jaqalopes

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by jaqalopes 4y ago
So glad to see I'm not the only one taking drastic action after falling into the phone/attention trap. This won't work for everyone, but maybe 6 months ago I got a phone safe (this kind of thing: < https://shortu
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Quantity, it's said, has a quality all its own. Anyone who wants to look at their personal unproblematic weed use and conclude that it's totally, universally impossible for today's weed concentrates to be a problem for anyone
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A Weirder Moment Than You Think(nytimes.com)
5 points by jaqalopes 4y ago|1 comments
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
This is a neat data visualization but ultimately unpersuasive. The idea is that I am much richer than someone earning $1.90/day (I am), and that in consequence I should donate $5 of my money to help that poor person. But why ask me? Wh
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Nothing could possibly elicit less sympathy from me than forcing frat bros to follow the normal rules that everyone else already lives by. The entire institution of college Greek life exists to enable and conceal sexual assault and unmerito
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Possibly dumb question... Did they know the city was there when they built the Mosul Dam and flooded the area to create the present reservoir?
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
It's not so much invalid as confusing. For Americans to call someone "shortsighted" has a well-known usage and negative connotation about their intellectual integrity. As someone who had never encountered the British usage pr
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
> Ruts are largely fear based. I feel enlightened reading this. Will definitely keep this in mind as a handy reminder to help me understand my occasional ruts and remember the solution.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I'll upvote this every time it's posted. Not a perfect list by any means, but people (read: me) can benefit a lot from being reminded of this stuff from time to time.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
More optimistically, everything now is counterculture. There is no consensus reality. Sure there are still big corporations like Disney making the same old formulaic stuff (which btw lots of people genuinely love). But it's not weird a
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
With inflation and increasing inequality I'm already living a more "impoverished" life than my parents when they were my age, yet economic growth has been out of control. I don't think your vision of "most of us&quo
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Ancedotally they work 100%. Not only do they remove noticeable odors, they suck up tons of allergenic dust and invisible particulates that can mess with your breathing (if you have a sensitive respiratory system). Non-anecdotally, I've
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I feel for you. If you did in fact "just" get out of the relationship, I strongly recommend taking a while off dating to just be single and rediscover who YOU are, on your own. I don't mean you can't go out/on dates
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Mostly good here. I'm working full-time on finishing a fiction manuscript and it's taking longer than I want. This isn't a bad thing in itself—my writing progress has been steady and forward—but I struggle with anxiety across
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
The rich people who own the tech are, you and I are not.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I am personally not up to speed on the scientific evidence, but I've heard a lot of people are worried about microplastics in the ecosystem, especially getting into human bodies via the food chain. Breaking plastics down completely cou
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Absolutely declare bankruptcy. You'll realize it's different from dying and come through a better, more self-aware person.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I have bigtime anxiety so I ordered some of this stuff after reading this blog post a couple days ago. I took my first dose this morning, and I gotta say it really does feel like it helped. Obviously this could be placebo effect so I will r
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
As someone actually diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD, I'm stunned by the clarity and relatability of this description of it, right down to the SAD that has afflicted me for over a decade. None of my doctors has ever put it so clea
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Seriously, even at 30 I feel like I've barely mastered these skills!
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
While I agree with other commenters here that this setup probably isn't a good idea for most people, I want to go out on a limb and say it seems to me the author may have good reason to have undertaken such a project (he specifically m
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Current headline is a bit misleading, the point of the article as made clear in the very first paragraph is that this is about AI hiring tools causing potential discrimination. This has nothing to do with AI workers somehow replacing disa
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
Gotta be honest this is beyond my current comprehension, but seeing the visuals on this while stoned was a trippy pleasure.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
While I know you inteded this as a direct question, I'm actually going to give a meta-response. It seems to me that you think that the problem I'm outlining in my "train" analogy is that I personally am not on the train.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I appreciate extending the analogy but I don't understand what this actually looks like in real life. You only go to college one, have your first job out of college once, etc. If you don't maximize ROI on those (not just financial
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
That's definitely possible, I'm only going from people I know personally. Lots of insurance and finance and consulting types whose lives seem obscenely easy with their regular raises and functioning health insurance (grass is of c
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I'm currently running to catch up. Feels like there's a non-trivial chance of failure, but I have enough privilege that I think I'll get on all right in the end. I could have been on the train from day 1 if I had made some di
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I think some things are falling apart but not everything. If you had the foresight/luck/guidance to get into a stable white collar career, find a partner, and buy a house before 2022 I think you're on "the train". T
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
"Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes" damn this one really hit me. So easy to stay in my comfort zone when there's so much else I could do.
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by jaqalopes 4y ago
I lived in Shanghai for 5 years and have many friends and business connects there. I would never, ever want to be seen as carrying water for the CCP--the day they abolished term limits for Xi was the day I started planning my exit. I'v

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