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by smeej 1y ago
This is wild, but is exactly what I'm talking about. Only 13% of adults were proficient in reading prose or documents. Thirteen! I knew "most" American adults couldn't. I didn't realize it was 87%.
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by smeej 1y ago
I think you're missing the point that most of the things that make this hard for people are also what makes it hard enough for them to read that they won't do it well, even for things like emails. Reading is a skill, and it&#x27
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm not sure what's happening, but I am sure it isn't new. I had to learn the hard way 15 years ago that the average American adult cannot parse a full-page email in standard English. It seemed crazy to me at the time and see
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by smeej 1y ago
If you're going to do it, you really have to pay attention to your kid(s). When I was in my early teens, I walked in on my mom going through my brother's toys with a bag in hand to get rid of them. Once I figured out what she was
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by smeej 1y ago
Oh I read it. If you're the manager, YOUR job is to figure out how to get the information from the people who owe you a report, not weaponize my presence at a meeting to ferret out people you can't manage to reach. But honestly th
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by smeej 1y ago
I don't think the existence of "even lower information density" attempts at communication justifies the low density of work meetings, but you're right--trying to communicate anything to more than one person at a time in
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by smeej 1y ago
Seriously. This sounds like, "I can't manage my direct report, so I need to waste the time of everybody else on the team just so the little punk realizes he can't hide forever." A team meeting should not be the go-to sol
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by smeej 1y ago
I might be missing something, but I think this would be a lot more useful to me on mobile if I could hide or collapse the box. Instead, it takes up the entire screen and I can't really even see the effect behind it. I'm still inte
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by smeej 1y ago
So, no, then? Even before valuing your labor at anything, they're more expensive than a lot of cars that come assembled.
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by smeej 1y ago
It also reminds me of when you could structure an internet search query and find exactly what you wanted. You just had to ask it in the machine's language. I hope the generalized future of this doesn't look like the generalized fu
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by smeej 1y ago
I thought the Toyota Prius had been winning lowest TCO contests since it came out. I'm still driving my '07, and yeah, it's finally time to look at replacing it, but it's 18 years old and has almost a quarter million mil
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by smeej 1y ago
Do these even still exist? And is it reasonable to get one road-legal somewhere like the U.S. for less than the cost of buying one (once you assign at least some value to your time)?
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by smeej 1y ago
Gosh, I didn't realize people weren't learning these things anymore, just as a matter of normal life. I'm an early(ish) Millennial woman from the suburbs, from a family with no meaningful mechanical knowledge or training of
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by smeej 1y ago
I guess a significant amount of my experience learning to deal with narcissists has involved learning not to treat them like I treat "(regular) people," in the sense that they process things so completely differently that they g
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by smeej 1y ago
Sure, you could. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that now you could post on your own. That's what turned it from a method of reaching out and sending messages to specific people when you had something to say to them to
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by smeej 1y ago
"Just in case" what, though? What problem are you thinking you might have that would only be solvable by digging through a bunch of old documents? It's hard for me to imagine a problem that could only be solved in that way, o
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by smeej 1y ago
Why will you "need" to go through it at all? Unless you were looking for something specifically important, like you knew there must be a will in there somewhere but had no idea where, why can't you just pitch the lot of it? I
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by smeej 1y ago
My parents sent me a giant box of these things when they downsized the family home. On the one hand, it was really validating to have the proof that things really had been as bad as I remembered them. On the other, it was really sad to have
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by smeej 1y ago
I cannot say this often enough: Treat LLMs like narcissists. They behave exactly the same way. They make things up with impunity and have no idea they are doing it. They will say whatever keeps you agreeing with them and thinking well of th
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by smeej 1y ago
Yeah, that's about when it changed. The lack of a wall was a very early situation. I joined in 2004, back when it was only open to Ivy League and Boston-area schools.
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by smeej 1y ago
It didn't have a name. It wasn't really a "feature." You just went and posted on their "page" I guess I would call it. The change to being able to post things on your own page and expecting other people to co
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by smeej 1y ago
I made the mistake of sending a Gen Z (adult) friend a poking finger emoji to try to remind him about something. It wasn't the first time I've had a generational digital (ha) communication failure, but it was the first time I&#x27
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by smeej 1y ago
There was an even briefer moment where there was no such thing as status updates. You didn't have a "wall." The point wasn't to post about your own life. You could go leave public messages on other people's profiles
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by smeej 1y ago
Makes me think of the latter part of this quotation: "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to preven
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by smeej 1y ago
I've ordered a supplement that includes this ingredient among other probiotics, and I'll see how it goes! Thanks for the recommendation!
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by smeej 1y ago
I can definitely say that the couple cycles where a NaPro doctor had me supplementing both estradiol and progesterone at different points of the cycle led to the most incredible pain I've ever experienced. I fired the guy rather shortl
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by smeej 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I've done extensive trials with the minerals and vitamin D, and both hair and serum tests keep saying that's not the problem. I'm on NAC too, but oregano oil gave me the worst heartburn I've e
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by smeej 1y ago
Do you have any specific recommendations? I keep asking my docs for any new options, but it's not getting me anywhere.
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by smeej 1y ago
Does her program have a website or something where I could learn about it and find her contact info? I've dealt with a handful of such specialists before, each of which thought they had discovered something everyone else was missing, s
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by smeej 1y ago
I am a woman. I have never used birth control of any kind. (I know, I know. Unicorn. But I'm long-term celibate for personal reasons, so unexpected pregnancy is not a concern.) It is a bone of contention with my gynecologist that I am

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