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by ksenzee 3y ago
I was raised in a conservative Christian denomination and left it for a progressive one, and I’ve learned you can’t say “Christianity is ___” and be at all accurate. There are too many different Christianities. There are denominations that
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by ksenzee 3y ago
They’re using rock crushed to ~100 microns.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I understand this point of view - why shouldn't people share things that have helped them? - but that's why we regulate things like cures for diseases. Taken to an extreme, "here's what helped me" leads to cancer &q
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by ksenzee 3y ago
This is essentially a medical device for administering behavioral therapy to treat social anxiety, and I don't see any indication that it was developed with any kind of input or review from experts in the field. I honestly feel that bo
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Right, I did see that. I get to pick any evening I want during the next ten weeks to do my futzing with the thing I was hoping to pay to leave alone in perpetuity.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
My point is not “wah wah I have to self-host.” I maintain a CMS backend for a living. I know how to host a website. I’m just saying that this transition has been made particularly annoying for the hobbyists being left behind, because it’s c
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by ksenzee 3y ago
The problem isn’t that you’re charging too much, or that there’s anything wrong with Deployments per se. The problem is the rate of change. If I have to keep up with a product that’s changing this often, I might as well self-host.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I’ve been paying for Replit for quite some time, for a tiny Mastodon bot that makes three posts once daily. The price went up considerably with their last pricing change (about 4x IIRC), but fine, I bought a bunch more cycles and left it th
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by ksenzee 3y ago
On the other hand, Seattle is one of the best places in the world to ride out climate change, which is 100% happening, and happening already. It’s all a numbers game.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
It won’t be _that_ big. They’ll feel it as far as Idaho maybe.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
The George Floyd video, if it came out today, would by itself be proof of nothing. Journalists have to do a lot more fact-checking of video than they did a few years ago.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
There are some rules hobbling the private system in Canada that don’t exist in every country with universal healthcare. As I understand it, if a doctor participates in the public system they’re limited in their ability to accept private-pay
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Video footage is proof of nothing these days. I’m going to assume this is right-wing disinformation for now.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> - The US border is an orgy of sexual exploitation, the ravines cutting through ranchers’ fields littered with bloodied children’s underwear. Citation? The US border is a humanitarian and policy disaster, but “littered with bloodied chi
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by ksenzee 3y ago
The Canadian system absolutely requires a referral from your GP to see a specialist. And even in the US, when you do have insurance that allows you to see a specialist without a referral, there are some specialists who won’t see you without
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Sightreading is difficult enough that most pianists aren’t any good at it. Those who are get props and envy from other musicians.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I play by ear and chords too, but being able to jot something down, or read something someone else has written down, is as useful to me in music as it is in English. Literacy is just plain practical.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
For people saying “but there are amazing musicians who don’t read music,” yes, of course there are. Literacy isn’t required for poets, either. There are rich oral traditions that weren’t written down for hundreds or thousands of years. But
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by ksenzee 3y ago
The “in North America” bit matters. This took place a couple hours’ drive north of Seattle.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Because the hardware didn’t support it. We knew in 1999 that the 2038 problem existed, for example, but our choices were a) stop representing dates as seconds since the Unix epoch, and introduce who knows how many bugs in every imaginable p
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I started piano lessons at age 5, I’ve taught piano, and I still arrange music and accompany professionally from time to time, so I’m a fairly snobbish classically trained pianist, and it is my considered opinion that that is a lovely piece
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Thank you for this excellent synopsis. One would think rheumatologists would be curious how many people with these symptoms could be helped with immunosuppression. Alas.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> Like if you hear a syncopated rhythm in your head, or tap it out, do you know the exact rest values you need to insert to achieve it? Yeah, if I can hear it in my head, I can write it out, at least for the genres of music I’m likely to
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by ksenzee 3y ago
There is no simple lab test for CFS, and there are no miracle treatments, but it can be diagnosed, and some of the symptoms can be treated. For diagnosis, there are clear diagnostic criteria, including the presence of post-exertional malais
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by ksenzee 3y ago
No, your wife _was_ dismissed. Not only that, she was misdiagnosed. And she’s part of a huge patient population that gets misdiagnosed routinely. She has every right to be angry. Misdiagnosis is not benign. It sends you down the wrong path
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying, but I have been composing original music—not transcribing or “typing”—for many years in MuseScore. I do not use the mouse for note entry. I cannot imagine wanting to use the mouse for note entry
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I’ve been using it for many years now and I’ve never found myself wanting to reorder notes by dragging them around. The difficulty (among others) is that dragging is reserved for small visual adjustments. If it were also capable of moving n
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by ksenzee 3y ago
In the 1930s the Postmaster General made a famous quip about the “47 states and the Soviet of Washington.” It still leans very far left, more than California in my opinion.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Right, and Firefox for Android does in fact collect its crash data like this.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
The fact that I’m a woman (who has given birth and had PPD, twice) gives it that extra je ne sais quoi.

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