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When I turned on the music and chatter, the first audio that played was of a chimpanzee wildly shrieking for about 2 seconds. The song which played after was “Sonargaon” by Daniel …

Missouri has a lot of those names, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_places_named_...

What’s odd is when you read popular Reddit comments, you find the userbase believes that the site is full of pro-Trump bots and shills. My politics are to the left of the American …

My experience with my ADHD diagnosis and the 25 years of Adderall that followed have left me jaded at the state of psychiatry. The focus of my attention does indeed change at a rat…

What I do is use RateYourMusic.com and find people who rate albums similar to the way I do. The site even lets you build music charts and filter albums by how highly they’re rated …

“We toss the coin, but it is the Lord who controls its decision.” - Proverbs 16:33 (TLB)

The second graph in that article ("The Partisan Gap on Economy Ratings") is alarming. In mid-2016, ~30% of Republicans said the economy was doing good. By mid-2017, that figure pas…

> No, that's just something you read on a blog written by a guy who would go on to write that women shouldn't get wage equality because they would have to work more dangerous jobs …

Why restrict the definition to political censorship? Surely there are such things as academic censorship, religious censorship, etc.

I once moved towns and needed to cancel my LA Fitness gym membership. I found that they wanted me to go to their website, find the Cancellation Form, print it out, fill it out with…

Why assume people will do what’s in their own long-term best interests, especially after being presented with a short-term thrill? Pizza tastes better than granola. Grand Theft Aut…

What word would be better than “choose” in this context? For the majority of people who aren’t prisoners or toddlers, there is a good deal of personal choice that determines what f…

It does work. It couldn't not work. Each day of your life, you choose to do one of three things: 1. Consume more calories than your body will need to function 2. Consume as many ca…

That’s also how I lost most of my weight. Sure, you could spend 25-45 minutes on the treadmill… or you could just not eat 5 Oreo cookies, and you would achieve the same result (fro…

If I did a push-up for every product that has “revolutionized” the fitness world in the last several decades, you would see my body and probably assume that I had used those produc…

Reading, writing, discovering, voting, and convincing myself that in just one more minute I will return to my day.

I proposed last year with a lab-made diamond. I did almost no research, went to one jeweler and only twice, shelled out less money than I was spending on rent, and I walked away wi…

I don't think the aim is to teach that "millions of people are just morally deficient," as you put it. Rather, the aim should be to reinforce that everyone has the capacity to do g…

In college, I did my calculus homework on blank printer paper using Sharpie markers. I could only fit one integral per page, maybe two if I was lucky, so I’d turn in these 15-page …

In my estimate, it’s because the crazy views get virtually no pushback from within liberal social circles. I say this as a socialist who is critical of essentialism and other nonse…

Yes, but HN “works” because it is a small-ish community with principled moderators and generally well-educated people. The community guidelines request that commenters assume the b…

Being liberal in the 90’s meant defending controversial or disruptive speech on the premises of the mantra, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it…

To my understanding, if one mother birthed 3 children at ages 15, 20, and 25, then her age of conception would be 20. So it could be the case that women did become mothers in their…

When I journal (for my eyes only), I’m able to express my knowledge with personal experiences that are too boring, contextless, or controversial to post online. These thoughts stil…

What a coincidence. I just had an idea like this two days ago because we recently adopted a puppy and we’re trying to establish routines. I think he is struggling with the day/nigh…