BeefPiano

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[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Cheaper than the alternative.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Where’s the article?

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Start saving for retirement now. You can make literally millions by putting away 10% of your income early on. Do it automatically so you never even notice the money gone.

If you are worried about making the wrong choice and your company doesn’t have a 401k, open an IRA somewhere (Fidelity if you need someone to make the decision for you) and pick a date targeted fund. Set up auto deposit. Never look at the balance.

You can always make it better later but for now the best thing to do is start. Don’t let analysis paralysis get in the way.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can Mario jump off Yoshi, sacrificing the noble creature to add yet another star to the cruel plumber’s collection?

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon is adding a feature that will tag links with Fediverse ids. So if I post an article link, and the news site has the special meta tag, the. The journalist’s Fediverse is will be linked below the article’s embed in my post.

This is probably an effort to help journalists find their audience on independent social media, which would help the whole ecosystem.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Bless your heart

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does she want Harris in the Oval Office before January?

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago (5 children)

People thinking this is real need to take a deep breath and start thinking critically about what they read online.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I’m not dropping my kids off at a stranger’s house, and to be a bit sexist here a single man’s house, and paying him to let my kids swim at his pool, drive go karts on open pavement, and play store-bought laser tag.

An insured fun center with employees? Sure, maybe. Some guy’s home? Absolutely not.

I also am not putting my kids in an Uber alone.

If you want to be Johnny Karate, figure out something you can bring to birthday parties or kids events and make your money that way. But “unlicensed daycare” is a hard no.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ll take my validation where I can get it, thanks!

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I played this three times! There was a qualifier round, then a quarter final or something on stage, and I did well enough in that that I got to come back the next day and lose on stage! I peaked in 1990.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They generally asked for your cross streets, then looked at the giant street map on the wall to figure out where you were. Not exactly an unsolvable problem.

Edit: and it’s not like they needed turn by turn directions. Just figure out where to go from the cross streets. Oh it’s northwest of Maple and Cyan, 3 streets into the neighborhood. The drivers can get to the crossroads on their own, that’s just local knowledge.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by BeefPiano@lemmy.world to c/mensliberation@lemmy.ca
 

I’m kind of amazed that this is getting downvotes after 20 minutes, even though the video is 33 minutes. I guess you already saw this?

 

This is a tough piece, one that I share without fully endorsing. It lays out the problems that women experience with some men, like that men are not getting college degrees at the same rate as women or the lack of emotional modelling provided to boys and young men:

For a variety of reasons — mixed messages from the broader culture about toughness and vulnerability, the activity-oriented nature of male friendships — it seems that by the time men begin dating, they are relatively “limited in their ability and willingness to be fully emotionally present and available,” he said.

Where I think it stops short is in thinking about the root causes of those things, and how supporting men can bring them into the feminist tent.

 

I know USA should be getting them sometime in November, any idea when though?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BeefPiano@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.world
 

Compared to other killers from a public health standpoint, ADHD is bad. Smoking, for example, reduces life expectancy by 2.4 years, and if you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day you're down about 6.5 years. For diabetes and obesity it's a couple of years. For elevated blood cholesterol, it's 9 months. ADHD is worse than the top 5 killers in the U.S. combined.

Having ADHD costs a person nearly thirteen years of life, on average. Barkley adds, And that's on top of all the findings of a greater risk for accidental injury and suicide....About two-thirds of people with ADHD have a life expectancy reduced by up to 21 years.

This is from Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey in their book ADHD 2.0

Here is some more background on the research

 

cross-posted from !michigantrees@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/1938153

Recreational marijuana has been legal in Michigan since late 2018, but in the years since people looking to work for the state of Michigan were still subject to marijuana testing. But that changed this week in a unanimous vote from the Michigan Civil Service Commission.

This change means regulations will look at recreational marijuana use much like alcohol use and won't test for it in new hires.

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