Mezzie

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by Mezzie 3y ago
Yes. Add that to America disintegrating into a low-trust society where one almost has to assume that any stranger one meets is out to scam you/get your money somehow and it results in a country where it's terrible to be vulnerable
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It's probably accurate, and of course there are issues with socialized medicine as well. I have an interesting POV because I actually had my first relapse while I was living in Canada - I wasn't allowed to stay due to my disabilit
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I agree with you. The argument against this would be things like homes being larger now and housing standards having risen (even slum units have things like fridges and electricity). I don't think those are compelling arguments because
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I agree with you, but a reasonable case could be made for viewing standard of living as material access so I think that's where a lot of us talk past one another. Also American society is pretty disdainful of security, historically.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Eh. Depends on which part. I definitely have fallen into doomscrolling on occasion, but I have reasons to believe our society is less stable than it was. This has good and bad aspects - the 'stability' offered was in many ways the
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I'd say that would depend on one's point of view in a couple of key respects: - Are we just discussing the first-world middle class? Obviously if we extend our scope to all of humanity there have been remarkable jumps in standar
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by Mezzie 3y ago
> What kind of business use-cases do they enable? I've dabbled in comms work, and it's very useful for that. One thing that I despise doing is writing copy and LLMs are really good for that - writing dozens of social media post
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by Mezzie 3y ago
The best part about having MS is that I can leave any social event at any time and it's not considered rude. As an introvert, I don't miss the 'do I leave?' decision-making flowchart.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I only managed to stay afloat because I could still work retail, but mentally I was completely checked out for over a year. My physical 'candle' was the only thing I had left to burn, but as a disabled person, doing this sucks som
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Hopefully your spouse doesn't die or end up disabled. Marriages can end/the spouse can stop being the social engine for reasons that aren't divorce.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Prospective employers often want to know why there's a gap on your resume. My gap was because at the time I was too sick for a full-time job so I had to rely on Medicaid which meant I couldn't do pretty much any 'real' w
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Depending on your disease, you may not have a choice. Take a sick leave and make some pretty thorough plans, get yourself a therapist + possibly a psych, and reconsider what your career path is going to look like. I'm coming at this fr
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by Mezzie 3y ago
This. "Incurable chronic disease" could mean something like celiac or IBS (which most employers aren't really going to care about) or something like MS or ALS (which are way more of a minefield).
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I agree! I was responding as an example to help disprove 'if somebody starts early, they're good.' I think there are benefits and drawbacks to each type of learning. There's also a lot of things I have some incomplete kn
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I started at age 4 and I am a competent but not amazing coder.
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Why? Genuinely, why would you hope/expect this? There is no incentive for most of them to do so in relatively inelastic markets such as housing.
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There's a whole generation of people who were too young to vote in those elections who have to live in this 'bail out' world. I'm 34 and I couldn't vote in 2004. 2008 was my first presidential election. We definitel
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by Mezzie 3y ago
And the kids can help which becomes a virtuous cycle. A 13 year old can be a fair amount of help with a toddler.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I'd be really interested to see this broken down further: * Single mothers, married mothers, single fathers, and married fathers - does being married have an impact on productivity? If married parents produce more, then perhaps the iss
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by Mezzie 3y ago
First order/predicate logic. It's been literally over a decade and I still use what I learned in those courses on a semi-regular basis. Not just professionally, but in life too.
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by Mezzie 3y ago
You're so lucky! You get the opportunity to learn how to deal with the stress and uncertainty of life voluntarily at your own pace. That's great, and will help you in the future. (No sarcasm: I had to learn these lessons after get
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Yes. The problem isn't the AI not understanding the human's intent. The problem is the human not understanding what the human wants/thinking it knows what it wants but being wrong. Watching whole communities crowd-source&#x
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Yeah, that's why the 'and' is emphasized. I can see why that's the case (grading takes a variable amount of time, so does advising, and required PD to keep teachers up to date is very reasonable). I wouldn't mind do
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by Mezzie 3y ago
Yes. Which goes back to 'if my community doesn't value teaching, why should I do it?' In that case, I'll use my background and skills to help those in my immediate circle and their children - people who do value it. Or
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by Mezzie 3y ago
They're cheap comparatively. They also cost over 3x what they did 20 years ago and pay non teaching staff well. If it were truly about not having any money, I'd expect support and admin staff to also be low paid, but they&#x27
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by Mezzie 3y ago
In comparison to other higher ed institutions, you're right. This one in particular (I grew up in the region) has still seen its in-state tuition grow by 300%+ in the past 20 years. Where's the money going?
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I genuinely would like to teach - K-12 or higher ed. I will not work somewhere where I am expected to put in extra hours for no extra pay, allow people to physically and verbally abuse me, and doesn't pay enough for me to make rent
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by Mezzie 3y ago
That's the ideal /stated desire (and historically this was more likely to be true and it does hold true in some cases: graduate school adjuncting is more likely to be of this sort), but the economic incentives and overproduction
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by Mezzie 3y ago
This, basically. I would happily teach at a CC for ~40-50k. I consider having my basic economic needs taken care of a necessity to being a good teacher - there is a correlation between poverty/economic stress and agitation, irritabilit
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by Mezzie 3y ago
I'm not in tech but I'm qualified to adjunct/teach some other subjects and this is it. I'm even a good teacher. But why would I do it when I'm making more and I'm treated better working retail ? My local CC ju

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