TeaDrunk

I would argue that 18 is not a complete adult just one defined legally as an adult by our legal system. I would argue that the definition of complete adult is relatively arbitrary and mostly cultural.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

Needing to take immunosuppressants for the rest of your life is exceptionally dangerous and you best have a proper justification for it.

I think this is incorrect because it assumes the job offers are equal. My understanding is that it is much more like two chronically unemployed people: the first doesn't get an interview 99% of the time, the second one is 99% only offered MLM job interviews where they're expected to "invest in themselves first" by buying the MLM product aka scams.

Do you actually talk to women about dating apps? I have, and they basically have to walk around variously unhinged, landmine men who are still in the dating pool (the good ones are obviously snatched up quickly). I'm talking demeaning language, fetishization (especially if you're black or asian or latina), the "hey" followed by "you fat bitch" if you don't respond fast enough, etc.

Also if you're a fat woman your dating chances suuuuuck.

My point is not that no wealthy people save things. My point is that a lack of minimalism is often an indicator of the class where one grew up.

I noticed you didn't bring up them also taking napkins, sauce packets, sugar and creamer, cutlery etc. You either already were eating at wealthy enough places (metal cutlery + real cloth napkins) that this wasn't an opportunity for you & that was itself a class indicator, or you were focused on one thing (taking food home) and missing the bigger picture.

Of course each individual action of preventing waste isn't a 100% indicator for having grown up in poverty. Low-waste is arguably fashionable, even. But being low-waste is different from acquiring and retaining arbitrary stuff to use later in place of things you can just buy when you need it. Buying a reusable straw is different from keeping every disposable straw you're given, same as buying a reusable bag is different from keeping every takeout/grocery plastic one. The house of my parents displays my impoverished childhood clearly-- it is a place of incredible resourcefulness using all the things people normally refuse to acquire or throw away if given to them.

I live in a fairly poor area and people seem very willing to throw litter out of their cars, blast bass so loud it shakes my house, do drugs in public view, or commit flagrant traffic/parking violations (no value judgments here, just being objective) compared to other places I've lived.

I used to live in wealthy frathouse neighborhoods and they do the same shit there too. They just have the money to hire cleaners after they trash houses, or collectively buy summer vacation trips to other countries to do it.

I disagree with the broad idea that immigrants have less resources compared to the US born population as a category. Immigrants are often more educated than the native US born population, with greater incomes. Nigerian-Americans are some of the highest educated Americans by demographic, and way out-earn their native African-American counterparts.

Remember that the immigrants who come to america already have enough resources at minimum to immigrate!

One of the biggest indicators to me, as someone who has navigated such lines before, is how comfortable co-workers are with waste. A co-worker who takes catered food home (without saying something like, "oh I have 3 growing teenagers" or something else to excuse it) is low-class. Do you keep the little sauce packets, napkins, disposable cutlery, etc. from take-out? Low class. Do you keep the pencils and notepads etc. from places? Low. Class. Also this causes you to need to have a place to store all these things, and now you fulfill the stereotype of a poor, messy person.

Minimalism, aka the confidence to be able to acquire anything you may need at the moment with resources always available to you, is a class indicator.

TBH That's literal nitpicks. Nowhere in the paper is a causal relationship proposed. Your statement that a potential subconscious proposition exists in the paper is windmill-tilting.

I don't think the paper implies any causality either way. Notice that the title of the paper itself is "The neurobiology of life course socioeconomic conditions and *associated* cognitive performance in middle to late adulthood"

Really, this is editorializing on the part of the person who submitted this link to HN.

I mean... dictionary.com??

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive

1 : to cease to feel resentment against (an offender) : pardon forgive one's enemies

Forgiveness isn't like acting like what a person did never happened. It's describing the cessation of the feeling of resentment and anger at being wronged. Depending on how small or large the action is, the wrongful action can be but is not always treated as if it never happened. I can cease being angry at my abusive parents but that doesn't mean I have to engage with them.

So... you get my confusion and skepticism at this claim that it is "rare" for doctors to bring up obesity to an obese patient!

It's also rare for a doctor to tell a person they are too fat and to lose weight.

Genuinely curious... have you ever been an obese person? Every fat person I've known have told me they're constantly shamed about being fat in medical settings, some to the point where they actively avoid going to a doctor anymore because they've given up on anything beyond being told they're fat.

The greatest demographic to report long covid symptoms are actually hispanic and black people trans people earning less than 25000 a year. [0]

0. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/long-covid-19...

Schizophrenia can be more or less severe. A schizophrenic with very mild symptoms, a stable life, access to food and shelter, no unhandled trauma, etc. can function and even thrive without medication. The disease can also get better with age.

Consider: you can hear voices and choose not to respond to them. You can have delusional beliefs and not act on them. There's no functional difference between talking with your mom on the phone and talking with an alien that has replaced your mom on the phone if you're willing to play along or simply acknowledge "hi schizophrenia, funny idea, that".

The time to "try out" a union was the height of the pandemic when the demand for developer labor was at its highest.

No, I think it is terrible. Is Grindr paying for the relocation? The cost of traveling to scope out apartments? Assuming people purchased property in LCOL places, October is barely any time to get a house ready to sell + actually go through the sale process to closing. Is Grindr paying for that? Is Grindr upping up pay equal to the difference of the cost of living differences?

Tumblr had their own sense of influence and a very different kind of person that would launch careers. IMO Tumblr was way more into thought pieces, deep fandom rants were encouraged, humorous quips that would go viral, and collages of pictures/aesthetics.

Yeah, I'm sure. I would rather not spend hours learning a skill to do something that should theoretically actually be saving me time. Can you give me a guide on how to have ChatGPT realistically portray someone witnessing a toxic relationship between two consenting adults but also in a dungeon roleplaying game?

Interestingly ChatGPT is really bad at roleplaying when I try to use it. I tried for example to have ChatGPT partially recreate this awesome/bad character arc in a campaign where one of the player characters actually fell in love with(!) one of the big baddies and this relationship was a "I can change him" with an irredeemable piece of shit. This also royally messed with the team dynamics in a super fascinating way. ChatGPT couldn't even convincingly play a theoretical player character in this situation, much less the player or the villain NPC I was DMing at the time.

i don't know if its fair to conflate an economic system with a political one

On one hand I'm all for free speech and I believe it's important to be able to civilly disagree with things.

On the other hand, how do we avoid nazi-at-the-bar problems?

Multiple states have declined to expand medicaid that the affordable care act provides.

At what point do you see the irresponsibility? Applebees? Ruth's Chris? The French Laundry?

Definitely not the $2 burger special at Mcdonald's, that's for sure.

The main barrier to poverty is that there is a statistically almost no way to meaningfully save up enough money to get out of poverty, by onesself, just by forgoing anything that doesn't contribute directly to food and shelter.

Literally: what is the point of saving up 5$/wk? That's less than 300$ by the year. What can you realistically do to get yourself out of poverty for a one-time payment of 300$? You can't even afford therapy to help you get yourself out of immense, soul-crushing burnout because you've been doing nothing to enrich yourself psychologically such as companionship, entertainment, or gifting yourself a nice meal all year.

10$/wk is $520. You can't even start a business selling soap on etsy for 520$. You can maybe get a loan to do so, but now you're on the hook for even more debt for entrepreneurship and the majority of businesses fail.

This is assuming you never have a health problem, you never need medical care, you never have someone you love need medical care, and you have superhuman discipline to go without love, joy, and little pleasures in life for a year.

I don't think anyone is claiming it doesn't. It looks more like a huge misframing of existing studies that say you are unlikely to change the fundamental aspects of an individual human, such as personality and intelligence, through raising. That is to say you can teach a child behaviors such as good study habits but you are unlikely to train your child into a self-disciplined personality. I think this article is exaggerating the danger of "maybe chill out a bit with parenting, there are some things you can't change and that's ok" by conflating it with "don't raise your kids, folks!"

I think part of this is that, obviously it is totally fine to discriminate based on age. Children aren't allowed to work, vote, buy certain items, etc. You're also not allowed certain public offices if you're too young.

As far as I know it is, remains, and hasn't changed from being one of the top 5 countries to live on the planet.