derevaunseraun

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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
TIL that AOL released a db of search queries from 2006. There's some pretty fucked shit in here ngl https://searchids.com/user/described/1
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Yeah I admit it's a horrible justification, but it's so culturally ingrained there's not a lot that can be done
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
the OD part wasn't with respect to LSD but towards drugs in general. I've known people who got started with psychedelics, then moved on to molly (not real MDMA, like the dangerous synthetic street shit), and onto other stuff after
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Psychedelics are weird: some people will speak very positively about them. Other people get fucked up for life. It's like rolling a dice. Imho that's not a risk any person with sound judgement would take. But I'm also sure th
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Who do they think they are? Time is money, they might as well be lighting dollar bills on fire
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
I used headspace for a bit. I think if the workplace'll pay for it it's definitely worth using, but regular yoga and meditation is less expensive. IMO the hard part isn't how you meditate, it's just making time to do it
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
I never said that he "said" that, I said he "considered" it. My evidence? Right here: "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate" It d
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
"Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate" "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part du
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
But doesn't society defining this consist people deciding what's harmful?
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
> You can avoid the whole thing by just not participating. Except when people don't participate they get nothing out of the exchange and there's no discussion or progress
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Interesting. Do you have a quote of where he said this?
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Yeah but how do you get people to form a consensus on what's harmful?
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Something that's really interesting: if you are bilingual read the wikipedia of the non-English language. Especially topics that are more controversial. A lot of the controversies we talk about in the US are very specific to the Englis
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
But they aren't abusers. How would you feel if you were a female SWE and had to work with someone who considers you "biologically inferior"? IMO Google did right by firing him
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
You sound kinda like me tbh. You could be an author alongside the day job: it's not a bad job for someone who likes reading. Imo if you have a bunch of different interests that are all equally interesting it doesn't hurt to choose
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Except high blood pressure is a lot easier to measure and there's a lot less subjectivity involved in the decision. Whether or not someone is depressed is nowhere near as easy to measure
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Telling someone to do their own research and decide for themselves what's best != telling people to ALWAYS disregard what they are told to do by a professional If the research/gut feeling disagrees with what the doctor is saying i
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by derevaunseraun 5y ago
Of the people I've known who have done SSRIs, they all spoke negatively of them. Also just wanted to address a point I'm seeing repeated in this swarm of replies: from what I know not all professionals go the SSRI route. I think m