MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I've always liked his short stories quite well. His anti-Semitism, not so much." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
2 days ago
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"I feel like we're having the same argument here. CPAPs "work" in the sense that if you get patient compliance they will have a good outcome. CPAPs do not "work" in the sense that patient non-compliance is rife.
I agree (I also..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by ikkyu2, BrotherCaine, ch1x0r, fuzz, supercrayon, marble, Kat Allison, TheOnlyCoolTim, Drastic, kid ichorous, dyoneo, Forktine, batmonkey, Reto
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"Offices and stuff. It's much less romantic than you seem to hope." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by OwlBoy
8 days ago
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"Look, I'm a psychotherapist and a big fan of people finding help for mental health problems wherever they can. That means if meds work, use meds; if psychotherapy works, use psychotherapy. The reason I can confidently say that is because there is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by monsterhero
10 days ago
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"docpops: I am always curious about the trajectory from big to massive, from obese to "super-obese" as it is known now. That is, does one truly not notice the change, even without a scale, from 225 to 275 or something similar? Because when..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by amro, ceri richard
10 days ago
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"I think this comment by occhiblu is one of the best I've read about the psychology of de-cluttering:On kind of a meta note: To some extent, I think de-cluttering involves recognizing that regret is part of life, and being OK with that. Yes, I've..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yohko, tula
2 weeks ago
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"I'm not sure I understand your question. Laurel is a suburb of DC and Baltimore, and you have transportation. There's so much to do DC and Baltimore that you could be busy in either place for the rest of your life. There are also a ton of great..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pollomacho
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""But the outcome was not what they expected."
They've been playing too much wiffleball and not paying enough attention to local news: this outcome was entirely predictable...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by orrnyereg, Miko
2 weeks ago
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"I have to say, as a psychotherapist treating indigent, heroin-addicted patients who pay $0 per hour, I'd be willing to test my ideals against some of these $600/hour folks...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
2 weeks ago
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"I've heard that both mammograms and PAP tests are mostly unnecessary - that there hasn't really been much evidence showing that early diagnosis helps. Is this true? I have also heard that since nuns don't get cervical cancer, lesbians don't need PAPs..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by MLIS, taff, gaspode, smich, arcticwoman
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Good post.
parmanparman, this is just as appropriately discussed here as most other things that make the front page. You have special knowledge in this area, and you seem to have an abiding feeling that these conversations require more care..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by metaldark, jokeefe, Sys Rq, Popular Ethics, Richard Daly, RussHy, merelyglib, Blazecock Pileon, DevilsAdvocate, anansi, Floach, baltimoretim, tehloki, Dumsnill, newmoistness, grobstein, konolia, orthogonality, doctor_negative, litlnemo
2 weeks ago
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"It sounds to me as if what you've got going on is a very low anaerobic (or lactic) heartrate threshold. This does indicate that you're out of shape, but it's very trainable. You don't need to panic, you don't need to rush out and buy a new gadget...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by snafu, blindcarboncopy
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"There's no obligation to play through the same tropes you do in real life. Assuming a certain amount of safe anonymity, a site on the net could be a level playing field where words really are just words and only have the power to cause fear if you..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Requiem for Ferris Bueller
favorited 15 times, recently by flatluigi, codswallop, ill3, RussHy, crossoverman, eric1halfb, Smart Dalek, Xoder, jclovebrew, MaryDellamorte, findango, Pogo_Fuzzybutt, Artw, bunnytricks, rodgerd
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Therapy works well and quickly for most people who go into it wanting to change. The evidence for this is more than compelling, it's completely settled. The same evidence suggests that all types of therapy work about equally well. The conservative..." [
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favorited 30 times, recently by onoclea, Metroid Baby, iminurmefi, epersonae, peep, korpios, man on the run, conrad53, Korou, bubukaba, shivohum, selfmedicating
Last month
MeFi post:
Optical illusions
favorited 31 times, recently by ohcanireally, louigi, CunningLinguist, nicolin, Phire, Dead Man, taz, curbstop, katiecat, jjwiseman, zouhair, loquacious, eritain, MiltonRandKalman, timshel, motty, eyeballkid, Cassilda, matildaben, Pendragon, Elsa, melorama, regicide is good for you, phatkitten, sleepy pete, dyoneo, hal9k, speug, Xany, Bummus, dpx.mfx
Last month
MeFi comment:
""The tracks in the soil are from Spirits wheels as it rolled through the area earlier."
Yeah, right." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
Last month
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"The research on caffeinated beverages suggests that people who drink them regularly get about 1/2 the hydration from them compared to a glass of water the same size.
The issue of salt and hydration is a complex one, the danger when you're hot and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oneirodynia, leotrotsky
Last month
MeTa comment:
"If we accept that bipolar/ADD are abnormalities of brain chemistry, rather than personality flaws or behavioral differences, then it makes total sense to medicate kids in order to correct the brain chemistry. We don't tell adults with mental illness..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Afroblanco
Last month
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"Hopefully this netroots exposure will completely take the wind out of the sails of any hack-job editing O'Reilly can do to the video to try to make him and his producer look good.
In this battle of new vs. old media, it's certainly new media FTW!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DLWM
Last month
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"konolia, you're position is completely self-serving. You enthusiastically endorse some types of religious bigotry because it's "what you believe." You bemoan other sorts of religious bigotry (and even post FPPs about it) because it..." [
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favorited 56 times, recently by zoomorphic
Last month
MeTa comment:
"pwb503 was technically correct : NSFW means pornographic or violently gory
I don't want to be too pedantic, but "technically" NSFW means Not Safe For Work. Many things can fit that description, and pictures of cervixes certainly might...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Deathalicious, roystgnr, The Bellman, Nattie
Last month
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"If you disagree, please name one such situation in which the 42 cent stamps are a better deal, and explain it fully.
I thought about this a lot on my run (right after my last comment), and I came up with two issues that I think are clouding the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by srrh, anazgnos, Miko
Last month
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"Flunkie,
I understand that you weren't thinking of people who are hoarders when you wrote this question, but you still seem to think that Forever stamps are a "better deal" in the short term. They are not. What is true about the effect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GaelFC
Last month
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"I just find it absolutely unbelievable that not only did my original AskMe get derailed by a bunch of people insisting that my problem couldn't possibly exist and I was an idiot, but then after I've solved it using a solution that follows on quite..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Riki tiki
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm sorry, that's moronic, I don't care about your studies or your buddies. Moronic.
I'm sorry, too. I haven't felt the need to insult you or misrepresent your position, and so far, of the two of us, I'm the only one who has attempted to justify..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pots
Last month
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"This is idiotic and offensive for at least a couple of reasons, but also, crucially, it's wrong:Serious runners stretch. Stupid runners don't. Stretching reduces recovery time, prevents injury, and allows for other interesting activities. You should..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ferdydurke, Shepherd
Last month
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"Oh yes, you should certainly finish it. I'm reading the whole thing now for the second time, and I've read sections many more times than that. I have a blog (soon to be updated again) about reading the first sections as well as some of the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"Therapy works well, and the best predictor of how well and quickly it will work is the patient's relationship with her therapist.
I wrote a long response, using what I know about outcome research and what works in therapy, to a very similar..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Casting aspersions about being a "fundamentalist" is completely unwelcome.
Perhaps you don't know that fundamentalism need not be merely a religious designation?
I can't help you with the relative risk thing. Binary outcomes do not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"and as to the "first few comments" in the thread they clearly did not have time to actually read the LA Times OP-Ed that FFF linked to. There's no way they read it.
It sounds as if you're suggesting both that ten minutes isn't enough..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It's the poster child for unsafe sex, and EC is absolutely and immediately warranted.
You sound like a fundamentalist, because, well, you're reasoning like a fundamentalist. These folks had slightly unsafe sex. There's no aspect of it that's..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by bunnytricks, hjo3, Lentrohamsanin, danOstuporStar, mullacc
2 months ago
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"They get caught in the machines used to sort and process other recyclables, causing big headaches. I'm not sure how grocery stores handle them, but it's actually a pretty good sign when a township or city doesn't, because it makes it that much more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ErWenn
2 months ago
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"How I learned French in one year.
There's no real short-cut, but the essay does a decent job of laying out a set of sufficient steps." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Proginoskes
2 months ago
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"It's funny how this thread is a referendum on the pictured women." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ifjuly
2 months ago
