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A nutritionist I spoke to said that if you have to consume sugar, it's better to eat it than drink it since eating can at least make you feel full (esp. if the sugar comes in the form of something like a pastry which has extra non-sugar carbs contributing to your fullness).
The distinction is that working on your "art" is a direct pathway to thousands of salaried jobs with benefits. If you are a reasonably strong programmer and software engineer, you have to actively choose not to accept one of those jobs to struggle. It is not comparable at all to the struggles of someone in the fine arts.
If you invest in Vanguard funds, you are a Vanguard shareholder.
Not as a participant, unfortunately. At the end of the month, rif will stop working and reddit will effectively end for me. I'll still use it for Google searches where I can.
That has definitely not been my experience in NYC. I've lived in 3 neighborhoods in Queens, and all of them have had great local libraries that were clean and had friendly staff.
"Critical thinking" is not a generic, universally transferable skill. It is highly domain-specific. One can possess "critical thinking skills" when it comes to solving software design problems but be absolutely clueless about public policy.
It might be more accurate to say that Americans need a better standard of education for history and civics.
Why would they need to pack the court? They already have a political majority, do they not? No need to break a norm when it confers no additional benefits (as the breaking of the previous norms did).
South Korea does not "tell" us any of that. The government did not force a lockdown, but massive voluntary social distancing occurred anyway.