mezzie2

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by mezzie2 2y ago
I'm female and I've been here, on and off, since Hacker News was founded. (I burn accounts every so often so I don't get attached to them.) I participate for a few reasons: 1.) I'm a 3rd generation techie and that's
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by mezzie2 2y ago
How do you feel about loan forgiveness for those of us who made good decisions at the time and the conditions changed? On a personal level, I got MS my very last semester in graduate school. This prevents me from doing the career I trained
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I understand that. I think it's morally repugnant and a sign of an ethically bankrupt society. I also have very strong feelings about the amount of debt we place doctors into as well as the fact that we place all the burden for malprac
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I feel like the patient desires should matter here. Personally, as someone with complex medical needs that entails spending a lot of time with doctors and healthcare professionals, I want the best care possible. The best care possible doe
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Oh, it can be. I live in MI and weed is really, really cheap here. I don't smoke, but I partake in edibles (I have MS and nerve pain that meds can't do much about). I can get 2000mg of edibles for 40 bucks. And that's without
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I'm a huge fan of Zoomer fashion and the minute they reach enough critical mass in the workforce for me to adopt it professionally, I'll be there. Or once I finally have enough wrinkles/am in my 40s so nobody mistakes me fo
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Dude, it was a direct response to a suggestion to try different brands of clothes. I simply responded by pointing out a different, unseen variable - that clothing requirements in professional spaces differ by sex and unfortunately there&#x2
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Agreed. This is one reason I am so open and informal in certain digital communications at work. I'm in my mid-30s so I'm old enough to be a 'real adult' in the work place and be the change you want to see and all that.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
No, that idea has completely eluded me for the two decades I've spent in the workforce. My bra size isn't even manufactured/sold in my country, and at one point in my life I was a size that was so rare one company in the
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by mezzie2 2y ago
The primary reason females have to wear bras in professional environments is because men sexualize them. I find them horrifically uncomfortable. I was using hyperbole as a rhetorical device to point out some of the absurdities of profession
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by mezzie2 2y ago
The layers! Especially since my dad (a Boomer) did actually really like Doom...
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> If everyone in a community were high in agreeableness, say, this will feel nice to the people in it, but could have downsides if no-one feels able to engage in conflict, disagreement or argue for controversial ideas. Can confirm, becau
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Weeeelll, one of the issues is that I'm female and am sensitive to pressure. Wearing a bra all day everyday SUCKS, especially since I'm a very strange size and shape so finding ones that fit costs hundreds of dollars and hours of
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I'd say another generational issue here is that informal digital communication is often seen as 'unprofessional' by the older generations in a way informal in person conversations are not. If you greet someone with a high fiv
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Even if I had access to public transit, I'd be driving every day because I'm on immunosuppressants and public transit is a germ pool. Same reason I'm not a fan of working in person with parents of small children.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I find nurturing a social life much easier when I'm WFH because I don't end each day dead on my feet from being overstimulated all day, being in uncomfortable clothes, etc. It also means I don't have to choose between chore
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I have MS and an MS diagnosis in 1994, 2004, 2014, and 2024 are all wildly different experiences. A lot of progress has been made in this area very quickly, to the point where you can see the stratification/differences in progressi
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Yeah, I'd consider the COVID kids to be in a similar boat to those of us who were in college for the GFC. The only reason interest rates were raised as suddenly and drastically as they were is because of COVID, which is a freak event.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
I feel like allowing bankruptcy in certain situations would make sense. For example, I took out undergraduate and graduate loans to train for a career that, due to a freak health event (I got MS) in my last semester of grad school, I couldn
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Most public libraries have them. A large part of the patron base of the public library in 2024 are people who are marginalized and a lot of them come to the library because they lack other internet access. There's also the elderly, the
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". This is what I'd suspect. I'm a lesbian and hang out pretty equally in very male dominated and very female dominated places online. I find it really intere
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by mezzie2 2y ago
So people with perfect vision and hearing should be able to check out materials from a library and people with impairments shouldn't? That's also against the law. So you're against the existence of libraries at all? Since t
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Nothing preventing them from having good ideals and few brain cells. Which is where my opinion falls: I agree with their ideals but their tactics are bad. I don't want friendly soldiers marching into machine gun fire, personally.
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> Projects such as Anna's Archive are going to be much more critical than ever. I look forward to all the new AA mirrors + contributions that are going to come from disgruntled archivists. And everybody in the libraries/archive
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> Yeah that’s totally fine. The metaphor of an ebook library is bad and illogical. E-book lending is pretty much the only accessible option for people with sensory impairments. I think they're a larger portion of the population than
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Also, physical books can be rebound/repaired. The binding is usually the point of failure, and even smaller libraries often have rebinding equipment. I worked in libraries for over a decade and I could probably count on one hand how ma
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> (To be clear, it's not that I'm a big fan of Kiwifarms or anything, but Byuu's tragic story is enough for me to think that the site has significant cultural and historical value, regardless of its ethical orientation.) E
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> Choosing to sacrifice the rest of IA for a grandiose or idealized vision of how the world should work is a betrayal of those who donate to IA in hopes of funding the much more tangible goal. If he wanted to take the stance he took, he
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by mezzie2 2y ago
> This was the inevitable outcome of "National Emergency Library" and they knew or should have known it. They knew. I have an MLIS and took one copyright course and could tell immediately that what they were doing was illegal
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by mezzie2 2y ago
Fair point. I used to live in Flint. Maybe that's why I didn't remember to mention it...

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