Summary: I'm a full-stack engineer looking for meaningful work. I'm most motivated when my code helps people directly. In my last role, I worked on systems that helped millions access financial tools, and it was incredibly rewarding. I want to find that sense of purpose again. I enjoy solving concrete problems with Go, Python, and modern web stacks, often around data or system reliability. If your company is building something that improves lives, I'd love to help.
Summary: I'm a full-stack engineer looking for meaningful work. I'm most motivated when my code helps people directly. In my last role, I worked on systems that helped millions access financial tools, and it was incredibly rewarding. I want to find that sense of purpose again. I enjoy solving concrete problems with Go, Python, and modern web stacks, often around data or system reliability. If your company is building something that improves lives, I'd love to help.
You absolutely can! Look up "lymphatic face drainage" on YouTube, there are lots of tutorials. You can do it with just your hands or a jade gua sha tool.
I volunteer my time with Food Not Bombs. 20% of American children do not know where their next meal is coming from. Many are simultaneously overweight and malnourished, because the foodstuffs the US government subsidizes are calorically dense but nutritionally destitute.
Food banks, subsidized school meals, and SNAP/EBT prevent what would otherwise be children starving to death. As it stands though, the relief is insufficient. Many children from food insecure households have stunted growth and lifelong learning impairments from insufficient protein, calcium, etc.
> The NSDUH AMI and SMI estimates were generated from a prediction model created from clinical interview data collected on a subset of adult NSDUH respondents (4,912 total respondents between 2008 and 2012) who completed an adapted (past 12 month) version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders (Research Version, Non-patient Edition) (SCID-I/NP; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 2002), and was differentiated by level of functional impairment based on the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF; Endicott, Spitzer, Fleiss, & Cohen, 1976).
Diagnostic criteria are imperfect. You can put the same person in front of various doctors and get differing diagnoses. On the whole though, experts tend to agree more than they disagree. Someone has to self-report symptoms that place them a couple of standard deviations away from the mean, and for many disorders like ADHD (combined type here!), you need someone who has known you for a long time like a parent or spouse that can speak to your behavior over a long span of time.
As someone who really struggled to get a diagnosis as an adult, followed by medication, I would suggest trying to get a diagnosis from a psychiatrist. Go through the process and expense and let us know how easy it is. It was a nightmare for me despite having good insurance. A doctor's note for a mental health day is very different from getting diagnosed with a developmental or personality disorder.
Lastly, while people can and often do blame their disorders for unwanted behavior, we still have agency. Most disorders are manageable with treatment, and it's possible to "cure" in certain cases. Children medicated for ADHD will most likely not need medication for it as adults. Having a disorder isn't an excuse or shield for bad behavior. In many cases you can't address the bad behavior at the root level without knowing. For my case it helped me stop being so anxious I was giving myself ulcers because I had the words to describe what was going on, and a treatment plan that I saw was giving me results. I still struggle with certain symptoms, but it is my responsibility to work through those gaps, and medication+therapy have made it possible to put in that work.
For whatever it's worth when I went to university a decade ago for my undergrad in neuroscience the figure cited was "50% of Americans will meet clinical thresholds for something in the DSM-V at least once in their life". This isn't very surprising in that light. A lot of people exist at sub-clinical thresholds.
You can already limit speech in america provided the regulation (1) advances a compelling interest
(2) through narrowly tailored means and (3) does not excessively burden the
expression or action relative to the interest advanced, i.e. be proportional
A good instance where we might draw the line differently despite current first amendment norms is lobbying.
Lobbying, at its core, is just speech. Industry leaders and representatives go to meetings (public or private) to talk to congressmen. Thus lobbying has been affirmed as protected speech in our constitutional law
The problem is money changes access. And sure we can pursue contribution limits (which is generally constitutional) but lobbyists don't actually care about those -- they welcome the ability to save money. The problem is that they are just so well-connected their speech has disproportionate weight
So you could argue limiting their speech advances a compelling interest, but you'd have to think about other factors as well
It is just true that every liberty and right has limits, otherwise they could cut the public interest or other individual rights. This is true even in the US which orients itself as largely pro-speech sovereign relative to other states
43% of all white students at Harvard are legacy, athletes, directly related to faculty, or have family that donated to the university. That number falls to 16% or lower for black, latino, and asian students.
75% of that aforementioned group of white students would not have been admitted had it been based on merit. 70 percent of all legacy applicants are white, compared with 40 percent of all applicants who do not fall under those categories.
Why does the average applicant need to be penalized when their grandparents legally could not attend these institutions? I think it's pretty obvious why people have such reactions to DEI when it's literally just "legacies for people who legally were barred from participating".
Laughing at the idea that feminism is the main or even a primary antagonist here, and not all the other men laughing at virgin NEETs failing their biological imperative.
Total anecdata, none of my socialist female friends who hate AI care that men are using "AI girlfriends". It's not new. Replika has been out for awhile. They much prefer the system where these weirdos message a chatbot rather than stalk Instagram.
The last and honestly funniest part is you think society doesn't judge women who end up failing their biological imperative. I guess the term "spinster" has been out of vogue for a bit, but still. "Crazy cat lady" would be the modern equivalent. I'm sure some nice young person will come up with a postmodern term involving these AI companions. The message it's giving is definitely not "empowerment"
I'd rather leave those rigid gender roles in the dump where they belong. My mom was the primary breadwinner in my house, and they're decades into a successful marriage with healthy & happy children.
Fitness, wealth, status, and power will always help you accomplish whatever goal you want. If what you're looking for is a deep, meaningful connection with another human, then I would advise you to interrogate the means you use and not just the end you're after.
It's good to work on your personal development. Not so good to put yourself in a box. If, god forbid, one day you get into a freak accident and can no longer work—you're going to get dropped like a hot potato if you've settled for someone who only sees you as a protector and provider.
If someone needs a parent they should see a therapist, not search out a glucose guardian.
Kind of a reach to claim the poster is defending prejudice.
Alan Turing was chemically castrated for being gay. Society finding you conventionally unattractive and thus passing you over for a promotion at work isn't exactly the same thing. People are discriminated against for lots of reasons, many subconscious, but protected categories didn't emerge from a vacuum. The reason being queer is protected whereas being short or ugly isn't has nothing to do with queer people having more power in government (lol) but because there was a history of actual violence, much of which was state-sanctioned, against queer people.
Then again being in a protected category has never really helped me avoid discrimination; having enough money to afford competent legal representation did. I wonder how many Americans can afford that when the majority can't make a $500 emergency expense. I'd argue the poor are the most clearly discriminated against group in our society and clearly there's a history of direct and indirect violence against them on that basis alone, but capitalism requires their existence and so they're invisible to our judicial system.
One country left the EU and was made an example. Britain is worse off for it and didn't gain anything. The entire world had the pendulum swing to conservative governments, including the US which had even less refugees at the border.
I don't appease bigots. We are going to see many more refugees within our lifetime and the "1st world" cannot ignore the problem forever by sending them to different poor countries.
It's not the number of refugees that the EU can't handle, it's the fact that they're not white, english-speaking christians. We can bullshit around that, but statistically refugees commit fewer crimes and attain higher education in larger numbers than native-born citizens.
Germany, to give an example I can speak to, has a fertility rate around 1.5. Quite frankly most of the EU could really use the new blood if they could only get over the fact that those people weren't born on magical "EU soil"
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Summary: I'm a full-stack engineer looking for meaningful work. I'm most motivated when my code helps people directly. In my last role, I worked on systems that helped millions access financial tools, and it was incredibly rewarding. I want to find that sense of purpose again. I enjoy solving concrete problems with Go, Python, and modern web stacks, often around data or system reliability. If your company is building something that improves lives, I'd love to help.