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23 votes
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Why we need to bring back the art of communal bathing
28 votes -
Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
10 votes -
These millennials got new roommates. They’re nuns
7 votes -
People who work from home: what you do on your breaks?
Working and studying from home, it's hard not to acquire bad habits. Most of the time I follow the Pomodoro Technique, so I have constant small breaks instead of large ones. But sometimes I just...
Working and studying from home, it's hard not to acquire bad habits. Most of the time I follow the Pomodoro Technique, so I have constant small breaks instead of large ones. But sometimes I just stay on the computer looking at different things such as Reddit and Tildes, and it doesn't feel very restful. At the same time, if I change the context too much, it's easy to lose track of time (yes, even with apps), and I have trouble refocusing on my work, study etc.
This may seem like a trivial problem for some, but not for me!
Summing up: what can I do on my breaks (4 x 5 minutes followed by 1 x 25 minutes) that is both restful and pleasurable, but not excessively engaging?
15 votes -
How the elderly lose their rights: Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it
9 votes -
'They have become the new religion': Esther Perel says we expect too much from relationships
11 votes -
'If not I, then who?’: Armed with the internet, Russia’s young people want to remake their world
10 votes -
"I got mine": Like college debt and climate change, the US housing affordability crisis is generational warfare
13 votes -
Gender-segregated swim hours create hot water in some city pools
7 votes -
Get rid of (paper) junk mail | No Sweat Tech
10 votes -
The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
4 votes -
A generation is learning how to strike: An interview with Isra Hirsi
6 votes -
Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage
6 votes -
Ex-smokers, what did you do to help you stop?
Edit: meant ex-smokers. Proof reading is not something I tend to do... Some people quit cold turkey, some use something to replace it (thinking sunflower seeds), some make goals like only have 6 a...
Edit: meant ex-smokers. Proof reading is not something I tend to do...
Some people quit cold turkey, some use something to replace it (thinking sunflower seeds), some make goals like only have 6 a day and work their way down.
I personally have been using nicotine products since I was about 16. Cigarettes at first, but switched to vaping at about 18. Been using them for about 6 years now and finally decided it's time to stop. I've been lowering the amount of nicotine in my vape for about 3 months, this last one being 0 nicotine in my vape. Now it's time to break the muscle memory of just mindlessly grabbing it at home and always making sure I know where it is. This last month with no nicotine was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be because I always told myself it was mostly a habit of the action and not the substance... Boy was I fucking wrong.
So what did you do, or are you doing, to help yourself quit? Need a little inspiration.
13 votes -
Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
23 votes -
Here comes the neighborhood: Many US cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
6 votes -
Op-eds from the future: It’s 2059, and the rich kids are still winning
9 votes -
A botched decolonization: Inside Cameroon’s civil war
6 votes -
People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
13 votes -
Coming of age in cohousing: Growing up communally brings exposure to the world of adults—and lessons in interdependence
7 votes -
The boring intimacy of the all-day group chat
8 votes -
How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world
6 votes -
What it felt like: If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?
6 votes -
Archiving grief five years after the Isla Vista attacks
3 votes -
One Year Off, Every Seven Years: How about this for a demand? You work for six years and you get a whole paid year off to do whatever the hell you want.
18 votes -
Who begs to go to prison? California jail inmates
4 votes -
How Montreal freelancers are organizing
4 votes -
'The choice is this: if we go we will be killed; if we stay here we will starve'
5 votes -
The curious cons of the man who wouldn’t die
3 votes -
What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll
9 votes -
Men have no friends and women bear the burden
27 votes -
Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
12 votes -
Removing love locks from bridges and statues
16 votes -
With workers hard to find, immigration crackdown leaves Iowa town in a bind
8 votes -
Answer Sheet California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
10 votes -
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston
5 votes -
My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me
10 votes -
Solitary voices: Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary sonfinement in ICE detention
8 votes -
California teachers pay for their own substitutes during extended sick leave
10 votes -
The loneliness problem in LA starts with traffic. Could it end with a walk?
6 votes -
Having a library or cafe down the block could change your life
16 votes -
Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
8 votes -
Where's masculinity headed? Men's groups and therapists are talking.
14 votes -
Sex work
22 votes -
Gunmakers are profiting from toy replicas that can get kids killed
6 votes -
‘Fairbnb’ wants to be the unproblematic alternative to Airbnb
8 votes -
Asylum seekers are being “disappeared” in private Louisiana jails
11 votes -
On letting people enjoy things
9 votes -
‘Women have only one way to survive--learning to fight’: Boxing in the DRC
4 votes