heygiraffe

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by heygiraffe 8y ago
Perhaps the government should declare a War On Crises.
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by heygiraffe 10y ago
> The People's * is a prefix used by totalitarian governments. Indeed. And so are words like "homeland". The last ~2 decades have seen a widespread change in ideas about the relationship between the U.S. federal govt. and
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by heygiraffe 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. > Finally, the education for licensed therapist varies WILDLY , and there are a lot of really bad ones. I hear you there. I had some iffy experiences early on. But a few years ago I found a really good one. He reti
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by heygiraffe 10y ago
Any chance you could answer some questions? I'll get to them after a couple of (relevant) anecdotes. I was diagnosed with depression by a psychologist. I got a referral to a psychiatrist, and I was told that the psychiatrist would prob
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by heygiraffe 11y ago
This article is absurd. > No one writes articles telling men how they’re damaging their career prospects by using the wrong words. Be real. There are whole books devoted to this topic. And there are whole sections in bookstores devoted t
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
> "That person [in the majority group] cannot speak for the underrepresented group," Quinton said. "They are not part of that group. [But] they can observe unfair practices and unconscious biases and call that out for the
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
> A midlife crisis is simply when all your 'someday' bills are due. I'm sure that's an important component of it. But it is not the whole story. For example, incidence of clinical depression peaks in the late 40s. Thi
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
I believe studies have generally shown married men, on the whole, to be happier than unmarried men. I'm not sure about women, nor about how children affect things. Regardless, you are not an outlier. Huge numbers of people with familie
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
> Of all the people at a multiethnic women’s college who could hold the school’s “diversity” seat, the least fitting one was a white man. I don't know about the "white" part, but putting a man in such a seat would seem to
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
Lately we've seen a number of well written, compelling articles about reforming the U.S. criminal justice system. There was one not long ago about a woman who moved to a poor inner-city neighborhood for a while and wrote about it. Here
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
Perhaps we should interpret this article in this way: The government wants to be able to track everyone , all the time. And here's a justification that will let this idea slip past your defenses. Something to think about.
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by heygiraffe 12y ago
So now Al Jazeera is kowtowing to the almighty surveillance state, too? This is depressing.
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by heygiraffe 13y ago
Or rather: Uh, there is a use for semicolons; just use semicolons as they were intended. I don't think the medium nor the age matters; and if you don't know how to use them, then either look it up or don't use them, please. F
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by heygiraffe 13y ago
This is a worthwhile article, and it makes some good points. But I must say that, as usual in her writing, Dziura rubs me the wrong way with her assumptions--implicit, but obvious--that sexism is only about men harming women, only whites ar
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by heygiraffe 13y ago
Well, but it was a friend who was attacked; not her. We probably would not think it was inconsistent for a man whose female friend was attacked at a conference to remark that he felt comfortable in the tech community. But the writer is not
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by heygiraffe 13y ago
Wow, this hits awfully close to home. A few quick thoughts: - Calling 911 was the right thing to do. Never doubt it. - Loving a suicidal person might just be the most frustrating thing there is. It isn't just you. - Please keep us post
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by heygiraffe 13y ago
I've quoted your comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1fz6ba/creator_of_... I can remove this if it is a problem.