I think it’s quite poetic that Hermione is going to be made into a book.
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Sure, but there’s experiencing discrimination for any of 1,000 reasons, and there’s experiencing discrimination because of your gender.
I’m a male and I had an emotionally abusive father. The abuse I received was rarely, if ever, related to me being a boy, while my older sister was regularly insulted as a girl. For example, getting called gendered insults aka dad screaming repeatedly “you fucking whore!” to his 12 year old daughter in the middle of a crowded street. I didn’t have an gendered equivalent.
Were we both abused? Sure. Was my sister’s abuse worse? Eh, I don’t see that as a worthwhile question. Did her abuse negatively affect her view of herself as a woman more that mine negatively affected my view of myself as a man? Absolutely.
I have taken the survey!
You don’t present a particularly compelling definition of this thing you’re calling the internet. It could be equally applied to a close knit society.
Which fields are not that competitive yet would yield useful results? What are optimal fields for bright people to enter?
Has anyone tried e-cigarettes as a method to quit smoking or at least ameliorate the effects of smoking?
I smoke about a pack or two a week (3 a day minimum, sometimes binging once a week) and would like to reduce that in order to increase my chances of living longer. Anyone have experience they can share?
“Let’s see how you like everyone thinking you defeated the Dark Lord and you not remembering it.” -Harry
Have you considered becoming an actuary? You need math, but it’s a high grossing job (up there with finance, IT, and engineering) with long term prospects.
Also, in 10 months, you could probably pick up a fair amount for programming for an IT job.
The Better Business Bureau isn’t actually a government authority or anything. It’s Yelp before there was the internet. So report on their Yelp page, report at the BBB, sure. I’ve seen better traction (ie real public shaming and awareness generating) on local community sites like a Facebook group or NextDoor.
Definitely name names.
Harry had a better choice: “Shoot the hostage”
Either fatally or a good wounding in the leg.
Harry’d already committed that his life was a worthy sacrifice to foil V’s plans. Clearly V. felt Harry should be alive for some reason. Ergo, Harry’s death would have hurt his plans. Stopped entirely? Maybe, maybe not.
A leg wound, preventing him from walking, requiring his own wand to heal or some machinations on V’s part to find some non-magical interaction way to heal/move Harry would have also done nicely.
Even after re-reading the horcrux stuff a couple times, I’m still confused.
There are two types of horcuxes, v1 and v2. v1 only captures your mindstate as it was at the time of creation. v2 updates all horcruxes to the current mindstate. v1s were hidden in the canonical places (diadem, slytherian’s locket, etc), v2 in the hard to reach ones (mariana trench, pioneer probe).
After 10/31/1981, Tom’s mindstate bounced around the v2 horcruxes. In 1992, Quirrell found a v1 horcrux (“one of my earliest”). How does that work? How can a v1, which hasn’t updated, give rise to the current Voldemort?
He wouldn’t have Slytherin’s monster’s power, or knowledge of anything after the horcrux’s creation.
Also, how are those current v2 backups handling two Toms? Which mindstate is getting backed up? Probably the QQ one, but how does V know the system even works??
And isn’t it suspicious that Quirrell finds this horcrux just a few months before Harry is to attend Hogwarts?
Upon rereading 108, it’s ambiguous if QMort is telling the full truth about horcruxes. His Parseltongue confirmation comes later, after his horcrux explication.
Not stories but...
Fermi estimates can be fun for kids (How many gumballs in this gumball machine is a classic) though for a three year old, it may be too advanced. How many action figures fit in this glass?
Three year olds can play “Guess the animal” which is 20 questions with some leeway on the yes/no part (“is it bigger or smaller than horse” is always our first question). Ingrain some binary search algorithms!
Sometimes, children don’t notice their parents noticing. And that’s great for kids. They’re safe, but don’t know they are, so feel powerful.
If the children notice this they may assume that you either condone, accept, bear or ignore it. None of these has positive effects
Why not? It depends on what your goals are.
I think it’s pretty useful for kids to learn that the explicit rules aren’t the true rules. And that authority does turn a blind eye sometimes.
How is contempt defined here? It’s confusing me and I would rather say certain things are not worth my time. Is contempt when I think something isn’t worth anyone’s time? I’m not sure if I find anything contemptible under that definition.
I see a big difference between really disliking something on the whole and appreciating one part of that larger whole.
The Transformers movie, for example, was not worth the 2 hours and $10 I spent to see it. I did like how the DP got the light to bounce around the room, and the desert explosions were cool, but overall, it was a terrible film and not worthwhile. I would have been better off not seeing it, despite the little things I did like.
How does that fit into this proposal?
No, and if my experiences with drinking alcohol are any indication, it wouldn’t have an effect on cessation.
It’s not clear why a relevant contribution is more likely to be a criticism than further corroboration. There is a point in your comment where you seem to be a conflating two spectrums...agreement/disagreement and thoughtfulness/ simplicity.
Just like there is simple dissent (a comment with only the words, “I disagree”) and thoughtful criticism (like the linked comment) and there is both “mere voicing of agreement” (“Good post”) and thoughtful agreement ( “I agree with this, these are some particularly strong points you make, here’s some more supporting evidence”). I find the latter to be very useful.
It’s unfortunate that thoughtful agreement is not more valued than it is.
It’s important to recognize that not all children respond to the same incentives.
I have a parentally anti-authortarian master game theorist for a six year old whose “natural consequences” are often disastrous. It takes a lot of finesse to manipulate him. A combination of honest, fun engagement and honest, threatened punishments. That’s not a necessary or desirable response to other children though.
I do feel a little upset, but it’s not the power of taboo. It’s the prospect of dealing with a crazy person.
Most (but not all) of the individual examples of your Bill are things that could be “either true, a matter of serious debate, or otherwise a matter of high likelihood and reasonableness.” But pack them all into one paragraph, with the loaded language and I become very doubtful that Bill is interested in a reasonable discussion. I’m heading for the door. Maybe it’s a bad example?
I do have conversations about some of these issues, but only with close friends who have a shared trust and understanding. I don’t think I have enough credibility here on LW nor do I know the landscape well enough to have an informative conversation about these issues.
I think you could probably benefit from AA. At the very least you should consider quitting drinking all together.
Your posts are a little inconsistent (I don’t get drunk vs I’m bored, let’s get drunk! and I drink because I like the taste vs I drink crappy tasting cheap beer), but it sounds like you’re pretty depressed and use alcohol to cope with that. I think you would benefit from quitting drinking entirely and I’ve found for myself that AA helps with that. The the only necessary requirement for AA membership is the desire to quit drinking.
A lot of the literature of AA was written 80 years ago and reflects a societal aspect of drinking that may not apply to you. The purpose of AA isn’t to help a certain “type” of drunk, it’s to support someone who doesn’t want to drink anymore. There’s certainly criticisms of the program, both in its effectiveness and it’s religiousity. But I’m an atheist, drank from ages 17-39 but wasn’t a “drunk” and I quit last summer and I’ve discovered a few things: -I am better at life when I don’t drink. I am better at being a dad, a husband, a friend,etc. -I have to abstain completely...I cannot reliably control my drinking -I’m a lot happier when I go to AA meetings at least once a week -N/A beer sucks. It’s no comparison!
In addition to the not drinking part (strongly correlated with happiness), AA has some of the elements that make religion correlate with happiness. There’s ritual, fellowship, and shared experience.
“Finally, a study that backs up everything I’ve always said about confirmation bias.” -Kslane, Twitter
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