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by alexk307 4y ago
I never understood why people are so terrified of losing their hair, like they have a choice or a say in the matter. Your body is going to do what it was programmed by your dna to do, no matter how uncomfortable with being bald. Just own it
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by alexk307 4y ago
I have had the same experience! Remote work at a big company is miserable
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by alexk307 4y ago
> No - I care (somewhat) about basic factual accuracy when it comes to public health debates. What facts did you state during this debate? You just asserted your opinion that cannabis causes people to stop caring and only watch movies.
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by alexk307 4y ago
Enlighten us with the facts if that’s the case!
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by alexk307 4y ago
I’ve heard this many times on the internet but I cannot find one source that verifies that folks were smoking 5% THC cannabis in 1980 in the United States. It’s simply not true…and trying to measure it now in a 30 year old sample will show
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by alexk307 4y ago
Have you ever used cannabis as a medicine or daily for a long period of time? Do you think we all just watch movies and act like morons all day? Why do you care if other people do or don’t want to deal with your version of life?
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by alexk307 4y ago
This happened to me after the company I was working for was acquired by a much larger one. The pandemic, working from home, the constant internet feedback loop, coupled with little meaningful or enriching work caused me to resent my job in
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by alexk307 4y ago
I loved my Palm Pre, still have it lying around, and it still powers up just fine. A lot of the features that were innovative and new at the time were quickly co-opted into Android and iOS platforms.
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by alexk307 4y ago
Right, but it's highly correlated to drinking coffee. Enough for me to continue drinking my 2 cups of black coffee a day.
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by alexk307 4y ago
People can argue about the design of the study all they want, but 170k people followed over 7 years is enough evidence for me that drinking black coffee is beneficial to my health.
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by alexk307 4y ago
Lifestyle creep is a very real thing, I feel sorry for folks who can't manage their money. If you make $250k a year, and can't save at least a third of it, you should seriously examine your lifestyle choices. No, I'm not talk
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by alexk307 4y ago
They can be sued if they claim that they hold more assets than they are issuing. If you tell everyone that it's a dollar per coin, and suddenly there are 5 billion coins, you better have $5 billion to your name somehow. Not sure if the
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by alexk307 4y ago
You're upset with the FAA for the Boeing fiasco, but simultaneously upset that they are going to be more strict with certifying a new class of aircraft?
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by alexk307 4y ago
Does this give more support for the theory that all life on Earth started from a few strands of RNA that hitched rides on some asteroids? I wonder what would happen after thousands, or millions of rounds of their experiment?
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by alexk307 4y ago
For another 100 bucks you can get an entry level DJI drone that blows this thing out of the water in terms of camera quality, range, features. This is a piece of trash.
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by alexk307 4y ago
What are you talking about? Biden is going to use nuclear weapons against US citizens? I assure you, there is no food shortage in the United States. The S&P500 went down 15%, calm down, it'll go back up.
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by alexk307 4y ago
Could have been the browser? Or the network interface? Did you ever figure out why?
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by alexk307 4y ago
You'll have no problems if you just want to surf the internet, pay bills, write some small scripts. You'll probably run into issues if you try to run a full stack with Docker + React + whatever you use.
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by alexk307 4y ago
No comment on the pros/cons of online high school, but Khan Academy got me through college Math. I learned Calculus 1,2,3 and differential equations primarily by clarifying what I learned in a lecture by watching Mr. Khan later.
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by alexk307 4y ago
Great news! We're all so much safer now, don't you feel it! /s
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by alexk307 4y ago
I have been cooking for my family for over a decade now, and I can count the number of times I've followed a recipe line for line on one hand, but I always start by setting up my mise en place (onions chopped, garlic smashed, meat&#x2F
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by alexk307 5y ago
Is it possible that salt intake is just correlated to heart disease because the real foods causing heart disease (highly processed foods with refined vegetable oils, sugar, preservatives, etc.) are loaded with salt? Anecdotally, I put salt
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by alexk307 5y ago
You're not trying hard enough then... They're out there.
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by alexk307 5y ago
I'd gladly give up convenience and the need to have everything available to me at all times, for more collective bargaining and better treatment of human beings. If a labor force goes on strike, you should probably ask yourself why, an
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by alexk307 5y ago
> Employees cast 2,654 votes to be represented by Amazon Labor Union and 2,131 against, giving the union a win by more than 10 percentage points, according to the National Labor Relations Board. More than 8,300 workers at the building Th
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by alexk307 5y ago
> It's possible we'll see a generational wave of unionization. One can only hope. Collective bargaining is the most powerful tool to dismantle income inequality and corporate greed.
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by alexk307 5y ago
> Lastly, I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD and I'm trialling dexamphetamine, yet another phenethylamine, and it's been life changing the effect it's having on me. What have you noticed since starting? I also hav
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by alexk307 5y ago
Yeah, I had no idea that was the case. No interest in building missiles or weapons anyway.
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by alexk307 5y ago
> probably need to be able to get a clearance of some sort. Why is this the case? Is everything being worked on government funded? I would probably apply otherwise.
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by alexk307 5y ago
You're just making things up now. They said they want to work 20-30 hours a week, not lay on the couch all day. How would someone else working 10-20 hours less than you equate to them stealing money from you?

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