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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
I agree. When I swam competitively taking even a week off was something you could feel in the water. It might only add a second or two to your splits, but you could definitely feel it. It was weirdly distressing, actually.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Yeah, but so was the rest of the country. They did the annual sodium drop pretty soon after 9/11 and were somehow surprised when the response was different. For smart people, they could be really, really dumb.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
In fact IIRC people buy printbait considerably more than they buy actual newspapers.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
I don’t know, but I do know caffeine can be a trigger for many people with PTSD. The military is probably not a great place to encourage use of substances that can trigger PTSD episodes, but they do a lot worse to soldiers, so...
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Because constant surveillance of a targeted group will be systematically abused. And because next is using facial recognition to monitor other groups — LGBT, activists, political opponents. That is extremely frightening coming from an admin
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
I’d also be interested in your friend’s work.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
This, unfortunately, is exactly the sort of attitude I’m talking about. This comment reflects a profound ignornance of what we currently understand about how trauma works — that there are protective elements that may be in place even in ter
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Both of your scenarios assume that the issue is due to some fixable personal failing, and both of those assumptions are unfounded. “Lack of planning” is how you might describe “poor executive functioning” if you were to attach a moral weigh
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
To be fair, I don’t think any company is positioned to take on the CC companies and win.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
This. This thread is killing me. This might be the only comment so far to even consider women as having agency. When you give women control over their own bodies and equal enough rights to support autonomy — so, treat them like people, basi
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
I think the fact that these tools don't exist speaks to Twitter's priorities, though, and in a discussion of editorial control of social platforms that seems like a salient point.
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
How is it flawed? A TOS that discourages hate speech and enforces some sort of standard seems far less stifling than intimidation by rape and death threats. It's funny to see people get bent out of shape at the idea that they might hav
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
On the east coast, the mosquitos that carry Zika are found as far north as New York.
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
Reasonable doubt is not defined in terms of statistical confidence.
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
Obviously not, and that is a reading in such bad faith that it veers into trolling. For anyone reading who is not trolling: the point is that like most other people who break the social rules in some way, abusers, harassers, and yes, rapist
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
The thing is, the world is full of people who are abusive or terrible when in private or one-on-one, yet adhere to social norms when in a group. Every woman I know who has reported her rapist or her harasser has had this said to her in some
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
Oh God, yes, lawyer. And yes, fire him. In regards to OPs confusion about the innocent employees trepidation -- there is a reasonable fear of reprisals here. From you, from others on the team, and from the sexual harasser. Reprisals are oft
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
I think we may have cross-posted our replies/edits. Honestly, I think the best you can do is approach it with an open mind, which you seem to be doing now. A big part of my irritation was the dismissiveness that I think originates in t
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
I think part of the problem here is the fallacy that if you can't eliminate a problem entirely then it's not your responsibility at all. This seems to be a common approach for some tech companies that deal with social interactions
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
"Picking and choosing" is not remotely the same thing as "screening," and that you conflate the two indicates that you either didn't read my comment in good faith or you missed the point by an almost insurmountable
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
I witnessed an incident of domestic violence involving the other person in my group. I don't want to go into more detail than that for reasons that should be obvious. I disagree with your limited use case. IME there are many stages of
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by stonecraftwolf 10y ago
I thought this was a cool idea, and so I just signed up, but I was so alarmed by the process that I made an HN account to address this here. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you drop people into randomly assigned groups of people wh