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by b800h 3y ago
He recently converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, and writes a brilliant newsletter: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/
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by b800h 3y ago
What did the desert look like before this plant arrived? Because I'd struggle to call it a desert from the look of it now. Is it not a good thing?
573.
by b800h 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree with the obvious conclusions, but there's an obvious hidden variable of good parents not giving their children phones, hence those children have a bunch of other good influences.
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by b800h 3y ago
Well that's quite a different situation. I agree. It depends what is stopping the projects.
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by b800h 3y ago
Depends which country you're in. Predicted prevalence is 2-3% (you'll see higher quoted) diagnosis rate in the US is higher, of course, and lower elsewhere. 2.5% is higher than a lot of popular modern identities. By all means see
576.
by b800h 3y ago
OP, bear in mind that you're still learning a great deal from all this. It's not a valueless activity. You're losing interest once the challenge and novelty have gone. It may not be in your interest to punish yourself into fi
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by b800h 3y ago
"ADD" is so prevalent that it's basically part of normal human variation, and has enormous advantages. The name ought to be changed. I find the knee-jerk suggestion of medication offensive tbh. It's like medicating intro
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by b800h 3y ago
Odd, what was particularly boomerish about that comment?
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by b800h 3y ago
Do you suppose that encouraging reclusive and socially anxious people to avoid their problems is going to help them in the long run?
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by b800h 3y ago
That's absurd. We should have more feudalism, not less. It would act as a restraint on hypercapitalism.
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by b800h 3y ago
I think the downsides outweight the upsides. If they're doing sports and clubs, the social isolation will be minimal, other children will have phone bans too, and they won't be at risk from a load of horrendous stuff online.
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by b800h 3y ago
In the UK the standard combination appears to be vapes and Tiktok.
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by b800h 3y ago
Hah. I might be a terrible curmudgeon, but my answer is just a flat no.
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by b800h 3y ago
Or just don't let them use it. A lot of verbiage there; no reason to let your child use social media. I wonder if they've been lobbied.
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by b800h 3y ago
This isn't a unique problem. The Scottish health advice system was doing something similar. https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/11/nhs_inform_loads_face...
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by b800h 3y ago
You think they'd leave logins for it running when people could be playing Bedrock and paying for Realms?
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by b800h 3y ago
But it doesn't work! I just gave up and started using MineTest with the kids.
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by b800h 3y ago
I remember that story about Jim Morrison going missing (before a gig or recording or something?) - he was eventually found under a bed, and all he could say was "ten thousand mics!"
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by b800h 3y ago
In some jurisdictions - I would argue that will blatantly be overturned, as it's a limit on economic activity, and we know what happens to those .
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by b800h 3y ago
This reminds me of that Dutch guy who has managed to father more than 500 children by sperm donation. Unhealthy and obsessive. A very small part of me wants to create a bot which reverses those edits, and then changes his own articles to in
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by b800h 3y ago
We're uniquely unsuited to defending ourselves - British reserve flies in the face of speaking up and raising our voices - but it's so important to do so, and not just give the wreckers carte blanche.
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by b800h 3y ago
British people in "love their country" shocker! It might be less apparent online, but with my hand on my heart I can promise you that people from all the nations of the union share my conviction. It might not be universal, but we&
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by b800h 3y ago
You seem to refer to the UK from the position of an outsider, in which case you can't possibly understand what our constitution and monarchy mean to the majority of us. The UK system is sublime and built on subtlety and nuance. Unfortu
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by b800h 3y ago
Yep. It can take a while for the relevant authorities to spin up their processes. But it will very likely happen. En masse.
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by b800h 3y ago
Both https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_location....
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by b800h 3y ago
Top Google result: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/03/08/megbot-a...
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by b800h 3y ago
This is exactly why so many bots online are absolutely hammering the British monarchy. If we were to remove the King, it would totally destabilise the country. It would make Brexit look like a garden party.
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by b800h 3y ago
You don't want perfect pitch. Various people suggested that one of my sons (aged 9) had absolute pitch, as he could remember the starting notes for pieces from memory. Unfortunately, the organ in our church is a quarter-tone sharp. The
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by b800h 4y ago
Depends on the station. I've heard a bunch of different stuff, but Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati stuff all crops up at least as far as I can tell. I'm also not terribly good at distinguishing them but can tell when I&
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by b800h 4y ago
Pretty disgusting and low attack, given the form of words used. Another reason not to buy their services, IMO. Plenty of people with budgetary authority will take note.

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