Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
Living within walking distance allows it but it's hard to swing.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm a lesbian who despises dating online. I've just accepted I'm going to be single.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Alternatively, if you really can't stop comparing, pick a different reference point until you can stop comparing. When I compare myself against my peers from when I was a child, I end up horribly depressed because I have no PhD, no com
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I wonder when and why they added those in? My mother dropped out at 14 and got a GED by 15 back in the 70s because she was so bored. (Parents didn't believe university was for girls, so that wasn't an option). Seems like a way to
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Agree, and that large IQ gap can be even more brutal in children/adolescents. In elementary school, I compared my 'peers' to chimpanzees. That's not exactly conducive to learning things like empathy or teamwork. How well
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Speaking as somebody who somehow gets roped into doing internal knowledge management work, something like this would be great, particularly with the features you're suggesting. I would actively campaign for us to use Linen depending on
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by Mezzie 5y ago
One thing of note for my cohort is that those around my age (34) graduated either into or around the Great Recession. When we started school, it was all 'do what you love/any degree will do' and that changed while we were in
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's bizarre to watch, as a Millennial who got unrestricted internet access in 1993. I definitely have my 'oh no' moments. It does make me wonder what our social responsibility is here. As kids on the internet, most of our ad
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think you're on to something, but there is one thing that I question: > As far as I can tell, the difference was that by the time they reached mid 20s they were quickly running out of peers who would tell them it was a good idea
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I meant it in the way it's typically used in disabled spaces, where it's a contrast to physical disability because the two experiences are different. Mental illnesses are/ can be disabilities, I wouldn't disagree, but th
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by Mezzie 5y ago
LGBT people or trans people? I'd bet the theater kids gave CS a run for its money. Or the art kids. Just fewer gay men and lesbians in CS.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Oh, I have OPINIONS about why this might be, as someone who was one of the teenagers on LJ back when this weird ideology (the bastardization of intersectionality/identity politics that's taken over all non-right discussions) start
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> somebody had to explain to them there are people in the world who are discriminated against, but aren't black. blinks in disabled lesbian
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I wonder what the median is. I'm in political communications and am, in modern parlance, far Too Online. I definitely spend over 12 hours a day, and I'm one of the less engaged people in politics/civics fields that I'v
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Huh. Interesting. I've never done yoga in my dreams, but I do relax/meditate once in a while and have techniques for crafting and going to relaxation bubbles in the midst of whatever dream/dream timeline I'm in. It'
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by Mezzie 5y ago
There's no contradiction between what he says and what you say. My mother is a hardworking, intelligent person (good and honest? Eh...) without a college degree. She'd probably be identified as the person GP would bond with as hav
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Disagree, but I'm concerned about the geniuses as a group of neglected children, not whether or not we're extracting maximum financial/scientific benefit from them. I always sigh whenever the discussion treats these kids&#x2F
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Same, especially given that some of my repeating places are this, at least in dream logic. There's a 'timeline' where my sister and I live in a different apartment, a timeline where I stayed in/returned to the town I wen
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I know other people think it's a lie, but I think it's possible albeit embellished. I lucid dream regularly (about 90 percent of dreams I remember, I"m lucid; easily a few times a week for a couple of decades), and visit the
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by Mezzie 5y ago
In addition to the national libraries, it's extremely common for librarians and archivists to keep things in a personal collection on the DL regardless of copyright. I have every ROM released for pre-2000 consoles + a ton of old softwa
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Reminds me of this article: https://nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-unbearable-sameness-o... . Also this one: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-e... . Thi
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The flipside is that the old ways enabled institutions to lie to the people more easily. Remember Iraq? I just bring this up to keep us from getting rose-tinted nostalgia glasses about how much better things were before. Another caveat to w
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Is the first or the second the issue? If it's the first, I can find a TON of lying and misinformation on 'mainstream' sites and institutions. Off the top of my head, I can think of examples in the past year where the NYT and
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think it's such a hard question because the line moves in accordance to people's position in their culture and society. Even oppressed/marginalized people can have very different circumstances. For example, the 80s-00s were
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I mean, if we got every internet company to agree and had some kind of public standards and the ability to vote or otherwise talk through borderline issues, I'd be fine with that as a solution, even as somebody who does hold the US vie
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yes, that is how and why free speech was established. My argument is that we actually were reacting to the availability of information, but since the government (and outside of the US in some places the Church for whatever religion the stat
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I agree. It's a 'power' problem. One historical example that comes to mind that has nothing to do with capitalism is the uproar around the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages because it broke the Church's
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Ironically, I'm a butch lesbian who came out in the 90s, so I'm well aware. One of my less popular opinions in the queer community is that I AM a free speech absolutist (or close to it), even if it does result in some discriminati
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I am also an American who disagrees with those European laws, though I understand them and why they came to pass. It's one of the difficulties of the issue: Free speech used to be more of a national problem, now it's larger, and,
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I wrote a ton of CSS and early JS in Windows Notepad. Or ON PAPER if the computer(s) I had access to were in use.

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