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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I recently submitted an objection to an advertising banner in my city and the planning board rejected it. Result.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
No, I don't. I want to run in the forest, stand outside in the rain, enjoy a pint with a friend after handing over a crisp fiver. I want to chop firewood and build a cabinet. I want to feel the cold Siberian breeze, and thank the postm
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
An inspiration. The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration. You can't debate apartheid because it's farcical to begin with. The terminology even - exemption - makes our brains
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Unironically using the term "mingling indoors" is an indicator that you're sufficiently far gone down the corona rabbit hole that it's pointless for us to discuss further because we see the world in completely different
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
We had a consecutive six months of it being literally illegal to visit family in the UK. My job was banned by the Government and hasn't recovered. I have _still_ not been able to practice many of my hobbies because the legal framework
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
> I merely observe that friendships did not flow naturally from going to meetups, the way you seem to be suggesting happens readily. You're right, you definitely need to put a lot of effort in, inviting people, navigating problems,
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
You've spent two years not socializing but you like socializing? Well, that's enough HN for today. Merry Christmas.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Did you invite anyone from the meetups to do stuff?
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Interestingly, your wife isn't Feynman's wife.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
I live in inner London. I don't really want to reveal much more hence the throwaway. But honestly I think, you get what you put in. If you want something, assume other people want that thing too, and go from there.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Usually it happens when new people move in, so a few times a year. It's more common for us to meet in the street e.g. say hi whilst someone is at their front door. To be fair I don't live in a megablock, they're not that comm
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
It's interesting that we can have such different life experiences. Well, me and my neighbours are happy to be weird in your view. You do you. I don't think you're weird btw, just less social I guess?
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Mask mandates are a political choice, though. The UK was doing well throughout all of Summer and we've only now had a bit of an Omicron scare due to people not wanting to self isolate over Christmas. Most people aren't that bother
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
My suggestions are literally in rank order of the people I most frequently spend time with. I take part in a few hobby based meetups and run events based around those things. Some of the people I have met through these are pretty tight now,
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
You are conflating the emotion of grief with mental disorders. It's pretty common nowadays, I find it quite strange. My grandfather died when I was younger and it sucked. I still miss him. But I could go to his funeral and hang out wit
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
It's not the case that they would need to close. Across the Western world the vast majority of the economic and social issues have been caused by legalities rather than pandemic reality. For example, for better or worse, if the 10 day
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
> As long as you're actively invested in spending your time, and not just let it vanish one second at a time, I believe any activity is worthy of experimentation. This is a great sentiment and one that lines up well with my philoso
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
What probably makes sense is to enforce that a measure of equal fire risk reduction is applied if reasonable. The easiest way to achieve this is probably external ladders for most buildings and putting disabled occupants on the ground floor
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Introducing yourself to your neighbours is too "weird" for you? Well, revealed preferences I guess. Best of luck. I enjoy chatting to my neighbours and I'd have no issue with them popping in for a cup of tea.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Meet up groups, popping to the pub for lunch and meeting the locals, knocking on neighbour's doors to introduce yourself, asking an old friend if they want to come over and play some Goldeneye. You just have to actually do it. For disc
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
This doesn't match my experience at all, you just have to have a good sense of humour. One of the first things I learn in a language is how to say some variant of "I'm a little puppy", spring chicken, I speak like a 2 ye
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
This is true for speaking but listening is impossible. The vast majority of people do not speak using the simple terms that are in those 100 top lists. As an example - I would guess that from my previous sentence, "vast", "ma
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Educational subscriptions. I used to be a huge miser and resent the idea of paying for, well, anything digital or knowledge based. Now I realise that, well, I'd spend £5 on a pint in a pub, what's £10 a month? Even if there's
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
No, lots of people do actually think that, but we believe that three main methods can be employed to mitigate this: 1. aggressive triage based on chances and QALY remaining 2. increased healthcare funding 3. voluntary isolation of individua
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Triple vaccinated, got probable Omicron recently. Asymptomatic. Not truly - in hindsight I had a bit of a cough and felt slightly off for a day or two - but nothing above baseline (I get coughs every couple of weeks) Could have been a secon
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Well, the entire point of thinking is to feel. There is nothing else - feelings are how we ground our value systems. Thinking helps you decide on facts, feeling helps you decide how to act on them.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
If my boss suddenly invented a new demand on me and said "do this or you're fired", I might do it whilst making plans to quit as well. In fact I have.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Do what you want to do, rather than what you "need" to do, and you won't think about this stuff. I'm not the world #1 badminton champion. So?
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
Smaller companies that don't specialise in a specific thing. Do you have the money to pay a locksmith a competitive rate? Same.
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by throwaway55421 5y ago
This sounds like basically just having an employee but with different legal standing as a loophole or something. Contracting is completely different, you generally define a set project to complete, do it, and get out. In the UK there's

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