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I prefer office-based work but it's not the top thing on my list of priorities. I've found that a really high number of companies that otherwise have what I'm looking for are remot…

> It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys also work remote or not. But lots of remote-evangelists will say things like "If anybody is jo…

> I don’t want to force anyone to do anything. I want to find a team that has the same primary work mode that I do: in-person collaboration. I think of this the way I think of full…

Alice Dreger seems to be the go-to support/advice person for people in this situation--don't act entitled to her time but if you reach out respectfully she has helped a lot of peop…

Do you have a source? Everything I've read gave me the impression that we only have strong evidence that outdoor time is a factor, and the light exposure explanation is just a hypo…

ADD is an obsolete diagnosis; it's all ADHD now, with inattentive, hyperactive, and combined subtypes. (I think this is dumb--why have the H in the name if not everybody with the c…

It absolutely does provide a personal blog, you just have to pay $5/month.

blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms Micro.blog does this!

Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookm…

Not if you are an employee. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/th...

There's plenty more criticism out there: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien... https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-reso...

EWG is a source of misinformation: https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg

There actually was a shortage--of residential TP, due to people spending more time at home instead of at work, where commercial TP is used.

Not to mention that plenty of people (men and women) just don't want kids.

Nothing. There's a difference between all employers forbidding remote work, and only some of them doing so.

> I don't think it'd be too much of a stretch to also suggest that it'd be bad if all employers decided that their workers had to be butts-in-seats 40 hours (or more) per week, no …

In the same way that most people don't want to pair program full time, but it's perfectly legitimate for a company to decide it wants to be a full-time pairing shop if they think i…

It's easy to win an argument against a straw man.