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Thanks for linking research- relatively small n's though. I think the highest in the review is n=36. The one on sleep is n=15.

Jokes like this are differently abled

> whomst

nice, Vancouver!

Jonestown-level control strategy.

or at least they now sell their labour time at a higher rate

yeah I always figured the "we hire autistic people" PR thing I see some companies do was more cynical than altruistic

here's betting that in a hundred years "autism" is as outdated/vague/meaningless as "hysteria" and "melancholia".

schizophrenia isnt even in the newest DSM

whoa, dude, language

I can't believe sex was legal during the AIDS epidemic

you don't need to capitalize words in a quote

There's so much money in cancer research - when I was a pharmacology/genetics researcher I was told to try to tie everything back to cancer for research papers and grant proposals.

And the oncology lab next door had the best equipment. We always had to borrow their stuff.

Idk maybe this is a good argument against private charity. Not to say that cancer research isn't important but from what I could tell, cancer researchers had an embarrassment of riches.

Hey this is just like Babakiueria - maybe they got the idea from this paper!

https://youtu.be/NqcFg4z6EYY

they dont look that real

citation?

Maybe not for long - tolerance builds up rapidly (and maybe permanently?) to the sleep-inducing effects of benzos.

That's why they're not recommended as a long-term sleep aid.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=benz...

Ever since she cravenly smeared Bernie during the Democratic primaries (insinuating he's sexist) I've had a hard time considering her a good-faith actor.

That being said, if you've never looked into it, you should read about how the Obama administration neutered her role in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I think most anyone would have a hard time disagreeing with her take on the 2007-2008 banking crisis - and you might find the contrast between suave and shrill less... signifying.

Why not go even further and say humanity needs the separation of money and day-to-day living?

Buying commodities with Ponzi-scheme money doesn't seem productive for society anyways.

The pandemic is never going to "end" so why oscillate between exclusively on-site and exclusively WFH?

and why, as an manager, take on that kind of liability unless you absolutely need people to be on-site?

Reminds me of an anecdote where a guy was working at a UPS near 9/11 ground zero and the manager tried to stop them from leaving work.

Is it just the Will to Power? or am I missing some convincing opinion pieces in The Economist or FT? I'm so genuinely curious about why a manager would be compelled to insist on on-site.

Cynically, I know it's easier to switch jobs if both are WFH... Would hate to think that Big Tech companies conspire to jointly enforce on-site (as an addendum to that infamous no-poaching agreement).

An engineer at a major auto insurance company told me about an app they had for insurance appraisals. If a person got in an accident, they could open the app, take pictures of the damage, and see what how much they'd get back from insurance. The first version would send you back an appraisal almost immediately. He said they had to add a ~24 hour delay because a lot of people thought it was impossibly fast, and that their claim hadn't been reviewed thoroughly enough.

Is it true that we should blame Campbell for closing that big mental hospital? I'm a compassionate guy but I'm getting pretty sick of schizos yelling on the street. It doesn't feel dangerous though - I think a lot of people come downtown from the suburbs and get kinda spooked. Living downtown, you just avoid Granville (cause it's disgusting) and realize that schizophrenics are more scared of you than you are of them.

For anyone interested in further discussion of this topic, I highly recommend "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Lenin (1917).

Heads up to anyone reading: Threads is so disturbing - and I'm not sensitive to this kind of thing. I grew up browsing 4chan. It's just so, so bleak. The scene where the husband and wife are behind that mattress...

My gf and I couldn't stop thinking about it for like a month - and looking back on it, I think I was walking around a little bit depressed. Too real.

I don't know if there's much to gain from watching it. 5/5 bags of popcorn.