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by teachingassist 5y ago
If you were given back those 40 mins, you could spend them on a 40 min bike ride in the woods. If that's the absolute best way you can imagine spending those 40 mins, you don't lose the option to do that.
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I understand that you are now saying that you accept people talking about their traumas, if you personally agree that they have suffered, and if you personally understand and recognise what they are saying within your own narrative: one of
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> Now take your hobby, and have someone say "Glad my senses are too dull to care about this". If everybody liked your hobby the same amount as you do, it wouldn't be your hobby.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Especially in the irrelevant overblown form, nobody 50 years ago would even stoop down to mention as trauma... The Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch is 53 years old, a parody of old men apparently exaggerating their tra
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by teachingassist 5y ago
In my experience: some people may take it as a personal reflection on them, if you stop drinking, and will react negatively. (I don't recommend keeping those people in your life.)
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I understand that the parent's point is "people who are into fishing and baby wipes" is not a coherent or meaningful group (in the sense of 'stratum' or 'cohort') of the population. Neither fishing nor bab
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by teachingassist 5y ago
There once was a time when I was happy to share my wi-fi with my neighbours. Everyone pays for their own household now, only because of general corporate scaremongering and specific lobbying to claim that the owner is liable for misuse. I r
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I'm not going to claim that living a subsistent lifestyle on your own land is a wonderful utopia - I don't think that. But, relative poverty in this situation would mean that you don't have your own land, to do this . Wikipe
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I don't particularly find it "scary", but it is monopolistic practice. Amazon are using their devices to get a lead on the competition, and in a way which consumers are unlikely to think is fair. If a company approaches me wa
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by teachingassist 5y ago
You can call people who are willing to spend and have access to $10,000 desperate, but I don't know how useful it is to call them poor. Your last sentence quoted clearly describes people with inherited wealth. In my opinion, that'
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by teachingassist 5y ago
A journal could follow a set of statistical standards that could be examined and approved by experts outside of its narrow field. I don't claim that paper reviews have to be or can be perfect - only that they could be held to a better
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by teachingassist 5y ago
That's a fine definition, but puts middle class in at least the top 10%, if not comfortably the top 1%, by wealth and income. My question was whether we have different definitions of poor - if you are distinguishing poor as everyone be
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Did you know that the reason the Titanic was built was to en-masse ship poor people to the US? The first class bit was mostly window dressing. Third-class passage was £8, approximately $1000 in today's currency, i.e. more expensiv
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> for example, Irish fleeing the Great Famine, I understand this example to be of historical note because it was exceptional. Many people came over for the promise of farmland or gold or something that they could capitalise on.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> The US raised scores of millions of immigrants from poverty to the middle class. Emphasis here is on the past tense. There are several reasons to challenge this: 1. The USA had (and still has) unprecedented resources per population. Wh
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> "the lack of reports of seroconversion, the silence from China on this evidence, speaks volumes." This is just Hacker News-level commentary passing for science.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> I mentioned that Chad's flag is identical to the Romanian flag. I find this unconvincing evidence because: you already knew this (somehow) and found it an interesting piece of trivia to bring up at that time. It's unsurprisin
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> It's already difficult to do if your subfield is a different niche. It's not that difficult, at least in science and science-adjacent fields. The scientific method still follows the same principles. If you are used to readi
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> several journals are pushing for reproducibility as a requirement The current requirement for academic publishing is peer-review, i.e.: "Colleagues in my field looked over it briefly and said it's ok [because it doesn't
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by teachingassist 5y ago
This is the main reason why I avoid Coca-Cola products. Turns out that it's much quicker to scan the back of the label for Coca-Cola trademarks than it is to scour the nutritional information.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
This feels to me like it's not good advice, with the same theme as "drink alcohol". People report feeling good despite taking a depressant, and self-medicate their depression with alcohol.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
It's reasonable to be this cynical about politicians, and I certainly find this to be true in two-party systems. But, it's easily possible for democratic representation to result in a set of contradicting laws without any dishones
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> I don’t like that Roe v. Wade was decided for the US by nine dipshits It wasn't, not really. And this is exactly my point: Most countries have successfully legislated abortion law. The USA's federal legislature failed to do s
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> This would only be surprising if your teacher was a Physics teacher. I'm not sure. Physics teachers often have to deal with absolute laws of physics, e.g. "you can't make a perpetual motion machine". You can't
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> And why do you have confidence that the judiciary is going to be better able to sort out the mess? I don't. But, they have to decide cases. Part of the problem is that likely >>50% of people want some action to be taken to p
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Overwork CONTRIBUTES to the death of more than 745k per year. I understood the headline figure to be suggesting that 750k people per year around the world are dying early, i.e. 10 years earlier than they would otherwise . (Unlike yo
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by teachingassist 5y ago
You make a separate point. My point was that the legislature is writing law which is in conflict with itself. The quote "future generation" hasn't come from the judiciary - it is written into the law, for the judiciary to dea
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by teachingassist 5y ago
On the other hand - if I poison someone with a slow-acting poison, is that not "future harm"? Are you claiming that this should therefore not be considered a crime? The court's 'catchwords' summary here focuses on p
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by teachingassist 5y ago
You could say the same sentence but replace 'judicial overreach' with 'legislative incompetence'. I suggest the problem is that the legislature is filled with cognitive dissonance on this issue, prepared to say one thing
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I was surprised that Wikipedia's description of Blue Zones seems to miss that they have minimal road traffic pollution. Through traffic is physically constrained in each case - due to them being islands or peninsulas or mountain villag

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