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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
In social interactions . Can the title be fixed? This is not the first study to suggest this.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I also believed I needed money and status to make friends. I hated myself, and behaved in ways others found difficult to appreciate or understand. As a result, I often failed and now have far less of these things than people who seem to b
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
You need people who care about you even more than money. I wish I had understood this when I was still young enough to seriously entertain having children.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Sibling commenter is hellbanned, but relevant.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
It is important to understand that the methods selected for the “Final Solution” were intended to minimize costs. It is dangerous for crime at this scale to become cheap. The experience of the Einsatzgruppen in Poland showed that mass e
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
De-Nazification as policy essentially evaporated in the west in the earliest years of the Adenaur government. Killing and displacement of Germans in the east certainly occurred, but the example of the west shows this was not essential. Kill
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I would not characterize entities like the United Methodist Church or the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as small movements. Both are evangelical churches in the historical sense and neither has a specific position on contemporary p
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
There are evangelical movements within American mainline Protestant denominations that broadly hold to amillenialism and do not concern themselves with contemporary speculation regarding eschatology. They receive less attention nationally b
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I don’t envy the position of American diplomats the next time they are asked to negotiate an off-ramp from hostilities while military options are simultaneously being considered. Intentional or not, the diplomatic posture leading up to this
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Expert opinions seem to differ on this. We will know once enough satellite and signal intelligence data has been analyzed for US leadership to ascertain whether further strikes may be required.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
“De-Nazification” required every Allied power to commit to years of occupation and decades more of economic support to prevent backsliding. No such agreement is possible today. Contemporary experience shows the probable outcome of regime ch
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Inert gas asphyxiation is less straightforward because some ventilation should be present to allow exhalation of carbon dioxide. Significant pain results if this is not provided.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
It is not terribly complicated for most people given access to the right drugs. Right to die groups in Switzerland successfully use a single large dose of a barbiturate, either injected or taken orally (in the latter case, an antiemetic is
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The LM computer’s recovery routines for this scenario are more accurately described as “checkpoint/restore” than “crash” (as most people would understand the latter). The former technique is still used in high availability systems toda
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
This summary of events is incorrect. The LM guidance computer’s executive routines detected an overload (which occurred because Buzz Aldrin had left the rendezvous radar on) and continued to operate in a degraded state where lower priority
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Most measures that rely on self-reporting can underrepresent men; completed suicide is just the most drastic example. It’s difficult to think of a reliable measure that doesn’t have this problem.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Increasing numbers of women in programs traditionally associated with higher status is not gynocentrism. Many university departments are boys’ clubs.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The public school and financial systems in the US are set up to retain ignorant students in economically worthless degree programs and saddle them with the costs for the rest of their lives. Not pursuing any degree at all (because one canno
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Does this hold if one only compares attainment of degrees in fields that are in demand? US policy has specific features that have resulted in many people of limited means pursuing degrees that confer no professional qualification at all.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I want to believe the old tale of the moral decline of black and brown America will lose its persuasive power once the rest realize they were never secure from the forces that effected it. I fear that they will not.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The shift parent is concerned with is perceived at the lower-middle, not at the top. People like Barbara Ehrenreich have noted the “fear of falling” in America for generations. Attitudes like this are what is seen when the fall actually hap
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
This is a phenomenon for white American men because the American middle class happens to be majority white. Behind every “DEI hire” stands a mass of others who never made it as far as you expected to. There is nothing to be gained from bitt