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Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech
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Comment on Underrated ways to change the world in ~life
Interesting LinkI really enjoyed and appreciated reading this. If anyone is in the comments having a look before they click the link, I highly recommend it. Thank you for sharing!I really enjoyed and appreciated reading this. If anyone is in the comments having a look before they click the link, I highly recommend it.
Thank you for sharing!
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Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech
Interesting Link ParentYup. I can tell you many, many major tech companies have offices in Israel. Off the top of my head, that includes Intel, IBM, and Google (Waze in particular was developed by an Israeli startup).Yup. I can tell you many, many major tech companies have offices in Israel. Off the top of my head, that includes Intel, IBM, and Google (Waze in particular was developed by an Israeli startup).
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Comment on What are your forgivable sins? in ~talk
Interesting LinkThe TV show The Good Place examines this question as one of the biggest themes of the show, so you might appreciate it. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. For my answer, I know I have...The TV show The Good Place examines this question as one of the biggest themes of the show, so you might appreciate it. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
For my answer, I know I have very limited emotional bandwith, so I have to be very careful about what crusades I take on. Even people who can do more will eventually hit a limit. I'm reminded of a John Green video I saw recently - - he spoke that his way of coping with a world with so many problems is to choose a few to dive deeply into, and then trust that there are other people diving deeply into whatever else needs to be done.
So given that minimal bandwith, it's less well thought out and more of a vibe. Some issues are more important to me. Some are less important, but "cheaper". Right to repair is important to me, and I can afford to pay a little extra, so I bought a Framework laptop instead of something cheaper. Climate change is huge, so much that I can't make the space to really engage with it, because the scale of things you could change to be better is basically everything, so I don't push at it so much, other than making the right choice when it's doable. I use Firefox instead of Chrome even when it's inconvenient, because I think preventing Google from owning all web standards is important. It's important to me that my job not be actively making the world worse, so I prioritized that when I applied for places, and it's a "push" factor keeping me at my current job.
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Comment on ‘Do not pet’: A robotic dog named “Spot” made by Boston Dynamics is the latest tool in the arsenal of the US Secret Service in ~tech
Interesting (edited )Link ParentSpray paint / paint balloons to the cameras used for vision would keep it from getting a good picture of you while you get up close to disable it.Spray paint / paint balloons to the cameras used for vision would keep it from getting a good picture of you while you get up close to disable it.
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Comment on "I’m withdrawing from DBT and this problematic language is why" in ~health.mental
Interesting Link ParentYes. As mental health disorders get easier for people to recognize, you end up with this odd dichotomy between the research for the disorder (which show fire and brimstone) and the reality of the...Yes. As mental health disorders get easier for people to recognize, you end up with this odd dichotomy between the research for the disorder (which show fire and brimstone) and the reality of the people finally getting help (disabling, but very possible to live a meaningful life).
A similar thing happened with Autism, I think in the early 2000's? Diagnosis drastically increased, and it had the news media panicking, when the reality was just the definition of autism spectrum disorder made it easier to diagnose people with much lower support needs. In turn, the "direness" of an autism diagnosis, and what it meant to be labeled as autistic changed drastically.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
Interesting (edited )Link ParentThe prep was a lot of work, but that was in part because I was juggling using the machine for the first time, running the candy cycle (and then packing it into mylar bags), and unpacking all the...The prep was a lot of work, but that was in part because I was juggling using the machine for the first time, running the candy cycle (and then packing it into mylar bags), and unpacking all the groceries at the same time. We had only gotten back to the house around 10 pm as well. We also made the choice to do very small pieces to make sure that they would finish in time while still being able to do a large volume. Another factor was that my mom was out of the plastic bags that we had planned to freeze in, so we spent a bunch of time improvising containers for that. It also didn't help that we did /so many/ different things in one batch.
We did realize that zipper quart bags were the exact width of the tray, so if I were to do this again, I'll probably pick up a box of quart storage bags and just spread the food flat to freeze it. If I were to be doing this super frequently, I'd probably find a container roughly half as long with the same width to make fitting stuff in the freezer easier. That, and maybe silicone mats cut to size.
Overall, I don't think it was much more work than say, dehydrating similar foods would be, and definitely less work than canning such a large array of different foods. The frozen peas, corn and onions I dumped directly on the tray were very easy.
What was a bit of a nuisance was packing -- I was doing it with mylar bags, which was a bit of a nuisance. I see there are scoops meant for packing into mylar bags, and if this were my regular hobby, I would probably buy one. Or at least something like a canning funnel.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
Interesting Link@chocobean I finally got upstate to use my mom's freeze dryer. I did a load of candy, and then a load of ramen mix ins, like I had planned. I actually was able to get to an Asian grocer (all glory...I finally got upstate to use my mom's freeze dryer. I did a load of candy, and then a load of ramen mix ins, like I had planned. I actually was able to get to an Asian grocer (all glory to my sister, who drove 3 hours to make that happen).
For the candy, I did skittles, nerds gummies, peach rings, and some lifesavers at 150 degrees without pre freezing. The skittles and nerds gummies were done really fast, but the peach gummies needed more time to puff up, so I left them overnight (the rest needed to pre-freeze anyway)
I ended up freeze drying cooked salmon, corn, peas, onions, enoki, beech, shitake, and oyster mushrooms, baby corn, Napa cabbage, bean sprouts, scallions, pickled daikon, a little dried squid, and some thin sliced Narutomaki. There were a few other things I had intended to try (like roasted garlic, seaweed, lemongrass) , but I was prepping until 3 am, so I was a bit forgetful getting things into the freezer and then onto trays. Everything that came in large pieces was cut down small, excluding the beech mushrooms (which were just separated)
All that took around 24 hours to dry. For eating out of hand, I liked the corn, peas, onion, scallions. The salmon and squid was awesome, but the naruto flavor was a bit odd without the moisture. The daikon was too salty, but it was too salty when wet too, so I think I'll try a different brand next time. The mushrooms had a bit of a weird aftertaste to me. I think they might have been better pre-sautéed.
I tried the first mix today rehydrated (salmon, corn, peas, onion, narutomaki ) and it was pretty good! The salmon and naruto took a little longer to rehydrate than the cook time of the ramen, so after the first piece, I pushed them down past the noodles to wait a bit. The texture for naruto was a bit odd, but I haven't had it fresh in a long time, so I'm not positive if that was normal or not.
For the candy, I loved the nerds gummies (like solid cotton candy with the nerds adding extra crunch). The skittles were good, the peach rings didn't inflate as much as the nerds gummies but were still good. Some of the lifesavers gummies inflated and others did nothing.
I also tried some of my mom's other projects. She had freeze dried cheddar, which was like a cheez-it turned up to 11. It would probably be fun to do sliced parm or something. Or powdering a flavorful cheese and folding it into bread dough? She also had some roasted golden beet chips, which were fun, but they were pretty thick sliced... That was a bit drying and I think they may have been better thinner, and maybe with some vinegar as seasoning. A little oil also might have improved the flavor.
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Comment on Conformity and contrarianism at the same time in ~talk
Interesting Link ParentYeah... I had a recent interaction with the original poster, so I felt obligated to try and figure out if he was obliquely complaining about me... Which is very much a possibility 🤷♀️Yeah... I had a recent interaction with the original poster, so I felt obligated to try and figure out if he was obliquely complaining about me... Which is very much a possibility 🤷♀️
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Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society
Interesting Link ParentI'm in absolute agreement. For independent reading, a kid can read a cereal box if that's what they like, and that will help with building a vocabulary of sight words from their decoding.I'm in absolute agreement. For independent reading, a kid can read a cereal box if that's what they like, and that will help with building a vocabulary of sight words from their decoding.
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Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society
Interesting Link ParentThat's excellent to hear, but yeah it's not the "good" (high income) schools that I worry about. Most of those kids would have learned to read even with Lucy Calkins and nothing else. It's the...That's excellent to hear, but yeah it's not the "good" (high income) schools that I worry about. Most of those kids would have learned to read even with Lucy Calkins and nothing else. It's the places where for most kids, the only read aloud they get is at school, and teachers are under far more pressure to follow inappropriately fast paced curriculum with fidelity - - the first things that are going to be cut for time is the leisure reading.
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Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society
Interesting Link ParentI know they can, I've just seen enough teachers talking about absolutely absurd reading curriculums that I don't trust that they will. Mediation is necessary in all things - - a strong and...I know they can, I've just seen enough teachers talking about absolutely absurd reading curriculums that I don't trust that they will.
Mediation is necessary in all things - - a strong and systemic basis in phonics is necessary for around half of readers. But phonics are also a list of boring rules, so if it's focused on to the exclusion of enough good literature, you'll end up with kids who can decode, but never get enough practice to do read effortlessly without needing to decode, because they hate it.
That said, to be clear, phonics are vital. Using a phonics based approach just means that curriculum should consider building interest as a vital concern and not a secondary one, like I suspect many curriculums do.
What that might look like is even in a boxed curriculum that normally specifies all literature, allowing teachers to regularly (meaning multiple times a week) choose high interest books for their particular class and spend significant time reading them aloud.
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Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society
Interesting Link ParentI do worry that we're going to shift too far in the other direction. We're already seeing schools teach very few full length books. Purely phonics based education means even less exposure to real...I do worry that we're going to shift too far in the other direction. We're already seeing schools teach very few full length books. Purely phonics based education means even less exposure to real (not highly controlled vocabulary) books in the early grades as well. Without good stories as a reward, reading could end up being a miserable slog.
The sane way to deal with this is to have large parts of the curriculum be teacher read aloud of high quality literature, but I don't trust modern curriculum designers focused on a checklist of two dozen "skills" to allot time for that...
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Comment on Is there a way to block a Tildes user? in ~tildes
Interesting LinkEdit: make purpose more clear For the other aspect of blocking: (discouraging them from interacting with you when you won't read their comments anyway) So, this is a relatively small community,...Edit: make purpose more clear
For the other aspect of blocking: (discouraging them from interacting with you when you won't read their comments anyway)
So, this is a relatively small community, and most people are acting in reasonably good faith (barring the occasional comment that needs a malice tag). If you assume that, you could just reply to a person and politely request they stop interacting with you.
I've had someone request I do that in a thread before. I did respond in turn and request that they in turn not make arguments about that (controversial and emotionally loaded) topic unless they were willing to hear polite disagreement, but immediately desisted from discussing the topic at hand with that person. I haven't run into them since, I don't think.
Continuing to argue or provoke a person after such a request would be easy to categorize as malice, and (I assume) people who repeatedly pick up malice tags are banned very quickly.
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Comment on Oscars: Conan O’Brien will host Hollywood’s biggest night in ~movies
Interesting (edited )LinkI wonder what the pay for hosting a major awards show is, and how it works logistically. I know major late night show comedians normally have a writer's room... Would someone like O'Brien or (as...I wonder what the pay for hosting a major awards show is, and how it works logistically. I know major late night show comedians normally have a writer's room... Would someone like O'Brien or (as an example) Colbert write all their own jokes for the awards show? Or does the show production run its own writers room for the production? How much is written vs improvised?
For some reason, I had never thought about this until today, but now I feel intensely curious.
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Comment on Tips for increasing online privacy (without going insane)? in ~tech
Interesting LinkYou sound like you're well past this, but for other folks who step into this thread, I always recommend going into the settings for any new application (and just occasionally in general for any...- Exemplary
You sound like you're well past this, but for other folks who step into this thread, I always recommend going into the settings for any new application (and just occasionally in general for any application that holds highly sensitive or private data) and seeing what you can turn off or opt out of.
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Comment on What is the process for adult ADHD diagnosis? in ~health.mental
Interesting Link ParentI apologize for mispeaking.I apologize for mispeaking.
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Comment on What is the process for adult ADHD diagnosis? in ~health.mental
Interesting Link ParentFwiw, that's because that's part of the DSM definition of ADHD. It's a diagnosis of exclusion. If you have xxx symptoms and they're not better explained by something else, you have ADHD. There are...Fwiw, that's because that's part of the DSM definition of ADHD. It's a diagnosis of exclusion. If you have xxx symptoms and they're not better explained by something else, you have ADHD.
There are other disorders that are similar. IBS is probably the most well known.
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Comment on I've added ~society for topics related to politics, law, policies, and similar societal-level subjects in ~tildes.official
Interesting Link ParentThat's an interesting idea. I'm guessing most folks use either the activity sort, or top-within-time-period sort. For the activity support, you could have some percentage of activity not actually...That's an interesting idea. I'm guessing most folks use either the activity sort, or top-within-time-period sort.
For the activity support, you could have some percentage of activity not actually "count" to bump the thread (perhaps that percentage increases with the number of comments?). For votes, you can just do a straight percentage penalty (or map score to a logarithmic function. )
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Comment on "I’m withdrawing from DBT and this problematic language is why" in ~health.mental
Interesting (edited )LinkI was lucky to be pushed into a really helpful DBT group while I was in college, genuinely, I credit it with my ability to keep coping through some incredibly stressful years since then. Getting...I was lucky to be pushed into a really helpful DBT group while I was in college, genuinely, I credit it with my ability to keep coping through some incredibly stressful years since then. Getting the toolbox to (after a big emotional event) digest what happened, work back to what caused it, and then problem solve how to prevent it from happening again was incredibly useful to me. Radical acceptance was mind bending and sounded absurd when I first heard it. It took some time, but I genuinely was able to change the way I think about how others view me.
However, can understand why the author found their experience so hurtful. One of the things that make DBT such a struggle is that it often requires you to hold two almost contradictory things in your head at once - - that while your trauma or other emotional issue is not your fault, it is your responsibility.
I think if a person is not at a stage where they can at least try to radically accept that, or where their trauma is still so painful that there is no way to tolerate it no matter what tools they try, is probably where DBT can be actively harmful and is inadvisable to continue. If distress tolerance skills can't get you to where you can explore your emotions around your experiences somewhat abstractly -- thinking about it, recognize the emotion that comes on, and back away before it overwhelms you), DBT is going to destroy your day. Not only that, but you will push the rest of the group "off track" for achieving that day's skill, which I'm guessing could frustrate an inexperienced provider.
The correct thing for the therapist to do in that situation, imo, would be for them to either remove the struggling member to solely individual therapy until they've got the prerequisite skills, or at larger practices, group together folks at a similar "levels" for fairness. I can't imagine how invalidating it is to be told you're wasting people's time with your pain, or to have it implied that you are purposely being disruptive. Particularly for someone with BPD and thus an unstable self worth.
It's been a few years, I don't have BPD (just overwhelming emotions related to ADHD and an anxiety disorder ) and my experience with the methodology was relatively short, so I hope nobody here feels like I'm talking over them.
I did some editing here to clarify what I wanted to say, but I should be done now
I mean, neither does solely selling your product in Israel. It's the same to me for supporting conscripts while they do legally mandated service, which from what I understand, is all the Coca Cola and McDonald's ever did 🤷♀️