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by borski 2y ago
I have four cats and a dog. I love both dogs and cats. I used to be a “dog person,” until I fostered about 150-170 kittens (I lost count). My reasoning? If I give them up to adoption homes as kittens, I just get infinite kittens, which is u
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by borski 2y ago
Precisely. You can work on this with techniques and coping mechanisms (and sometimes medication) but it’s a constant struggle.
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by borski 2y ago
That’s not quite true, because many people don’t have good custom sofa makers near them. Moreover, because they are small businesses, they don’t have the same capacity for marketing as big brands; most of their business is word of mouth. Al
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by borski 2y ago
The problem is that sofas haven’t come down significantly in price. These shittier products aren’t actually much cheaper than, for example, a custom made sofa. I know this because I just bought a custom made sofa. But the quality is incompa
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by borski 2y ago
Yet.
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by borski 2y ago
Er, no… that’s literally just the truth. Science is not done as a public debate. That’s politics. Science doesn’t “vote.”
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by borski 2y ago
> "You can have free speech as long as you only speak quietly in your own closet." The power to curate information or "amplify" it as you say is practically very hard to distinguish from censorship when you choose to
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by borski 2y ago
That is definitely not the common reaction. Something is unique to you, in that regard.
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by borski 2y ago
You’re right; it can’t possibly be due to multiple causes. That would be absurd.
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by borski 2y ago
> Id be happy to see a tax on fat people due to the externalities they place on the healthcare system. What about dumb people? Or people with Down syndrome? Or people who use a wheelchair? Or people who were born with a missing limb? Or
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by borski 2y ago
Lots of things are effective that are also bad solutions, especially in a different context. So you’re right, shame works. But, for the sake of argument, if it leads people to suicide, eating disorders, or depression, while obesity is no lo
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by borski 2y ago
I think it’s just a response to many decades of literal shaming. I have so many friends that were put on unhealthy fad diets by their parents because they were overweight kids, and that led to them having eating disorders when they got olde
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by borski 2y ago
Nobody sees being fat as something to celebrate. Fat people don’t like being fat. Source: I’m obese. The thing that you are misunderstanding is that people don’t want to be humiliated about their weight. It isn’t that they want to be fat,
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by borski 2y ago
It’s all about freedom from government tyranny and censorship. Freedom from corporate tyranny is another matter entirely, and generally relies on individuals being careful about what they agree to.
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by borski 2y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. I’m similarly “that guy” that gets called for scenarios like that, but in CA, which is why I asked about Disney specifically. Thank you for the insight!
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by borski 2y ago
One would think I might have already looked there previously, and was asking about personal experience from someone who has worked as an imagineer, not looking for a generic list of bullet points in a job req. :) But thanks.
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by borski 2y ago
Sure, but if they’re cute and fluffy we may just accept them as our overlords without a fight.
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by borski 2y ago
How did you get into this? How does one get into it?
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by borski 2y ago
> Or it may be nothing at all, and just something to track, which is why you never base any medical decisions off a single test.
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by borski 2y ago
This was likely your A1C, or a metric of the last three months or so of your sugar levels. Just because you feel healthy doesn’t necessarily mean you are healthy. You may have, for example, a pancreas condition. Or it may be nothing at all,
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by borski 2y ago
hehe... face... plant... (sorry)
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by borski 2y ago
Her dermatologist is right. Take medical advice from MDs, not HN.
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by borski 3y ago
Because multiple people accusing a single person does not make them guilty and is not compelling evidence. Many people accused women in Salem of being witches. Literally zero of them were guilty. But they were made pariahs, ostracized, and
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by borski 3y ago
So, once accused, one can never be exonerated, even if innocent? Because that sure sounds unfair and undefendable. I wouldn't want to be alone with you either, in that case, and I'd warn other men to do the same, given that they m
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Tape-deck, a user-unfriendly design(github.com)
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by borski 3y ago
Losing track of information, and things not getting written down or forgotten about.
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by borski 3y ago
I understand this. But most people do not, and will buy the most recent one and wait two or more years before buying the next one. They buy the most recent one, aka the most expensive one, because they believe (correctly) it will last them
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by borski 3y ago
https://archive.is/CTNOY
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by borski 3y ago
You misunderstood, I think. If the iPhone 5 is the latest and greatest this year and is $1000, next year it may be $600. But the iPhone 6, which only exists next year, will be at or around $1000. Therefore, there is no benefit to waiting un
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by borski 3y ago
That’s not true. The issue isn’t that the same device will be cheaper in a year, but that the latest device will be the same or close to it. As a result, people are more likely to hang on to their devices (for example) if they assume that n

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