Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm not a software engineer; I both freelance and use my tech skills as extra incentive to hire me into non-tech positions. (I'm a generalist to my core). So my answer is going to look a bit different than people who've gon
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Strongly disagree on distraction being the cause. I spent a lot of time around potential geniuses growing up, and what sticks out to me is how many of them had their lives all planned out by the adults around them before they were in middle
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The way around this is by 'no, but'ing. You're not playing that game, you're going to play this other, better one instead. It requires some eloquence, charisma, and social intelligence to pull off such a redirection, tho
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Was ET the first really pre-hyped video game that you remember?
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I frequently 'watch' TV Shows and movies by just listening to them. It's a habit I picked up as a kid since I was blind.
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But that's why modding and breaking them is so fun.
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There are two main ways of book binding. One uses glue/adhesive, the other uses string/wire/tying. I'd assume the bailing wire would be used for the second type in a pinch if for some reason duct tape wasn't usable.
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> But the best possible argument might be different enough that arguments which address it don’t address the original argument. In which case the responsibility is on the steelmanner to demonstrate conclusively why the best possible ar
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> There's also a "Logan's Run" effect in play where if the population of newbies is so overwhelmingly large, they set the norms and elders don't even get a voice in many discussions - they may not even be in the
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They're referring to the following argument in the queer community: - Some people (mostly young people - people below the age of ~25) believe that being 'gay' or 'lesbian' is about gender (e.g. a woman attracted to
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Feral children (affectionate). I'm a lesbian who was born in 1988, and my first introduction to queer culture was queer teenagers/young adults online from when I was in elementary school. (They're why I knew it was okay to be
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Don't organize strikes using networked digital means. If you want to know why, look up things like the Battle of Blair Mountain and the origin of the Pinkertons. For a general strike in particular, it's meant to shake the foundati
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I'd say that's probably because we made an information system change very suddenly so most adults in the Gen X+ generations were basically soft-locked out. A lot of our cultural problems come from the fact that we have millions up
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My example is a bit odd, but the gay male community lost basically an entire generation of people, and it's one reason that the current queer community is such a shithole: The adults in the room are usually people my age (~30s-40s) who
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I agree with this, but 50s are more likely to be closer to 70s unless that 50 something was a techie or involved in other subcultures that exploded in popularity between their youth and now. My parents are both in this category (my mom is
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I disagree, not because I disagree with the fact that this happened: "Recently, we had the first generation in history where the wisdom of our elders was more harm than boon", but because I think the phenomenon is temporary. The r
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I think it will happen once genuine downward mobility becomes a very real fear for upper-middle class kids. As in once 10% unemployment or 30-40% poverty wage employment is the result of each private college class, we'll see giant shif
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Actually, sometimes you are able to. ILL in academic libraries or special collections/archives sometimes requires doing so (e.g. because the original material is bundled in a giant 10 year journal binding). That said, legal agreements
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Ironically, I never jumped into the tech industry because of my mental health (though I couldn't articulate it that way back when I decided to go to college for something else, and I do program as a freelancer - I just won't be a
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I have C-PTSD, which is a little different, but I'm also not a fan of talk therapy/'conventional' therapy. I have also heard good things about EMDR, but haven't tried it myself (I ALSO have eye muscle control proble
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Hello, fellow Midwesterner! I apologize for the tone; these conversations often frustrate me, but I shouldn't have been rude. I want to lead with saying my thoughts here aren't meant to minimize racism; I believe that getting into
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I'm going to assume you're referring to Black Wall Street, which happened 100 years ago in OK, and was only part of a municipality. I think whether or not there was a repeat of that would depend on a lot of things: Where it was, w
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You can tell your kids the truth, just also teach them to mind their own business, essentially. The ideal thing to do would probably be to tell the teacher/school admin at the beginning of the year that the child knows Santa isn't
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It was, yes! Just a part I found interesting to contrast our bubbles. I'm a nerd about the subjectivity of the modern internet experience.
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No. The OP just had mentioned not being sure if it DID occur, so I weighed in to say it did. I wouldn't say they're most of the people against racism (particularly when it comes to criminal justice and incarceration issues), but t
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I grew up as the child of someone like you, and this lesson is the most useful one that was imparted to me. It has helped me retain my sanity. If you have children, students, or mentees, they will appreciate your point of view. My mother&#x
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Oh, this is fun because I can actually answer this. (My life and class background is weird). The lower class/working class/working poor, it's kind of similar to driving in states that see a lot of snow: There's an unders
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To me, it's about respecting others as parents. It's not about 'lying to your kid', it's about realizing that treating other parents to a random meltdown after school because Susie said Santa isn't real isn&#x2
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Agree. For instance, I always found it fascinating how the peasant kids always found one another/grouped together whenever there were gatherings of gifted kids or during college programs. And people are openly suspicious of people movi
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> I don’t see people protesting racism invalidating the existence of socioeconomic inequality in America. I have. Mostly college kids in private colleges; they're in a bubble and only exposed to other well-off kids, which means that

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