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To get people to change, make change easy
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Millennials are sick of drinking, but they’re not giving up booze just yet
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Dyer: Rising unemployment fueling anti-migrant sentiment in rich countries
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The cost of having children - women lose earnings for five years after childbirth
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Tipping thoughts?
I apologize in advance for the massive flame war which will likely ensue but I'm not sure we have a thread for this yet. General thoughts on tipping? Not US specific, could be about anywhere
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Cecilia's life with schizophrenia
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Nauru refugees struggling with life in the US 'Valley of Opportunity'
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Maryland National Guard is the first in the US with an all-female command
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Text, don't call: The new phone etiquette
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It’s not just the isolation. Working from home has surprising downsides.
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How much actual work do you do in a day?
After watching Office Space for the first time a few weeks ago, I was struck by the scene where Peter is talking about his average working day, and it got me to wondering about how much actual...
After watching Office Space for the first time a few weeks ago, I was struck by the scene where Peter is talking about his average working day, and it got me to wondering about how much actual work I do at my job. I'm pretty sure that even on a good day, I put in less than 2 hours of actual graft. The rest is just mindless internetting, chatting with my colleagues, and wishing I was elsewhere.
So I'm curious how much work other people actually do in a day, and how you pass the time when you're not doing anything at all?30 votes -
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest
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Advice for a soon to be college graduate
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you...
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you heard when you were 22.
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How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
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Jobs in southeast Kentucky's coal mines are vanishing. Can green jobs replace them?
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Father of Sandy Hook shooting victim dies by apparent suicide
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Bigger than that - Complex thoughts on a life spent being the short guy
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Why drinking can feel isolating when you have 'Asian glow'
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Amazon finds an alternative workforce through Northwest Center, a Seattle nonprofit helping people with disabilities
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You’ve been asked to moderate a panel… what now?
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Every year on 'Día Del Mar,' Bolivia celebrates the coastline they lost
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What rural America has to teach us
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Pizzagate: A slice of fake news
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Tickling
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Racist violence threat keeps Charlottesville schools closed
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How parents are robbing their children of adulthood
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How did/do you fund your graduate education?
If you're doing a master's or a PhD, how do you pay for it? Or if you will be doing in near future, how do you plan to pay for it?
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Elite colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
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Tilderinoes with mental health issues: do you feel like happiness is impossible?
By “happiness” I don't mean “the place where happy people are happy all the time”, but rather “the absence of persisting suffering”. For some context, I've been suffering from clinical depression...
By “happiness” I don't mean “the place where happy people are happy all the time”, but rather “the absence of persisting suffering”.
For some context, I've been suffering from clinical depression for over nine years now. Maybe more. I've been hurt by other people many times in my life, especially in childhood and during school. I have almost never felt connected to another human being, and the older I get, the harder it gets to get any kind of intimacy. I feel like “I'm a creep and I'm a weirdo” regularly, as if my teen angst has never left me. On a good day I will merely be tired, and I think I don't need to describe a bad day.
Recently I've been discovering interesting approaches to therapy and using awareness to “pull yourself by the boot straps”, but whenever the time comes to actually use them in practice, a very real question: “Why should I do it? Happiness is impossible, I will always be what I am, so why go through additional pain of trying to change anything when the result isn't guaranteed?”.
So the question is: how do you answer this (loaded) question? How do you get back your faith in better future for yourself when you have so little experience actually being better? Can you actually do that?
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Groomed by a grandfather: A mother discovers that her children have been sexually abused by a close relative for years.
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Bernie Sanders' staff unionizes in US presidential campaign first
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BirthStrikers: Meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends
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Why we confronted Chelsea Clinton - the activists who confronted Chelsea Clinton at the vigil for victims of the Christchurch massacre explain their actions
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From 2003 to 2007 a 24 year old Iraqi woman in Baghdad kept an online diary. In chronicling life under occupation the blogger "Riverbend" gave a perspective largely missing from English media.
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Is the so-called 'midlife crisis' a real thing?
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‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’
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Go home to your ‘dying’ hometown
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How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
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This is why we don't leave justice in the hands of victims
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How ‘creativity’ became a capitalist buzzword
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After the tsunami
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The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset
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Doesn’t matter if you’re dead, just make sure to show up
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Stop telling women to fix sexist workplaces
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‘Colony of hell’: 911 calls from inside Amazon warehouses
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Excommunicate me from the church of social justice
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Turning our garden’s bounty into community
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This is what the life of an incel looks like
32 votes