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by achenet 4y ago
community and also I suspect (but cannot prove) that various rituals which engage the "spiritual" parts of the brain (e.g. prayer, meditation, certain controlled substances) have an anti-inflammatory effect.
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GP said: > Japanese women have 1/8 the occurrence of breast cancer compared to American women. This changes when they relocate to the US. That doesn't sound genetic.
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not the person you're responding to, but I suspect it would be due to life outcomes of both - mushrooms have been shown to help people resolve past trauma and change their habits for the better, whereas cocaine tends to be habit formin
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I've seen similar things said by Duke Ellington and Kevin Kelly. I think the reasoning KK gave was the deadline will force you to drop all the unnecessary cruft to focus on delivering the essential as fast as possible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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by achenet 4y ago
That could be linked to electrolyte balance. Depending on your water source, if it's too low in minerals it can flush out your system causing something like hyponatremia (low sodium), which can cause sleep issues. I had similar problem
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I've met people who pride themselves on only sleeping 4 hours a night because they're too busy "working hard" for 18hours at the office. This article could really help them.
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> Putin may be hoping a European winter (where the effects of an energy shortage will be more pronounced) will sway the odds in his favor. Global warming. Checkmate, Putin.
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would a new elite emerge? Probably, if there are certain traits which tend to predict success in a given endeavor, the new elite would tend to have those traits. But one would hope for an elite rather like the Navy SEALs, where selection is
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by achenet 4y ago
Well some of it is used a LOT - for example all of digital technology is basically applied boolean algebra, and calculus is the base of physics. Granted, the original research for those was 200-400 years ago, but the current day applicatio
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by achenet 4y ago
This is true. As an optimist, however, I believe that it doesn't have to be. Looking back on history, slavery was the dominant method of production for several thousand years - until we industrialized. Looking back on history, human fl
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by achenet 4y ago
Strongly disagree. Access to powerful firearms vastly increases how damaging shootings are. Compare the single death in a decade for Japan to the hundreds, if not thousands of deaths per year from gun violence in the US[0] [1]. Keeping guns
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Surprising that this happened in Japan, which has very low levels of gun crime.
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On the Fundamental Nature of Reality(arielche.net)
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What type of bear? Polar bear? Grizzly bear? just kidding, I'm almost sure you meant beer ;)
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> I can't imagine many/any of today's billionaires believing this, Haven't they all signed the Giving Pledge? > given that pretty much all of them have depended on the backing of generational wealth and the unequa
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Inequality fluctuates. Furthermore, I recall reading once that wealth inequality was positively correlated with mental illness, even in the rich of a society. As such, even if there is always some inequality, I think it is worthwhile to try
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The fact that you view this as a fight (using the word "opponent") is the problem. It's not a boxing match. The fact that it has become one means your electoral system is flawed. In a proper system, you have different people
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> FOURTH: We need to abolish the two party system via ballot reform and move to Ranked-Choice or approval voting. This will weaken the two parties, allow citizens to vote /for/ someone rather than against, and will be a more
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by achenet 4y ago
I wrote this a while back - you might enjoy it: It has come to my attention recently that the abortion of unwanted fetuses is likely to become illegal in large parts of the United States. Fortunately, there is another alternative, which I a
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by achenet 4y ago
I think the real problem is your two party system. You don't have a real democracy, you have two gangs of career politicians competing to ruin your country.
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it shouldn't be. If party loyalty trumps good governance, you messed up somewhere.
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Change to proportional representatin or runoff elections. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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Martin Guitars has a range of guitars ranging from ~$1500 to $10,000 in price. The sound and play-ability on all of them is superb, what differentiates them is the materials and the aesthetic aspects - i.e. fancy inlays and stuff. Similarly
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by achenet 4y ago
Reading his book The End of Everything is Just Beginning, he posits a history of early human evolution that is throughly debunked in The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Not that this invalidates his future predictions, but...
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That's one neat trick of capitalism - it's really good at selling you a critique of it as a luxury good. "Turning rebellion into money", as Joe Strummer sang.
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I read somewhere that his (now ex) girlfriend Grimes once chewed him out for going on twitter whilst tripping on acid.
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I like to think that for step 4, you can provide a healthy substitute. Personally, the thing that got me to quit smoking weed was getting really into brazilian jiu-jitsu. It may be possible to generalize this. Besides that, I really like yo
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> If retention and recruitment are impacted, then working hours become longer. This statement is false in the general case. If the contract says 40 hours, I'm leaving after 40 hours, and if you want me to stay longer I better have a
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I think you can make a difference between types of consequences. In a strictly legal sense, you can be allowed to call your neighbor ugly. There will be no legal consequences, because of a law/constitutional amendment protecting free

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