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by jrgoff 3y ago
Is the COMT gene stuff discussed in "Suggestible You"? I recently learned I have the AA variation and from what I understand so far, it seems like it might be an explanation (or at least part of one) for why I am so sensitive to a
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by jrgoff 3y ago
I accidentally made raisins one summer by forgetting a cluster of grapes on my car dash for a few days. They tasted pretty good!
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by jrgoff 3y ago
I agree that social anxiety and introversion often get conflated. Another component of introversion I have found for myself seems to be physiological. I have always considered myself fairly introverted and have also had a fair amount of soc
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by jrgoff 3y ago
That sounds like it is pointless with extra steps
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by jrgoff 3y ago
I wonder if a fair trade style label would help with this problem, allowing farms that provide higher wages to charge more for their products and consumers to have the option to support that or to purchase other cheaper options as their bud
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by jrgoff 3y ago
About 10 years ago now I took the train out east and had to switch train stations in Buffalo (they have two stations there). I arrived in the suburbs which felt fairly normal to me and I took a bus into downtown. The buildings downtown look
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by jrgoff 3y ago
Not saying this is related to your issues at all, but in case it ends up being helpful for someone - my uncle was a postman and lived with RSI for decades, early on they even gave him carpal tunnel surgery for it which just made things wors
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by jrgoff 3y ago
Do you have a recipe that you prefer? I have seen a bunch of different recipes and have made it a few times with different ones. While I would agree that it isn't difficult to make, it has been pretty labor intensive when I have done i
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by jrgoff 3y ago
I think most of us just don't have a need to distinguish them, they go into the "English accent" bucket without further categorization.
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by jrgoff 3y ago
Agreed. My niece loved Breath of the Wild and has been eagerly anticipating Tears of the Kingdom since it was announced.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I don't think the point is to have equal power between the parties, but that the party with more power should be prevented from wielding that power abusively.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Theoretically it should be a market advantage to charge less (while still being profitable) than your competitor for the same service so you can get more customers.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I got lucky and the first kind I used worked well for me (I think it was suggested by my girlfriend at the time as a good brand, she had done a bunch of research about that kind of thing). I later tried several different others and they did
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by jrgoff 4y ago
They could have pivoted to more climate-friendly energy production
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by jrgoff 4y ago
If you enjoy riffs on Russian fairy tales - I thought The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy was also really enjoyable.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I don't see why it shouldn't work the same general way learning to program now does. E.g. problem sets that explore the important concepts but now the students can use tooling like ChatGPT to help with it. This will likely change
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Yes, it's not gone but it has greatly improved. One of the challenges as far as that goes is that much of the time that sort of negative self-talk/belief happens below the verbal/conscious level for me so it's easy for i
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Your experience agrees with my experience of myself. Growing up I was the youngest child in our family friend group and particularly had an older sibling who basically bullied me - I learned to be reticent to speak and was definitely afraid
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I think all of the obvious scam emails are part of what makes the higher effort scams so much more effective. People (myself included) are used to being easily able to spot the scams so aren't naturally wary when seeing emails that don
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by jrgoff 4y ago
There is a difference between choosing to do something like that because it is polite (or whatever other reason you find compelling) and feeling like you have to do it to be acceptable.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Thank you for this link. Well written and mirrors a lot of my experiences though I am still looking for my 'miracle cure'. I think this could be helpful for sharing with other people in my life who don't understand why someon
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Yes, it's so tiresome and frustrating. I once had a period of a few months where my sleep was down to around 5 hours/night (normally I would get 8-9), I was exhausted and my body just wouldn't sleep more than that. Went to a
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I see, that was helpful - thank you!
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Would you mind explaining more about what you mean regarding the recent Alaska election? The information I have found about it made it seem fairly reasonable and straightforward to me, but perhaps I am missing something.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
That's not my experience, but I mostly only subscribe and read smaller subreddits many of which I have found quite interesting and helpful.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Photofeeler did a post about trying replicate some of this and apparently some of okcupid's results were probably pretty questionable: https://blog.photofeeler.com/okcupid-is-wrong-about-smiling-...
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by jrgoff 4y ago
You're welcome. Just so you are aware, if you go down that route, there are some attachment style resources/communities (even pretty mainstream ones) that demonize avoidant attachment styles a bit, so if you run into that, know th
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by jrgoff 4y ago
That's a useful realization. I have come to similar realization for myself in recent years. In case it is useful to others who might see this, I have found it useful to explore this dynamic in myself through the framework of avoidant a
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I lived out of a tent for a couple of summers. Getting a gym membership was an easy way for me to have access to showers. At the time I mostly just ate food that didn't require cooking though I certainly could have used a camp stove ea
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I'm curious what value you consider understanding long division to hold? In my mind it has some value in training how to follow an algorithm and obviously has some value in being able to divide arbitrary integers (and beyond). But of c

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