miriam_catira

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by miriam_catira 1mo ago
Point in case - my 75-yr-old retired parents staff one of those church showers in one of the most affluent towns south of SF. They have time, because they're retired. The people using those showers can't volunteer, they have jobs
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by miriam_catira 4mo ago
Same here, but when a site completely fails in Firefox I either A) use my phone because mobile Firefox occasionally works or B) use Ungoogled Chromium. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium Really h
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by miriam_catira 5mo ago
...I get different numbers depending on which eye I use, but both are fairly center. I didn't expect blue-green to be affected though! My left eye can't see certain shades of red as well as my right eye. Bright sunlight makes it m
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by miriam_catira 6mo ago
This. Right now, I'm assuming you're all humans, and so are all my coworkers, and the other people driving cars around me and etc. How easy is it to dehumanize actual humans? If I don't try to remain polite in all written Eng
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by miriam_catira 6mo ago
Or, god forbid, stupid creature that I am, I buy _the wrong flavor food_. Then it's all "why are you trying to poison me, hooman? do you not love me anymore??"
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by miriam_catira 7mo ago
It really depends on where you live. I've found this site useful: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friend... Make a few beds and allow them to be "wild" based on your region. All sor
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by miriam_catira 7mo ago
I wish. I got a Dell laptop for work and they've replaced the right Ctrl key with a Copilot key, and (because it's a locked-down work sysyem) the only thing I can remap that to is the Windows menu. And I keep hitting it out of mus
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by miriam_catira 9mo ago
I've heard good things about Tidal ( https://tidal.com ) but it's not open source afaik.
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by miriam_catira 10mo ago
We had a feeder just outside our floor-to-ceiling windows. Whenever the feeder ran out the Anna's hummingbirds would hover a couple inches from the glass, staring in at us like little bird mafiosos, demanding their due...
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by miriam_catira 1y ago
Some of us knew it, but it's getting worse. And I've worked adjacent to or on marketing teams for the the last decade... and I can't explain why but my theory is they all trust the numbers implicitly, esp. the ad spend. Havin
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by miriam_catira 1y ago
My mom once opened the wrong '89 Dodge Caravan when grocery shopping in the early nineties, and it wasn't until she got in to drive that she realized it wasn't hers. She said the seat was too far back and then she actually st
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by miriam_catira 1y ago
This. This is definitely part of the problem. I can't even offer to take my kid & his friends anywhere, other than walk to the park after they're deposited at my house, because every one of them needs a car seat.
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by miriam_catira 1y ago
Thank you for making this podcast, not just this post, but all of it. I now know how I will be participating in the creation of reality for the foreseeable future (at least as it applies to my local experience of it).
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by miriam_catira 1y ago
I had the same setup in school- alternating schedules- and had to keep my schedule printed out in my bag to reference between almost every class, every day. I still have dreams (nightmares?) to this day about not knowing which class I was s
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by miriam_catira 2y ago
No idea if it'll last 40-50 years, but I've used this probably about 10(?), and it's been great. You do need a small funnel to fill it though. It's not the standard size or functionality, but I've discovered I actu
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by miriam_catira 2y ago
Sure, for some women, but let's not generalize. Personally, I hate carrying a purse, and the new phones don't even fit in the pocket inside my purse. Plus, I miss being able to reach the entire screen with one thumb, with the pho
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'Epigenome editor' silences gene that causes deadly brain disorders(nature.com)
3 points by miriam_catira 2y ago|0 comments
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by miriam_catira 2y ago
No, I don't think they're projecting, I think you've been highly fortunate. Track is not a good example, at least in my case. Our coaches spent ZERO time with those of us who weren't obviously going to be breaking any re
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
There was a corporate office park I encountered once that had a pond, and they had swans in it. The swans entertained themselves by chasing office workers to and from the carpark every morning. ... in my experience, if waterfowl come at you
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Oh this is by no means limited to ancient times, try giving any two young children the same amount of food, but cut into different sized pieces - smaller cuts result in more pieces than the larger cuts... Guaranteed meltdown. :)
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Usually moderates can be either party, the ones willing to work together from both sides, so in the center. Progressives are generally considered to be the left-leaning democrats. I could be mistaken though, I've been trying to avoid p
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Couldn't we have a toggle option somewhere? Just a checkbox for "show all street names"... it can not possibly be that difficult. My spouse can testify, I get furious when I can't see the street names. :)
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
At one point, we (lead dev (me) and lead designer) colluded to submit a terrible homepage design to a nit-picky CMO to buy an extra 2wks of development time. She'd given us 6wks to completely rebuild a small corporate website, and we k
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
As someone who has lived in both Boston and San Francisco.... I'd choose Boston's infrastructure any day. We complained about it constantly, and then we came to SF. And desperately miss it.
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Yep, fainted so, so many times... Always seems to happen after getting hurt on or near a nerve for me - or after a blood draw. Was scary the first time, embarrassing and annoying every time since then. :) Had a nurse explain that the best w
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
If you have Forager where you live, I'd highly recommend it. It's a cashew based probiotic. https://www.foragerproject.com/
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
...when you spin out your own combs, it's actually quite difficult to avoid some contamination. I do try to prevent bits of bees however, because very few people seem to appreciate finding legs in their gifted jars of honey. ;)
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
One of the community cats in our area sleeps under our neighbor's solar panels on their 2-story house during the day, I've watched her walking around and ducking under them. I have no clue how she gets up there. Both that cat and
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
They actually will destroy it,if you have the paperwork. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/Pages/nbs/nbsconse... (Or you know, give you a certificate that says they destroyed it.)
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Honestly? My mom worked nights/ weekends as a nurse when I was little, and I have really fond memories of all the things I got to do with my dad. I think I turned out fine? I think the key there is this section: "Central to the co

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