maybelsyrup

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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> We just don't need the sensationalism - it turns people off and away from all the silliness. By contrast, this is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real extremis
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Unity’s the one making death threats: the proposed changes threaten the livelihoods of the customer base — the food in people’s mouths and the roofs over their heads. They have all the interest in the world in playing this aspect down and p
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> I know if I go off my meds I go to a bad place pretty quickly. Sincere question: how would you know if this bad place was withdrawal from meds or the reappearance of your pre-existing "bad place"? (Pre meaning before you bega
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
What’s to understand? This is The Economist.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
There are dozens, but this is one of the most clear and to the point, and is found in one of the most mainstream, orthodox, and hard-to-get-published-by journals in mental health: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1001/jamapsychiat
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
You’re correct overall, and I know what you mean. But to offer a small and somewhat provocative nitpick: these (the psychoses or any other so-called mental illness) aren’t “ailments of the brain”, as they’ve never been shown to be. None has
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Gotta start somewhere. I hope this contributes to some more momentum in the right direction, both legally and in the zeitgeist more broadly. Was also surprised to read that Montana emits as much ghg’s as Ireland.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> a few cosmetic things Show me someone who thinks a living wage and a boss who can’t overwork you anymore are cosmetic and I’ll show you a university administrator.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Hell yes, it was just the other day I was thinking to myself “I wish I could feel like an American consumer approximately four months after 9/11”. Wish granted.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Which brings us back to what I'm trying to say: have you fully taken in the number of giant arseholes in the world sticking spanners in the works?
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence." This is a digression, but this saying has always frustrated me. It makes sense for a second, but then I wonder if whoever came up with it had
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> Fortune 500 executive > they'll be able to immerse themselves while jetting around the world > a truly effective war room that interleaves live video conversations, presentations, dashboards/visualizations, and their ph
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
You will get in the pod, you will eat the bugs
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> but just as ideologically - as opposed to creatively - directed And about as bloody, too.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> If it seems like an absurd take, please at least consider that perhaps I'm not the one who's missing something, that perhaps I have decades of experience following the research and its results But if that's the case why
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> We're not building the F-35 here. That's true -- one potential upside of the IRS plan is that an online tax submission site cannot constantly crash into the ocean.
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
> Most people are bootlickers Not you though, right?
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Yeah could be https://daily.jstor.org/john-snow-and-the-birth-of-epidemiol...
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by maybelsyrup 3y ago
Why do people still take this guy seriously
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
This is exactly the sort of fun, random, small project that reminds me of the more anarchic and playful older days of computing and the web. Those days are gone and not coming back, but their spirit lives on in things like this. It’s not so
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
Nationalize the railroads, 100%.
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
> you've already got a conclusion you like > the real big secret is "it was Russia"
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
Saying someone's claims don't (yet) have the kind of evidence you demand is pretty different from calling someone crazy (and in so doing implying that those claims are not worth the consideration of the sane). The only thing your
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
We live in a world where the CIA has a heart attack gun [1], a presidential administration faked evidence of WMD to go to war in Iraq, the CDC conducted secret medical torture on black men with syphilis, and the Pentagon sent JFK proposals
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
> liberal simping for empire To me, there are few issues more overlooked than this stuff. Structurally there's no mainstream constituency that'd critique it or even point it out, of course, but still. Crazy under the radar but
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
> independently and axiomatically derived culpability > ever since 2006, been a nutbag
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
If coercing the wealthy on housing issues constitutes “fleecing”, then I’ll take several sweaters, please. > but others you let just... walk in ? My guy we can do both, we can fleece all the third and fourth home owners, foreign and dome
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
> The biggest risk in this case is that investment firms, such as Goldman and Berkshire try and steal the housing without ever intending to release onto the market. Pretty sure this is actually already happening at a furious pace — PE fi
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
This is an interesting take that I’ve never really heard before. It makes intuitive sense, but do you have anything more in depth to read on it? Book or article or longer version of the argument, or a history of some kind? Very curious, tha
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by maybelsyrup 4y ago
I’ve been dreaming about something like this for years. Huge deal for me. Thank you for your work!

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