Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
The poor aren't getting the meals. When I was a grad student, my McD's trips were 'hey I found a toonie (Canada), I can treat myself to a McDouble'.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yes. Also the advice to scrimp assumes there is a way that the person will ever NOT be poor/in poverty, and that isn't true for some/most poor people. I'm a disabled American who is the breadwinner for myself and another
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Hey now, a couple of us remember! ;) Yahoo is how baby me learned the word 'hierarchical'.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> The first issue is your friendships begin tracking your life stage. Using a normative example, single people will tend to be friends with single people and married people will tend to be friends with other married people. Likewise, peo
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I support universal healthcare, I just don't think it's going to happen in America. Right now the answer seems to be 'take as much from the young as you can and guarantee them nothing' and that's not sustainable. It
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I agree with this. The problem for me comes in that elderly patients (again as a class/group, there are obviously exceptions) have no problem with this system. They don't care because they benefit. I've also gotten several sn
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I wish we (Americans) had universal healthcare, but at this point I'm pretty jaded about that ever coming to pass. So I agree with you there, and your point about them having paid taxes is also a good one. That said, we do care for the
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by Mezzie 4y ago
What's terrible about it? I'm a younger (34) person with substantial healthcare needs (I have MS). Everything is always oriented towards the old, and I also pay taxes that are used to support them while getting nothing in return d
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Sounds like your town has a government/mayor that really wants to look good to their peers (other municipal/small town mayors and city council members) rather than serve their population. Those types of buildings get features in a
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by Mezzie 4y ago
They want to. The publishers won't sell to them/place ridiculous limitations on them. They're why a library has only so many 'copies' of a digital book to lend at once, why libraries won't have popular books as
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm actually not Canadian, I just did my MLIS there. ;) It is odd that your small towns don't have some kind of consortium agreement. There are benefits and drawbacks to having separate versus consolidated systems. Consolidated sy
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yeah, I imagine having some sort of central authority (NHS) against which even private practitioners can compare themselves helps here. American healthcare is just chaos. I guess the closest thing here would be Medicaid/Medicare but ev
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yeah, this is definitely part of the reason for the cost, but overall healthcare is pretty inelastic. (Ads for meds are so odd: I spent a couple of years in Canada and they don't do that there and it was bizarre coming back to the US
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Even in the first world in a giant city it can be crap advice. I wrote a paper in library school about how the Vancouver Public Library failed to offer anything of substance to intermediate language learners (with a focus on Mandarin materi
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by Mezzie 4y ago
In addition to people mentioning the information asymmetry, healthcare demand is also inelastic and not substitutable. I have MS. If I sub out my treatment, I increase my odds of losing the ability to ever walk again. Likewise, if I have a
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by Mezzie 4y ago
To add another perspective (albeit with politics rather than climate change): I worked in political communications for a while. Part of the reason it was so toxic to my mental health and I burnt out was that it was nearly impossible to avoi
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Also there are genuine reasons to want to be able to type out slurs that aren't racist. I have an interest in linguistics (complete with degree - so I'm not just saying that to be racist), and discussing something like 'how t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
You should definitely look into it, especially if you like pedantic arguments.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> I, personally, personally cannot see this as a problem that can be solved. Maybe you are better. Both library science and cognitive linguistics have solutions for/discuss this problem.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I was an overnight library technician at a university (11:30 PM to 7:30 AM). That job had a lot of downtime, consistent internet/computer/resource access, and no censorship or blocking (since anything could be needed to answer a
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's weird that the dudes who go all in on preaching the self-help/motivation circuit do drift into misogyny eventually. I think it's a marketing thing: It's self-help but for MEN because self-help is really feminized fo
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Ironically, adopting this attitude almost gave me a breakdown, but I got MS when I was 26 and then ended up being a caretaker for my sister with bipolar. I blamed myself for everything - after all, everybody else with my skill level/ed
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It is complicated and context dependent. Like awarding Laverne Cox an actress of the year/woman of the year award or giving Eliot Page an actor of the year award doesn't engender the same annoyance on my part since acting as a car
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Of course not. But trans women who were in the closet for most of their lives or who didn't know being trans was an option had DIFFERENT oppressions than cis women or trans women who were able to be themselves at a younger age. And bei
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Going forward, you're absolutely correct. I would have fewer objections to a Gen Z trans woman being woman of the year in 20-30 years, because odds are she could have transitioned young enough to be subject to sexism in her career and
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I have no problem with trans people, but making someone like Rachel Levine woman of the year on the basis of her accomplishments does ignore something important. Namely that a lot of the 'woman of the X' awards are meant to inspir
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm fascinated to see what the result will be. It's always interesting to watch public figures struggle between two different but almost equally important incentives.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Reusable =/= recyclable. Palimpest is more like erasing pencil writing and then re-writing. > Again, this sounds like it's purely driven by cost concerns. It's not - I was thinking of fine art applications. You can't
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I don't, and most of the people I grew up with/around don't either. (Michigan) The Seattle and Vancouver people did. Boston was split. Wisconsin didn't except in Madison or Milwaukee. It depends where you live. A lot.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Does paper have any advantage over vellum ("sheep skin") other than being cheaper? Ink takes far less time to dry on paper as opposed to vellum from my understanding. It's also thinner and easier to use in printing press

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