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They probably forsaw this coming and wanted protection in case of a lawsuit.

It's good in that people have better quality of life. Almost every adult over 50 I know is on a medication and all of it is to reducing suffering. Blood pressure control, pain management, treatment of chronic diseases that used to be crippling

I just started a medication for a disease that was just an unlucky roll of the genetic die. Before, my options would have been to just slow decline until I died for a decade. Now. I'll take this for the next 40 or more years of my life. I imagine that was a lot of people before we started having a lot of medicines. Diabetes used to be a death sentence a century ago after all.

Because on the whole it takes time to actually impact a place. The amount of time varies by level. I'm not going to ding a junior for short stints, but if I see someone with 10 years of experience who never stayed at any company for longer than 2 years then I'm going to be extremely suspicious depending on kind of role I have. If I have a role that requires deep domain knowledge and relationships to be effective, pass. If I just need someone to come in and crank something out, then I'll check them out to see if there's any notable red flags.

They'll use an ID service. It'll be like google auth. We'll all be worse off for it

Startups run on long hours and heroic efforts. That selects against women who are time sensitive due to caretaking duties. Even if a woman doesn't have a child, they're often still time constrained by other obligations to family.

Minorities, though I have no idea. Unless they mean there's a bias towards prestige degrees? Then sure.

The question is: did ahe want to raise her children like that and would she have chosen to do it that way if she had a choice. People raise children that exist any way they can. People don't choose more children in a bad situation. We can conjecture your grandmother didn't think it was ideal because she didn't have any more children during a time where having more than 3 wouldn't have been strange.

I would be interested to compare this to homicide rates. Because I remember reading that when no fault divorce was allowed male lifespan increased.

I also think it's too early to really look at these rates. Of course many women would be happy they weren't destitute when they got married during a time when women couldn't have bank accounts. Of course men would feel put out when they were used to having everything handled by their wife and existed during a time where joint custody was not so common.

I'd like to see these studies again in 20 or so years when most people surveyed got married out of commitment instead of life necessity.

Very late to this, but it will come. You will bond with your child and not even realize it. I would have said that I wasn't bonded with my child. In fact, she kind of annoyed me. Then I sent her away for a month to get a break. Suddenly everything fell apart for me emotionally. Turned out I could not think avout her when I was working etc because I was very comfortable with the people she was in the care of. Now that she was with people I really trusted, but several hours away withoit the ability to a check in on her whenever I wanted, it made me realize how very bonded I was to her.

I remember walking to her room out of habit and then laughing because of course she wouldn't be there. And then I'd do that 2 or 3 times a day every day. Other such absurdities.

I think that was a good experience for me because I still don't think about my kid very much when she's not around, but it doesn't mean I'm not attached to her.

Man, i have different friends than you. I have listened to a friend rant for 3 hours about a BS project at a company I haven't worked at. Another friend rant over weeks and I wasn't even in the same industry.

I talk to my friends during the day. I'm lucky that we're all remote, but honestly even my in office family members can chat sometimes at work.

When I was in the office, I rarely connected with coworkers. I was often the youngest and/or just not in the same life stage. I could exchange pleasantries and that was about it. I have a grand total of 2 friends from work after over a decade of work across several companies. My social life is still vibrant outside of that.

I don't even understand where people think you can't connect to peolle WTH. I just had an hour long chat with a coworker about nothing at all. Sometimes people just need to chat about nonsense and VC people. Peoppe seem to be afraid of that, but I don't see why. We can work and talk. We did it in the office.

You're missing the point. The law didn't take into consideration that people are awful and as a result not only didn't accomplish its aims of either reducing the amount of data collected or making users aware of data collection, it made the act of using the web worse.

This is the problem with feel good laws like this. You always have to write laws assuming that those negatively effected will be bad actors that will try to subvert the law. That's just human nature. People want to keep doing what they're doing.

I see you've never had a young child. What you're talking about is something that doesn't work with children under 3. And tbose children are very mobile, boundary test and don't really understand death.

My 1 year butt checked a fireplace and got a 3rd degree burn. She understood what hot was. That heat could hurt her. Still burnt her butt when I wasn't looking and the worst part was the urgent care told me it was a common occurrence. I believe them because they guess exactly how it had happened.

My 2 year old nearly drowned. It was only a fence that stopped her from jumping into a pool when I wasn't looking. I found her right outside it after desperately wondering where she had gone. She'd been in a pool plenty of times and even knew she could sink. Didn't matter.

I can have frank discussions with my nearly 5 year old, but that was really recent. Even when she was just 4 just explaning and exposure wasn't alaays effective. It's easier to just lie for their safety.

And hell it must work because I still remember the stories my dad told me about the monster called Undertow that would carry you out to sea. I of course know it's a real thing, but I think it's telling I think of the story before the factual information and I heard the story over 25 years ago.

Doubt. If someone can't even read, or even have a solid concept of abstraction with numbers, I doubt you can came up to even the lowest bar of college. There is an unspoken filter to even get the chance to take that one year catch up.

In a year you can teach kids who are a little behind enough to get them up to the min high school will teach them, but certainly not the most that high school will teach them if they want it.

Of course this overlooks what the minimum bar for a college is. At my college the lowest math they offered that wasn't considered remedial was calculus. That's a far cry from many community colleges where the lowest is alegebra. You definitely should have learned alegebra in high school and not knowing it definitely extends your timeline on certain disciplines.

I was extremely confused by this statement because well... I exist. I didn't start speaking until around 5 because of various health issues and I wouldn't say I was reasonable at it until I was a preteen, but I definitely acquired language, just extremely slowly.

Why do we need things like alcoholics anonymous. Just stop drinking. It's just that easy!

Eating food is not only a necessity to live, but your body is extremely loathe to ever let you reduce how much you're eating. High calorie food might be a person's only comfort. Maybe they're working long hours and caring for someone and taking time off to exercise, something objectively not fun is not something they can emotional commit to. Maybe they're disabled. Maybe they have zero control over their schedule or even their food.

Like there are so many reasons you could be overweight and a lot of them are psychological like your parents instilling a deep sense of wrong whenever you leave literally anything on your plate.

I don't think these drugs are great long term solutions, but for people who are doing the best they can with what they can, why mock them? It's like mocking someone fat who managed to walk on a trendmill at the gym. It's a start. They can't lose all the weight with just these drugs. They're not miracles. They just give people the ability to see progress for their efforts.

A lot of the problem of this idea is that there's only a smal set of ASD people who can even engage in this kind of work. It's a big argument in the community about higher functioning austistic people speaking as if they represent all.

Personally, I think we have a lot of foundational research to do since I'm not convinced that what we call autism isn't like 3 or 4 diseases/disorders in a trench coat.

I'm American, but i have a serious preference for self-checkout because I can avoid tje annoyances of regular check out. Waiting on the person who forgot their wallet. That person who wants to argue about one dollar on a one hundred dollar purchase. The person who realized they bought to much and now needs to figure what they want to put back. And more.

Cashiers are nice, I guess. But stores are not a social call for me. I want to buy my stuff and not deal with ridiculous people in front of me.

Also self-checkouts just move faster. This probably wouldn't be true if stores had the same number of cashiers they used to, but it really reminds me of mu youth where you could be in and out of a store without a significant wait to check out.

I lived in France for a bit and the stores were completely different. Speedy and plentiful lines, so that's probably the difference between Spain and the UK

Look at all those nations you listed that are very homogeneous. I want a nation with significant culture tradition differences listed that is like that. American exceptionalist is mostly BS but we do have some ways that we are very unique as a nation and that is how many different kinds of major cultures we have hanging out in US. People handwave the US as all the same but that is very much not the case. Even for as good as American indoctrination is, nothing is gonna change that living in Montana is nothing like living in Florida. What rural urban even means in both states is so different. And we've been this heterogeneous.

I'm willing to accept your premise, but I want an example where there isn't one overwhelmingly dominant culture. I'll accept 2 equally dominant cultures.

It's your distance to a warehouse and if you order what everyone orders. If I order a winter coat in summer while in Florida, I'm gonna have a bad time.

I live driving distance to two amazon warehouses. I can get a great number of products in the same day.

We don't actually know that children were barely affected by covid. Covid is a pretty unknown disease in the long term. It could be like chicken pox which looked harmless in children until a few decades later with shingles. Maybe we'll find out that having young co-relates with later adult outcomes like how having multiple serious bouts of the flu qas corelated with mental decline. We don't even know if covid would be like the flu when it first appeared where future waves would be worse in children. It's best to be cautious with a disease that still hasn't settled into a stable form.

Unfortunately, just having done that track, it's hard because _a lot_ of the gifted kids I was in class with had some kind of issue. Maybe not being neurodivergent, but there was a lot of mental health issues and obsessive behavior. Being just a standard human who smart was a minority position. It's interesting to me, because at my university those kids didn't have a high presence at all and I'm not sure if college was just biased against them a la gifted burn out stereotype or if I lived in a bubble

It's about how often the edge case comes up. 4 to 12 times a year, I need to drive 300 miles to visit my family. 10 to 30 times a year, I'll drive 50 to 60 miles to visit friends/family or see specialist doctors or take trip to some interesting event. But on the vast majority of days I drive less than 10 miles a day.

My edge cases come up fairly frequently and I don't really have a good fall back for them i could spend a huge amount of money or time to do the 50 mile trips via uber or transit. Or, I could own a hybrid. I could do something similar with less reliability for the 300 mile trip. Or I could own a hybrid. In both cases, i could keep an app that tells me where the charge stations are and account for any possible needed charging... or I could just own a hybrid and gas up at any random station I pass in 5 mins.

This is the problem of EVs. Yeah edge cases, but a lot of people can have their edge cases come up fairly frequently. And worse this changes over time. People like to plan for probably outcomes over the life of the vehicle. It's not strange to think you might a few hours a handful of times a year. The more people you need to transport with you the more alternative travel methods and the uncertainty of the charge network starts to matter.

I didn't even know LinkedIn had ads. I assume they made all their money from charging companies to post job postings (which are ads I guess) and recruiters to be able to reach out

So... I did a quick Google and a lot of online teaching positions for AP classes merely require a BS in something related. The BS is the continuing degree I see over and over again. That said, I bet if you could get a hold of a human in a smaller outreach type program, they'd hire you no problem. If you just want to teach with no regard to money, then something like the TEALS Program might appeal to you.

The only way to enforce values that others dont agree with is to aggressively draw a line in the sand and be 100% willing to go low contact if not no contact over it. If that's not a trade off you're willing to make over it, then you dont hold that value all that closely.

I say this has someone who has actually cut off family members over things people would consider trival. Like soda. I literally cancelled an entire summer vacation with my family over it. No soda, high processed foods for my child. For me, it's a imminent matter of health for my kid who has GI issues to my family, it's be being over strict. I was willing to blow up everything over it.

Are you willing to cause strife over stream services? Because this seems silly enough yo outsiders that I think you'll find it hard to convince your family. You'll probably only get to hard draw your boundary and deal with the fall out.

Because buy doesn't exist in a sane form for some things. Kids shows are known for never selling by season and only by some weird theme and of course there are dupes between sets. Buy isn't an option at all for some stuff. I'm looking at you Disney vault bulkshit, but also other not as iconic stuff.

Yes pirate, but that's a problem too. I've tried to pirate some stuff that wasn't popular or it was too old and you're just not able to.

Streaming removes a lot of that hassle. Now that the price is becoming too high, people are considering other options, but there is a reason it exists. Streaming is how I let my kids explore media. Yes, I can just give them my childhood favs, but they need a way to try new shows without me directly interfering and it's been great. I would have never picked out my kid's favs for her.

My 4 year old has had unlimited access to most services since 2. Mostly what she does is watches the same 10ish hours of content whatever that is for about a month. And then she picks another 10 hours. This 10 hours may or may not include things from previous 10 hour binges.

Kids like repetition. They are perfectly willing to watch the same season of something over and over again even when they could technically choose to watch something brand new

Is there a right to free content? Because ads are obnoxious and I do block them, but I also pay for stuff were I can. If ads didn't exist there effectively there would be a pallwall on the internet. As there should be, people need money to live. If people feel so strongly about ads they should either not consume the content or pay for the ad-free version. I use YouTube premium and I've never seen an ad. I get the ad-free version of everything. My child even uses Amazon kids, so she can enjous apps to her hearts content without ads. But I pay for that.

Ad blocking is theft. It's theft that I will commit, but it is theft. When you block an ad you reduce the content creator's salary. We then have to ask: what happens if the creator gets no money? They stop giving the content away "for free".

This is the piracy fight all over again. Again, I'm on the high seas, so I'm not innocent. I still think that we need remember that content isn't free. We pay for it with attention or money. If enough people don't do that then the content won't be there. That's how capitalism works.

Getting that first appointment for a specialist can definitely have a long wait time. It took me 1 year to get in with a specialist to see my daughter diagnosed. I was was several waitlists trying to see any doctor. Granted this is the worst it'll ever be because covid caused a backlog, but I'm told by other parents they had to wait 3 months. It took me 3 months to get that first appointment with mu specialist too.

Now after I've seen that doctor once? Now I can make almost same day appointments and I have access to staff nurses for basic questions, etc. But yeah the wait for specialists can be long. It's usually not for generalist specialists. Like I saw a neurologist within a week, but the really specialized neurologist I got recommended out to was a 3 month wait.

Population density relative to population. The US is not dense. There are legitimately strategies that will not work for us given some of our "large population centers" are actually pretty tiny when considering hpw developed we are. This is also why the US has 3rd world problems like issues getting water and electricity to some citizens. The population density in some states can drop very very low and we have a lot of people on those low density areas. It becomes a horrible last mile problem.

Honestly, I'd like to hear from Canadas and Australians about the rural experience. They have the same density problems and I think their solutions are nore relevant. That said, I'm not really a fan of the outcomes from Canada, so who knows maybe high population, low density is just a bad hand for a country in this context.

Unfortunately, it's a matter of where you get it done. Getting literally anything done at a hospital is highway robbery. That said, i get two MRIs a year at not a hospital and it's a couple hundred dollars, not a a couple thousand. It's not cheap, but it's a about 1K expense twice a year, which you can budget for.

I feel like this is the crux of the US's issue. We have medical care deserts and for many people the hospital is the only way to get something taken care of. This is where the US is different from many other wealthy nations. We really don't get economies of scale at all. We have cities, but a lot of our major cities juet have nothing like the population of other nation's major cities.