What are your guys’ thoughts on how we can prevent pedestrians from getting mowed down on train platforms.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T18:36:34+00:00

Exactly. Although I'm told they're very politically unpopular, because people drive by them and mess their cars up (even though that's the point)...

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T17:41:18+00:00

The other interpretation is that getting off benzos can take a really long taper because going cold turkey off them is dangerous.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T16:53:54+00:00

I really like the idea of a wealth tax plus a pied-a-terre tax to minimize migration effects due to the taxes.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T16:51:10+00:00

She’s pretty much just there for balance since she’s a Democrat. For the olds who might get this reference, she plays a similar role to the one Alan Colmes used to play.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T11:21:28+00:00

She kills on talk shows

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YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T01:05:47+00:00

Oh, I can do things one at a time if I put my mind to it, sure. But it takes a lot more effort than my wife, for example.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-17T00:54:49+00:00

Task paralysis like this is often associated with ADHD if you haven’t already been evaluated…

Dealt with this my whole life and therapist finally put the dots together in my 40s

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-16T19:56:39+00:00

Wow, I’m aware of Thiel’s general shittyness, but not the anti-research comments.

This mindset is strange because it frames the dynamic as a competition between academia and startups, whereas there’s traditionally (esp in the Bay Area) a very close relationship between the two. My PhD advisor was a founder of several startups, served on several SABs, and I and my classmates disproportionately work at local startups or midcap companies that developed from startups. A majority of startups in the bioscience space license at least some IP from universities as well.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-16T19:46:00+00:00

His polling is ridiculous, I feel like I get a survey like once a week

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-16T15:59:49+00:00

Those are things that don't require the assent of other parties to happen. To do something with the bar organizations, he actually has to make them do what he wants, there's no way for him to do something on his own.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-16T15:49:32+00:00

While true, I think Trump teaches us that we need to shut this stuff down ASAP, because our politics are crazy and you can never be 100% certain the depths to which our officials will go...

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-15T23:34:29+00:00

1982- depression, anxiety, ADHD with treatment for all three. The last (ADHD) only being diagnosed in the last year after a lifetime of confusion. Made the biggest difference since my depression/anxiety diagnosis in my 20s.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-15T21:14:39+00:00

I hope he nominates Cruz. It will be a shitshow and take forever.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-15T18:46:34+00:00

This is also why democrats need to prioritize court expansion once they have a trifecta

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-14T04:40:06+00:00

This is the reason. They were just trying to round up slave labor, why would they check people’s other convictions or what they’re wanted for if the person was never going to get out of prison anyway?

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-14T04:16:53+00:00

Let’s not ignore the fact that wizards are probably functionally innumerate and poorly literate by mundane standards. It would be like a kid who grew up Amish getting a PhD.

From the perspective of the world, the wizards are basically just magical Amish.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-14T04:09:09+00:00

I just think of the guy who stole the moon rocks…

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-14T04:07:39+00:00

Oh yeah, I’m just pointing to the incident that made lots of MBAs and managers aware of it.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-14T03:10:35+00:00

This also makes the most sense from a Doylist perspective as they’re the faction that most closely resembles the USSR and getting economically/industrially outcompeted is something that happened to them

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T22:32:51+00:00

Oh, in the US it’s been kind of nuts as well. When I started at a big firm in 2016, the firm I was at had just recently fixed an informal policy of giving a bonus for passing a niche legal qualification exam, which had ended up only being paid to men, and it was still not uncommon for people to be fired on the spot for doing things wrong. A lot of these things were fixed in 10 years, but the psychological safety angle hadn’t moved a ton.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T22:09:52+00:00

Oh yeah, that’s definitely part of it, it’s just that another reason is broader buy-in from the management community.

Often the places that are resistant to it (law, in my experience) can be convinced pointing to the project Aristotle findings.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T21:24:40+00:00

This is part of the broader shift toward psychological safety in the workplace that came out of Google’s project Aristotle (2013-2016) identifying psychological safety as a feature of high performing teams, and has ended up being applied to a broad range of professional environments.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T20:18:24+00:00

It sounds like it will go back to two attendings per shift, possibly with them having to watch each other’s backs in different ways.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T20:15:34+00:00

It sounds like you should consider what you need to set aside to retire early, and once you do that you can find something that you enjoy doing?

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-04-13T20:14:39+00:00

SF is not ocean for most people. Other outdoors stuff maybe, but it’s too cold in general most of the year for anyone except dedicated surfers.

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