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Only goods, at least for the EU the 100+B trade deficit for services in favor of the US is carefully left out.

For those of you who have an iPhone, a handy feature that helps with phone lighting at night is "Reduce White Point" in accessibility features. It is different than night mode and reducing luminosity to the minimim and I find it's a nice addition. You can put it in the control center for fast enable/disable should you need it. I have trouble sleeping and I found this helped, albeit marginally.

It seems unlikely that "weakening the west with lots of people unable to participate in the economy" is the goal here, since the zero-covid policy also does exactly that, both short term and long term by weakening the economy and mental health of residents.

Well ability and motivation can also have a causation relation in both ways...

Interestingly, China has been developping bases in Antarctica recently.

Lion's Mane mushrooms are not psychedelics though

What are we doing this for?

I think we are doing these mostly useless things in order to signal that as a society we're somewhat careful in order to reassure people. I feel our best security defense is that most people are not terrorists?

The labels and general knowledge passed from trainer to trainee insist on the reprotoxicity of the flux, which as you point appears to be at exposure levels far below toxic levels. I wonder if the safe label of boric acid for feet is made looking only at the general toxicity of the product, leaving aside potential reproductive issues that might arise with repeated use of small quantities?

At least in silversmithing I don't recall flux to contain any ammonium chloride it seems to be a solution of borax alone.

It seems very weird to me that borax is so widely used in contact with humans in a variety of settings like ocular care and anti foot odor, because I use it as a flux in silversmithing and there are warning labels everywhere about the flux that it's reprotoxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic. Anyone knows why is that? Are my labels overcautious?

Clicking on this headline I knew for sure that the person was a woman, even if I knew nothing of the case. At some point we can't hide behind correlation is not causation anymore.

I can't find a pair of jeans with decent pockets yet. I resorted to buy hiking pants as they do have large enough pockets, but it's a bit sad to be wearing the same form everyday.

If you use regular soap on your face it's because the soap water has a high pH whereas your skin has a slightly acidic pH of around 5.5. So the soap disrupts the acidic barrier of your skin which prompts the skin to produce more sebum (acidic) to restore said barrier. [this is a simplification]

This happens on all your skin but it's more egregious on the face because the skin is more delicate there.

No idea for the shampoo though.

Polish law specifies that the standard working time is 8 hours every 24 hours but we have reports of employees as early as one year ago who reported night and week-end hours.

Even if you don't believe anonymous employee reports, the studio's chief Adam Badowski announced in September that working time will now involve Saturdays.

To me, too many pointers are highlighting a toxic crunch culture in that studio to be ignored. I will not play Cyberpunk because of that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-29/cyberpunk...

Not totally on topic, but on threads about researchers, I see this trend that when we're talking about a male researcher we only mention the family name but when talking about a female researcher we're using mostly the first name.

Case in point, at time of writing there are 26 mentions of "Timnit" vs 16 mentions of "Gebru" on this thread.

I don't think there are bad intentions behind this, but it really comes off as infantilizing so maybe we'd be better off calling her "Gebru"?

So... people without Y chromosome are only half-conscious?

Given what you said especially in your last paragraph, I would advise against pursuing a PhD right now.

However, I don't think that going for an industry job now would "surrender your chances for a PhD". I also got a MSc in computer science, then I worked in the industry for 5 years before going back to academia and start a PhD. Depending on your field, this can be a more or less dauting process.

Working in the industry before going back to a PhD has a number of pros:

- you can make a better decision about what you want to do because you have actual industry experience

- you can save some money for your PhD

Cons:

- Going from an industry salary to a PhD salary is really sad

- The process of getting accepted in a PhD program after you've left academia for a number of years can be difficult (but not impossible!)

You seem to be quite sick of student life during your MSc, so be aware that during a PhD it is about the same or worse. Getting yourself an industry job now can let you breathe some air and make a better decision about what you want to do next.