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Comment · 3 years ago
This doesn't seem like a safe setup.

How long before tweakers and others start lighting fires in their pods?

Comment · 3 years ago
Honest Q:

What kind of therapy do you look for for things like this? As someone deeply inverted, prone to "creatively interpreting" things in a negative light, who dwells on imagined sleights, etc. I've thought maybe I need some professional help. But I'm kind of afraid of talking to people about my issues in general so I don't know what kind of therapist would work for me.

Comment · 3 years ago
> I'm terrified of seeking help for mental illness because certain diagnosis can have legal impacts. It is a sad truth, no one has a real response for it except "get over it", and it is very, very difficult to get support for political reforms to protect the mentally ill.

What are some of the impacts?

I remember the show "Homeland" the main character had a sister who was a doc who would prescribe her meds for bipolar, that way she could continue working for the government/Pentagon as a spy.

Comment · 3 years ago
Do you think GraphQL has contributed to more microservice driven development?
Comment · 3 years ago
> The idea of adding hours to such a trip, or turning it into an overnight trip, makes it a non-starter for me. > If people are using EVs on freeways, wouldn't they be more inclined to exit the freeway into a city and charge at a motel or a shopping centre while they stop overnight or at least a few hours?

Yes you're right on the money.

I bought an EV to drive around my home area in CA. Instead I've just used it for road-tripping back East to see family.

Each road-trip has convinced me how bad these cars are for long-range driving. Aside from "range anxiety" (going only from one supercharger location to another, and not venturing away) - the charging times are brutal for cross-country trips.

You will spend hours per day, hours, sitting in back of Holiday Inn Expresses in the middle of nowhere Kansas, or in back of a shady truck stop in the middle of Texas.

Safety as well: I've thought about if I were a female for example at some of these locations it wouldn't be safe to be alone, with nobody around, sitting in your car. You're unable to start it and drive away if it's plugged in, not without getting out to unplug it which you have to do manually (there's no emergency eject charger cable button). So if there is a Texas Chainsaw Killer outside your window you're screwed.

Having said all that. It is a perfect car for just driving around my neighborhood IF that's what I intended to. In practice, I never do it.

Comment · 3 years ago
This exists in many Java based languages, an annotation above a method: @VisibleForTesting or some such.
Comment · 3 years ago
I feel like you read more into this and maybe added in your own biases.

I don't think these archaeologists are interested in worshipping society's elites. Maybe hundreds of years ago when you had to be an elite to be an archaeologist.

Comment · 3 years ago
I use Brave.

All the same Chrome extensions and other functionality work.

But I'd wager someone on here could find a problem with them too :(

Comment · 3 years ago
> What is "reasonable," what is "fair." These words signify a death spiral in wage discussions.

Another commenter commented on a burger-joint giving a share to "climate" causes. What a share entails in this case, whether it comes from profit, or whether they pass the cost of this cause to the customer is unknown.

Additionally I live in a place where there are reparations discussions and where unions agreed that teachers of a certain ethnicity would be eliminated first in the name of equity if it came down to staff cuts.

How does this play into the scenario if these types of events happen more often, even discussing these things is difficult and people could veer away from. I heard that Amazon inserted "woke" discussions into union talks in Georgia in an effort to de-rail them, not to engender unity.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have no idea why you're downvoted, this is the truth

> If the middle-class people move out, this is "white flight" and is evil. Later on, if other middle-class people move in, this is "gentrification" and is also evil.

Yes this is in every city and state.

Comment · 3 years ago
I subscribe to the YouTube channel and this is exactly how I feel. I can't understand how upset people are getting at this guy lol.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have an Oculus/Meta Quest, I don't use it much though but I used the app mentioned "Supernatural", which right off the bat sounds better than the app the journalist used (protecting a crystal).

Supernatural at least has a few different types of workouts, locations, instructors, etc.

But even that aside, having a Quest headset means so many other fitness games like Thrill of the Fight.

This just doesn't seem like the right application of VR. Having to go in physically is almost a spit-take for a VR gym. I wish them the best though.

Comment · 3 years ago
Neat! Can you make the examples open in the editor?
Comment · 3 years ago
> when the simplest answer is that he's mentally ill and can't stop himself from engaging in compulsive behaviors

This is the new favorite reason to let people off the hook. Classifying themselves as ill to distance their own behavior. "It was Jekyll not Hyde".

Comment · 3 years ago
So much he said she said is the UK better than us with healthcare or not?!

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