ahoyhere

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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Nobody's opinion matters but yours. If you doubt you won on merit, you need to decide whether you would have granted yourself the prize, all things being equal. If you are unable to accurately assess your work, you'll always be at the whi
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
This is not a success story unless she loves it. It's far too early to celebrate… she's just enrolled in a class.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
It died because it denied the way human communication actually works.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
There are plenty of tests which can show what's wrong with you - but they're not "standard" in the sense of doctors using them. If your morning cortisol is above a certain level or below a certain level; if your morning, before-you-get-out-
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Get the book _From Fatigued to Fantastic_. The "standard" tests your doctor would ordinarily order won't show jack. (See my comment below for more specific test information.) This book is the single best resource I have found. Even if you d
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
jennita, I'm glad you're feeling better now. I don't mean to belittle your experiences whatsoever, because depression is a terrible thing. I just want to explain: You wrote your husband was able to "force you" to get out of bed (good man) a
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
> yet when was the last time you saw a man's career publicly shot to pieces because they 'misread the signals?' How about the guy who got fired for making a "big dongle" joke to his buddy within Aria Richards' ear shot? She could have t
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
> I really can't figure out why are women in tech so hard on themselves... I'm not hard on myself at all. Frankly, I think I'm quite gentle on a person who crowed about her heroism, her impact on the ages, her contribution to "the great
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
That's a great way to put it. Yes, positive stress can cause it just as well. I had met the love of my life, traveled to Europe 7 times over a year, gotten married, moved to a foreign country I loved… and founded a new business. Life was pr
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Yes, CFS has a psychological component… In the way that, if X happens the same to you and me, and you don't care, but I do, then my adrenals/thyroid go into overdrive, yours don't; I get sick, you don't. Some people get CFS because of minor
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
There's a spring drizzle, and then there's a hurricanes, both of which you can call "rain." One makes flowers come up, the other crushes and rips the flowers out of the ground. So. "Stress" is not a good conversational word for what happens
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
The people in the know now understand that what we call "burnout" is not a psychological disorder at all, but sub-clinical[1] adrenal fatigue caused by stress, period. In other countries with superior medical system integration, like Austri
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
I agree with you on all counts… especially that she acted like a child. It sounds like her behavior is motivated by building up her own self-image. In her blog post, she portrayed herself as a hero (actually called herself a hero), and lat
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
I have read a lot about Upton Sinclair but never heard the criticism that his novel was unrealistic. References? On the other hand, the inspectors assigned by President Roosevelt at the time… > Learning about the visit, owners had their
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
I've been watching these issues for a long time and here's the conclusion I've come to: Americans care far more about people getting "what they deserve," than caring about costs in the long run. Many of the Americans who have the least will
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
> and yet no one uses that a reason to make trite remarks about how we can't possibly allow a free market in food We do not have a free market in food. Even if you ignore subsidies entirely… Have you not heard of the FDA? Upton Sinclair
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
No, the free market didn't. People like Sara Josephine Baker did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Josephine_Baker The free market creates slums. "People are willing to pay for it!" is the phrase that defines the free market. And yes, pe
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
It's not about reading ability, it's about the way things are written. There's been plenty of research done on how to write notices and warnings etc. that will catch attention, and how to persuade readers to follow the directions. But of co
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Three wordsL L Ron Hubbard As for Steve Jobs, people have always loved beautiful and desirable objects. As long as there have been objects to love. And designers were hipsters way before Jobs' return.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Yes, I have fibromyalgia too. I consider it a non-diagnosis (like chronic fatigue syndrome, which may or may not be the same thing, but which I (also?) have). It doesn't tell you causes it or how to get better, or what it really is . So. O
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
One word: Ewoks. Not defending Bond movies. I agree, they're pretty damn stupid. (Although at least the earlier ones were done with a sense of fun. I like stupid fun.) But... ewoks.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Haha! (Thanks for the real-life laugh :) I admit - I have only seen the late 80s/early 90s versions of MLP (when I was a little girl). Which were about as intellectual as Care Bears. Care Bears hasn't gotten more intellectual in a reissue
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
How is "Those girls don't have interests like mine!" alienating anyone?
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Star Wars is really, really stupid. Also boring. People have an obsession with it because it hit them at the age when they were too young to realize how it's about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space. They saw LASERS!
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
> All the other girls would talk about fashion labels and gossip and she would be bored out of her mind, wondering why nobody else watched Doctor Who. None of them understood the joke on her Darth Vader t-shirt. One of them listened to
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Some of the most prominent researchers in the US believe that 40-60% of Americans suffer from hypothyroid, possibly in combination with syndrome x. Both of which cruelly cause weight gain AND reduce energy/ability to exercise. That percenta
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Ah, yes, the classic: "If you're telling the truth… and you meet this new criteria I just added in order to exclude you… your story still doesn't mean anything." What's traction, exactly? No really - exactly ? My story isn't rare at all. Y
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
> Out of shape people give me hell all the time for being in excellent physical condition, but they don't know about the 10 miles of running every day My major exertion this week was going to the doctor. I rode in a car, walked 20 ft,
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
I'm a woman who would hardly be considered "traditionally attractive" and it's always worked for me. People's opinions of your looks change based on how they view your personality.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Of course, a certain extreme degree of neglect can kill anything at any time. But that wasn't the author's point. And I've been running this business for the better part of 5 years now so if it was going to die from months of total neglect,

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