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by smhost 10y ago
It's really not though. The problem only exists because our society has an unhealthy attitude about sex. If we all had a perfectly healthy attitude about sex, the mere admission of the fact that someone feels sexually attracted to some
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by smhost 10y ago
Of course she shouldn't have to get the fuck out. Of course Uber shouldn't have such shitty policies. You're reading things that aren't there.
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by smhost 10y ago
Yes, of course her actions were rational as she followed protocol. But then they became irrational when she decided to stay, even after she found out that nothing would be done about the harassment, after she found out how backwards and stu
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by smhost 10y ago
This isn't a sports match. What's wrong with what I said?
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by smhost 10y ago
I think the downvotes might be from people who want to be super careful about victim-blaming. But I agree with you that we should be training people to detect bullshit early on and to just get the fuck out in those situations. Labeling her
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by smhost 10y ago
Huh. I should read more. Also, I meant "take advantage" in a strict sense. I love my dog and she can take advantage of me whenever she wants. <3
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by smhost 10y ago
I don't know much about brains so this might be a nonsense question, but how sure are we that dogs experience human emotions and that the behavior we associate with human emotions isn't something dogs evolved to take advantage of
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by smhost 10y ago
> The transition from the first stage to the second is well known to be rather traumatic. I wish someone had told me this before college. I wasn't prepared psychologically to deal with the realization that I knew absolutely nothing
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by smhost 10y ago
It's more that we were eating the same things and I was getting bigger while he stayed thin. We were roommates for a summer, and our diet was virtually identical. Usually an omelette with guacamole and salsa in the morning with maybe a
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by smhost 10y ago
I have a friend who eats 3000~4000 kcals with no exercise and he is as thin as a stick. I have another friend who is a complete couch potato and eats junk food all day with no exercise, and he looks like a gym rat. I think a lot of the magi
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by smhost 10y ago
Are there any good, cheap laboratory wines that can pass blind taste tests?
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by smhost 10y ago
I've always thought that the revival of Stoicism is because 20th century philosophy messed with our heads to such an extent that we were left with an empty husk of our former selves, like ghosts floating in a meaningless world, and all
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by smhost 10y ago
No no, you're missing the point. You see, owls are quite adorable.
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by smhost 10y ago
I'm not sure that I want to live in a universe where a one-wire telegraph system is an "improvement" over a magical owl postal delivery system.
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You don't know that.
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by smhost 10y ago
It's complex enough that the etiology might well be rooted in our entire culture. There are movements of people trying to approach the problem at that level. Their goal is to destigmatize pain, attack anti-pessimism, etc.
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by smhost 10y ago
I don't disagree with you on policy, I'm just pointing out that thought experiments pushed to their logical extreme don't really make sense. Before your body was formed, there was no "you", so the concept of ownersh
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by smhost 10y ago
The resource has to belong to the public to begin with. Your body belongs to you exclusively. We can play your game the other direction. If using "practically free" natural resources doesn't deprive you of your rights, you wo
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by smhost 10y ago
From that same paper: > In hospitals, both modelling and analysis of the correlations between antibiotic resistance and variation in antibiotic use show that alterations in antibiotic use can cause rapid changes (in the order of days to
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by smhost 10y ago
I don't get it. What're they afraid of?
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by smhost 10y ago
I agree that the ad hominems are unfair, but bad design is bad design regardless of authorship.
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by smhost 10y ago
The goal of descriptivists is to collect information about how words are being used currently and to compile a dictionary based on that information, so what you said about viral memes is compatible with descriptivism. The best argument for
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by smhost 10y ago
Rob Dressel ... director of cinematography: layout Adolph Lusinsky ... director of cinematography: lighting
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by smhost 10y ago
I think you should consider prioritizing medium-to-long term plans that will maximize the number of enjoyable little things you will have at the end of your life. And about the particular example of learning to sing, about 2 years of delibe
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by smhost 10y ago
The complete lack of any sign of remorse on their faces about having burned a trillion dollars made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I've never seen such a blatant display of psychopathy.
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by smhost 10y ago
When I was in high school, the foreign exchange students took home Solo cups as souvenirs (they were fascinated especially by the blue ones). It seemed strange to me at the time, like, "what's so special about plastic cups?"
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by smhost 10y ago
You're right, but there are some longitudinal randomized studies.
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I agree 100%, but there's otherwise nothing obviously problematic with the idea itself, is there? It's just that we, humans, are flawed and biased?
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Those are numbers of studies. It's a meta-analysis.
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by smhost 10y ago
I did look at that paper. Here is a quote from that paper: > Based on this review, all three approaches to computerized training – classic cognitive training tasks, neuropsychological software, and video games – appear to hold promise fo

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