Mezzie

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by Mezzie 3y ago
Not who you responded to, but I have a disability (Multiple Sclerosis) that pretty much precludes me from building a successful business. Starting a successful, profitable business usually requires both working around the clock at first in
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by Mezzie 3y ago
It's also questionable how much of that will be passed on at least for Americans. My dad and step-mother are in their mid to late 60s and have ~1 million net worth but a lot of that is wrapped up in their house and retirement accounts,
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by Mezzie 3y ago
It's going to depend on the kid. I was doing this sort of thing at 4 or 5.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Got mine 8 years ago and same. Granted, I also got MS and then was geographically restricted, but those are the reasons I haven't looked at employment at the local public libraries. It's really depressing that the skills I have th
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Also the ones who don't support this...leave. It's one reason why I won't work in public libraries as someone with an MLIS.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
It's also the main reason I have no interest in working in public libraries at the moment. I studied to help manage information, not babysit or be a social worker.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> Sim City was too brainy, my 10 yr old self didn’t want to do homework about power/water resources. Aw, I always thought those were the best parts (my 4 year old self fucking loved the SimEarth manual - the one that went into det
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> Our biggest change is the prominence of ambient "background music," which isn't as fun as, say, the rise of gangster rap or grunge to me. This is very dependent on your POV. I've always really liked ambient and inst
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Also fuck those of us who are visually impaired but not blind because I bet their definition of 'accessibility needs' is going to result in a Reddit so limited it's useless to those who need anything other than text only. I&#
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I'm a weirdo: I like understanding people I disagree with. Probably because of my upbringing - political and ideological agreement was never necessary for care how I was raised. (I remember pretty vividly when we had a mock president
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Oh no, not degeneracy . But seriously, that's a giant slippery slope and anyone claiming to be on the left should see that. (Unless you're an authoritarian leftist who's for economic centralization but socially conservative)
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I get really concerned about this as someone who worked in universities for a while. Watching the 18 year old kids get targeted by the credit card/loan/predatory industries made me really sad.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I work somewhere that sees moms with their little littles (under 3) fairly often. THAT age group is addicted. It's terrifying.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
If 6 bothers you, the number of toddlers/infants I see using phones and tablets would really concern you. I'd say a good half of the kids who are brought into the store where I work end up on a tablet or phone without an adult. In
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I also think the focus on romantic sexual relationships as the only viable path to support and love creates a lot of neuroses that ironically make partnering harder . People are obsessed with their looks, get jealous over their romantic pa
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> And that's a shame. I truly think that there's someone like that out there for everyone. I also think it's sad when someone doesn't find that person. I wish that fortune for everyone. Centering marriage and romantic
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Yeah, that was my first thought as an MS patient. Personal evidence aside, MSers depression and anxiety rates suggests some kind of relationship - as a population I believe we have some of the worst depression rates even controlling for the
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Don't dimiss the 'both' option: Our brains are flawed balls of meat that can't completely observe the forces they access/make use of.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> I've never written a story before You need to read and write more fiction if you want to tell an effective story. Just a description of the differences isn't a story . A story usually has a plot, character development, and w
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> It’s ok, it’s good to cry - but I had some toxic masculinity perhaps that MS beat out of me lol. I don't even have the 'toxic masculinity' excuse since I'm a girl, but I was also emotionally constipated. It definit
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Specifically the combination of generative AI and the lack of current understanding of it by the history-making professions (archivists and historians). Historians and archivists rely a lot on primary sources and right now digital provena
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> It has always been understood that history was unreliable, but the collapse of media credibility as we gain access to primary sources stands as a stark warning of just how little we really know about the past. Establishing provenance a
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> It is very hard though, things take longer to do - it’s like I have ADD now or something? I have constructed some compensatory strategies, but yeah… it is hard. Hard to explain but it’s definitely a real thing and especially if I don’t
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I was 'lucky' in that I had my first relapse in the last semester of my Master's program, so I could limp along and finish the degree and decide not to pursue a PhD. An academic career was right out, especially as a first-gen
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Also it's absurdly difficult to be an academic with a chronic disability, speaking as someone with a chronic disability (MS) who was diagnosed in grad school and who left the sector because of it. Moving multiple times, as is usually n
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A shambling zombie of the franchise?
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I will always fondly remember the ridiculous SC2K maps I made for SimCopter + Streets of SimCity. Hills and road ramps everywhere.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I mentioned staffing in addition to money because that's how the issue shows up in nursing - nurses are paid a living wage but often expected to deal with horrendous working conditions such as working with far more patients than is saf

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