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by jnovek 4y ago
I lease a car every four years in part so that I don’t have to deal with the inevitable car repairs that come after that point. For some — but not all — people, that’s a preferable option. For some — but not all — companies, enterprise tech
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by jnovek 4y ago
Presuming for a moment that you’re under 40 for the sake of conversation: Have you ever considered the other way around? That is, “What changes with age that would make someone over 40 prefer outsourcing a problem to an enterprise?” It’s p
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think anti-fragility could pessimistically be reframed as “be naive about your limits” or “pretend to be perfect”. I think knowing, acknowledging and planning around your personal limitations (per your example) is much more effective and
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by jnovek 4y ago
The OA, in particular, was one that I loved. It lived in this niche that I really like. Abstract supernatural horror? Lynchian stuff. Dark was around the same time as well. My perception of the untouchable Netflix was changed when they c
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by jnovek 4y ago
Honestly, part of it is that it’s not even fair for me to present myself as “able to work” right now. I’ve tested my ability to work four times since 2019 and three of the four have ended up being a burden on the employer (the third was a w
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by jnovek 4y ago
Sure. In 2017 I started getting head-splitting migraines. From 2017 to 2019 they rapidly progressed from episodic to chronic. In 2019 I could no longer hold a job longer than a few weeks because my work was being interrupted too much. It
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by jnovek 4y ago
No worries! You’re not out of line for being concerned about this stuff. It’s like a lot of policy stuff: our congress critters have a very black-and-white approach to a problem that only comes in shades of gray. And, thank you. I have a
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by jnovek 4y ago
OK, topic shift. In all seriousness, I appreciate it. No snark, I don’t care if we don’t see eye-to-eye from a policy perspective, I appreciate what you’re doing. Disability is a really hard experience. I can’t describe what it’s like to
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“And it would require a bureaucracy to qualify and whatnot, but that is the same as the situation now.” I’m certain it would be less onerous than what we deal with now. It’s hard to describe the disability process as anything but “onerous”
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by jnovek 4y ago
Of course; I’m sure that, if it were easy enough, people would commit social security fraud. I know this is a subjective statement, but as I go through this process it just feels way, way, way over the top. We could probably do with a lot l
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by jnovek 4y ago
Interestingly, UBI is usually regressive for disabled people. It’s just straight-up more expensive to be disabled than non-disabled. This was a big discussion in the disabilities community around Yang’s UBI in 2020. I find UBI intriguing, b
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by jnovek 4y ago
Not for SSDI. There’s a strict cutoff that’s adjusted every year. This year it’s $1350 — if you make more than $1350 any given month, you do not receive benefits for that month.
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by jnovek 4y ago
So I take it that you host a disabled person in your home, then? What’s even better is, this system already exists and is being utilized beyond its breaking point. How do I know? Well, it takes 1 to 2 YEARS to be approved for SSI or SSDI
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by jnovek 4y ago
I am disabled and applying for SSDI right now. Can you please point me to these charities that help the disabled afford to live that I keep hearing so much about? The process of applying for SSDI is horrible and demeaning and I’d really lov
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by jnovek 4y ago
I am in the process of applying for SSDI right now. AMAA, I suppose. One of the first pieces of advice that I received in this process — and boy is it a process! — was, “don’t ever say anything that implies that you might want to or be abl
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by jnovek 4y ago
Dude was standing on a bridge which crumbled under him like a cartoon. You really, truly, honestly think he should have to pay his own medical bills for this?
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Both could be true: for a person with ADHD, lack of stimulation can cause anxiety.
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by jnovek 4y ago
You alluded to this, but I think it’s worth saying explicitly: People with ADHD are 2.7 times more likely to deal with depression than people without. This is very subjective and I can’t put a finger on what it is exactly but something in t
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by jnovek 4y ago
I am nearly the opposite, but it has the same effect. I can spend hours in my own head, just thinking about… everything. For me the phone rabbit hole usually starts with an idea that needs more information to live. The outcome, however, is
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by jnovek 4y ago
When I was a teenager my vision was better. It has degraded as I’ve aged. I do still technically pass the vision test, but I don’t think it tests for impairment from astigmatism very well. It’s not rational, but I think a big part of keepi
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by jnovek 4y ago
Have you seen the Stylus extension? I have several default styles configured in Stylus. This improves things on the desktop quite a bit. I wish it existed on mobile.
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by jnovek 4y ago
This problem is so much bigger than low-contrast pages. Almost all technology of any kind selects in favor of aesthetics over equal access. I have moderate amblyopia and severe astigmatism. For a frame of reference, I only barely pass the
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by jnovek 4y ago
If you have access to therapy, there is a modality called EMDR. From personal experience, I strongly recommend it. EMDR is traditionally used to treat PTSD. You play back memories in your brain with distracting bilateral stimulation and e
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by jnovek 4y ago
“I once went three days without sleep.” This is just a side note, but I’ve never heard of anything like this happening before with such a short course of benzos. That doesn’t mean it’s not happening, and it doesn’t mean that it’s not the be
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by jnovek 4y ago
Were you receiving any other kind of therapy for your anxiety during this time? I tend to see it a bit like “medication stabilizes; therapy heals”. I tend to see the opioid epidemic (which is comparable to the current benzo problem) as a sy
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by jnovek 4y ago
The main thing I’ve learned over the last few years is that people without chronic pain have absolutely no understanding or frame of reference for what people with chronic pain experience. I would happily trade 10 to 20 years off of my life
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by jnovek 4y ago
Same here. Occasional clonazepam use for panic attacks which are secondary to post-traumatic stress disorder. Never even the tiniest sign of dependence. Sometimes I go months between uses. I am also a chronic pain patient and I worry that
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by jnovek 4y ago
One could say that being left-handed a disability that requires a low level of support. I really like this line of thinking because I think abled people are often overwhelmed by the prospect of disability. I bet left-handedness is the sort
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For those of us with disabilities, this is every situation of our lives all the time. The disadvantage of being disabled doesn’t come from the way that disability limits us as much as it comes from the countless ways it makes all the normal
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by jnovek 4y ago
I appreciate your response! It’s honestly helpful to hear that people who are more accomplished than I am can also struggle with sight reading. One piece of advice that I received elsewhere in this thread that may also apply to you is to s

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