math_denial

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by math_denial 5y ago
I'm so glad US private tech corporations tell me what to think.
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by math_denial 5y ago
I lost 30kg in the past and the only thing that worked was lots and lots of exercise. The Internet meme is that exercise is useless for weight loss and you should diet: well, I like food, and exercise allows me a more free diet. This is my
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by math_denial 5y ago
Should tha baker have the right to refuse baking a gay wedding cake or some group has the power to decide what rights another group has? As a gay man the LGBT groups keep declining in the quality of their fights and, having survived their o
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by math_denial 5y ago
Thank you for this anecdote. I think I have a pinched nerve in the neck, very painful and my anxiety and panic attacks started together with the pain but were unrelated, linked more with university workload. My totally unsupported and unsci
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by math_denial 5y ago
I think the success stories are mostly self-selection: parents who care enough about education to enroll their children in an alternative system will have children who care more. Anecdotical data: in my non-US state everyone (admittedly 3 p
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by math_denial 5y ago
> libertarian on social issues I'm not from the US but looking from far away the left seems quite authoritarian on social issues, it's just a different kind of authoritarianism. > authoritarian on economic issues This is qui
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by math_denial 5y ago
Comments generally inform me about the content value and most of the time are even more interesting that the article, especially with the modern habit of writing 5 paragraphs of flowery prose where in the past we would have had a single inf
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by math_denial 5y ago
> You should not die. But you don’t have an inaliable[sic] right to thrive in your country. The most disgustingly american thing ever said.
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by math_denial 5y ago
I've done this in the past, for example when choosing college: do I study Chemistry that I intuitively understand or do I study Physics that will be a challenge? I chose Physics and I will always regret it: there's something to be
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by math_denial 5y ago
I have yet to start a career and I'm already at that point. The things I'm passionate about are just not monetizable or you need to be the 0.00000001% (without counting luck and connections) to make some profit.
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by math_denial 5y ago
It happens to me when I have to study something new. I wasted so much time trying to find the perfect note-taking method, the perfect memorization method, debating digital vs paper notes, spaced repetition, blah blah blah. I find myself thi
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by math_denial 5y ago
I find much more toxic all this comments that dismiss the importance of the environment - intended as everything not genetic, socioeconomic status, for example - and basically suggest that if you can't fix yourself is your fault. I&#x2
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by math_denial 5y ago
I've lost 40 kg (88 lbs) just by exercising: never counted calories, lots of pizzas and whatever. When people say "you can't exercise out of a bad diet" my first question is "What do you mean by "exercise?&quot
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by math_denial 5y ago
I agree. If I could rewind time I would do Medicine, at least my work would have some positive value instead of being neutral at best.
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by math_denial 5y ago
Maybe in the US is different but where I am the self reported preparation times for medical exams are lower than that of a Physics/Math/Engineering exam: if I recall correctly Physics was at the top, then Math, then various Engine
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by math_denial 5y ago
I agree. Whenever someone has tried this approach with me the result has always been me shutting down and avoiding to confide in that person. I am already tough in myself, that's why I always feel like a failure, I don't need this
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by math_denial 5y ago
I must one of the few people that loved the grammatical-translation method and hated the "communicative" method. I had to learn English in a "communicative-centric" fashion and it was a torment: it was all memorizing use
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by math_denial 5y ago
There's also the fascination with the forbidden. I've met many people that started smoking as teenagers because it made them "transgressive".
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by math_denial 5y ago
Give the possibility of having comments in chronological order.
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by math_denial 5y ago
>Seems you're overconfident that therapy and drugs aren't the solution to mental health problems And seems like mental health professionals are overconfident that their methods work. And the evidence that they do is weak, espec
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by math_denial 5y ago
it depends where in Europe. Where I live at least 70% of high-schooler were driven to school.
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by math_denial 5y ago
Sometimes I tutor high-schoolers in math and physics. I love it and if it payed better I would do it full time.
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by math_denial 5y ago
And use some temporary email if possible so you can't use the "I firgot my password request".
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by math_denial 5y ago
>Do you have any evidence rich people care about the descendents of poor people? No, but people care about their descendants, rich or poor.
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by math_denial 5y ago
The fact that something is a social construct does not mean that it is not important and has not rules by which the members of said society have to live by. Money and democracy are social constructs too.
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by math_denial 5y ago
Why am I struggling? Why is everything becoming more difficult every day? Why did I go from top of the class to bottom? Were all my previous successes all flukes? Have I always been this stupid? Where is all my energy gone? Where is all my
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by math_denial 5y ago
I failed everything in my life. Good! Now I can kill myself. This kind of reframing have never succeeded with me, they only make me want to jump faster because of everything that I will never be.
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by math_denial 5y ago
>Staring at a phone doing what? Swiping to refresh on social media for hours and hours at a time? Yes, for the technologically-not-literate people that I know, Internet = social media, and they totally spend every waking hour refresh the
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by math_denial 5y ago
The comment was talking about what it is being made fun of, that has no bearing of what it is not .
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by math_denial 5y ago
Sometimes complaining means acknowledging that a problem exists even if you don't know the solution. Pointing out problems is valuable too. On the other and the people[1] who "opt out of cynicism" generally want to live in th

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