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by larrled 1y ago
Credibility helps with deterrence.
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by larrled 1y ago
One thing we can do is to understand denial is a normal human defense mechanism. Better to avoid triggering denial by not making people afraid of the future. And when denial exists in a person already, best to avoid arguing with or labeling
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by larrled 1y ago
The trend I’ve noticed is towards emailed receipts which are not very consumer friendly. It seems like a better option is just taking a snapshot of the receipt on your cell phone. I’d appreciate having that option. A retailer could show the
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by larrled 1y ago
I am thinking about work from home recently. The shift to work from home only happened because of the pandemic, but it could have happened years earlier. Telecommuting was a thing since the early 2000’s, but widespread adoption of work from
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by larrled 1y ago
“flower that was grown, dried and packaged with no other modification” Who determines what is acceptable for that and who does the testing and how? Like, can they spray with neem oil to counter pests and it’s still organic “pure pot” but yo
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by larrled 1y ago
That’s not super true. Salmon for instance. Or Easter eggs.
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by larrled 1y ago
We agree it’s not a constant “we.” And also a lot of the current usage is secondary to pandemic politics where certain demographics and career slots benefitted or alternatively were hurt by covid related policies. My conclusion is only that
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by larrled 1y ago
It is interesting we now call this stuff “conspiracy theories.” We used to talk of “snake oil” or people would make jokes about yoga and health food in the 70s. Currently it’s taken on a newspeaky sort of political flavor with the phrase “
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by larrled 1y ago
“hopefully politicians will soon” The gop is controlled by donors who are mostly free market liberals. Elon won’t let anyone “censor” (regulate) x. The democrats don’t care about national security historically, and it’s not currently an iss
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by larrled 1y ago
No, LinkedIn is specifically and uniquely terrible. Some people enjoy x, nobody enjoys LinkedIn.
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by larrled 1y ago
Amazed to see such a take after what happened in LA. Obviously the median immigrant has strong feelings of loyalty to their mother soil as can be witnessed by the huge Mexican flags and the direct testimony of many individuals. Should we de
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by larrled 1y ago
Get your point but Disagree. Antisemitism is singular and has a long history that is well documented. You can see clearly that it isn’t just another instance of racism or xenophobia, but something different. Nobody accuses AOC of secretly w
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by larrled 1y ago
I mean I hear former junkies say the same thing about heroin after they kick. “It was the greatest pleasure I’ll ever know,” they’ll tell you with utmost sincerity. More a bug than feature, to me, YMMV
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by larrled 1y ago
For sure. But if you read some of that wacky stuff from way back, you can start to see how parts rhyme with aspects of contemporary psychiatry. They too had much better standards and data than their predecessors. The hype around LSD back t
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by larrled 1y ago
Ironically, many in this thread are advocating for that! Take someone with mental problems, throw a truckload of psychedelics on top. That’ll fix em gud! And, if that doesn’t work, up the dosage, or maybe do the 3000 dollar ketamine session
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by larrled 1y ago
Wilson was taking a lot of different sorts of drugs iirc. Part of the problem is people take psychedelics in youth, when schizophrenia, bipolar and other mental disorders tend to arise making it hard to quantify true risk.
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by larrled 1y ago
Your post actually makes me sad. You have such a wonderful life: kids, wife, privilege and wealth to travel to Europe. But the most beautiful experience in your mind wasn’t any of that, it was tripping on shrooms? If you are trying to make
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by larrled 1y ago
The use of LSD in psychiatry is one of the less wacky things about the state of psychiatry at that time. Arguably psychiatry is still wacky, and still overhypes novel compounds without knowing how or why they work exactly. LSD was very rigo
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by larrled 1y ago
Thankfully Asians don’t do spywares.
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by larrled 1y ago
I feel like dunking on personality psychology was Milgram’s big mistake. Live by the sword…
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by larrled 1y ago
I feel like coups are more likely in developing or socialist countries. An American coup at this point seems very unlikely to work thanks to “learning from past failings” and stuff like advanced weapons systems. I mean heck, we can’t even e
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by larrled 1y ago
I”m reformed. I reread hn.
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by larrled 1y ago
Not nostalgia. Putin is what he is. Movies about hitler aren’t nostalgic. Germany under Hitler was an “enemy culture” no? We must never minimize the global disdain for Russia under Putin. How many have died? Nostalgia just isn’t the right w
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by larrled 1y ago
The administration tears down another Chesterton fence. Herein lies the rub: nobody thinks they are rubber stamping. Finding people who are less likely to approve vaccines because they lack experience in pharma is just another way to be wha
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by larrled 1y ago
It’s sad how addicted people are to his button pushing. I’ve got an elderly family member with dementia who can’t go more than 2 hours without watching a outrage video about Trump. You know the ones on YouTube, still doing hourly updates on
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by larrled 1y ago
Didn’t read them all but that last one in Kern was under Biden, “This appears to be the first large-scale Border Patrol raid in California since the election of Donald Trump, coming just a day after Congress certified the election on Januar
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by larrled 1y ago
Normal people who have basic needs met will self actualize. Elon like most of us in the juseo-Christian/Hollywood West, sees himself as a potential messiah; Bruce Wayne or Tony stark or bono or something. A good thing that, what kendri
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by larrled 1y ago
Survey people use r already, or maybe stata, so there isn’t any need for a python package. It’s sort of trivial to implement a jackknife loop in python, if you really had to. A python survey package would not be pythonic.
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by larrled 1y ago
To be fair, I think he thought he could save us. And that it mattered. A narcissistic and paranoid view which happens to be shared by most everyone.
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by larrled 1y ago
The “Planet” being L3harris/peter theill?

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