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Tag yourself, I'm "Moloch the prophet-classes whose dreams are terrors!"
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"Moloch whose legs are huge desks in the Congress and chambers of the Columbia! Moloch's head is a pillar of flesh! Moloch the torments of the perfect President! Moloch, O the nation, is doomed!"
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Did you forget to tell it to stop, or did you tell it to stop and it ignored you?
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As I was writing a text, (mis)spell-check decided I did not in fact want to use the word “beautiful”. It felt strongly that “peanut idyl” was more appropriate. Ms.spell-check was wrong.
Although now I wonder what a peanut idyl would entail...
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Pro tip: if you're a woman with a PhD or doing a PhD, put your PhD thesis topic on your dating profile. You will suddenly be able to filter out *so many men* who think they, with little expertise and five minutes of thought, can solve the central problems of your thesis.
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On being viral and pants-on-head wrong
I'm a law student. A few days ago, I wrote a thread about law. I do this a lot. My threads about law are usually retweeted less than 10 times.
But this time, my topic was Taylor Swift's IP, and the thread was retweeted 20,000 times.
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can't believe I managed to significantly elevate my material conditions, find a fantastic group of close friends, lose weight, meet my husband, and overall position myself better than my parents did at my age...mainly by incessantly posting online about my internal state
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imagine thinking that the fact that your society isn't carving out people's hearts on top of a pyramid or throwing them in a giant bull-shaped furnace means that it isn't based on human sacrifice
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My date just cancelled on me saying she's folding an exceptionally complex protein in her mind and doesn't wanna lose any progress. I'm so proud of her.
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Unless someone has tried to gatekeep you out of a conversation by saying you don't have the relevant life experience to discuss a specific issue, I don't think you have the life experience to discuss the validity of gatekeeping conversations.
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"Abundance of caution" is the FDA motto.
On a positive note, the US has this luxury because J&J is in short supply regardless.
Still, I'd like to see the cost-benefit analysis that went into this decision.
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Today FDA and @CDCgov issued a statement regarding the Johnson & Johnson #COVID19 vaccine. We are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution.
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"Pick something you find interesting and become an expert in it for the sheer joy of it" is a remarkably life improving strategy that more people should adopt.
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Hell is other people.
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David Brooks
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“The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades.” Astounding good news. click2houston.com/health/2021/04
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FDA asymmetry:
When approving a vaccine the FDA schedules its meeting first and then approves after.
When pausing a vaccine the FDA pauses first and then schedules a meeting.
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There is something wild about seeing people say "you need to read Foucault" one day and "just let the [public health] experts do their job" the next. *Wild*
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it's so crazy how everyone else is stuck in an echo chamber, but i easily notice the facts!
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not sure who needs to hear this
eating at a large calorie deficit *in my experience* is hardest for the first week. after i push through this tapering your calories its pretty easy to keep up large negative caloric balances
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people being impressed by the steak-umms account is physically painful to me
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Back in 2018, I profiled a Brooklyn family, the Landsmans, trying to crowdfund a gene therapy for their sick kids.
Honestly, I didn't think it would ever happen. I dreaded writing a followup article about how they failed.
But last Thursday it did happen. Their son got treated.
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In a bid to treat ultra-rare genetic diseases, some parents are embarking on multimillion-dollar quests to finance experimental gene therapies—and designating their own children as the first recipients. technologyreview.com/2021/04/13/102
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I really hate to admit this, but I have massive improvements in anxiety/depression/brain fog/inattentiveness when I eat a low-carb, whole foods diet
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Legit question for academic Americans - How do I write the 30-75 publications that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?
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I felt awed to be tucked at a table, going through rare documents ’s Bodleian Library.
I also spent the summer of 1978 at Oxford before my senior year . If you told me then I would be back to research Jack the Ripper, I wonder what I would have said.
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There is NO evidence for this pop psychology theory of regulation that if government overreacts to tiny potential risks the public will be reassured that whatever the government says is okay really is safe.
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Ezra Klein
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I fall on the side that thinks they are too cautious. I think that's clear.
But it's a mistake to think these are easy decisions, or to just say that the math is 6 blood clots out of 6.5 million shots, so wtf are you thinking.
That's missing their actual fears.
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