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- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 hour ago:
I really disagree with this. My parents grew up in the 50s and just thought this kind of highly processed food was normal and easy. There were also commercials that constantly reminded them to buy it. We could 100% afford better food, this is just what they wanted 🤢
- Comment on Back in my day... 3 days ago:
Back when cell phones had physical buttons, I used to be able to type out entire sentences without even looking. Now get off my lawn!!
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 5 days ago:
Fundamentally, it’s hard to overstate how much assertiveness skills can help you meet your needs. Just because it doesn’t always work doesn’t mean it never works. (When I say assertiveness, I mean confidently and respectfully seeking what you want)
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 5 days ago:
Depends on the curvature of the spoon as to the severity of this issue. We need to further inspect
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 week ago:
Commercials have always done that, though. They exist to lie to you
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 week ago:
Commercials exist solely to convince you to spend money. Turning to commercials for life advice is gonna give you a bad life
- Comment on It would be interesting to see how much worse Alan Dershowitz made the world by teaching ethics at Harvard for decades 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget he was a “close friend” of Jeffrey Epstein’s
- Comment on This is real 2 weeks ago:
It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I’ve helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
Life is incredibly resilient, a ton of life is going to survive and adapt just fine. You think marginally increased global temperatures is worse than the Chicxulub impact? It’s crazy that in the face of environmental catastrophe people can still find ways to irrationally catastrophize
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
“The extinction of all life in Earth” is not a reasonable conclusion to draw from this
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty big leap from the Earth absorbing slightly more energy from the sun to “the extinction of all life on Earth.”
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, they took some of the most conservative parts of the state to the north and northeast, plus the panhandle. Maybe we’ve got a chance now.
I’m just glad they took Oklahoma
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually not clear at all. How did you draw this conclusion from what’s written here? It cites decreased pollution across the northern hemisphere as one of the drivers of this, for example, and how is that horrifying?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What is it that will make your parents happy? It sounds like nothing that you want will make them happy, so at some point you either need to do what they want and be miserable or do what fulfills you and let them handle their own misery. Secrets are not sustainable.
Caveat that most of the advice you’re going to get on here, including mine, will be from western countries.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
What if it takes a boat?
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone is only there for the money. No one would be there if they weren’t getting paid. It sounds like you’re walking around telling all your coworkers “I’m only here for money,” which very honestly sounds insufferable. When you say the “C suite” wants to talk to you about this, are you referring to your boss, or your boss’s boss? Unless you’re in a high level job at a large company, those people are definitely not in the “C suite.”
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 2 weeks ago:
When they say “graveyard,” they mean “trash pile.” Every any colony disposes of their waste away from the colony, and many will have a specific place they dump it. They throw their dead in the pile along with everything else that they need to remove from the nest.
As far as having an understanding of what’s in the hole? Ants do not understand like that. They instinctually follow pheromone trails but don’t really think about it.
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 3 weeks ago:
We send my son to private school. It’s not for multimillionaires, but it’s basically the cost of a second mortgage. We make his lunch every morning. Today it was a bean taco with cantaloupe, olives, cherry tomatoes, and cheese crackers.
- Comment on Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty amazing. There’s so much we don’t know
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A Dog Called Kitty 😭 4th grade
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 3 weeks ago:
Bipolar disorder is not curable, meaning that if you have it, you have it forever. That you have experienced mania before, but think right now it’s “impossible” that you’re manic, that’s a worrying sign.
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 3 weeks ago:
The food is not doing this to you. The increased energy and irritability you describe are hallmark symptoms of a manic episode. Other symptoms include increased sex drive, loss of impulse control, and increased goal-directed activity.
I had a patient once who was manic as fuck and even came into the hospital denying that he was manic, that instead he started an all-meat diet and it gave him limitless energy. In real life, he was experiencing mania before he started that diet, and his manic brain was just continually connecting dots that weren’t actually connected.
I highly recommend you see a psychiatrist for an evaluation. If you are experiencing a manic episode, it could get worse before it gets better. I’ve seen it get a lot worse for people
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 3 weeks ago:
My genuine advice for you is to find a psychiatrist, tell them everything, and then follow their recommendations
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 3 weeks ago:
I’m also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 3 weeks ago:
This is called “uptalk,” and it’s most famously associated with the “valley girl” culture of 1980s Southern California
- Comment on How much grams? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard both in the US
- Comment on How much grams? 3 weeks ago:
We measure lots of things in grams in the US, like weed and psychedelic mushrooms
- Comment on Why does my brain think I still need counterpoints for arguments I had ten years ago? 3 weeks ago:
With the caveat that it can be easy for some people to trigger a stress response in themselves by ruminating on past events, at which point any benefit of contemplation may become outweighed by the negative effects of anxiety. Developing the ability to set aside a thought that’s causing you distress in the moment and learning to approach it from a more neutral or objective perspective are also powerful tools.
- Comment on Just tryna survive 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 3 weeks ago:
You weren’t kidding
