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by kaitai 5y ago
Agree, finished taxes with Freetaxusa and figured out backdoor roth conversion, included freelancing income, dealt with a schedule k-1. So much less obnoxious than TurboTax, which I have also used but which makes me angry for all the reason
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This is part of a larger divide between "childhood" and "real life" that we set up to a great extent in the US. Childhood innocence is fetishized in the US in a particular way, edging very much into what we allow to be t
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by kaitai 5y ago
I manually filed taxes on paper (federal) last year and they still have not been processed. Got a letter that the IRS is sitting on my 5-figure tax payment but haven't gone through the 1040 yet. There is an institutional (mainly Republ
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by kaitai 5y ago
I think everything is political, even code.... But the conversation Twitter fosters is not useful. I see people jumping on others for small mistakes or imagined slights, searching for inconsistencies ("On March 3 you said this about a
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As ch4s3 and otherme123 state in sibling/niece comments, it's not bad. There is a reality here that countries on Russia's border face, that can be hard to understand if you live elsewhere. All victory against/agreement w
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I know! Isn't it amazing?! Yet now it's a hallmark of right-wing thought in the US! My Republican relatives are absolutely sure that everyone in government, medicine, science, and education is lying to them or trying to manipulate
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There is no right wing equivalent because of the structurally different ways in which the right and left position their narratives. The appeal to the right wing in the US is via Christian nationalism and distrust of authority (from scientis
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Evaluate the statements above with respect to measles or polio, as the parent poster points out. It is clear that measles and polio vaccines can lead to "herd immunity", while preventing severe side effects of these diseases in th
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by kaitai 5y ago
The discussion is often over-simplified in one direction or another, so thank you for bringing up post-partum depression and depression that can be influenced by hormonal cycles. (And by the way, men can also experience post-partum depressi
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by kaitai 5y ago
And jumping past your comments about anti-racist and anti-sexist policy and execution in STEM pedagogy, your anecdotes point out an actually effective intervention -- supporting the development of a teaching workforce that reflects the co
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Moreover, Asian American immigrants encompass groups as diverse as Vietnamese and Hmong and Cambodian immigrants fleeing war and persecution, Chinese graduate students coming to study astrophysics and staying, and Filipino immigrants coming
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It's quite reminiscent of the Common Core fight. No one read the standards. I mean, you ask someone to sit in front of you and read "Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative fre
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It's not really a "strange human quirk". Last time I was at a gathering where some older friends had one beer too many and started getting heated about the war, it's because they were talking about family members who wer
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by kaitai 5y ago
Last time I wore a bikini I was at an all-women's conference. I thought I was wearing it because it was hot, I was in Palm Springs, and I was at the pool. Thank you for telling me I have been doing it wrong. No wonder I was underpaid a
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by kaitai 5y ago
In the audio version I listened to, Martha mentioned that she'd tried a bunch and they did not work well for her.
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Note a cultural memory component: in Finland (and Norway, Sweden) there was a rash of narcolepsy after the swine flu vaccinations of 2009-2010. Gov't was criticized for not reacting quickly enough (to be fair, side effect was not obser
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by kaitai 5y ago
I've seen a number of attacks on sites like Equitable Math. The criticisms I've seen seem to fall into several categories (this may not be exhaustive): * "Math should always have one answer and this idea that there could be d
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by kaitai 5y ago
The "upper class" will always use whatever tools are at its disposal to further its own agenda. Doesn't matter what the tools are. The "upper class" has done plenty of Trump band-wagonism, just from evangelical and
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by kaitai 5y ago
People "overheat" their cookware all the time. Do you know anyone who measures the temp of the surface of their cookware? Teflon and nonstick coatings kill birds (house pets) when overheated. A nonstick pan in the oven to catch th
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by kaitai 5y ago
Please don't hang out in public & around vulnerable people (kids, elderly) or those who live with them. There's only one way to be responsibly unvaccinated, and that's very cautiously. (This whole "vaccinated people
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The American Cancer Society is quite silent regarding heart attacks. There are plenty of groups working on Black maternal and infant mortality, drug and gang violence in the Black community, etc. If you want to work on that feel free to vol
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by kaitai 5y ago
Read Robert Boice (Advice for New Faculty) and take his research to heart. I can't recommend workflows; they all depend on your personality and habits. To get my dissertation done I wrote a $25 check (don't laugh, on $18k/yea
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by kaitai 5y ago
No, speaking from the Midwest there is in some areas a real shortage of experienced/qualified candidates. Even if you pay $200k, $300k, more, there are a lot of Americans who will not move to the Midwest. Folks from overseas, though, d
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I see a lot of discussion of nutrient content of farmed vegetables here. A cheap and easy alternative to farmed greens lies in foraging wild weeds. Reports from scientists at UC Berkeley have found that toxins like heavy metals, PCBs, etc d
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Agricultural policy in the US shapes a lot of this, though, via subsidies. The financial system also shapes this through its lending policies. The implements of industrialized farming are what the ag lending sector is designed around; try t
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Volume is important for feeling full. For sure protein really helps, that's well-studied. But low-calorie-density high-nutrient density foods (like veggies) can really hit the spot and help satiety. And yes, people do get a lot of wate
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The Wikipedia page indeed is interesting. As I note above, it mentions the shift of 4.5% of the police budget to violence prevention and mental health response teams. In addition, if you look at violent crime in Minneapolis, the chronology
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Oh Lord almighty. A few council members in Minneapolis speak some words for show and people are taking this seriously ?? The city charter commission is responsible for approving this "defund the police" measure and they're n
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Agree with you given my experience. Kids question many things (religion, cultural norms, fashion norms, etc) and gender is now something that one can question, so it happens. And why not? People have been wrestling with gender roles for cen
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by kaitai 5y ago
This comment alone shows that HN suffers deeply from not having many women participants. If y'all had more female commenters, you'd know that you don't get to see a bunch of girls naked in a high school or college locker room

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