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by ntlk 4y ago
It’s nice unless your family is awful.
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by ntlk 4y ago
Wanted to impress my vegan partner and learned to cook a lot of fun, easy and delicious recipes. I’ve never learned how to cook non-vegan dishes so I wouldn’t even know when to start. Eventually it became so normal I stopped ordering non-ve
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by ntlk 4y ago
I’m exactly the same. Sometimes I think, ok, just ten minutes, and before I know it I made a ton of progress and spent an hour enjoying the process.
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by ntlk 4y ago
This is it. There are periods in life when the time for practice is more likely to be freely available. As an adult there are other responsibilities to be negotiated. I’ve made life choices that now result in having uninterrupted blocks of
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by ntlk 4y ago
A Big Mac is 563 calories. Hardly unreasonable for a meal.
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by ntlk 4y ago
Saving antibiotics for once in a decade emergencies sounds nice until you find yourself getting painful recurring UTIs several times a year.
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by ntlk 4y ago
This is why it’s helpful to work with researchers, who know how to structure the approach to get the answers you’re looking for. They’ll highlight what you can and can’t learn through different approaches and advise on the level of confiden
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by ntlk 5y ago
Usertesting.com is probably the most well known product in its class.
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by ntlk 5y ago
Is that really true? I have memories from the age of about 3-3.5 onwards.
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by ntlk 5y ago
It’s a type of fabric, not colour.
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by ntlk 5y ago
This is one of the more useful bits of advice here in my opinion. Things like exercise, sleep, eating well etc. could go some way to coping better with the underlying issue, but by themselves are unlikely to address what’s actually going on
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by ntlk 5y ago
Fillers provide facial volume, whereas Botox paralyses muscles. Botox can also be used to treat things like excessive sweating or chronic pain, but I’m unsure of the mechanism.
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by ntlk 5y ago
Decaf has a very different flavour profile.
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by ntlk 5y ago
The brain can be reshaped again following trauma. The Body Keeps The Score is a book that talks through the effectiveness of different approaches to healing and how they impact brain changes.
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by ntlk 5y ago
This objective survey is called Adverse Childhood Experience and has been statistically correlated to problems in later life. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/3870079...
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by ntlk 5y ago
There’s some good advice here on sleep, exercise etc. which is likely to start being helpful straight away. The impact of exercise can be especially quick. But for me starting therapy provided a way to address the reasons behind the chronic
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by ntlk 6y ago
I ride in the pouring rain (it rarely snows where I love) because I don’t own a car and it takes half the time to get to work by bike than by public transport. It’s also much more pleasant despite the rain because public transport is crowde
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by ntlk 6y ago
I always keep my work and leisure devices separate. In The Before this discipline meant no work email or comms once I was out of the office for the day. These days I shut down the work laptop at 6 o’clock on the dot and I’m immediately in l
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by ntlk 6y ago
I grew up in a former eastern bloc country and didn’t experience anaesthesia at a dentist until I was in my thirties and living in the UK.
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by ntlk 6y ago
If you’re committing yourself to spending your life with someone mainly in order to have sex then boy are you in for some trouble.
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by ntlk 7y ago
Yes, I do it regularly. Depending on the relationship I might send a handwritten card or include a small gift if I know the recipient well. From responses I get I know that it means a lot to have your investment in another person recognised
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by ntlk 7y ago
It’s possible that people feel judged when faced with a lifestyle that might be about ethical choice. Being judged feels threatening, and the rest of the mind finds ways to justify it intellectually. The choices I am making in my own life (
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by ntlk 7y ago
As a manager I would definitely want the truth. There is nothing wrong with drive and ambition, so why hide it?
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by ntlk 7y ago
You can cancel a mortgage within the first 14 days in the UK for this specific reason.
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by ntlk 7y ago
I am. As it stands, the latest MacBook Pro is too heavy and bulky for me to comfortably carry. Make it more powerful and lighter and I will have a reason to upgrade.
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by ntlk 7y ago
They might not be stupid, but at any given time people might be any mixture of: distracted, anxious, in a hurry. I pay full attention when I’m using work software during a 2-hour block of focused time, but I’m really not doing that when ord
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by ntlk 7y ago
In my friend group it was perfectly normal to borrow / lend small sums of money. That is until a point in my life where my friends now have savings.
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by ntlk 7y ago
I’m not living with my long term partner, out of choice. It has all the benefits you mention, but overall we spend more on some necessities / luxuries. For example, both homes have the same coffee making facilities, toothbrushes etc. T
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by ntlk 7y ago
Why not both?
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by ntlk 7y ago
I eat a plant based diet but mostly cook myself and only eat out at places that know how to work with vegetables. It all comes down to seasoning and knowing how to cook, but all the mind blowing flavours still exist and can be invoked at ev

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