almaIV

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by almaIV 11y ago
> Sure you can get some free stuff, but at what price? What if you took that time and invested it in bettering your skill sets, etc.? This sort of sentence is extremely annoying to me. I'm good at several things, one of which is a v
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by almaIV 11y ago
It doesn't lead to suicide. It predisposes one to suicide, but the trauma isn't insurmountable. What causally leads to suicide is the choice to take some kind of weapon and use it on yourself.
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by almaIV 11y ago
I'm not sure how much I believe that. I've dealt with reddit's administrators from a moderator side before, and they can just shadowban moderators they don't like. It makes no sense to ban a subreddit for the actions of
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by almaIV 11y ago
Physical analogies are dated when we have accurate terms now. "There are mental trauma, that has not been caused by physical trauma, that will end up being like the gash you describe never being able to acclimatize to." I'm n
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by almaIV 11y ago
"Would it not be better to work towards nobody feeling such fear?" When you ask questions like this, you give the respondent authority, because it is worded in a way that gives the possibility that the respondent might say somethi
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by almaIV 11y ago
Were? The black panthers still exist. They have nothing to do with people calling themselves "anti-fascist" though. "Do you think that white nationalists don't take guns to their protests and marches?" I think the k
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by almaIV 11y ago
"most modern tumblerites aren't willing to get in the streets with a bandanna and a baseball bat" Probably because this is a really stupid course of action to begin with, independent of tumblr. Using baseball bats to reinforc
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by almaIV 11y ago
I made this word up a long time ago, but the "nice tech career you have there" move can be called 'bluelisting' -- i.e. censorship of someone's outside-employment speech via threatening someone's at-employment
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by almaIV 11y ago
Even in this reply you've had to use a metaphor for physiological abuse (a scar, a bodily mark of harm) to elevate the seriousness of emotional damage, to the extent this emotional damage is even lasting, and it doesn't have to be
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by almaIV 13y ago
> Do you have any reason to believe the experts know better what is good for one's health? Yes. You don't need to look at the effects of a particular diet because you can be reductionist as a proxy. For example, examining the effect of
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by almaIV 13y ago
Giving up grains or sugars isn't necessary, though, especially since "giving up sugar" would entail giving up fruit, and grains, while high in carbs, are some of the most nutritious foods you can eat. In fact, most nutritional recommendatio
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by almaIV 13y ago
Satiation index exists already, in the form of Glycemic Index. It's not designed to measure satiation, but in practice that's what it does. Eating low GI foods will make you feel full; eating high GI foods will not.