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by smeej 11mo ago
Cheap phones like a year old Moto G are under $100. There's no reason that shouldn't last two years. They do everything necessary. If you're near poverty, you don't get to use "normal" amounts of data, stream
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by smeej 11mo ago
You can get a year old Moto G for under $100. There's no reason it shouldn't last two years (or 25 months for easy math, $4 a month). And you can get an MVNO plan for $15 a month that covers all talk and text and 5GB data. $19. Th
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by smeej 11mo ago
I don't think I am. Twelve? You don't need your own phone, never mind a smartphone with accompanying data plan, before you're 12.
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by smeej 11mo ago
I think this was the section that made me question the accuracy of the rest: > To function in 1955 society—to have a job, call a doctor, and be a citizen—you needed a telephone line. That “Participation Ticket” cost $5 a month. / Ad
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by smeej 11mo ago
The "will learn to avoid you" part is what I was getting at in my warning at the end. This only gets you through a few interactions. The point of small talk is to get to medium talk. It's not directionless. Medium talk just m
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by smeej 11mo ago
The best small talkers say very little. We just ask interested questions about what you've already said. An easy cold opener at parties is, "So how do you know the host?" Then inquire about whether they're still doing th
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by smeej 11mo ago
You (and everyone else ostensibly affected) have had like 7 years to sue over this if you could prove it.
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by smeej 11mo ago
Plus, even though YOU obviously know better than to post a screenshot of your Coinbase balances on social media, (tens of?) thousands of their customers do not. With the analysis you provided of the email, your report definitely deserved to
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by smeej 11mo ago
If you buy two things at $1.03 or $1.04, it's $2.06 or $2.07 and rounds down to $2.05 more often than it's $2.08 and rounds up to $2.10. That's not "some clever ways." That's so basic it's absurd. They don
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by smeej 1y ago
Wouldn't they have to crack the private key by the time the block is mined ? Otherwise that transaction would already be sent to another address? I don't have a good idea how long it would take supercomputers to crack a single pr
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by smeej 1y ago
Sometimes there is no valid hash found for any nonces in the 2^32 space and the timestamp and/or the extra nonce in the coinbase transaction in the block header have to be updated and tried again, so at least it's not quite that
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by smeej 1y ago
I had to have contrast to diagnose a simple cyst, which is entirely asymptomatic and was discovered by accident in the background of a cardiac MRI (family history of SCD, but my own heart is fine). You're making me feel lucky about wha
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by smeej 1y ago
The annoying thing is that nobody I've asked can pinpoint what it is.
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by smeej 1y ago
Same happened to me. It was a "How dare you try to speak my language?" type of response. They were almost as offended as the people in Barcelona when I ignorantly tried to speak to them in Spanish.
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by smeej 1y ago
I wasn't aware of any diet that excluded these things for reactivity reasons, and once boiled half to death, they were so soft as to be practically "pre-digested." I was trying to make it as easy on my gut as I could manage.
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by smeej 1y ago
Even so, a 1.2g dose, which was what I was taking, isn't enough to obliterate my existing gut bacteria.
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by smeej 1y ago
The meal consisted of well-boiled meat (pork/beef/chicken together, slow cooked, overnight), and carrots, zucchini, and butternut squash cooked in its juice in a pan until it mostly wasn't soup anymore. Salt to taste, but it&
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by smeej 1y ago
Yes, that was one of the inflammatory markers they checked. At diagnosis, I was in the mid-400s. After medication, I was in the low-200s. After 20 months of this elimination diet, I was in the 20s. Multiple doctors told me it would not be p
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by smeej 1y ago
My favorite is the "bless your heart" head tilt that strongly implies you're just too damn stupid to follow what they're saying, when it's obvious on its face that they're contradicting themselves. "I was
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by smeej 1y ago
Gosh, I'm sorry. It does suck. For me, it was like that until it suddenly wasn't anymore. Nothing obviously changed. I kept "testing" reintroducing very small amounts of other food to try to end the elimination diet, lik
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm not a scientist on any level, so my theory only went as far as "stop irritating the thing and let it heal itself." When they started talking about putting me on immune-suppressant drugs during a pandemic, I thought that d
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by smeej 1y ago
CRP and fecal calprotectin. The meal consisted of well-boiled meat (pork/beef/chicken together, slow cooked, overnight), and carrots, zucchini, and butternut squash cooked in its juice until it mostly wasn't soup anymore. Pic
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by smeej 1y ago
The meal consisted of well-boiled meat (pork/beef/chicken together, slow cooked, overnight), and carrots, zucchini, and butternut squash cooked in its juice until it mostly wasn't soup anymore. I wanted it to be soft/eas
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by smeej 1y ago
Actually when I medicated it, it was with mesalamine, not an antibiotic. I didn't do anything to attack the bacteria. The meal consisted of well-boiled meat (pork/beef/chicken together, slow cooked, overnight), and carrots, z
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by smeej 1y ago
It's also the case that there is a bewildering variety of things that get sort of lumped together as "IBD." Crohn's and ulcerative colitis are two of them, but there's no particular reason to assume inflammatory bow
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by smeej 1y ago
Have you no interior life at all? Nothing that matters to you even if nobody else knows or cares that it does? This is one of the bleakest, most discouraging comments I think I've ever read, and it's hard for me (in a sad way) to
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by smeej 1y ago
> sometimes outgoing autistic children develop social anxiety after their peers reject them repeatedly. As a middle-aged woman who can't figure out what the benefits would be that would outweigh the costs of pursuing formal diagnosi
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by smeej 1y ago
The thing I hate the absolute most about ChatGPT and that ultimately made me quit using it is that it absolutely will not stop making suggestions at the ends of its replies, asking me if I want some specific thing next. Not once, not a si
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by smeej 1y ago
I haven't had any of those apps installed for years. It's using the web versions in my browser that kills.me, because I can't get by without a browser.
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by smeej 1y ago
Yes, because that's what adding government influence does--benefit users lol

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