lilsunnybee

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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
I understand Xanax, but why Adderall and Provigil? Both of those are stimulants, and if anything they would only increase the anxious tension you are already feeling. Maybe you meant Ativan? Not sure about the modafinil though. Are you deal
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Melatonin is already easily and cheaply available on any pharmacy or grocery store shelf in the US. Regulation of many older drugs still classed as 'supplements' is in fact very lax.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Automation increases the benefits of owning capital over providing labor, in ever growing proportions. The less people are needed to provide labor, and have any resources distributed to them at all, the more fruits accrue solely to capital-
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Workers capacity to fill those desires for people with capital is limited though. At what point does the majority of un-capitaled humanity become irrelevant?
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Adam Carolla is sort of a huge douche though. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adam-carolla-gay-mafia... http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/06/douche-bag-of-day-adam-... You don't ha
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
I'm not usually one to argue for broader safety regulations, but the fear behind the restrictions / banning sales aren't entirely off the wall. I mean look at The Mandala Set that Zen Magnets sells? http://zenmagne
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
As long as all the profits are actually going to be used to help people, it doesn't count as exploitative i don't think. Though going to a foundation ... i don't know. A lot of charity money can go to paying salaries, and tha
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Panhandlers aren't always homeless. I don't think this is really news to anyone though is it? If the woman was really homeless, she couldn't have made use of the spaghetti dinner fixings anyways; she likely wouldn't ha
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Teenagers bullied into suicide must have a whole lot of serious stuff to apologize for, to kill themselves so early on! /s
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
You're not alone. I happen to subscribe to the same fanciful notion myself, even though it is in no way rational. I've had about 3 or 4 serious suicide attempts before, and a number of smaller ones. Even in the more serious attemp
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
The New Yorker has a pretty strong history of publishing often fascinating, thought-provoking stories. A journalist from Slate did a piece recently pointing out some of the standouts, since The New Yorker and it's archives are temporar
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
> Maybe the monks got the idea from him. Not really possible since these are centuries-old traditions in many monasteries.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Any of us would commit suicide under the right circumstances. It looks weak and selfish when you have never had to walk in that person's shoes, but if you ever get there yourself, to lose all joy and humor, to be in seemingly constant
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
I agree with the other replier that expressed doubt as to whether things are really any different anywhere else. Your life might involve other elements, but for the vast vast majority of humanity, work/career/income is a very sign
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
It is simply a matter of degree rather than a fundamental difference however.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Don't want to double-reply, but i really feel a reply i made to a post stemming from this one also applies here quite strongly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120459 You can be afraid of the unknown and an uncer
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
There's so much mystery around our existence, consciousness, suffering, that after we die what must happen is either we achieve eternal paradise, or eternal suffering and agony; also by the way i know for sure i'm going to paradis
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Living in fear is a wretched state though, yet many many religious doctrines are based in fear, condemnation, hate, for anyone outside of their church or religion. If you believe that victims of suicide are consigned to hellfire for all ete
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
The correct way to handle behavior that you think might be manipulative? Have boundaries and rules. Limit call times to a reasonable limit, or if the person seems to be done talking about anything substantial, move towards concluding the co
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
If they had BPD (borderline personality disorder), in all likelihood they were not acting manipulative at all, and were just very often in distress and experiencing very strong, dysregulated feelings and emotions. BPD people being "man
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
No that can't be true. I don't have a mobile phone currently and surely have sent more than 50 messages from a gmail address which has never been linked. And i'm sure plenty of other users, especially children and teens, use
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
I think they mean 6% of the email addresses used for fraudulent transactions were outlook.com addresses, at least in the data they were analyzing. 6% of fraud perpetrators use outlook.com is a much different statistic than 6% of outlook.com
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
The book itself would probably be the best source for detailed descriptions of the different regions. It has to be available as an e-book too. Worth buying if you'd like to learn more about general cultural regions and boundaries in th
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Personally i would hardly consider Tampa and Orlando as Dixie. Slightly conservative? certainly. Though not Southern and more an odd mish-mash of liberal and conservative, mostly pro-development, but with an odd pro-environmental strain in
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Definitely. Even in larger versions in the map, are there any that clearly distinguish state lines and major cities? Omitting this information makes it hard to examine these regions from a cultural perspective.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Austin seems to qualify as a separate city-state though, rather than being representative of Greater Texas as a whole.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
I read it a few years back. It provides pretty detailed and interesting explanations for naming certain cultural regions and drawing divisions the way they are. But even in '81, and especially now, there are a lot more aberrations than
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
And Brooklyn, with all the hipsters and many other people who couldn't afford to live in Manhattan, is also Foundry, same as upper Manhattan? Denver/Boulder and SLC hardly have much in common with the rest of the Empty Quarter eit
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Also Denver/Boulder and SLC on the US side are not exactly low population density.
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by lilsunnybee 12y ago
Lived in the Denver metro area and it definitely couldn't be considered to have that much in common with most of the rest of "The Empty Quarter", besides a cultural preference for rugged individualism and limited government i

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