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by donw 5y ago
> There is very little good scientific evidence that it is important to breastfeed. American scientists in the 1950s pushed all manner of highly-processed food products on the public because they had "figured out" nutrition. Ex
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Exactly. Babies cry because they're new to the world. They have not yet grown the moderating influence of context provided by experience. Every baby is unique, with a different emotional balance. A big chunk of parenting is figuring yo
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> Lisa Feldman Barrett was, from 2018-2020, one of the 1% most-cited scientists over a ten year period. Irrelevant.
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Sounds fishy… Digging in, it looks like the author, Lisa Feldman Barrett, is part of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) cult. Hell no. Glad I checked.
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That makes no sense.
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Here's a video of Matthew Liao, the Director of Center for Bioethics at NYU, speaking to an audience about deliberately infecting the populace with a genetically engineered disease to make them allergic to meat: https://www.
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> So unless a viable alternative is found the ethical (and probably environmental also) issues are pretty much the same as eating normal meat. Like pretty much everything else pushed by the environmentalist community, it's more abou
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by donw 5y ago
You mean I got my hopes up for nothing?
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Nope, am American as they come and loving it.
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Fastmail!
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Anybody unable to grasp the difference between "virus with a sub-1% mortality rate for healthy working-age adults" and "inbound suppressive fire" does not get a seat at the risk-discussion table.
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Ah, yes, the ancient ritual of Stamppuku.
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This is the way.
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True! The thing that myself and others found so disagreeable is that your copy sounded… maybe “whiny” is the right word? It reminded me of the “buddy dad” that cares more about his kids thinking of him as a “best friend”, than being a fathe
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by donw 5y ago
You, plus anybody that agrees, ping me. Email in profile. Becoming a father was the best decision I ever made. The duty of fatherhood has made me a tenfold better man. Fatherhood is not a bitter load to be carried. It is the greatest respon
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by donw 5y ago
The problem is policy. Imagine two friends, Alice and Bob. Alice thinks COVID is not a problem. Doesn't mask, hasn't had a single shot, all the rest. Bob is terrified of COVID. Masks up at home, space bubble helmet outside, all th
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I think this makes us best friends.
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No worries! My superhero name will be Geil Mann, by the way.
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Because indicated electric vehicle ranges are never highly optimistic. 100 miles is a very, very short round trip in most of the US.
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Absolutely. Their takes on agriculture are also way ahead of anything people in flyover country have thought of.
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Science and academia have pushed with all their might over the past few years to convince anybody with a functioning brain that random YouTube videos are, in fact, better sources for truthful information. Censorship is a short-term game.
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> Has that maybe been true since the beginning of 'natural philosophy'? Unlikely. In its infancy, science -- aka "Natural Philosophy" as it was called at the time -- had to establish its credibility. It did so by deli
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It can’t be.
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Richard Feynman, the father of quantum physics, had a rule that, if you couldn’t explain it to a five-year-old, then you didn’t actually understand it.
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China and Japan would like a word…
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Of course they don't. They look at citizens as a barrier between where they are now, and their desire to live like the feudal lords of old, except with modern conveniences.
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Precisely. OP should share the name of his employer. It’s win-win. People his leadership considers undesirable will know not to apply. Big time saver all around.
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What tools do you, or other HNers for that matter, have to share about breaking alcohol addiction? Especially covering the hard parts: what are the major hurdles to overcome?
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That's why you should never watch Bear Grylls, Gordon Ramsay, and a Sandi Metz video at the same time.
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Yeah... that's the point.

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