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by smeej 2y ago
I have a chisel scar on my hand that I call my "get down and move the damn ladder" reminder scar.
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by smeej 2y ago
If you set a bookmark, typing the bank's name into the browser bar should pull the bookmark up first.
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by smeej 2y ago
> What the hell is the "wrong" way to use a computer? Searching for your bank's website rather than bookmarking it, and entering your credentials into the phishing site that's the top result. Installing Anydesk or som
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by smeej 2y ago
The gospels and the Acts of the Apostles certainly have a strong narrative element; the letters rather less so. It doesn't surprise me that they could all be memorized in a decade, but not a year. I just think the techniques in this ar
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm sure he loved the texts for their meaning. He dedicated his life to this work, after all. I find when I practice lectio and meditatio, though, I don't pay as much attention to the words as the images or sentiments or experie
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by smeej 2y ago
FWIW, I still "call" my sister. I pick up the phone and dial it. Pop my earbuds in. Then I just hit the button to lock the phone instead of the one to call the number. And we talk. It's been 6.5 years since she was alive to a
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by smeej 2y ago
I've even heard stories where the one who is dying offers advice to the one who will survive about which of their single friends would likely make the best match. And why not? Who knows the remaining spouse better than the departing on
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by smeej 2y ago
I wonder if/how this applies to memorization of long works that are not exclusively dialogue. Growing up, I knew a pastor who had memorized the entire New Testament. It wasn't a trick. You could drop your Bible open at any page, s
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't know how I'd find out. It isn't marked. I picked it up for 10€ in France almost 20 years ago, and while it's my favorite pen I've ever written with, I don't hand write things enough that I ever got real
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by smeej 2y ago
One of the last times my parents moved, they sent me this big box they had of papers from my childhood. One of the ones that fascinated me was dated from when I was in 2nd grade. It was a big printout with rows and columns. Some of them con
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by smeej 2y ago
What did you do when you moved and your new school was expecting you to do 5th grade work?
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by smeej 2y ago
Ironically I think a version of this had to happen in the one-room schoolhouses of yore. If you're the only teacher, you can't afford to split everyone by age. You kind of have to roll people into whatever lessons they can handle
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by smeej 2y ago
Ultimately I've had to get to a point where I realize I'm grateful for the life I live now, and accelerating through school would have changed a lot of it, such that I probably wouldn't have met some of the people most import
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by smeej 2y ago
Can confirm: My parents made me go through the grades one at a time, despite the principal's recommendation that I start in 1st grade, move to 2nd mid-semester, do 3rd grade in the spring, and do two a year after that. It was intense
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by smeej 2y ago
LinkedIn seems great for people who have had a relatively straightforward career path, or where they know they want their next job to be in a specific direction. Maybe that's most of humanity and I'm not their target market and th
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't either, but that won't stop them from calling the cops. It seems like kids have to be at least teenagers these days for people to assume they're OK to be out by themselves, and even then, some people are apparently wa
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by smeej 2y ago
Some seal in my pen broke and ink leaks out around where I hold it. It's disappointing, but I'm unlikely to travel around the world to fix it! I'd happily ship it to them and take my chances on getting it back, because it&#x2
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by smeej 2y ago
> Background: I helped my mother die, and in the process decided NOT to be an organ donor anymore. Do you distinguish between "helping to die" and "killing (with consent)"? Or is the former a nicer way to say the latt
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by smeej 2y ago
See but you've hit on exactly the problem, and the article mentions it. It is impossible to know when someone is really dead when some systems critical to life are still operational. Sure, there's a difference between a living p
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by smeej 2y ago
The article made it sound like they actually don't turn the other devices off in case of brain death, because it's so much better for the organs that they be kept in as close to a living state as possible. If your lungs can keep m
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by smeej 2y ago
This is all true, but I think I want to be a parent even if it is heartbreaking. I think of my own parents' experience. My brother is an addict (thankfully sober for a decade now, but it was a long journey). My sister died suddenly a
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by smeej 2y ago
Are there studies bearing this out? I and many of my friends have been part of them at various points and have had tens of thousands of dollars of care provided through them. I've also had both experiences that correspond to and direct
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by smeej 2y ago
I had to make a personal rule awhile ago about not supporting nonprofits that are trying to solve an issue that could actually be made worse. The incentives are too misaligned. You can't count on people to do "the right thing&quot
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by smeej 2y ago
There's a quasi-religious aspect that's developed about the whole thing. Culturally, we have made "science" and "scientists" everything (apparently losing sight of the fact that "science" used to desc
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by smeej 2y ago
I think the down votes are because "Direct Primary Care" doctors opt out of the insurance system. That's the point of the model. They collect monthly subscription fees instead dealing with your insurance company. Granted, if
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by smeej 2y ago
I think I'm more concerned about the cases when it's their actions that would cause my death. Like, when people are declared brain dead, it's common that the heart and other organs are still operating fine. As far as I unde
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by smeej 2y ago
Actually by far the worst experience I have had with doctors was the year I hired a DPC. I had such high hopes for that model, but she was just an awful, awful physician. This year is my year of recovering from that experience. It's
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by smeej 2y ago
My kindergarten class had a practice that, now that you say that, might have been meant to help those letter-sound associations. Besides routinely reciting the alphabet forward and backward (I didn't know being able to recite the alpha
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by smeej 2y ago
Honestly one of my biggest hangups about becoming an organ donor is the fact that the final decision is made by doctors. I have not had good experiences with doctors. More often than not, I have experienced doctors' being wrong about m
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by smeej 2y ago
Spelling hasn't ever been tough for me, but it's like I think of words in their entirety, one unit that includes all the letters. When I type, even with just my thumbs on a phone, I'm not spelling the words out, but rather ty

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