, you've worked yourself into a corner fairly diligently. raises an eyebrow in disabled
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You have to be really poor for Medicaid. Back when I relied on it via income qualification (before I qualified through an obscure loophole that I found via figuring out the website page structure of MDHHS and manually searching every sing
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> What we really need is to limit food stamps (or SNAP, EBT, whatever name) to healthier options. That'd be super fun for me, as a person with MS. I literally don't have the energy to cook a lot of the time, and am often only a
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> The main barrier seems to be a culture or mindset that prioritizes short term benefit/feelings over long term benefits even when there are other options. Interesting because the main barriers I see are how the system creates per

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