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AnonymousActuary
7d ago
I think the general script that I see among the more conservative/traditional people in my life is you meet someone in college and marry them shortly thereafter, with varying degrees of whether you sleep with them before marriage (but your lifetime body count is much more likely to be 1).
This puts extra non-academic pressure on college, and most of this happened pre-COVID, so not sure how easy it is now.
I was raised in a conservative family, did not partake in sex, drugs, or alcohol in high school and feel like my life turned out pretty awesomely.
AnonymousActuary
7d ago
This is ignoring the massive confounding variable which is social media and the post 2014 culture (much more engagement with politics, for instance)
AnonymousActuary
14d ago
replaced my nightly twitter doom scroll with anki decks for geography, presidents and amendments a few months back. Highly recommend.
AnonymousActuary
20d ago
Dagger and the Coin
AnonymousActuary
26d ago
People who are AI Doomers/on the doomer spectrum and have kids, how has it changed how you parent/plan for life?
I wouldn't say I'm a doomer, but I generally respect Scott's opinions so the latest AI forecast they dropped does seem somewhat concerning to me. Wondering if I should be stepping up the amount of time and money spent on eg family vacations while the going is good.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
yeah I've played a handful of games past Medieval TWII and decided that it was the best. Now I play Divide and Conquer, the LOTR mod for it
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
We had a moment where we suspended literal constitutional rights and a large chunk of the populace was pleading for the Government to take whatever action it could to save them including by confining people at home (great for coups!) while Trump was already president and he mostly tweeted.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Huh. That sounds...very promising. Definitely have post-nasal drip and headaches. I'll get an ENT appointment and report back.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
It's broader than just bed - I have it right now to some extent (not fully plugged up like when I have a bad cold, but just feel resistance to nose breathing). Maybe need to get back on a daily allergy spray and see if that helps.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I'm a bad mouth-breather while sleeping, usually due to general nasal congestion (not specifically illness).
Is my best path those nasal strips that are supposed to help you breathe? Mouth tape? Afrin spray? ENT visit? Something else?
Last week I had one night where my nose felt clear and I woke up feeling way better in the morning.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I appreciate the optimism that Biden just got caught on a singular bad day
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
90% sure they use bows in the loot train attack
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
If your starting point in a negotiation is "let's defeat this army first and THEN we can rid the US of your chosen religion's oppression" it seems like you are not going to win a lot of new allies.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
the sensible reaction is Governments don't get to lockdown anymore.
You had the power, you abused it, you don't get the power anymore.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
We knew very early from cases like the Diamond Princess what we were likely looking at. Possibly you could argue it was until May 2020, when we had CFR data out of New York that showed kids how severe the age stratification of impact was.
In addition, there was functionally speaking zero support for the kind of lockdowns we saw in Medical Literature. The famous pandemic influenza response paper (written by Donald Henderson - who led parts of the smallpox eradication effort) mentioned how important it was to try to keep life functioning as normally as possible. I still don't understand where the policy came from - it seems like we saw China do it, saw a bunch of people die in NY due to doctors over-ventilating (I think that was a well-intentioned mistake) and Cuomo shoving people back into Nursing homes (honestly, might also have been a well-intentioned mistake), and everybody panicked.
Less charitably, bureaucrats got high on their own supply of people listening to them/convinced themselves they could stop all disease spread (Fauci quite obviously embraced his narcissistic side).
I personally remember my first visit to a new PCP post COVID. Within 10 minutes he was recommending I get a COVID booster, he did not ask if I'd had COVID recently, how my reaction to previous shots had been (heavy acute symptoms after my 2nd shot), or whether the elevated risk as a young male was worth it, it was just "here's the recommendation I will now parrot to you unthinkingly".
I have not been back.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Their isn't any credible debate
Again, the problem is we were also told this about many things during COVID that clearly had legitimate credible debate! You are arguing over benefits to the commons, while not realizing the commons was torched by public health on several different occasions during COVID because they got too caught up in #currentthing to think about what they were doing or approach things with any sort of introspection or understanding of past pandemic response policy.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
The masks were sold out everywhere around me by early February, not sure what supply he was trying to save.
If you need to save it for healthcare providers say you need to save it for healthcare providers.
TBH, I think the more likely scenario, is he, like most of the contemporary research, believed that masks were not that effective against COVID and COVID like illnesses.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
interesting, I would say our marriage improved across the board by about 2.5 times after having a kid (if not more).
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
how old is your daughter? Been wondering when it is time for the hobbit.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
^yep precisely
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
What do you consider like a donut shop where someone assembles your order?
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
I think some of the late-war soviet losses vs. German losses are a bit overstated simply due to the Soviets generally being on the offensive - which is typically going to take more casualties than the defense
he won only insofar as he was immediately targeted for other lawsuits on similar grounds. Yay.
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