Annually, sorry if that was confusing. $250k over their lifetime.
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It makes sense that DINKs and childless single people are simply reacting to the same economic incentives and now pricing out dual income families.
I think high-rents is a major driver of this decision. The USDA puts the cost of your first kid at $14.4k annually edited. That is primarily due to housing.
What I'm pointing out is that OPs moralizing on good media "Anime, Books" vs bad media "Rap, Trash Magazines" is likely focusing on the wrong things. A person's friends are ultimately what matter in prioritizing values (as far as values can be shaped by environment).
But the claim about "gangster rap" (a term I don't like) was "that shit will warp your mind." is false. Moreover, Anime has tons of content that's way darker than anything you'll find in rap. But again, I don't think it really matters.
Medicare is what I usually focus on on because a person will take out $3 for every dollar they put in.
The real welfare queens are grandpa and grandma, yet in the 80s under Reagan many of those same people were blaming the poor.
If you want to see who has power, look at what programs people are willing to touch. Medicaid is constantly under attack by Republicans. While Medicare is a sacred cow to both Dems and Republicans.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/01/598630200/utah-passes-free-ra...
There might be a tighter correlation than it seems. What makes drugs addictive is that they work on the dopamine pathways. ADD medications do this directly.
Drug abuse causes damaged memory and executive function because drug use downregulates and sometimes damages dopamine receptors.
> Thus, in addition to reward, addicted individuals can experience severe disruptions in learning (memory, conditioning, habituation), executive function (impulse inhibition, decision making, delayed gratification), cognitive awareness (interoception) and even emotional (mood and stress reactivity) functions.
It's perfectly possible that the environment that manifests something like social phobia can change, and a person who previously felt uncomfortable doing something can feel again comfortable.
However, if having social anxiety becomes part of your identity, it becomes the lense that you see the world. TikTok makes it easy, but social media as a whole is identity obsessed by its nature, and as the article illustrates is making this problem worse.
The other problem is the low bar to get a script. If someone had to see a psychiatrist then be put on a drug like guanfacine for several months before they were put in a controlled substance, many (including those with ADD) would fallout.
Programmers getting scripts to do their work is hardly the problem.
Alcohol and Benzos can kill you, so when people talk about physical dependence, they usually mean them. I feel like this is often used to obfuscate the fact that because ____ can't kill you it must not be addictive.
Then there is psychological addiction: Anything that makes you "feel good" and "want more" falls in this category.
So amphetamine, weed, sweets, and coffee, for example are generally cited as addictive because they are easy rushes to feeling good irrespective of their harm.
Where cannabis gets deserved flack is that proponents are downplaying the harm and addictiveness by comparing it to "chewing your nails"
Here is a very good source that illustrates the benefits and harms of medical cannabis.
https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pha...
Reasons not to use in-flight wifi:
* It might be broken, but the credit card processing for some reason works fine.
* If you are on a short haul flight, it's going to be disconnected for takeoff/landing so you will get a solid 30m
* If you are on an international flight, it often stops work once you are over the ocean.
I have friends where them and their SO seem to have really figured out how to divide things to make sure everyone has their own time. On the other hand, I have a friend whose spouse is weirdly transactional about time. He literally cannot find time unless his SO is given exactly the same amount of time. If he wants to go golfing twice in the same weekend - tough luck. It honestly comes across like they really don't want to be around their kids.
What seems to happen is your manager's manager gets approval from finance to offer 2-5% raises per report. If your manager thinks that is unfair he/she needs to complain (spending their own political capital on someone other than themselves). Your manager gets told to figure out raises and thinks there is no reason not to just give everyone the max raise. I then get told I'm getting 5% and it feels woefully inadequate because I do the majority of the work. Knowing that my buddy makes much more than me, I start looking for a job.
What was anyone supposed to do here? If my manager could give 20% per employee he/she would (maybe the company really can't afford it). If my manager was told they had a pool of money to distribute that then turns into stacking (also something people are really unhappy about).
The employee with the least amount of power (me) requires someone above me to advocate on my behalf. Because your manager has to pick-and-chose their battles, it always seems to happen when I threaten to quit.
According to that definition weight loss bars, that are designed to be high-protein (hence high-satiety), would be considered a processed food simply for using artificial colors.
It seems clear sugar is the culprit, and if you are avoiding processed foods you are also avoiding added sugar.
2. What is wrong with our regulatory bodies that there hasn't been heat turned up on these marketplaces? Imagine going to CVS and searching for OTC ADHD supplements and getting results for research chemicals from XYZChems in Cambodia. I might buy them assuming that CVS would be more responsible than that.
Maybe someone can explain to me why my analogy doesn't track.
Alcohol binds to the GABA receptor mimicking GABA, hence providing a calming feeling. It allows people to feel less anxious in situations they might normally feel awkward. That is definitely not cultural.
Drinking regularly may desensitize your GABA receptors and hence cause a person to end up with more anxiety as a result of drinking. I rarely drink because I found it was exasperating my mental health issues.
I don't know about this. Almost every thread about Firefox has someone recommending Brave. Firefox is solving a problem users don't know they will miss until it's gone: browser consolidation. The problems that needs solving now are privacy related and Mozilla's absolutely poor management of Firefox on this front causes others to look for other solutions.
Firefox should be the most privacy centric browser available. However it doesn't seem like management gets the memo. For example, not too far in the past, they made news for putting ads in the search bar and providing a config option (in about:config) to even allow personalization. This kind of thing just destroys the brand and trust with users. If someone asked me to rank browsers based on privacy, I don't think I could give you a rank order, other than the fact that Chrome (and I'm assuming IE) would be near the bottom.
I like Signal because it is a fairly pure messaging app. Admittedly, introduction of Mobile Coin has marred that though. I want something analogous to SMS but is E2E encrypted. I'm personally not intentionally trying to evade state governments, I'm concerned about Comcast.
My favorite Signal feature is automatic deleting messages. I can have ephemeral conversations with people about politics, a health issue, etc and generally trust that it won't be on their phone later. When that feature rolled out, it was controversial. The security types complained that it provided a fake assurance of privacy since there was nothing stopping screenshotting or simply taking a picture of your phone. It reminds me of the federation discussion in that I understand the concern from security pureists, but Signal still seems like the better option than an FB managed app or SMS while still providing something my parents can easily use.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=b...
It absolutely would go to the courts. In the same way Obamacare went to the courts.
SCOTUS makes rulings on the constitutionality of laws written by both state and federal governments. If SCOTUS, for example, wants to argue a person is a fetus therefore deserves all the protections and rights ingrained in the constitution, they could easily dismiss a federal bill on abortion.
The reason people are suggesting packing the court is because there is a belief that a 6/3 SCOTUS can simply undo any laws you put in place. The irony here is that Roe v Wade is a perfect example of the court doing just that.
The way we have 9 rulers who are picked by whatever party happened to be lucky enough to have someone die is an absolutely stupid system. I hope every majority congress packs until the court is thousands of justices.
1. As you said, and China is aware, a war between Taiwan and China will harm both countries and strengthen the US.
2. The world would react extremely negatively (more so than the Ukraine response) if half the world's semi-conductors supply disappeared.
3. Taiwan has cruise missiles that can reach Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, etc. Most of China's development is in the East. [1]
What I do believe might happen is China will reach the point that they can economically bully Taiwan until Taiwan decides it's best to play ball.
I felt pretty overwhelmed at the beginning. Everything from the tech, deployment process, style guide, PR process, etc might have to be relearned. I had consolidated a lot of access at my old company too.
I was really worried that I wasn't producing like I should at my seniority. This has since gone away though.
Utah barely locked down, has their kids in school, no mask requirements but has also one of the lowest death rates in the country.
A lot of southern states had the same policy, but have some of the highest death rates in the country. [1]
Utah is also one of the youngest and fittest states in the country while Mississippi (#1 for deaths per capita) is consistently ranked one of the most obese[2]. As far as I'm concerned, Covid should be encouraging the US to talk about their longest lasting health crisis - an obesity epidemic, but for some reason that hasn't materialized.
1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...