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Drink 1-gallon of water a day, it's healthy & satiating Get a kitchen-scale, it makes tracking serving sizes/portions 20x easier & accurate
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Pretty much everyone has to pay if you use turbo-tax, the "free" edition is not an IRS free file offering they don't advertise that one. There are very very very limited cases to not be hit by a "surprise" you need
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> TurboTax is among the cheapest because it is free Free? Haha in what world?
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Think SF has a long way more to fall before it will have a renaissance, people forget how recently Detroit was on top too. Only loosing 15% of office workers seems like a pipe dream when the largest employer in the city (Salesforce) and man
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It's all kind of bizarre given the historical dominance of Mediterranean mathematicians, who did not look like they were from northern Europe or speak English. Do Pythagorus and Zeno sound white? Maybe need to blame the BBC for the &qu
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My understanding is that obesity is a factor but not wholly explanatory, especially because there are documented sperm count declines in other species (Dogs)
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Very few cases where you actually need or want a heavily armed police force to break down doors. Probably shouldn't have a system like this if we wouldn't want it applied to ourselves... Reminds me of an old Chappelle's show
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The societal/behavioral changes are interesting, but what about the physiological changes? Significant declines in sperm counts Increased medicating; ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Hormonal Birth Control Childhood Obesity
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Sending "death threats" is a crime, it just isn't Murder
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> Covid apps [...] They're completely optional and it's temporary If wanting to enter a local business is "optional" and as the saying goes nothing is quite so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Because at this point it's not a particularly effective solution & is just political theater. It's also not just needing a vaccine you also need a non expired government-ID and a smart-phone to partake in society. And in 20
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I agree that lack of housing is a tremendous stressor and may cause or exacerbate mental health or substance use issues. Affordable housing has lots of benefits. But when you look at the path that people took to being chronically visibly
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Yeah, I don't know how the author can be so flippantly optimistic about existing treatment options. The system is not set up to help people get better. The medications, which have the "best track record". Have an NNT of 5-10,
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That makes sense if they are the same problem. In this case I think we've just linguistically bundled them together as "homeless" but they are actually completely distinct problems and groups.
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They are talking about Chronic Visible Homeless... a very different group than the majority of homeless population who don't; live on the street, talk to themselves, or murder complete strangers.
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How big is the company? Is it all prestigious? If you are at a small startup, your manager is just stringing you along... who knows if your 'friend' even got a raise, maybe they just got an inflated title at a no name company. I w
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Punch up, generate outrage, capitalize on the attention. TLDR: Another trash piece of provocation driven content-marketing.
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I think you are asking about the ideas conveyed by the literature... but it used to be common for Politicians to fund their public-service career through books. Thats what Winston Churchill did. Not sure how important 'Mein Kampf'
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I wonder if China's FP plays into it at all. In the same way that Russia has tried to foment cultural unrest in the United states by promoting far left & far right groups.
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> It's a private company deciding they don't want to facilitate some speech. Is it a private company? How much control does the CCP need to have over it before it's recognized as an arm of the state.
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> if you are in favour of the rule of law, rather than people being sent to prison based on personal moral judgements of juries They clearly violated their civil rights repeatedly over a period of years. They were already found liable fo
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Pretending to like? It's not like these were shallow conversations at a party... He lived with them and dated them for years while acting as an agent of the state. That is pretty unfathomable violation...
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IDK there are lots of games you can play with accounting when you have as much cash flow Uber has and not operating at a profit is more of a tax-avoidance strategy than a 70B dollar scam on public market investors... It's also wild how
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Appendicitis is activated by inflammation and "not a problem" for most people. The Appendix organ hides in the body and waits to become inflamed to attack. It's certainly in the realm of possibility EBV or other viruses have
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If you have a significant amount of cash flow you can find all sorts of tax benefits no one is forcing you to take the standard deduction when you file. > why do I not only get these benefits, but I have to make up for all of these cor
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> What was the biggest surprise? PM's make significantly less & are significantly less in demand
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> I wonder why they didn't buy TikTok when it was starting to become popular like they did with Instagram or Whatsapp. ByteDance was a large company before TikTok and had other successful products. TikTok actually developed out of a
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for their health sure, but not for an informative blog post about 'quitting' alcohol
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If 3 drinks make you cry, not sure if you really ever started.
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Masks in March of 2020 vs 2022 are kind of different. What is "Trivial" to you isn't to everybody... my covid-vaccinated ESL 5 year old has to cover their face & learn from a covid-vaccinated teacher who's face is c
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