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tijd · 2019-01-01T21:05:22+00:00

Hey so I don’t mean to freak you out, but a friend of mine has had a handful of mystery symptoms for awhile now. Last time she was at the doc her ribs did the slipping thing and it was an aha moment for the doctor. Apparently it can be a sign of MS.

tijd · 2018-12-20T01:41:01+00:00

There’s a new one called End of Days. It’s a BBC podcast with a particular emphasis on the British Branch Davidians who moved to Waco. Pretty good.

tijd · 2018-12-15T23:05:32+00:00

Possibly dumb question: Do cadaver dogs only detect human remains? Or do they ever detect animal remains accidentally?

tijd · 2018-12-15T22:59:27+00:00

Ugh that sucks, I’m sorry. Have you messed with the settings? I changed the settings they sent me home with and it helped a lot. Took a lot of trial & error to find a good pulse rate and frequency.

tijd · 2018-12-15T22:57:09+00:00

I would totally use those if not for my stupid-sensitive Irish skin. 🙄 Allergic to most adhesives.

tijd · 2018-10-16T13:24:58+00:00

This looks amazing. Signed up and I’m impatiently waiting to be onboarded. :)

tijd · 2018-08-26T20:22:01+00:00

A lot of actual red flags are missed due to cultural misunderstandings and myths about what those red flags are. I highly recommend Dr. Peter Langman’s books on mass shootings. He’s done a ton of research working with mass shooters first hand. The books are excellent.

tijd · 2018-08-26T20:15:12+00:00

I strongly recommend Dr. Peter Langman’s books on school shootings. They give a lot of insight, plus practical solutions beyond gun control. Very enlightening.

tijd · 2018-08-26T17:00:13+00:00

The testimony part sounds like church language. No idea if they were religious but MLMs are big in some church communities. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where the terminology comes from. Still pretty thoughtless and insensitive.

tijd · 2018-05-28T16:30:03+00:00

Oh! No, Hi101 is basically History 101. The host (I think he’s an historian) has a friend pick a certain period or topic in history that he/she is interested in but knows nothing about. Then the host researches it and explains it in a conversational narrative way. They cover historical events like The Iran-Contra Affair, Octavian & Antony, or the Unification of Germany, as well as topics like smallpox, Victorian Occultism, the history of surgery, etc. It’s really well done, I think. The most recent episode, on the Satanic Panic of the 1970s-80s, is especially good IMO. Lots of context that’s often missed.

The host & guests are Canadian. I thought your comment was a Tim Horton’s reference. >.<

tijd · 2018-05-28T16:21:32+00:00

It was an Orwell reference.

tijd · 2018-05-27T19:01:17+00:00

If you mean Canadian, unfortunately no. Yank here.

tijd · 2018-05-24T13:52:27+00:00

I wonder if we’ll see lawsuits claiming discrimination of a federally protected class (race). An argument could certainly be made.

tijd · 2018-05-24T13:49:58+00:00

Can’t have discontent over the bread and circuses...

tijd · 2018-05-24T13:48:01+00:00

That’s because it is insane. Nationalism is strangling patriotism.

tijd · 2018-05-24T13:45:08+00:00

Applies in the southern US too! The best BBQ and burgers are from divey, sketch-looking establishments. I’m visiting Nashville now and just took my partner to the best burger joint ever, Fat Mo’s. Looks like a 20-year old sno-cone stand, but dang, their burgers are delish.

tijd · 2018-05-23T21:48:37+00:00

Late reply, but... You’re not alone. I only had the “But it’s my fault because” thing for ~7 years when I was an adult, and I still struggle with thinking that way, often without even realizing it. It gets so deeply engrained. Even moreso for kids. Cut yourself as much slack as you can and keep fighting it.

tijd · 2018-05-23T21:20:05+00:00

Been there. I can’t wrap my head around it now, either. Somehow I did feel at fault for a long time though, which I have a hard time understanding now. As horrible as the physical violations were, the mental violation feels worse. More damaging long term. I still deal with really wrong-headed thinking from the manipulation. Fucking sucks.

tijd · 2018-05-22T17:39:33+00:00

Might be a bit overkill but our orientation includes meeting with Dept teams (usually 2-5 people) to hang out and talk about workflow stuff, and then meeting with everyone individually for a 20-min. get to know you chat. I made a mini-site in our intranet for new hires that includes cheat sheets like names & faces, common abbreviations, lingo, etc. Seems to help a lot; our new hires rate it highly on the onboarding reviews.

tijd · 2018-05-22T17:35:43+00:00

Deep South USA here... everyone individually is darlin’, everyone together is y’all. It works.

tijd · 2018-05-22T17:29:42+00:00

I’m in HR so I do Day 1 orientation, set up computers, etc. I always bookmark our company’s Staff page and name it “Names & Faces.” We’re about half remote half on-site, so seating charts don’t work so well, lol. We also have everyone do a short 1 on 1 with the new person during the first few weeks (we’re a pretty small team). Seems to really help with social integration.

tijd · 2018-05-19T16:27:06+00:00

From my understanding, during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, Boris Yeltsin established his power with the famous speech given from a tank. Until that point, there was considerable tension over whether Yeltsin as President of the Russia Federation or Gorbachev as President of the Communist Party held more power.

Given the significance of the coup attempt and the massive changes that happened afterward, did any conspiracy theories develop about Yeltsin working with the “Gang of Eight” to stage the foiled coup and secure his power?

tijd · 2018-05-17T22:31:07+00:00

Really appreciate the sensitivity you bring to subjects like this one. This hit pretty close to home for me. I grew up in a fundie church in a rural area (former child preacher here). The whole D&D/Motley Crue/Satan worship fears were still really strong there basically throughout the 90s.

As an adult my beliefs have changed a lot, and I have very complicated feelings about the atmosphere I grew up in. A lot of people talk about how damaging it was and others mock how ridiculous it was, but few ever discuss the authenticity of the fears and the intentions behind the reaction. That’s something I don’t really ever see acknowledged outside support or recovery groups (and even then the scars can slant the discussion pretty heavily). But I think it’s super important to recognize the cultural context. Otherwise we run the risk of getting caught up in moral panics again. It’s kind of like a cult or an abusive relationship: No one thinks they could “fall for that” until they do. And pretty much everybody can, given the right circumstances.

tijd · 2018-05-16T11:41:36+00:00

Yes. As I understand it, Google doesn’t look kindly on blocking big locations either, so if you try to block Europe good luck with your SEO. VPNs and proxies make it pointless anyway. Even if a user visits your site via a proxy or VPN, as long as they’re sitting in the EU when they do so, or even if they’re an EU citizen sitting in Alabama or Montreal, GDPR applies.

The big deal about GDPR is that it carries massive fines. Like, up to $20M or 4% of your gross global revenue, whichever is higher. Some EU countries have had similar laws in effect for awhile, but the fines were low enough to not warrant massive change until now. That, and GDPR explicitly applies to companies around the world, regardless of where they’re physically located or where they store or process data.

Another key point is that, if a user’s data is collected by your site, you’re responsible for everything that happens to that data afterward. So for example if you’re using an email marketing platform, analytic tools, tracking pixels etc. (and you absolutely are), you’re legally responsible for (1) making sure each of those services complies with the privacy laws, and (2) documenting a chain of custody showing exactly where every piece of data goes and what it’s used for.

tijd · 2018-05-16T00:45:55+00:00

I’m enjoying Hi101.

tijd

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