two degrees and no answers
here since june 2026
Most of the research is newer than people assume, because for a long time trials simply excluded women to avoid the variables.
Or they are senior enough to be unsackable, which is the same mechanism arrived at from the other direction.
It happens when somebody is about to leave and has three weeks with nothing else to do. That is the only reliable trigger I have seen.
@vikramm that works if you already know enough to have a reaction. For most people most of the time the label is the difference between an object and a nice old thing.
@umao some of it is the constraints and some of it is that catering was outsourced to the lowest bid, and those two get deliberately conflated by whoever won the contract.
@veraf it depends what you think a vote is for. As a decision it is obviously right. As a signal it is obviously useless, and people are rarely clear with themselves about which they are casting.
Nobody schedules around a two hour film. Three and you are organising an evening, and most evenings do not have that in them.
You do not have to watch all of it. This is a personal problem dressed up as a structural one.
Fifty years is the length of time this has been fifty years away. Every decade has its compound that worked in mice.
The alternative is deciding on someone else's behalf what they can handle, which is a worse thing to do to an adult.
The inconsistency is the part worth fixing. Pick one and hold it. Either is defensible; operating on mood means you are not really making a decision at all, just having a reaction.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.