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They probably weren't hiring any junior coders to begin with.

What difference does it make?

Anytime someone gives you unverified information, they're asking you to become their guinea pig.

There are subtle verbal cues that give away the dominant modality the person thinks with: visual, auditory, or kinesthetic, then you can tailor the session for that modality, using inductions for feeling- or hearing-oriented subjects. My dominant modality is kinesthetic, so I tend to use those first anyway.

Even though we live in a visually stimulating environment, and society tends to express things to us in visual ways, the goal of hypnosis is to relax the person and guide them to a comfortable place, so we can relate to people how they are internally and we don't have to worry about making everything highly visual.

Fresh air

Quoting 1984 is corny in every context

I’m gonna do something really corny now but you led me right into it.

We were “always” at war with Eastasia

If the country’s “core interests” can be defined and redefined based on the whimsy and preference of the current administration, then for the Trump administration to suggest that a certain thing will “always” be in the core interests of the country is ridiculous. The next administration will have their own core interests. Also, what a waste of resources that is.

> America will always have core interests in ensuring that... and that Israel remain secure.

I don't remember that being part of the Constitution.

Who's more of an insider than the person who writes the rules of business?

That's indeed the play for non-corporate-insured consumers. Short-term insurance was $1,000 a year for a healthy person last time I checked. Just keep renewing until you need ACA-compliant insurance for some reason.

But back to my point: that does nothing to solve the root cause, which is the price inflation. And Washington is so deeply compromised that they will never fix it. The only solution lies with us just walking away. We hate to bargain a price on getting exposed to the ugly side of life, like disease, discomfort, and death, but indeed, everything has a price. And we will continue to be tested on our willingness to pay it with until we start playing hardball.

> they will get healthcare and they will die

FTFY

How can you be so naive? Like I said. It’s not what we want to hear or think about. But it is the only route left. Either we stop buying the product or they keep raising prices on us.

The corruption is so entrenched and so out of control, the only way out of this mess is for regular people to just stop using the health care system. Yes, there's no alternative, and yes, it means living a riskier life. It sucks, and it's not what we want to hear, but they can only charge us if we show up and purchase the product, and that's the last lever of power we can wield.

> The value of 0.14 found for the fitted scaling parameter means that only 14% of those who were tested PCR-positively actually became infected with SARS-CoV-2.

File under commonly witnessed yet highly stigmatized facts.

Why assume single people have had a lack of life events? I'm about to hit 40, and I've had enough life events for 3 lifetimes already, and I'm also single. I look and feel like I'm 29, though. I chalk it up to a healthy lifestyle and plenty of sleep.

It's a constitutional republic. Democracy is optional. We'll either discover it now or discover it later.

The representatives are chosen by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. The U.S. is not a democracy.

It's not a democracy. You were told wrong, it's a republic.

Good thing we already went all in on single-use plastic bottles.

"Settled digital fact" is a fascinating phrase. Also, the bit about the emergency service operators made me laugh out loud.

Every con has an expiration date.

Like everything bad is normalized... step by step.

You're right, the number of babies Israel is starving is clearly higher than 14,000.

Would it be acceptable even with a justification?

The answer: Well, that depends on how you define "Big Pharma."

Is it bigoted to discuss nuanced differences between belief systems?

Then what’s your view on the OP, as a Christian? Can you “see” God in one set of numbers but not the other? What’s your take?

> If the something under examination causes a sense of existential nausea, disorientation, and a deep feeling that is can't possibly work like that, it is divine.

This is a Jewish and Christian conception of God. How can this be true when so many things that give us comfort in the natural world: fresh fruit, shade trees, sunshine and warm sand between our toes, etc., were not created by man?

Even in mathematics itself: how improbable, how ludicrous, how miraculous is it that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th natural numbers -- numbers you could discover by looking at your own hands -- have the amazing property of demonstrating the Pythagorean theorem?

The Islamic ideal of God (Allah) is so much more balanced. God created both the integers AND the reals. He created everything, some things for our comfort and rest, some things to drive us close to madness, and a lot of stuff in between. Peel back enough layers of causality and all of creation has the stamp of the divine.