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by slothtrop 1y ago
Man, I'd like to do this. My suburb doesn't have much foot-traffic though. I do my best to greet the neighbors, and sometimes chat up people at the coffee shop. Time constraints are a factor when it comes to socializing, as a pare
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by slothtrop 1y ago
I think that's it. They've found a balance in "family" entertainment that is sophisticated enough to please adults, much the way Pixar and 90s Disney films had. The Simpsons at outset was also sort of like this for older
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by slothtrop 1y ago
We have moral duties to the extent we collectively share values, which are arrived at subjectively and change with time. In the secular world in the West, even human life in itself isn't considered sacred, as exemplified by sentiment o
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by slothtrop 1y ago
It's the lack of personhood, and low demonstrated consciousness, in spite of sentience. We have a social contract with each other, not animals.
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by slothtrop 1y ago
Still not much methane compared to cows. Also, methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does.
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by slothtrop 1y ago
> unsustainable demand Scales with population growth, and immigrants don't come to the U.S. just so they can eschew meat. I don't see what's unsustainable about it. Land-use has barely budged. At any rate if the population
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by slothtrop 1y ago
> conditions will still be a living hell I've seen what better farms look like and I disagree. It most closely matches what consumers want and expect. Suffering is non-zero because it necessitate slaughter, but not as egregious as i
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by slothtrop 1y ago
It's not that the price increase itself leads to better conditions, it's that better conditions necessitate price increases. There are ways to assess whether a product meets one's standards. They may not be your standards,
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Leaving aside that older people aren't as enthused about FT work they've known for 30 years, many of them keep jobs or get bored and lonely without them. Not everyone wants to sit around crafting useless projects, or consuming. Cr
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> The main difference between China and India is China makes it's urban centers de facto independent of rural hinterlands within the same prefecture, while in India, urban and rural are both under the same state government. I don&#x
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> Most politicans in India are from the lowest castes - "Other Backward Caste" and "Scheduled Castes" [0]. Now, but the argument concerns development over the 20th century, not the current makeup.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Check this out: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works The odd one out in this assessment is India, because it did some similar things (land reform) without success. A difference might be that Indi
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by slothtrop 2y ago
https://www.unicef.org/india/reports/indias-progress-malnutr... Malnourishment is also steadily diminishing. Effectively because food affordability improves as poverty diminishes. It's a good proxy.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
That's right, it scales most closely with housing cost. That tracks with homelessness generally being temporary, being priced out. California is also infamous for rent control policies in NIMBY cities that have been an abject failure.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> With 4 out of 5 people keeping their flats, “Housing First” is effective in the long 80% of people get out of homelessness on their own, seems like basically the same rate. How are they certain the initiative had any bearing on the lon
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Since homelessness is mostly transient in general, I'm skeptical of the claim to effectiveness, since it's likely that a large portion of a sample would move on within a year anyway.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Most homelessness is also temporary, with around the same range of 80% moving on within a year. That being the case, the value-added of free housing appears marginal compared to the cost. It would best target those who are a) chronically ho
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> That finding one woman anything less than immediately perfect will cut me off from all the small, lovely moments I have had with women across the world in my life. You had those moments. You could keep trying to chase that bouncing bet
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by slothtrop 2y ago
No, a description of ADHD features is easy to find, but not "robust metrics". When searching specifically for metrics used in diagnosis, some choice words come up from med central: "A challenge with diagnosing ADHD is that th
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Fair to say for an adult.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
If anything the arms-race of competitive rec sports seems to be given a higher priority.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> there are fairly robust objective metrics for identifying the hallmark features of ADHD and executive dysfunction What are they?
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Formal diagnosis is a joke.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Would like if there were an actual history book to verify this.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
I think tribal and political social media discourse has exacerbated this effect, by which I mean, blanket acceptance of the ADHD diagnosis process and medication is now left-coded. Conspiracy theorist anti-vax types exhibit "Big Pharma
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by slothtrop 2y ago
I myself was diagnosed twice. I don't have it, at all. Notwithstanding any perverse incentive to diagnose, the process itself is not stringent and borders on pseudo-scientific. It's not to say ADHD doesn't exist, but that the
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by slothtrop 2y ago
What's the digital signature equivalent of yellow ink for printers?
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Growing pains. Reviewing carefully is still less work.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
The increase in productivity means you need fewer inexperienced and/or bad engineers to a project. On the other hand, they may be retained to go after bolder, more numerous targets.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Did you miss the context? The other user questions whether people have ever been unperturbed by slaughter when raising animals. It's a strange sentiment when you consider that historically we have been much, much closer to the animals

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