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Wow just wow ! Your comment has given me a new perspective on fear of death. Are you able to share what caused NDE ?

I had a heart attack while visiting a hospital for a check-up, so got lucky. Eventually had a stent inserted.

Spot on. One look at LinkedIn posts tells you everything about this “paperclip” optimization.


“There are no losers on a winning team, and no winners on a losing team.”

Doesn’t this go against Stack Ranking very team twice a year and pushing out the “subjective” lowest performer ? Why should anyone on the team work for the team when the stack ranking disincentivizes team cohesion.


Indeed. My experience in a large company is that you get a promotion faster by joining a low skills, low performing team than joining a very successful team.


It’s all those “ufos” with clearly marked FAA mandated navigation lights.


Something tells me they are going to accelerate their in house model and call it “Orion”.



I believe this is nice, but how do regular people actually find the time to care about this stuff?

If you have kids, bills, a job, listen to crap from politicians all day, where do you find the time to be this empathetic.

My kids school gives them milk as part of lunch, my kid likes milk now. You have to live in a very special world to get around this.

I was a vegetarian for a while, I was mostly starving hungry and I had to spend hours a day cooking and eating to feel full. It's a shit situation but yeah, it's the way it is for many people.


The western idea of making things better for animals often involves abstinence. Which is unpalatable if you are a meat eater.

The messaging should be to reduce your meat consumption. By reported national averages, I eat 25% of the meat eaten by the average Australian. And I don’t feel that I’m missing out.


Yeah, we eat vegetarian / vegan every second night.


As the other commenter, some differential resistance that's within your capacity should be sufficient. Eating proportionately less sends a signal to the supply chain, which adapts to such signals. Comparatively, you can imagine being vegetarian to be extremely easy in, say, India; because the supply chain is built to support such a diet. (Of course, vegetarianism in India is likely to still mete lot of animal suffering as well.)


A first step is to no longer eat meat for pleasure or for recreation. If needed, just eat it for nutrition.

Could you imagine if the whole world took this incremental step?


> listen to crap from politicians all day, where do you find the time to be this empathetic.

Swap those two.

Stop listening to politicians. It's not empathy you require, it's compassion. Empathy is very tiring.


> I was mostly starving hungry

What? Vegetarian doesn't necessarily mean you lose all sources of animal protein, there's no real reason to be starving on the diet.


It's pretty common for would-be vegetarians to be "carbotarians" and fail to feed themselves properly because they simply don't know any better and eat primarily bread and pasta. I also had this experience of being a ravenous carbotarian, but my roommates were all vegetarians and taught me. If you don't know vegetarians, look to athletes and home chefs for advice.

Tl;Dr combine a grain with a legume at least once a day to obtain a full protein. Beans and rice is a good staple, for example (but to reduce exposure to arsenic you should parboil the rice[1] as well as rotate through some other staples). Put peanut butter or peanut protein powder in stir fries, put hummus in your sandwiches, eat eggs, etc. And, I know it sounds obvious, but it's a reminder I needed, do actually eat vegetables.

It's not difficult but if you've eaten meat your whole life you may need to change some habits, because you have more room to get away with a poor diet if you're eating meat.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-this-rice-cookin...


I eat a vegan diet, I'm intricately aware of how this all works. There is no reason for a vegetarian to be going hungry - include a damn egg in your food if you need the protein.

I also have plenty of vegetarian friends and none of them complain about this either, but I'm willing to admit this is possibly not representative of the wider population. I just don't think there's any excuse.


I don't mean to make you feel patronized, I wanted to add context because it's a "lucky 10000" sort of phenomenon where the knowledge is so common that it isn't discussed, and people who don't know often aren't told. It's easy to eat on autopilot and then get in trouble when you decide to change your diet. I figured there were people reading who didn't know.

Your friends not complaining is probably an example of that, they remain vegetarians because they've already worked this out, they don't complain because it isn't a problem, they don't tell you because you already know.


Cooking a stake, is a lot easier than making a curry is kind of where it gets tricky for me.

For now I make a chicken sandwich for lunch, take like 5-10 minutes, fills me up, what do I do as a vegetarian.

I love the idea of it, I just think that being a vegetarian can be a luxury and takes more time for some people, especially who have larger frames and appetites.


> For now I make a chicken sandwich for lunch, take like 5-10 minutes, fills me up, what do I do as a vegetarian.

Sandwich with hummus, tomato, cheese, lettuce. Very quick and filling. Maybe have it with a hardboiled egg. That's what I would do.

For a 20-30m thing I like to do asparagus, mushrooms, and tofu as a stir fry, lots of protein in that.

Since you mentioned a whey shake I'm guessing you get a lot of exercise. That's probably why it's more difficult for you. Plenty of people work out and are vegetarian, but yeah, both factors are going to make it more challenging and require you to be more mindful.

To be clear, I'm responding because I think it's an interesting topic of conversation, I think being a vegetarian every other day is a perfectly reasonable choice.


Hu hu, recipe challenge YESSS !!

< 5-10 minutes curry >

1. Throw in a pan: a can of cheakpeas or lentil, whatever cream (coconut/soy/oat), curry spices. If you got others frozen/canned vegetable on hand go for them but not mandatory. Thinks that don’t need real cooking like olives, tofu bites, fresh spinaches or shrooms can also go here.

2. Cook (heat-up, actually) for 5-10 minutes

3. Add some drops of lime juice in bottle or a branch of parsley or other herb. That’s for vitC, but eating a raw fruit or vegetable (carrot or celery), is also an easy option

4. Eat with bread

You can also do the same in a microwave oven to trade taste for convenience.

Personal topping : as a Mediterranean I put olive oil on basically everything, and often a bit of nutritional yeast.


Scramble some eggs, grab a block of tofu and sear a cutlet for a sandwich, etc. There are plenty of options beyond chicken.


I guess it's not eating flesh, but it's still causing a lot of harm is what I'm hearing.

In our family, we eat vegetarian every second night. Basically vegan 3/4 nights a week. However I do find myself running to the fridge for cheese or a whey protein shake for desert quite often.


> listen to crap from politicians all day

This part I recently decided I will stop doing. It will not be easy and I may fail, but I think my mood requires it.


It's pretty bleak, I agree. I'm concerned regular people are going to be more and more trampled on in the near future.


It's easy, first step just stop watching the news. There is no FOMO or if you really need your dosage keep it to end of the week roundup.

Because in reality there is nothing you can do.

You can't have a shot of vodka with Putin and ask him to stop war.

You can't stop Twitter and Elon from raging, nor can you can't Isreal.

What you can stop is giving these puppets headspace time and hold compassion to those who are involved in the conflicts.


Don't you want to watch before the end of the week roundup? To know if you need to lay low?


Either, I wake up dead, wake up conscripted or wake up in to another shite day of the same of what happened yesterday.

Anything else? I'm sure I will be told by my peers.


It’s just not NY state agency. Almost every state IT agency has been compromised this way either by Indian origin staffing agencies bribing the Indian hiring managers working at these agencies or Indian outsourcing companies with American presence bribing the mid to senior level management at state agencies. Read all the corruption at Washington DC OCTO.


This is peak “2000”


FRED gets employment data from DOL, which keeps down revising its lofty employment estimates. Additionally not all job postings reflect actual openings. The companies post tailored job postings to help their employees who are applying for green cards. Others just post to influence the perception of stock analysts.


Look at the graph of total software engineering employment over the last 20 years and tell me the magnitude of both the market shift and the measurement error that would be required to justify the argument upthread.


BLS doesn’t use job postings for CES.


If you switched the players it reads like the story of a tech worker.


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