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by quacked 2y ago
Obesity is different, because eating is a basic need, and the factors in the US behind obesity have more to do with the available food being "poisoned": corn syrup, pressed oil, dyes, and other industrial fillers are added to almo
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You're in low-risk group, then. I think 95-99% of HN commenters don't even need an emotional response to smoking trained into them; just an explanation of the risks is enough, or an appeal to their manners (some people don't
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If it doesn't work in the war on drugs, then why is the drug epidemic worse in the US than it is in Asia? The reason the US is losing the war on drugs is not because harsh measures don't work, it's because the measures in the
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by quacked 2y ago
Yeah, that's true. I was thinking more about the "at risk" populations that are very resilient to smoking interventions, which are what the seventh-grade propaganda campaigns that I sat through and are talked about in the art
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by quacked 2y ago
At the core of the problem is that social services that address the physical consequences of smoking (mostly medical professionals and financial counselors) are run by people who believe that everyone ought to be treated similarly and have
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by quacked 2y ago
It's funny because it's just as grinding, repetitive, and nit-picky as normal work is. But I think the big draws are the excitement and the fact that you can do it on whatever schedule works for you, meaning you only work when you
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by quacked 2y ago
Scamming is fun, you don't have to be predictable or reliable or follow social norms, and your ceiling is limited by your own desire rather than a time schedule or a pay structure. (Of course, these days some scammers run firms with of
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by quacked 2y ago
I'll answer your questions, but first out of curiosity, have you ever had any struggles with depression?
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by quacked 2y ago
Often times what is understood by first-worlders as "depression" is a cluster of problems that uniquely affect decently well-off people who have been spiritually and physically subjugated by an spiritually blank industrial bureauc
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by quacked 2y ago
You clearly have no experience with what you're talking about. In the low income neighborhoods near me, in which my sister lives (of her own free will, despite other options) due to chronic cognitive issues, the police are visiting con
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by quacked 3y ago
Education is indoctrination, no matter what form it takes. Even telling students raw "non-political" facts is indoctrination into the worldview "people born to your station ought to be knowledgeable". You cannot "le
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by quacked 3y ago
You're being deliberately obtuse. The feature list in the 2004 Tacoma is significantly shorter. Every mechanic who's been in the business for long enough says that older trucks were easier to work on. If I climb in a modern car th
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by quacked 3y ago
A 2004 Toyota Tacoma vs a 2024 Toyota Tacoma is a simple machine.
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by quacked 3y ago
I've had a similar idea, except in addition to toasters, it's midsize pickup trucks, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers... What I've found is that regulations make it impossible to sell simple machines, labor costs make it
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by quacked 3y ago
You nailed it. The only thing Excel doesn't have is the well-designed UI and collaborative functionality of Google Sheets. Named tables, VBA, Power Query? I'm never leaving.
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by quacked 3y ago
Two pieces of advice I took to heart that have resulted in massive improvements to my life: 1) Do not associate with dishonest people, even if they're only dishonest about small things 2) Associate with people you admire, because you w
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by quacked 3y ago
How did you develop them from zero if you were missing those basic skills? I am a musician and I'm keenly interested in music education. I believe you when you say that you lacked some basic facilities; I think it's rare, but more
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by quacked 3y ago
Which were the basic skills you thought you were lacking in terms of remembering tone?
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by quacked 3y ago
> I’ve encountered plenty of students who struggle with spelling, grammar, or mathematical mistakes and no matter how many times I correct them it doesn’t stick. Then I see other students who pick these things up so quickly without corre
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by quacked 3y ago
> States distribute funding on a literal per capita per day formula. I am not a libertarian, but it is startling to me how many offensive facets of modern life came about due to perverse funding incentives from the state. I've been
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by quacked 3y ago
I think most people think school is like pokemon training, where X minutes = Y XP, and more minutes in class = more XP, thus leading to higher-level students. I remember when I was in school we missed a few extra days from snowstorms, so th
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Tell HN: I hate contemporary "predictive tile" UI design so much
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by quacked 3y ago
I agree with you. I believe that one of the greatest problems American society faces is a corruption of public life on the terms of advertisers and propagandists, who are often the same people. However, I don't have a great solution fo
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by quacked 3y ago
You know, children's advertising in the 1980s and 1990s was heavily researched by psychologists and economists with the explicit goal of manipulating the emotional state of children to get them to bother their parents for toy purchases
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by quacked 3y ago
Yes, I agree that enforcement of moral norms requires setting arbitrary limits on behavior that aren't necessarily objectively defensible. Every law and ban regarding the dissemination of goods and services involves a slightly illogica
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by quacked 3y ago
Yes, yes, and yes. However, the three situations you named are targeting adults. Children and teenagers are worth insulating from the full might of advertisers, propagandists, and always-on virtual social circles.
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by quacked 3y ago
I can't stand that guy. In Johnson's last three movies, the only skill as a storyteller he demonstrates is castigation of the audience for their provincial admiration of "traditional" values like strength, heroism, stoic
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by quacked 3y ago
Good. I don't know why you're defending the status quo. Are you pleased that the current industry setup necessitates serf labor from migrants? Do you see any value in living in a nation that actually provides for itself?
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by quacked 3y ago
I would love to make it a felony to employ illegal labor. I also would like a reckoning over farm labor. If it's possible to tear down the neo-serf system for agricultural work via a goods pricing war, that's fine with me. I would
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You nailed it. They've got the citizens here mostly hoodwinked, too. "We need immigrants to do jobs you don't want to do." No, they need immigrants so they don't have to pay me to do jobs that my grandparents and

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