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by vsef 4y ago
Yes, dozens. 71 in one weekend is a huge number for one small department! Just because this number sounded low to you as quoted in the headline doesn't mean it's not a big expensive problem for them. They can't ignore 911 cal
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by vsef 4y ago
Easily mitigated by what? Doing less things with your partner seems to be your suggestion? I am active with close friends that I have maintained for even longer! I am lucky enough to continue having close friends of 25 years I still do thin
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by vsef 4y ago
This is such a lazy, bad take. I was deeply moved by the article thinking about my own relationship of twenty years, and imagining the inevitable death of one of us in the future. Much of my own pain would involve activities you suggest whi
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by vsef 4y ago
Mescaline is a substituted amphetamine just like MDMA. As is the antidepressant buproprion (Wellbutrin). And a variety of very strong hallucinogens.
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by vsef 4y ago
GHB is a great alcohol substitute in many ways but also has an extremely unforgiving dose response curve with doses that can't be safely eyeballed and that build up in unpredictable ways over successive dosings. The lethal to effective
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by vsef 4y ago
This essay is very long. While it does accurately touch on high risk activities (multiple partners, anal sex, sex clubs) it is primarily a deep dive into the author's wildly neurotic relationship to sex and his total misunderstanding o
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by vsef 4y ago
I use Spotify everyday and think it's great but I ignore the garbage recommendation features. Useless.
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by vsef 4y ago
Some people do choose to have deaf children: https://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/283 There was quite a bit of outrage around that case from hearing people, but it seems no different than two parents with genetic
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by vsef 5y ago
The viruses listed by parent aren't spread sexually, though they are all herpes viruses. EBV is also known as HSV-4 and gets to 60% plus prevalence in children, 90% in US adults. If there are populations with especially low prevalence
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by vsef 5y ago
There is no such thing as a trace/undetectable transmission. These studies have been going on a long time now with large numbers of participants, replicated in multiple countries/different populations. The results are very strong
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by vsef 5y ago
It is a cultural problem but the game industry is not SV based. Blizzard Activision is SoCal, Ubisoft is French (with studios in many locations). I worked at a studio owned by Activision (in SoCal) in the early 2000s and the culture was cer
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by vsef 5y ago
Absolutely, we form such weird attachments to things we saw as kids that we don't really remember well at all. ST:TOS I highly recommend because it remains engaging/entertaining and is fascinating to see as a lens into the late 60
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by vsef 5y ago
I just finished a rewatch of Star Trek the original series and wow professionals working together to do their job is... So not what that show is. I don't like Discovery but TOS is absolutely people acting emotional and unprofessionally
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by vsef 5y ago
The quote originally is about Japan and Argentina being outliers in development trajectory, Japan extremely rapidly developing after WW2 to one of the world's richest countries vs Argentina's decline from being one of the world&#
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by vsef 5y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/despite-what-the-logging-... Controlled burns and other forestry practices need to be back on the table, clear cutting absolutely does not. I live in wildfire country, the scariest, f
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by vsef 5y ago
You've misunderstood, from your own article: “California’s forests naturally adapted to low-intensity fire, nature’s preferred management tool, but Gold Rush-era clearcutting followed by a wholesale policy of fire suppression resulted
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by vsef 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_... This is just not true. Einstein's earliest GR work is a collaboration with Marcel Grossman. Hilbert's work is so close and overlapping that it t
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by vsef 5y ago
There are quite a few nucleoside analogues that have been used for HIV treatment: AZT, Zerit, FTC, Videx, Abacavir, 3TC, Hivid. There may be others I'm missing. Of these, only Abacavir and FTC (as part of Truvada) are still used, the o
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by vsef 5y ago
Well Le Cinq in particular had a scandalously bad (and very entertaining) review from a very well known restaurant critic questioning how the hell it had 3 stars: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com&#x
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by vsef 5y ago
To respond to everything in this that I found either intellectually or personally offensive would be exhausting. Gay marriage doesn't fit neatly into left/right ideological politics and the author's core complaint is that the
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by vsef 5y ago
To be clear, Truvada (or Descovy) for vast majority of people will have essentially no side effects. There is a small increase in chance of kidney disease, mainly for those with other risk factors, the risk profile is similar to over the co
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by vsef 5y ago
No, the consensus is that they reduce severity but also protect against contracting, just at lower efficacy rate than against earlier variants. They still reduce cases versus not having them.
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by vsef 5y ago
Despite liking this article and wanting more burns, that last parenthetical is misleading/incorrect. Giant sequoia need fire to reproduce. Coast redwood, which is more common, taller, and what most mean by just "redwood" very
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by vsef 5y ago
It tastes good, especially with breakfast food, wakes me up a bit, and is hydrating. I experience no negatives, and nothing in particular happens to me if I skip it either. It seems implausible to frame as an addiction unless you start from
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by vsef 5y ago
I always start the day splitting a 12 cup pot with my husband, frequently we make more later in the morning. It's really nothing if you are habituated to it and not especially caffeine sensitive. I know many other similarly heavy coffe
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by vsef 5y ago
But in this case the idea "drink lots of water" was directly from hysteria about the dangers of that drug at the time, not just random bizarre behavior.
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by vsef 5y ago
From this classic: https://youtu.be/6tZar4wRP40
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by vsef 5y ago
Miami metro (6.1m) is bigger than SF-Oakland metro (4.7m) but smaller than the SFBA (7.1m) and much smaller than the greater bay combined statistical area (9.6m), whereas the greater Miami statistical area is similar to Miami metro (6.8m).
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by vsef 5y ago
In the US system you pass/fail each class based on exams and coursework and there is a minimum set of classes required to pass to graduate. The pass/fail is at the class level, there is no separate set of final overall exams as in
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by vsef 5y ago
The issue is that using an overinflated figure for the scale of the vacancy problem leads to the incorrect conclusion that meaningful change can happen by solving an alleged vacancy crisis. It can't. The scale is not large enough. It i

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