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by ksenzee 3y ago
Because there is no currently approved treatment for postpartum depression, what they’re comparing here is the danger of untreated PPD against the danger of either discontinuing breastfeeding or having the newborn ingest a small amount of t
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A newborn whose mother has severe postpartum depression is unfortunately in more danger from the mother than from any clinically-tested pharmaceutical she might be taking.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe tha
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t realize the Chinese one-child policy’s effects had pushed things quite that far yet. Data here for the curious: https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio#how-does-the-sex-rat
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by ksenzee 3y ago
We would mostly just say “pen.” If we had to specify, it would be “ballpoint pen,” including the “pen.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard “ballpoint” used as a noun. It would be like saying “fountain” for “fountain pen.”
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Interesting. As someone who lives between Vancouver and California, I can tell them apart quite easily.
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I find it fascinating that the writer uses “aafte” for “after.” Clearly their accent was non-rhotic, which isn’t something we’d have any idea about otherwise.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
In the US, at least in most places, you can’t subdivide your land at will. When you buy a piece of land, it’s worth more if it’s zoned such that it can legally be subdivided.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
You’re content to listen to what we tell you? Great. Then let me tell you, as a mother of two, that bearing children is not “the most sublime fulfillment” of my biological “design” or my “destiny.” I love my children to pieces. Being a pare
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Nowhere in those Wikipedia articles (or in anything else I’ve read on logical fallacies) is there any support for the idea that secondhand information is more valuable than firsthand information. I’m honestly curious why you think your opin
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by ksenzee 3y ago
“Once this is commercialized we no longer need women” is a pretty clear statement that the only reason “we” need women is because we don’t have any other way to incubate babies. It’s what you said, whether or not it’s what you meant.
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If women went around telling everyone what we thought about testicles, we’d get laughed right out of the public square. And yet men don’t hesitate to give their opinions about the process of childbirth, about which they know nothing firstha
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> we no longer need women Most of humanity is female. Women are the majority. If we’re getting rid of one of the sexes you’d better hope not everyone gets to vote. Seriously, the idea that women are only useful to society as baby incubat
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by ksenzee 3y ago
If you’re surrounded by dangers, you literally have to ignore some of them while you fight off the others. There is no way to fight every problem at once.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
“Err on the side of caution,” when applied to every single thing in a parent’s life, translates into a great deal of stress and anxiety. Don’t microwave plastics! Don’t feed them box mac & cheese because it has phthalates! Don’t use Him
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by ksenzee 3y ago
When my kids were car seat age, one of the three-kid strategies I saw talked about was “buy European car seats because they’re smaller.” I think if you live in Europe, you have not seen this problem.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I 100% disagree with you about bikes on the road, and I do not own an SUV, but I have a twinge of sympathy for parents who do. I think people without young kids fail to understand just how difficult it is to fit multiple carseats into a sed
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Contrary to the stereotype, most Americans have health insurance that covers inpatient and outpatient mental health care. That's why we can't get a universal socialized system implemented: too many Americans already have good enou
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Yes, except imagine your ticking time bomb set to go off 40 years before everyone else’s.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Thanks for posting this excellent example of why you shouldn’t use ChatGPT to summarize documents. Page 4 of the PDF has an understandable diagram and list of steps, and this doesn’t match it.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> And if simple constructive tension, i.e. awkward silence, is all that’s needed to get the model to generate toxic text, maybe that’s … not great. You’re comparing awkward silence to pointing a gun in someone’s face. A bank teller does
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by ksenzee 3y ago
If we’re going to be pedantic, your objection is to usage, not grammar. “Red team” clearly functions as a verb in the headline. Whether or not it’s an acceptable verb is a question of usage.
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We're almost identical, which is one reason why the gas thing is so weird: these seemingly identical people have an entire set of unknown customs around an everyday activity. I wouldn't call it magical. I would call it uncomfortab
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I live in Washington, well north of the Oregon state line, and I've helped sheepish Oregonians pump their gas once or twice. I doubt it'll be hard to find confused people of all ages.
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a) Peter Thiel is not exactly an authority on the American justice system. He might be right that you need a 7-figure sum for the kind of hijinks he pulled with Gawker, but this isn't the same thing at all. b) FTFA: > Wyoming Backco
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I guarantee it does not include all the changes between versions. It would be impossible to read. I chose an essay pretty much at random for a prototype digital edition in 2002, and it was eyebrow-raising how many differences there are amon
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The Screech translation is excellent but it's a translation, not an edition, and it's not based on a complete critical edition because there was none in 1991 when the translation was published.
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It dates to not long after the printing press was invented, but it was a much shorter period. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/mon...
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Right. I did a prototype digital edition of one of the Essays for my master's thesis 20 years ago, and it was surprising how much interesting stuff was just plain missing from the standard editions. I would have expected some Montaigne
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Interestingly, there still is no complete scholarly edition of the Essays, because he published three different versions during his lifetime (to stay ahead of copyright expiration), and he made so many additions and changes between editions

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