EatingWithForks

I mean, the article explicitly states that as federal employees they may not strike. So I presume there are other things they will plan, such as public demonstrations.

3.5k? Who would reasonably go outside with that thing-- its asking to be robbed off your body.

Isn't this something trivially resolved by the fact that the union members will be the researchers who can decide how to organize themselves? If they feel that their individual research priorities are more important than organizing for greater protections against sexual harassment or whatever-- that's something that can be voted on!

Wow, I never thought to consider my mother an economic parasite.

If it's helpful, there are cases in which means testing was introduced in the UK Disability benefits. Once disabled people are determined to be able to work, there were more than one case where the disabled person starved in their home because they could no longer afford food. [i.e. they starved before they had time to even worry about rent...]

If you want to do something that requires bravery and is unpleasant, I'd like to suggest giving blood instead? You have to get stabbed at least twice (once to test your red blood count, the other to actually stick the needle in) and then sit still with a needle in you until a bag of your blood fills. It's overall pretty unpleasant. But also, you save lives, unlike jumping into a cold pool.

Service animals are medical equipment my dude. It would be as immoral as claiming someone can only go to rehab if they give up their insulin or their wheelchair.

"Seventy-one percent of those surveyed reported living in San Francisco, 24% in other California counties and 4% outside California.

Of those with a prior residence in the city, 17% said they had lived in San Francisco for less than one year, while 35% said they had been in the city for 10 or more years. The remaining 52% of those respondents said they lived in the city between one and 10 years before becoming homeless."

At least in san francisco it seems its people who lived in SF before becoming homeless that are in the majority.

https://sfstandard.com/public-health/san-francisco-homeless-...

Then figure out what rules can and cannot work. I listened to a podcast were a vet's fucking service dog disallowed him from getting into rehab. A service dog!

It's the job of the reporter to figure something resembling reality out from the competing sources of truth. Who is reporting what figures, and what is their background? Where do they meet? Why are they divergent in specific places-- what is their sampling methods, etc?

I've already heard 10000000 times the 1000 foot view. No one has told me the specific appointed people, the percentages of the total they've been distributed, and where those peoples' public records are for their own municipal budgeting.

Yeah I highly doubt you could sanitize to medical needs levels but the casual user should be fine.

Didn't a high-ranking guy sexually harass a woman to the point of suicide at this company? I can believe the company in which a person in leadership sexually harassed another employee to suicide can also have petty executives that demand firing when they feel thin-skinned about their wealth.

Fat people are fat, not stupid. We've been making fun of fat people overeating since Durdley was chowing down on Harry Potter's birthday cake. Educating obese people doesn't make them thin. There's no studies supporting it.

Those all have zero or low-cal options, and we haven't solved obesity.

> Most people would probably lose a significant amount of weight just cutting out beverages with calories in them.

This hasn't been borne out. Coke zero, sprite zero, pepsi zero, etc. are widely available, tastes the same as far as I know, and we haven't solved the obesity crisis since they came out.

The thing is that nutrition education hasn't been proven to work for obese people. They do not educate themselves thin, no matter how much education they get. It's very clear to me something is going wrong at a greater population level. There's no education needed to think "nah I don't need dessert" or "yeah I'm done, I'll take these leftovers home". That's just listening to your body. Something has gone wrong where obese people's bodies aren't responding properly to food.

I mean, based on the fact the new drugs are hormone related (they help lose weight by suppressing the hunger mechanics in the body) of course people "don't listen to what you tell them". You're telling them to, with will alone, totally ignore their own body's hormone disorder. I'm sure narcoleptics can also just stay awake when you tell them, or I'm sure people with thyroid disorders can also just overcome it with sheer will.

I think no one willingly eats themselves obese. Something else must be going wrong-- an eating disorder caused by trauma, or a hormone disorder, or something. Normal-sized people just don't feel the need to eat that much and genuinely find overeating to be deeply unpleasant, because their bodies are responding healthily to too many calories ["I shouldn't have had that extra slice of pizza, I feel like shit"].

The more one learns about other mammals the more furious one generally becomes about their treatment. Orcas are long lived animals in complex social groups (orca influencers are a thing!) that identify individuals, identify self, and appear to participate in cross-species communication.

Laws can be cruel.

H1Bs taking almost any offer is the fault of the visa system, not the fault of the immigrants.

I would actually want to use "psychological safety" to see if my manager is the kind of person who, when they see a word they don't know, instead of asking they make a shit assumption and then react negatively to their own projection of the situation.

The better question is: are you (or PyPI in this case) interested in a legal tussle with the US Gov?

Frankly I think the problem of student debt is so large and so burdensome on the younger population that I don't really care if they're considered "underperforming assets" or whatever. The more money this generation spends on debt the less they have to buy houses and have children, and I personally will benefit from them being able to buy my house when I'm old and want to downsize and them having children so that there will be income into social security when I'm retired. All in all I would consider it an investment into my future retirement by ensuring the younger generation can support me.

Reminder of a doctor who had a patient denied for recommended treatment at the insurance getting a second opinion from... a doctor who installed a hip fucking backwards, a fuckup so bad he was banned from performing surgery for the rest of his life. Yep, banned-from-surgery-forever doctor is still working and is working in denying recommended treatments from other doctors for insurance pockets!

Scum.

https://twitter.com/generalorthomd/status/163207481637850726...

Of course they'd fight your wife. They don't want any history or evidence of potentially paying more under any circumstances.

I think I developed a similar conclusion that research as a whole is corrupted when there was that CS student that committed suicide due being affected by paper-approval collusion agreements involving nearly all the prominent researchers in the field. Nothing was done about it, even though it directly contributed to someone's death.

I had so much disgust for the field since then.

It's also illegal to partake in cigarettes in certain areas, even for adults. Cigarette packaging and location is also regulated. It's not like adults have unfettered access to things that harm them. It's illegal to drink and drive. In some places, it's illegal to drink in public, or it's illegal to sell alcohol beyond certain time periods. I'm not saying that these things are right, but that if we're going to compare social media to harmful substances we shouldn't misrepresent the access to harmful substances adults actually have.

I argue social media is a profound risk to anyone. It's an entire industry that's made to exploit every insecurity and vulnerability within a human psyche. Nervous about vaccines? Sure, you can go to your local doctor, but in the meantime you ask your fellow parents on Facebook and suddenly someone tells you that not only do these vaccines have the potential to fuck up your child for life, that doctors are totally in denial about it and no one in your friend group has ever had to deal with measles but one or two probably claim to have a vaccine-injured child, so do you really want to risk it?

This happens over and over again for anything. Vaccines is just one known example. I'm also talking about gay people. People who have sex before marriage. Immigrants. People with suspiciously dark skin tone. Body image. etc.

Obese people can actually be pretty muscular in my experience, due to their need to heft around their size. It's their endurance that isn't there since their hearts are quite weak.

I think this is more of an underaddressed mental health issue [compulsive hoarding]. I definitely don't think it's a modern problem in that people definitely had compulsive hoarding issues in the past, but people were generally too poor/impoverished to be able to afford to keep much (so keeping everything you can compulsively is arguably rational behavior).