chatokun

One placed laid me off. I was a senior telecom/network admin in IT, so while I wouldn't have due to personal morals, I definitely had potential to, with even just my badge access.

They gave me about 3 weeks, with no access. They told me I was gone officially at the end of the month and my would be paid normally until then, after which severance would kick in, but don't come in.

I think that's a fine way to do it.

An important thing us people at 40 have to keep in mind is tech advances and gets better all the time. The cordless vac I have now works great for being portable and usable in our townhouse, which has no carpet.

Would a good corded vacuum be better? Depends on the terms. It'll be better max performance, bit I don't have to lug a heavier vacuum upstairs to clean stuff in my room, and what I have works.

As a photography hobbyist, it's like saying why take a picture with a phone camera, m43, or apsc when you could use full frame or medium format? The cameras are objectively better quality pictures, but they are more expensive and larger, especially when it comes to lenses. Sometimes convenience is "better."

An interesting flaw with the sugar studies with rats is that it required limiting the amount of sugar available. They did act like addicts when the sugar was presented to them intermittently then taken away, but when they had full free access to it, they no longer binged on it and didn't have addictive traits. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4361030/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Rats+with+ad+libitum+access%2Cand+by+avidity+for+alcohol.

Because of this, some suggest the studies are actually arguments against hyper limited diets, instead of in support. Part of an argument on that is that it's harder for us keep up something we dislike for a long period of time, whereas making smaller changes we can adapt to keeps our enjoyment and can still change behavior over time.

Anecdotal: I stopped drinking soda, cut down on sweets and juice etc a while ago(10-15 years?). I still have sweets from time to time, but the general feeling is I feel many things are too sweet, and I prefer lighter sweetness. I still like it somewhat, but soda tastes like syrup, and I generally just feel like less, but I don't exclude it completely or anything.

The only person I've had this reaction from was a genx man yelling that he wasn't being emotional but instead logical. Said man did the standard co.plain about wife and say women are emotional, and also argued that animal abuse shouldn't be punishable by law because animals don't have souls.

Easy way to prove it; show us the peer reviewed scientific studies. There's been times when almost everyone has been wrong, and what proved it was the scientific method.

Now we know why teacher isn't teaching math, but they should definitely not be teaching reasonableness either.

Oh hey,I also grew up JW. I also like being specific and correct when criticizing beliefs etc.

Ahh, more a complaint about the International Astronomical Union (IAU), not science in general. No objections to that complaint. Your comment just kinda read as if it were all science and/or astrophysicists.

Er... Are you saying that scientists won't classify Earth as a Terrestrial Planet? Because they do.. The next 4 are Jovian Planets, while others including Asteroids are called Minor Planets.

If you check the wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet you'll notice some scientists consider Earth's Moon, plus Io and Europa terrestrial planets as well.

I don't see how it would be a demotion. Pluto is a planet, but not one of the terrestrial or Jovian Planets, but instead a minor planet, a dwarf planet. The people who insist on the 9 or 8 planets is less scientists and more about what we teach as the main planets in the solar system to like kids and such.

I'm a bit confused on your idea of scientists. They love being more specific about definitions, as do many other technical fields. Ask medicals scientists about Cancer or heart disease and they'll explain they're very broad terms that have many subcategories and differences, which is why there isn't 1 easy cure. Similarly, "the common cold" is just a description of symptoms carried out by a number of different viruses from different families that our bodies just tend to react to in the same way, which is why a cure for the common cold is a ridiculous thing to hope for.

These definitions aren't usually for scientists, but instead generalizations the public settle on because remembering everything would be too much for people who aren't interested or involved.

You probably think no one wants to hear it when they disagree, but more likely what works for you doesn't work for everyone. As the person replying to you exemplified. There isn't a one trick for everyone in these kinda of things, and anyone who claims there is is either ignorant or scamming.

Bunch of Klansmen(some who knew Ron Paul and one of those started Stormfront) really overestimated themselves, yeah. They got caught before they even left the US kinda hilariously.

Now with flavor!