PuppyTailWags

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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
This refers to this paper: "Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01425-4
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I'm just saying that "well everyone I met who is vegan looks sick" is shoddy reasoning to proclaim eating meat is the healthy behavior. That's it. I already clearly said I have no opinion on veganism itself, nor am I pes
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I think it's important, as people who eat meat, to fully acknowledge the deep and societal harms that meat causes. It is well-studied that slaughterhouses are uniquely bad for a community and uniquely bad for the people who work there.
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> In fact the amount of vegans I've met in life who didn't look like they were suffering from some illness has been very rare, only solidifying my position on this. I would push against this sort of anecdotal view. The circle o
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> Enough to have kids at age 18-20, and help their kids raise their own for 2-5 years when they reached that same age. Evolution didn't equip us to live much longer than that. Huh? Humans can live upwards of 3 generations worth of h
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I'm always curious: what is the effect of noise on the noise producers? As much as I have a disdain for leafblowers, and as much as I absolutely despise people who play bass-heavy music at night, why don't they suffer the same ill
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
An important but gentle pushback against things like this (tracking how much time you "have left"): if stuff like this isn't helping you, it isn't worth the reminder either. For some people the scarcity mindset is a moti
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
This is assuming that more opportunities are being created in certain roles... Unfortunately there aren't being more house representatives, senators, etc. Professorships are increasingly rare. While you can argue that, roundaboutly, bo
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Sorry, I don't mean to blame the author of the blog post. If anything I'd like to know why their friends didn't step in for them, nor that they never came across the potential long-term consequences in even a casual research
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Yes; I think someone claiming a drug helped them is also a useful anecdote. I do think HN as a community tends to weigh positive anecdotes more than negative ones [when it comes to hallucinogens], and wanted to point out that this particula
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I think it's useful to consider this blog post as an anecdotal experience of someone who had a significant, traumatic experience with LSD for which they were entirely socially unprepared for even when those those experiences seemed to
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I think using an example of {x} where x is an academic subject matter, and the complaint was that it was used in an academic setting, and is used as an example of a bad behavior involving academic institutions, it's worth inquiring if
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> I don’t care what CRT is academically Wut? Aren't you explicitly talking about an academic context? Wouldn't that matter a heck of a lot what class your brother was getting taught? Like, hypothetically I can disagree with fem
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
The opportunity cost is still likely 100k/yr for the rest of your life, even with the FAANG salary to assistant professors. consider this: You can be a new grad, get hired at Apple, and earn an entry-level salary[0]. Let's say we
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Please re-read my post that I said from China specifically. Gyokuro, a green tea primarily of japanese make and style, does not apply to what I said. I'm thinking of gan lu or mao jian style teas.
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I would disagree but only, specifically, academia's already broken system. Tenure takes the heat off an academic such that they can deeply, deeply study a system. Academia's still stuck in lines-of-code style measuring sticks of p
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
It depends on the green, though. Good-quality green tea from China can often withstand higher temperatures or long brewing, to the point where it's normal to just pinch some tea in a mug and refill with hot water throughout the day.
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> we need professors who avoid politics entirely but strongly encourage their students to vote, then educate them such that we repeal the bullshit drug laws Nixon passed back during Vietnam as a way to coerce those who wouldn't fig
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I think America is too vast and diverse to be described that way. Your description doesn't at all describe the no-gaudiness humble-behavior expected in most white, mid-western communities. Utilitarian individualism doesn't at all
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I think the idea of compromise rarely survives actual scrutiny when it comes to specific values. I don't know what a compromise on the death penalty is to an anti-death penalty stance. I don't know what a compromise on abortion is
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> the post-apocalyptical dystopia where teenagers are being oppressed by old people and the teenagers have to overturn the old ruling class I don't think this is a Last Decade thing... This describes Evangelion quite well, and evan
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Inquiry: small class sizes doesn't work? Could you show me sources/papers/studies/etc? It's is unintuitive, so I'd like to be educated on the factors at play here.
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I'm not writing a several thousand word essay about the best friend who murdered his fiance in a psychotic episode as an example of how psychotic patients should be forcibly institutionalized. I'm merely pointing out the essay doe
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Question: if a non-psychotic psychiatric patient cannot be trusted to perform first-hand accounts of their own abuse, and psychiatric wards are tightly controlled such that lawyers and patient advocates can only be allowed in when deemed re
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
You might benefit from looking at personal experiences of what a psych ward is like. There's a furry comic called Fresh Meat about the partially fictionalized experiences of a teenaged girl in for attempted suicide, where one of the be
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
But I never agreed with impeding the forceful solution. I merely said I find it sympathetic and understandable to do so. You're misunderstanding me in the exact way where I think I'm in some crazy land where I think everyone i
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
Counter anecdote: my personal experience is that the site is less entertaining. I've encountered technical bugs more, such as replies not loading without refreshing multiple times. The "for you" page doesn't show me anyt
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
You see I feel like I'm some bizarre moderate where I can understand both the people who want Echo park cleared and also the people who are protesting the clearing of Echo park. It's not safe for the rest of the community for them
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
> I know "Free Britney!" is all the rage, but the Court does not order conservatorships lightly. This is an assumption, and there's very limited oversight to this. That's the problem. The reason with Brittney was ori
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by PuppyTailWags 3y ago
I never said anything at all to disagree with what you said. People who are mentally unstable should be treated as if they're undergoing a health crisis like diabetic shock or sepsis or something like this. I am merely pointing out tha

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