Ioper
3d ago
Here it's more uncanny valley stuff imo. The correct words are used but it comes off as a status insecure under/working class person studying up before going to the best restaurant in town, trying to impress their boss/date/family with words they learned an hour ago. Its barely a step up from ordering "your most expensive wine".
This is of course fine when that is what's literally happening in the story but it rarely if ever is.
Ioper
3d ago
Related to this, I've noticed that various webnovel authors seem to be using the same LLM for describing high society activities and products that they likely have little to no personal experience with.
Well, its either that or they're doing a remarkable job at copying each others style but only in this particular area...
Fun fact: Japan has almost 2x the tfr of korea. Japan has managed to stabilise and even reverse the trend somewhat while Korea breaks new records of low tfr every year.
Ioper
8d ago
Just because i haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe it's a American thing related to regulations or something.
Ioper
8d ago
There are no bottom vents,
I have genuinely never seen a grill in any price class (except one time use ones) without bottom vents. Its Not like this is some expensive innovation requiring precision engineering. You just need holes in the bottom.
Even my mini portable grill bought from the supermarket for like 20$ has bottom vents.
Ioper
12d ago
It works reasonably well as pain management for certain types of chronic pain.
Ioper
15d ago
Whats wrong with tea and what is non sweet juice? Do you mean juice that has had its fructose somehow removed or just juice without added sugar? If it's the latter then I don't see the problem, unsweetened juice is still incredibly sweet.
Ioper
17d ago
One thing I wish I would’ve done while pregnant was the whole freezer meal prep thing. Having healthy food to eat while breastfeeding and recovering from delivery is really helpful to me physically and mentally but can be hard to prepare when I’m home alone with baby all day.
I second this and if you can get the grandparents involved in cooking for you then that can be really helpful. My mother really wanted to help out but was cognizant of that visiting too often could be a more of a burden than help so she got to cook and freeze meals for us that she could drop off once a week or so the first couple of months.
She got to be involved and help out and we got a really valuable help. The alternative had probably been a lot more takeout and very simple meals, and m frankly much more stress.
All parents are different but if someone has a strong desire to be helpful then this is something valuable they can do.
Ioper
24d ago
It's the position of the left part of the left and occasionally the center left, and them talking about corporate taxes is nothing new or noteworthy so I was wondering if someone else was suddenly talking about it or if it was just the usual subjects bringing out their hobby horse.
I think an issue here is that you don't have good picture of who is insulting you. Would you react negatively if some mentally unstable loser or child (which they most likely are) insulted you? No, you'd laugh.
It's very easy to imagine that one's online interlocutors are reasonable adult people but unless you're talking to them in some apolitical hobby community or something they most likely aren't. You're upset because you subconsciously feel like a regular person attacked you for no reason, which is a healthy and normal response to such a thing, but you weren't attacked by a regular person. Most people are online but most people aren't commenting.
Ioper
29d ago
It is not the military that makes the USG "insolvent", it's generous unfunded (mostly elderly) entitlements. Neither America nor much of western Europe ran up these massive deficits during the cold war when military spending was much higher than today. The issue clearly isn't military spending.
And even if one wanted to make cuts to the military it could easily be done without endangering freedom of navigation, by for example making cuts to the army rather than the navy.
Ioper
1mo ago
Crime has been falling steadily, well before (decades) the the renaissance. If anything it bottomed out before the renaissance.
Ioper
1mo ago
Looking at the metropolitan area, which has a largely unchanged population, the murder rate per 100k is down from some 13-14 to 6.6.
Ioper
1mo ago
Blacks in Detroit can’t get jobs at ford anymore, so they deal drugs and form gangs.
Except of course that crime in Detroit has fallen greatly since the 70s/80s.
Ioper
1mo ago
Probably instantly because males gravitate towards tools and machines in general as toddlers, weapons of war is a subcategory of that.
Ioper
1mo ago
Wasn't it similar to the recent Disney thing of making a movie and then essentially remaking it in post? That way you can spend essentially any amount of money and come out with something lackluster at the end.
Sweden did in the 90s. The fiscal consolidation during the period of 94-98 amounted to some 7.5% of GDP. This led to a sustainable surplus, growth and sustainable entitlements, including pensions.
For America that would equal about $2.2T and a bit more than Musk promised.
Of course, you're never ever going to get there by firing government employees. You need to cut entitlements.
Ioper
1mo ago
My uncle worked as an electrician his entire life and he was none of that. He's in his 70s now and still does regular part time work for fun and money. Perhaps you just worked for a terrible company?
I mean, it's not glamorous but it's not that bad either. Something like firefighting on the other hand... Now that is truly backbreaking work and everyone is physically worn out decades before retirement and there are only a few desk positions available for dozens of aging firemen.
Ioper
1mo ago
I felt like this fell within the realm of social science (especially since authors weren't doctors) rather than medicine even when it came out and as such should have been treated with extreme skepticism just the same as other social "science". No need to really update beyond the already existing heuristic of social scientists are lying charlatans who shouldn't be trusted.
That is not to say that there isn't problems within medicine but this felt a bit orthogonal to that.
You could try any of the sleep inducing antihistamines like Promethazine or Hydroxyzine. You'll likely need a prescription but in my experience doctors are happy to prescribe these because they're not habit forming or have any recreational uses. The worst thing that can happen is that the side effects are uncomfortable or that one builds tolerance.
I've tried Propiomazine (another antihistamine used in Sweden) and they've worked for me, albeit leaving me a little groggy in the morning when on a higher dose. I found the sleep to not be as good as regular sleep but when the option is between little to no sleep and substandard sleep the choice is easy.
As with pharmacological treatment for insomnia, these are not supposed to be used for some kind chronic treatment where you take them every day of the year, but if you have occasional periods of insomnia they work well.
The economy itself is doing well, its the government budget that is unsustainable. Extremely high levels of government spending as a percentage of GDP (literally the highest in the world) and high taxes makes taxation not really a viable solution to balance the budget but cutting the drivers of the large deficit (mostly unsustainable pensions and elderly entitlements) is extremely unpopular and there probably needs to be a severe financial crisis for there to be sufficient legitimacy to balance the budget, so kind of similar to America in that sense.
Except of course the median iq of columbia freshmen (meaning including AA) is an entire standard deviation above that, which if one assumes an Ashkenazi median iq of 115 would imply a bit more than 1 Jew for every 2 whites if the population percentages are 60% and 2.4% of the population respectively.
Maybe American Jewish iq isn't that high but I don't know what looking at such an incredibly low example of 125 iq would accomplish other than deceive.
I thought Huel was pretty good but then they switched all their products to pea protein and just can't stand it. It tastes similar to puke.
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