kirsebaer

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by kirsebaer 8y ago
Are you actually expecting your kids to take care of you when you are a broke retiree?
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
You could try setting the screen to grayscale. It's still functional, but less appealing.
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe (1980). I loved that book as a kid!
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
School assignments should always be voluntary.
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by kirsebaer 9y ago
Most countries just give cash to people without income, they don't bother with a separate food program. That seems to work fine.
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by kirsebaer 9y ago
Gail Evans worked as a janitor at Kodak in the 1980s. "She received more than four weeks of paid vacation per year, reimbursement of some tuition costs to go to college part time, and a bonus payment every March... A manager learned th
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by kirsebaer 9y ago
Back in the 1990s, VHS tapes of porn had a label explaining that this was educational materials for married couples, not porn.
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by kirsebaer 9y ago
Perhaps the real problem is forcing students to sit through lectures they don't care about in order to get information that is easily available in books or videos.
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
> Even if you fail, but put action into the belief, you'll be happy and have grown. Can we please admit that it is terrifying to be an economic failure? If you try and fail, have police at your door because you can't pay rent,
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Wow, this is so messed up, he admits to masterbating after setting fire to random people's houses. It's like this onion story: http://www.theonion.com/video/crime-reporter-finds-way-of-li...
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Good ideas, but why "require" any books at all?
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
In 20th century America there was also explicit, legal censorship of stuff that would not be a problem today. People were sent to prison for months or years, but this is rarely talked about. See Eugene Debs, Lenny Bruce, William Baird, etc.
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
> We might end up losing a few of the more rural branches In many rural "towns" the post office is basically the only public building or store, everything else is miles away. Rural post offices serve an important public functio
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Are you going to force women to abort "unlicensed" children? Force women to have birth control implants? Up until the 1990s in Spain, many thousands of children were systematically stolen from political activists and others with t
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Yes, just giving homeless people there own private rooms is a cost-effective solution. Having people live on the streets ends up being very expensive (emergency rooms, jail, etc). Shelters with shared rooms are scary and unappealing. Giving
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
The problem with c-sections was figuring out how to successfully sew up the uterus afterwards. In 1876 doctors started just removing the uterus after c-section. The woman who gave herself a c-section was able to get medical care soon afterw
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
The National Science Foundation (or other group) should produce high-quality video lectures for all courses.
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
You probably know many other people who have tried psychedelics. Around 20% of young and middle-aged men in the US have tried LSD or magic mushrooms, but people tend to not discuss this in public. (People who publically talk about their per
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
You remind me of Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi. He was inspired by LSD to explore the mystical side of Judaism. But aspects of the LSD experience bothered him: > It also wasn't Jewish enough for me. A universe in which everything wa
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
A lot of people feel that they get new ideas and solutions to problems while on psychedelics.
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
One suggestion to increase potential practical benefit and decrease chance of "banal" generalities might be to go into the trip with a specific question or problem that you are working on. Some examples from the recent CNN Money s
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Think about the song Amazing Grace: "How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see". That was written by a guy who had abandoned his career as the captain of a slave-tra
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
I wonder how people with alexithymia respond to MDMA (ecstasy)? I've heard people say that the first time they really experienced emotions was on MDMA.
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
From a survey of adults who had been "unschooled" (homeschooling without a curriculm): > Almost all of the respondents, in various ways, wrote about the freedom and independence that unschooling gave them and the time it gave t
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
There is now a lot of evidence that structured learning (like memorizing ABC's) is useless or even harmful for small children and that children should instead be able to play freely. This applies to older children as well. Examples of
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How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development(psychologytoday.com)
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Any American MD can ask the FDA for "expanded access" to use a medication not approved by the FDA. 99% of the time the FDA grants expanded-access requests. However, a recent review in NEJM explained how it is time consuming and ex
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
The FDA approves requests to use non-approved medications 99% of the time. When you hear about someone unable to access an experimental drug, it is almost always because the pharmaceutical company does not want to make the drug available ea
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
> I never understood why people hate CCTV cameras - they are in public places. If the police found out about a meeting to discuss police corruption, the police could look up the CCTV camera data, combine with face recognition, etc, and f
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by kirsebaer 11y ago
Alcohol is especially associated with increased risk for violence. Other drugs, not so much. Most violence related to illicit drugs is not caused by intoxication, but rather by fighting and stealing between drug dealers. So there is good ar

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