ajuc

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by ajuc 6d ago
PTSD and other results of trauma do not require a memory of the thing happening to you. In fact often people don't remember the thing that caused the trauma. It's enough that your nervous system adapts to the unsafe environment. I
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by ajuc 6d ago
I've heard several people say fish don't feel pain. Makes hobby fishing seem less cruel I guess.
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by ajuc 6d ago
I've heard scientists say dogs don't have theory of mind and making a big deal out of some animals that do have some traces of it, when any dog owner can confirm they do. I've seen my dog bury a bone in one place while the ot
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by ajuc 8d ago
The line is usually "do I agree with it". That's why old political writing is good - because the politics has been settled by now, most people won't argue 1984 was unfairly criticizing totalitarianism or Starship Trooper
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by ajuc 8d ago
Sci-fi was political from the start, usually far more political than people realize. It's just that the way it was political back then agrees with your biases so you don't see it as being political :)
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by ajuc 10d ago
WW2 ended with Yalta conference where Roosevelt agreed to Stalin's proposition of giving Poland to USSR's sphere of influence, making Poland (and rest of EE) their puppet state. Churchil wanted to pressure Stalin to leave Poland (
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by ajuc 10d ago
Polish export to US is about 3% of its total export and import - about 5% of Poland's total import. Not much to lose, honestly. We trade more with Czech Republic. Polish export to EU is 74% of its total export and import is about 60% o
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by ajuc 10d ago
> as long as we don't need to be involved in their regulatory or legal regimes The only reason the trade is easy in EU (and with it non-EU partners) is these regulations. Countries that choose to stay outside but wanted access to ou
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by ajuc 14d ago
Cleaning my house is hopeless because it will get dirty again. Maintenance of democracy takes effort, yes. We knew that from the start.
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by ajuc 15d ago
> See most retail workers, and anyone behind a cash register. Why would people behind cash register have to stand?
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by ajuc 17d ago
1. they shouldn't even have to work, they should be on a paid leave 2. if they want to work - they should have preferential treatment 3. even if they are not pregnant - their bathroom breaks or the ability to sit down shouldn't be
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by ajuc 17d ago
In any poor Eastern European country they would go for months-long paid leave long before the birth and then for months-long paid maternity leave. If they decided to work during pregnancy they would get preferential treatment. How are Ameri
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by ajuc 2mo ago
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(09)00525-7/fulltex... > The article by Himmelstein et al1 in this issue of the The American Journal of Medicine documents that health care expenses were the most common
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by ajuc 2mo ago
If it happens much more in US than in other countries - it contributes. There's about 500 000 medical bankrupcies in US per year. That's huge. Also - medical debt (not even bankrupcy necessarily) contributes significantly to homel
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by ajuc 2mo ago
Medical bankrupcy would make you homeless and cause you to abuse drugs and commit crimes at higher rate for one example. Badly controlled medical system with bad incentives caused opioid crisis. Bad incentives (government and healthcare sys
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by ajuc 2mo ago
If you pay much more and get worse results that's objectively not OK. It means the system is inefficient and could be easily improved saving lives and money. > Bad life expectancy is concentrated in the poorest Americans. Which is n
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by ajuc 2mo ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/home-owne... Also my bad, it's 65.7% for US and 87.3% for Poland
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by ajuc 2mo ago
US life expectancy is 79.76 years. That's 62nd in the world, lover than EU average, lower than many less wealthy countries. It's objectively not "working OK" for most Americans, especially when you consider how much you
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by ajuc 2mo ago
87% of Poles own a house in comparison to 67% in US.
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by ajuc 2mo ago
Doesn't matter which kind of GDP you use - it won't tell you how wealthy a country or its people are. That's because GDP measures how much you did in one year, and wealth is accumulated over centuries. Using GDP to measure we
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by ajuc 2mo ago
Make the floor transparent.
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by ajuc 2mo ago
False accusations and lies are evil. It's not a debatable statement. Trying to spin it into a positive is not going to work.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
They will do that anyway. No amount of pandering will change their minds.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
The time for this debate was 100 years ago. Now only people who can't be convinced aren't convinced, so there's no point convincing. So why not make fun of them? There's no downside.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Strength of fibers scales with crossection area, mass scales with volume.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
I really liked Stanisław Lem's take on this in the short story "The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon". https://www.oocities.org/stanislaw_lem/opowiadania/opowiadan... A solution for a milit
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by ajuc 3mo ago
There's a pretty cool article about trying to understand electronics and fix a radio the way we try to understand biology. https://mappingignorance.org/2014/07/02/biologists-cant-unde... So now instead o
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by ajuc 3mo ago
Unpopular opionion - Dostoyevsky is just russian Kipling. Empire apologist who pretended to write about deep stuff but in the end always got the convenient result.
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by ajuc 3mo ago
People in Europe tow stuff with 120 HP sedans or combis all the time. Driving a vehicle that you can't park, that's unsafe for pedestrians and burns 50% more every day just so you can tow something marginally easier on these 2 occ
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by ajuc 3mo ago
What's more comfortable about SUV or a truck than a minivan or combi? How is a tall hood increasing your family comfort? It only increases your ego.

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