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by uf 7y ago
Tamar Haspel, Oyster farmer, James Beard award-winning Washington Post columnist and general nuisance feels - I think - treated unfairly by a colleague. I needed to stop reading his piece after a few sentences. I didn't even make it to
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by uf 8y ago
My experience is that meds take the symptoms away. You no longer feel sad, but you are still "depressed". Kind of like pain medication takes the pain away, but your leg is still broken. I experienced depression as symptom of a dee
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by uf 8y ago
Stimulus generalization comes to mind. IIRC Pavlows dogs at some point reacted not just to the food, but even earlier on him entering the room. I doubt that they train dogs like "Steve's having a seizure. Good! Get that dog here.&
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by uf 8y ago
Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton changed my view on pretty much all aspects of mankind. By giving vivid examples of failing or badly functioning and "maladaptive" (processes in) various (indigenous) societies he made made me valu
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by uf 8y ago
Thanks, I’ll check that out. But otoh it’s another thing you’d have to carry around. I‘ll also try buying glasses online as suggested elsewhere. I do that with contact lenses already (dailies for when I’m on stage).
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by uf 8y ago
70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks. Those modern glasses get scratches after just a few years of careful handling a
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by uf 8y ago
Sorry, but no: Don't keep cats indoors or on a leash. Cats are predators. And they need freedom. If you're concerned for birds et al. don't get a cat. Don't be cruel to cats to satisfy your need for a pet by forcing your
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by uf 8y ago
I paddled alot of these: The old wodden "Deltas" width the ridiculous beam width of 75cm as well as a monstrous version made out of composite that was near impossible to trim in windy conditions. I hated those. I made a few stroke
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Hydromechanics of Sprint Canoes [pdf](plastexboats.com)
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by uf 8y ago
My sister instead of her hand turns the page nearly 90° counter clockwise. She writes "upwards". I always thought that was pretty neat.
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by uf 9y ago
Well, transfers are "reversible". There's nothing technical stopping a bank to wire money back. But, banks are not allowed to mess with your funds. If it's in you account, then it's yours. It would be illegal for a
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by uf 9y ago
I usually just grab another paper towel or toilet paper to open the door. I also carry a small bottle of hand disinfection with me especially in the winter. I use it after e.g. grabbing handle bars or seats on the train. Comes in handy as I
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by uf 9y ago
> In other words, the perception of dissonance isn't musical, it's cultural. Very well said. As my prof for music ethnology said: There's no agreement on intervals in the world except for a prime being a prime.
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by uf 9y ago
The guy dedicated a couple of pieces to my professor - a classical singer. What's your point?
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by uf 9y ago
> It doesn't sound wrong to hear tritones, or minor seconds, or diminished and altered triads, or stacked fourths. That depends on the composer. I'm doing Hollander currently. I got to sing a hell lot of tritoni and chromatic p
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by uf 9y ago
All but Peter and the Wolf maybe.
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by uf 9y ago
And as my top poster dharma noted: Jazz and "classical music" share many similarities. Definitely true. Think of Scriabin piano somata No 5 written in 1907. Or even go back to Beethoven No 32, 2nd movement.
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by uf 9y ago
I think you are oversimplifying this. Many classically trained pianists are excellent at improvisation. Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart were respected pianists. Wagner wrote the Hollander by improvising on the piano reciting the lyrics. Beethoven
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by uf 9y ago
Professional orchestras can play the standards without a conductor and effectively often do in those cases where the conductor is borderline incompetent. I've sung Beethoven 9 for example. The "conductor" (one of the several
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by uf 9y ago
And the merchant needs to have a valid direct debit mandate that he has submit to his bank which in turn transmit it to your bank for it to check. After your bank has confirmed the mandate the transfer can be initiated. SDD can be reversed
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by uf 9y ago
Think of it this way: If we knew that star is going to go nova within the next 100 years, could we (science-fiction hat and faster-than-light travel on) send help? No, because it already went nova a long time ago.
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by uf 9y ago
It seems to me that humans can predict 3D spaces pretty good. I've done alot of construction work. After some practice you can measure quite precisely what does fit where and even how long something is. Our brains seem to be able to &q
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by uf 10y ago
I also do remember somewhat fondly when Dresden still had actual police officers regulating traffic by hand. It's been some time since I left Dresden and I don't remember the crossings. Oh, and the frequent power outages..
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by uf 10y ago
I am no physicist and I cannot make heads or tails from stress-energy tensor. However, I get suspicious when someone argues by analogy. Your "my car remembers a crash, furthermore humans do remember, therefore space could also remember
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by uf 10y ago
You can apply Occam's Razor here. Which is more likely? That there's stuff that has a mass but doesn't interact well with light, or that space is able to curve itself without mass, thus also rendering Einstein false. This imm
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by uf 10y ago
Yes, it does. But I had completely forgotten about it until now.
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by uf 10y ago
I think there already is a kind of therapy. I read that they basically determine the exact frequency of your tinnitus. Then you give them music you like and they filter the frequency out. By listening to the altered music, the tinnitus is r
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by uf 10y ago
Can we agree, that there's no one 'best interest for the people'? That there's a multitude of different opinions and interests that may be good to some and bad for others, that can be 'good' and still mutually
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by uf 10y ago
The 'benevolent dictator' is a nice oxymoron, but that's it. For a good and stable dictatorship you really want to control all three powers. What good is a dictator if I can sue him and his clique? What does 'genuine goo
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by uf 10y ago
I too sing on my way at to work. I'm using public trains so I usually can't sing with full voice. I have several exercises I can do quietly. Also, whenever I need to learn scores for a gig or an upcoming production, I do this on t

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