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The is sort of the issue with most deviations from neurotypicality. It's a disease only when it stops you from doing what you and society wants you to do. That's why lots of people manage without treatment. But what are you recommending? That people with ADHD should just move somewhere they can live in a non-industrialized setting?

I suspect also that you may have an outdated view of ADHD. It's more about a lack of executive function than 'hyperactivity'. In fact one of the ADHD types is 'inattentive'. Did you read the whole article? The author discusses some of this.

(2016)

Other than the condescending tone, this comment is probably worth keeping.

summary: there are extralegal, cheap, and convenient methods of collecting supplements/drugs that will be available to everyone with a credit card and the right risk tolerance, regardless of e.g. FDA approval.

> marxist paid trolls

That phrase is the funniest I have heard in a long time.

There are ~basically~ no employee shortages, only employee shortages at a given pay rate.

Great point. Can you please indicate that you read it the linked text, and how the linked text emphasizes the criticisms you raise?

I'm someone who is just never going to watch a video when someone says "Watch THIS!" with no further context. It's too expensive to find out if your advice is useful or not. So, while I know you are under no obligation, can you give some flavor for why this video is a great and impactful video?

Less desirable probably means "people who are homeless and/or mentally ill, who use the free-bus ride as a heated place to hang out all day".

fortran77 mixed up two famous linguists. He probably meant to refer to Steven Pinker. Here's a blog discussing it since I can't link to the book:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/i-could-care-less...

'hysteria' is the key word here. A blanket ban on more than 7 days of opioid medication is a hysterical reaction to the current problem. Sure, root out the corruption. Blame people and companies and even put people in jail if you think it will help. But in the meantime, it saves lives.

Also, as long as we're here, the reason pill-selling and whatnot exists is because of the war on drugs. But that's a larger discussion than what I/we can do here.

Thank you for sharing this.

Someone I love has chronic pain managed with (legally prescribed) opioids, and they have constant low-level anxiety that a bureaucratic mixup will result in their medication being denied (or heaven forbid they lose a prescription, or that they'll need a refill when their doctor is on vacation and the locum will be 'suspicious of drug seeking behavior'.

They had to sign a document that if they lost a prescription, they understood that they would be denied a refill, even though (a) there isn't actually any reason to physically hand them the piece of paper, it could all be done between the doctor and pharmacy, and (b) people with chronic pain typically also exhibit various degrees of 'being distracted' due to that same pain.

I could go on, and TBH, my friend hasn't had any gaps in getting their medication, but the current wave of anti-opioid hysteria is concerning.

Actually, yes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=stress+productivity+curve

There is automation for this for telemarketers: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

Wow. That's your criticism? That they leaders aren't suffering enough? You and I have very different ideas about what incarceration is for.

Put a bottle water in the freezer until it's frozen. Turn it on it's side. If you notice the ice-air line isn't vertical, you had a warming event.

My spouse always asks me fold fitted sheets. But it doesn't seem that hard.

1. put two adjacent corner-pockets into each other, then do the same with the other side, then put those doubled pockets together.

2. Now you have an irregular shaped blob. If you put your hand inside the pocket (there is only one now), you have a flat square, plus the overhanging bits from parts of the fitted sheet that hang down.

3. You just lay those lobes flat so that what is left is flat(-ish) and square(ish).

4. Fold that once or twice depending on the size of the fitted sheet and you are done.

Step (3) is the hardish part since you need to keep the sheet flat. I do it "in the air", but to start I would use a table so that the flat part doesn't move around while I'm folding over the lobes. The flatness will depend somewhat on the thickness of the fabric, but it's usually about 30% thicker than the flat-sheet.

There are a lot of really challenging questions about how to count languages, so I'd need to read the actual study to determine how they counted. But this is a pretty cool result actually. I'm also interested in how they quantified 'ease of articulation' for bilabials vs labiodentals.

Also, for those who don't have an overbite, can you more easily make er... reverse labiodentals (dentalabials?) where you use your lower teeth and your upper lip? I have an overbite, but the sound seems largely indistinct from my 'v/f'. I guess I'd have to see it's effect on surrounding vowels a bit more too. But different articulation points for the same sound are not unheard of (there are two different ways of making 's' for example).

Quite cool.

You are not arguing against the substance of anything I have said.

So...You shouldn't be able to protest something unless you personally experienced it? Like, if my buddy was sexually harassed, and I wanted to change the culture in my company to reduce the likelihood of this happening again, I shouldn't because I didn't have it happen to me? Your argument seems to be making a lot of assumptions that I don't share.

I have no idea why her reporting or not reporting these incidents is relevant. Also not sure why this the protest was 'generic'. Your comment comes off as dismissive without any substance. Please feel free to elaborate.

> If only we could make the basic step of getting the masses to understand why being obese isn't okay

I don't think that this is the problem. The problem is that we don't really have a good way of helping people who are obese from being obese (with the exception of mechanical changes like a gastric sleeve). For people who are fat, you can't just explain to them that they shouldn't be fat. The failure rates for this are INSANE. AFAICT, explaining to fat people that they shouldn't be fat is just a feel-good exercise for the speaker.

But once you have fat people that you can't help, cognitive dissonance will kick in, and they will normalize it. I mean, the alternative (not normalizing their own physical bodies) is probably also quite harmful. So... Let's figure out an actual good way of helping people not be fat? Blaming fat-acceptance? meh.

Let's take a step back. When I work somewhere, my job is much larger than 'deliver code'. It includes (and will show up on my Review) things like 'team building' and 'contributing to a non-hostile work environment'. It is everybody's job to make sure that their workplace is non-hostile. This is the cultural version of 'see something? Say something'. If you are in a workplace that makes that impossible, or retaliates against people who agitate for improvement, then that is a real problem.

TBH, the real problem here is people's different views on the Overton window. I suspect that is why you are getting such vigorous blowback on these topics; your window isn't aligned with at least some of the people on this thread.

From the actual article: ```She was one of six women who organized massive walkouts after reports that Google paid handsome sums to executives accused of sexual harassment.```

Protesting against sexual harrassement and and equal compensation are just 'your politics'? huh.

But the point isn't that e.g. walking fast is bad for your health, it's that when it isn't being explicitly trained for, it is a marker of health. Once you explicitly train it, then it stops being that marker, even though it may still have positive effects on your health.

What we need, in order to understand these proxies, is an understanding of the mechanism by which they work. Take this example: Suppose I am a smoker. I notice that I walk very slowly because I have bad cardio vascular health. I hear in the paper that walking slowing is a marker for death. So I train walking fast. I get up to 'elite non-athlete'. Even though I'm still smoking. In this case, even though I've successfully improved my health, as an indicator, my walking speed will over-predict my health.

For grip strength it's even easier, since it seems very unlikely that actually have a strong grip is realistically correlated with anything health related. Rather, have significant untrained strength is probably very well correlated with a host of genetic, enviromental, and hormonal factors that would likely be strong predictors of health.

It's not that it would degrade your health, it's that it wouldn't significantly impact it. Doing dedicated grip training, for example, will radically increase your grip strength (and I found it super fun to do/have), but it is very doubtful that it will increase your longevity. These correlations/proxies are based on aggregates of untrained people. Once you train it, it is no longer a good metric.

For things like walking speed, it's a little harder to game it without actually increasing your cardiovascular health. But without knowing why something is a proxy, it might be useless/less-useful. For example, if fast walking speed is due to a healthy cardiovascular system, and you notice that your walking speed is low, you might train your walking speed. With effort you might get your walking speed up to 'very fast for non-athletes'. But if you had poor CV health for some underlying reason, you wouldn't have addressed that reason, you would just have masked the proxy. Of course, training walking speed is likely to have positive effects on your CV health, so I'm not saying "don't bother walking faster", I'm just saying that it may cause it to be a much more flawed indicator.

Right, and presumably are useless once people try to game them. 'Useless' might be too strong a term, but you can't e.g. decrease your mortality by training your grip strength.

With respect to your first and third paragraphs (I have no comment on the second)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...

Inherent deadliness, ease-of-use, availability, ability to abort mid-attempt. Guns score high(/low?) for all of these if you keep guns in your house.

The point isn't that the lawsuit is going to ruin the company. It's that the lawsuit is going to cost the company money in almost every case where it happens, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit. The smart choice for the company is to limit risk factors for having to face a lawsuit.

Reminder that you want to avoid the suing not just for the risk of actual loss, but for the cost of defense.