Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
In my experience, the rich and wealthy are pretty self-aware. It's the upper-middle class who are really uncomfortable with their social position.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
This is very industry dependent. Some industries make heavy use of LinkedIn, but others never touch it. For example, if they need educators, LI is pretty useless.
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SO much of it is luck. I'm from a complicated class background myself, but my dad's family were tinkerers. My grandfather was a factory worker who was obsessed with televisions, so when my dad got into microcomputers, the tools we
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think I was rolled by a min-maxxer: 20 INT and probably around 18 CHA (based on the fact that I could get 100 10 year olds to cooperate as one of them), but damn my CON and STR are so low I have constant pain debuffs to all my rolls. It&#
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> You would need to see me in person to experience the full effect, but my body does not match my words. It's fun , isn't it? One of the saddest things about aging is I never again will be a 17 year old blonde girl who looked
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, at that level, you need more. I tested at the top ~0.1% back in the day and, digging out the old recommendations my parents were given, it was recommended I skip several grades, be given private tutoring, and have access to addition
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> Analyzing ancient literature is something you're actually never going to use. Ancient literature, yes, but there are a frightening amount of people who could deal with a reintroduction to ideas like 'unreliable narrators&#x27
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Ha, I hit it in graduate school when I got MS my last semester. It would have been so much better to hit that wall as a kid.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> “Everybody should have rights to enjoy / read…” Yes. /Librarian
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> EDIT: By the way, a great reason to emulate Switch games is to experience them at higher resolutions and higher framerates. Thought you should know, not everyone does it to save a few bucks. So if by "X" you meant "pirac
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by Mezzie 5y ago
There is one strong argument for emulating current Nintendo (specifically Nintendo) hardware: Game and console preservation. Nintendo has a long habit of stopping console support and games become harder or impossible to buy; waiting for a N
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The Sims Online was a thing in the early 00s, and it was an MMORPG. That may be what the author is referring to.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
And this scenario on steroids when America finally disintegrates, though that may or may not happen in our lifetimes. America has over twice as many people, our population is more geographically dispersed, and we're all being pushed
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Because I was in my 20s with no financial support and being in the closet at work beat being homeless. Especially as a visually impaired female. That's a one way ticket to ending up raped in a ditch. Pass.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
There's two related, but slightly different, things that we're discussing here I think. I think that, broadly speaking, such people do deserve sympathy from society as a whole. That is a different question as to whether or not the
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Ugh. Setting aside the moral questions, I just can't get over how that solution COMPLETELY IGNORES all the variables that might result in differing competencies and applicant pools. Which is what I think bugs me the most about the inte
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The small talk will get you. It's less about the boyfriend and more about not letting them know I liked women. So I'd practice so I wouldn't accidentally say, "My interest in X started when my girlfriend and I went to Y.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Oh, that looks interesting. Space operas aren't normally my thing, but I'm a sucker for multiple POVs/story threads. (I'm just on HN for the book recs. I'm using you all. Sorry.) As somebody who works in politics, I
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm a white American, but I'm a homosexual female with a disability and I feel the same way as you. Sometimes, it could be an advantage, but using it that way just feels wrong given I know what it's like to lose out on thin
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by Mezzie 5y ago
That's so insulting, as a female. If I found out I got any job or role due to my genitals, I'm immediately quitting because that's a terrible way to run a company. For so many reasons.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The problem is you can dump anything that doesn't meet your initial post into the 'exceptional circumstances' bucket. For other examples from my life, my being female and homosexual aren't really issues now, but my femal
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The plural of ancedote is not data. My lived experience is the opposite of yours: All those nice tests that put me in the top 0.01% of IQ + problem solving ability and the drive that got me through 2 degrees and cross-continental moves with
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It does, but not that obviously. I'm a lesbian, and the main problems I've encountered are American culture/organizations acting as though everybody has a spouse (when you're homosexual, your dating pool is small enough
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think that the best idea, depending on what services you provide (since that matters in terms of tactics and communication), would be to take the money and donate it all to the Ukrainian war efforts (Option 2). Make an announcement to tha
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm curious what it's going to look like 40-60 years from now then the US finally fractures. All the Americans in here who think this could never be our problem are 100% wrong.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It involves major powers and (to be blunt) the way Ukrainians live looks similar to the way the western populations live. Their houses look similar, their cities are structured similarly, etc. so the videos hit harder on an emotional level.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
This is correct. The horrifying part is that I honestly don't think any of the governments involved (except possibly Ukraine's, and good for them) have considered the full implications of this.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The difference is photo and video. Sure, we've been discussing war online since the Web started (I sure did; I was online after I got out of school on 9/11), but that was all or mostly text. All the photos and video we were provid
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The question is whether there is enough ambient knowledge throughout the general citizenry to defeat the censorship, and I would argue the answer is yes. Everybody and their mother has a cell phone and bandwidth is cheap: If Reddit, TikTok,
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Libgen. If you mean legally obtaining the books you want to read, there's also the use case of home-made/unofficial copies; there are e-books floating around of books that are no longer in print (digital or dead tree versions).

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