miriam_catira

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by miriam_catira 3y ago
Personal anecdote: I have Graves disease, and it didn't flare up until a couple years after I finished immune therapy for a variety of severe allergies. The allergies are much better! But my immune system got bored, or something. Corre
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
I think this is a conversation worth having, but personally I haven't made any decisions. There are a few interesting names on there though, from VOX, The New York Review of Books, and In Our Times. I think the community just needs to
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Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter(artisticinquiry.org)
2 points by miriam_catira 3y ago|3 comments
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by miriam_catira 3y ago
It's actually different per state - different laws and levels of enforcement. Some states you can't drive off the lot without a plate, others give temporary ones. That makes selling cars faster, in a state with a terrible Dept. of
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
It's still a problem - and then you're stuck not able to try it on to see if it fits properly and is comfortable. I've finally decided to take up mending just to be able to add pockets to more of my clothes - esp stuff for ar
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
I know a few women personally who have blatantly told me that they are suspicious of any man they see near their kid's park. They haven't ever mentioned confronting anyone, but they've both said that they watch them.
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Not saying that it wouldn't be an issue at older ages as well, since for millenia children learned by watching the other people around them and learning from them, not from screens. That's my essential point - that's utterly
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
This paper is talking about screen use by infants - within the first year of life. Screen interaction can not be the major problem here, it's much more likely to be a lack of interaction with other humans. That's key to infant dev
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
We went on a factory tour at Cabot Creamery in VT several years ago, and they were packaging an off-label that day. The guide didn't specify what store it was for, but we thought we recognized it. When we went to TJ's the next wee
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Seconded - I stopped drinking anything sweeter than kombucha about 10 years ago, and now soda is utterly disgusting. My coffee and tea are unsweetened, and if I drink orange juice, I water it down to 1 part juice, 3 or 4 parts water. Sugar
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How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat(bbc.com)
10 points by miriam_catira 4y ago|0 comments
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Some college libraries are open to the public as well, and are often really amazing spaces. I grew up going to one with multiple levels of sub-basements, and even as a kid, I just enjoyed the sense of it. Like a secret that only I knew abou
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Was this it? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an... I remember reading this ages ago, but I don't think I've seen follow up research either.
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
This. Fixed deadlines based on real, immutable events. My current role had flexible deadlines. It makes me crazy. All that allows for as unchecked scope creep. So I can't estimate, because the teams requesting the work refuse to define
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Every time our son cries, our cat runs to him - from the time he was a baby to now. We can't decide if it's a maternal instinct to "make sure the baby is ok" or if she just needs to know about everything going on in the
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
No. All of the friends I had before social media are still my friends. We might only catch up a few times a year, because we live so far apart but the connections are more real. It's like removing a filter, you get to know who your rea
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
Yeah, I can second sleeping on the stomach. I guess I'm lucky, it's never been that bad. I often twitch myself awake immediately after the first time I fall asleep - but it's only ever the first time, and not every night. I&#
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
... at what point I end up saying sh*t, I didn't see a Wendy's there, was this the right road? and having to interact with the app _again_ to determine if what I just did was correct. :/
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by miriam_catira 4y ago
No, they have a whole STEAM education system, and it's absolutely amazing - except that it doesn't run on Linux, of course. Would be awesome if they would consider working on that... but my kid loves this regardless. It's int
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
We just switched to Matomo - lots to learn, but the data better is by far. AND it supports Do Not Track & is GDPR compliant :) https://matomo.org/
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
He plays with that same "gods playing dice" concept in The Last Hero too. Highly recommended. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34503.The_Last_Hero
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
He's saying, that by saying nothing, doing nothing, to him is the same as approval of the atrocities being committed. I think this quote says it best: Bychkov said: "Silence in the face of evil becomes its accomplice and ends up b
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
Another small sample size for you: I know one family that's not vaccinated - both children are too young either way. Both parents and older child have caught it twice, about a year apart. Youngest is still nursing, and has not caught i
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
Does this directly contradict this claim? (Not to mention how old this article is... ) US children hospitalized with COVID in near-record numbers https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pande... (that is
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
That the thing though - and I should have been more clear in my original comment. What if a user installs a third party phone app, with the intention of never using the standard one? That app would have to be able to send 911 calls. A bug i
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
This is Microsoft at fault for building a terrible app (and why are we surprised about this), not Android. I have used my Android phone to call 911 and it worked correctly (though I don't remember if it was the year I had a Pixel or a
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by miriam_catira 5y ago
It's still pretty epic to watch. https://earthquaketrack.com/r/coast-of-oregon/recent ...and a good reminder to make sure your water heater / stacked laundry / fridge / etc is tied down properl
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Carbon 3D printing software for use on any printer(carbon3d.com)
3 points by miriam_catira 5y ago|0 comments