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Almost made a bomb trying to make fizzy grapes! Had to sit and math out how much 1lb of dry ice would sublimate to and how much pressure that would create. Here I thought I'd never use high school math. No bomb and the grapes came out perfectly! It's been 12 solid hours of travel. Between yesterday to the 4th plans are Seattle -> NYC -> Ct -> Boston -> Maine -> Boston -> Seattle. I'm currently at the CT phase where I get to nap in front of the fireplace and wow, sleep feels amazing. Happy holidays all!
I hate eye drops, but since I wear contacts I need to use them once in a while. My friends and I had a tasteful day drinking party in a park and helped my boyfriend wrestle me down so I would use the drops. I really hate eye drops. 
Vault girl! 
It's definitely getting easier. It's hard for me, I'm an introvert and so this hectic 8am - 1am schedule doesn't leave a lot of time for me to regroup. Add to that constantly being judged, trying to remember not to tell his grandparents we live together, and walking the tightrope of accepting their culture while holding my own boundaries. Oh and I'm on my own almost the entire time, because my boyfriend was in the wedding (it was for his younger brother) and they did a head table so we didn't eat together. At weddings they say to single people j na tvoja gla - literally on your head. It means kinda your next, or we hope this for you. They have no cultural norms against pressuring people to get married, asking about marital status at length, or saying "I just want to dance at your wedding before I die". That's a lot of pressure for me :/ I want them to like me, but considering my family is Jewish there's a lot of things I can't promise them. And its hard going to these weddings wondering how my boyfriend and I will ever get married without killing a grandparent (either shocking my Jewish grandma to death or shocking his orthodox family). I was talking with the bride. She's American, and she basically cried every day before the wedding because of all the conflict trying to manage a mixed Macedonian / American ceremony. Even at the wedding, the band cut off the DJ, so what was supposed to be a 50 / 50 music split ended up being 80 / 20 Macedonian / American music. Lots of the Americans left earlier, being kinda bored since they don't know Macedonian dance. And the Macedonian side, when they heard the bride was upset about the music, said she should be more respectful! It's hard to want to throw a party that insanely stressful, with everyone being so impossible to please. But I've got some good stuff going for me! My boyfriend's twin brother's girlfriend and I spent most of it together, so I had a buddy to deflect the marriage questions with. I think long term I'll be close with the current generation (siblings, cousins, ect). Sorry about the rant. My Chief Complaint Friend is out of town for a funeral so you get the wall of text today.
Not this BS again. The idea that women are as poorly represented as they are in STEM because they "just don't like it" is just willfully ignorant at this point. Disregarding the obviously insulting diaper comparison - Eccles concluded nothing of the sort, and that one sentence summary is an insane oversimplification of her research. Studies show the opposite, young girls have equal interest in STEM until we condition that away. This is alongside study after study showing girls are treated differently in STEM classes and are socialized away even if they do choose that track. Here's a PDF Eccles wrote herself, skip to the end for a summary : http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/garp/articles/eccles07.pdf Misrepresenting scientific studies so heinously makes me distrust the rest of the article and question his motivations in writing it. I'm a bit disappointed this is getting so much traction here, I expected better.Maybe women can do math and science perfectly well but they just don’t like to. After all, most men don’t like math either! Of the small minority of people who do like math, there are probably more men than women. Research by Jacquelynne Eccles has repeatedly concluded that the shortage of females in math and science reflects motivation more than ability. And by the same logic, I suspect most men could learn to change diapers and vacuum under the sofa perfectly well too, and if men don’t do those things, it’s because they don’t want to or don’t like to, not because they are constitutionally unable (much as they may occasionally pretend otherwise!).
Maybe hold off on commenting about things you don't understand until then ;)
You've dodged those points every reply, including that one. While I doubt we will convince eachother away from our respective corners online, I would encourage you to actually read the books you're disparaging. The Hugo have nominated some really wonderful books. Before you validate the toxic campaign the Puppies are running, you might want to give those books a chance.
You aren't addressing anything I'm saying. I'm going to try one last time for a real conversation here then give up. 1) If the puppies want good books to get awards, why not start their own award? The Hugos have every right to award the books they like, the same way you are saying the Puppies deserve. The Hugos aren't telling the Puppies what to do. The Puppies are telling the Hugos what to do. That's the issue with the Puppies, only one group is seeking to control the other. 2) You say Puppies are upset about sci-fi that is "an elaborate setup for the message, instead of being the consequences of its setting.". Please provide actual examples of that in recent Hugo winners.
The same is true for the books the Puppies are attacking! Go look at the Hugo winners and nominees from the last few years. Time travel, planet terraforming, alien politics, it's all there. None of them on there are solely about pushing gender politics or racial issues. They are, however, starting to include those views in a discussion about what the future looks like. That is what the Puppies are reacting to. That's not really up to you to decide. If you don't like sci-fi written a certain way, don't read it. If others do, and if they give awards based on what they like, so what? And again, if the Puppies don't like the Hugo winners, they can start their own awards. There are other awards in science fiction, like the Nebula. But they won't, because It's not about a fair, just award system. It's about other people enjoying something they don't like, and trying to take that away from them. Right, and I'm disagreeing with you, strongly. It's not a fair point. It's an angry point based on a selfish, intolerant worldview. I don't think good sci-fi has ever been grounded in politics. It's always been grounded in ideas, and the politics come from those ideas.
The very best sci-fi doesn't convey a message so much as pose a question.
All I'm saying is, the Sad Puppies bring up a fair point that warrants consideration rather than dismissal.
jleopold stock trainer app is the only one I've played around with. If you want to make money, stay away from fund picking. Even Warren Buffet knows that index funds are the way to go. Day traders work 14 hour days, 7 days a week. On top of that they have entire teams of researchers backing their trades. Picking stocks on the market for an average person is very similar to jumping into an NFL game because you've played flag football a few times. It's going to hurt. That said, sometimes the temptation can be hard to avoid, or sometimes people have extra money they are fine with gambling. I keep less then %1 of my portfolio in "play money". That way, even if I lose it all, I still make money for the year. And it encourages me to save more, since if I want to pick the next hotness first I have to save some safe money. This 1% includes a few stock picks, my ESPP stock I hold, and my silly bitcoin stash.
Came here to post this from The Everything Store.
Evidence of this friction usually emerged during the question-and-answer sessions at the company’s regular all-hands meetings, held for many years at Seattle’s oldest playhouse, the Moore Theater. Employees would stand up and pose direct questions to the executive team, and often they inquired about the enormous workload and frenetic pace. During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn’t take that well. "The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority," he answered bluntly. "That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can’t excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you."
"Jeff didn’t believe in work-life balance," says Kim Rachmeler. "He believed in work-life harmony. I guess the idea is you might be able to do everything all at once."
The user you're responding to is completely full of it. He spreads the anti-feminism stuff around and his comment history is full of pro-troll posts. I know you're frustrated that these people exist and are so active here, but I think the Hubski team is working on it. Keep in mind you have double his followers, the Hubski community is overwhelmingly more interesting in what you have to say then people like him. I don't think there is much point talking to someone who is so completely nutty. He's not going to cave, or suddenly learn how to handle an intelligent conversation. I'm not going to tell you not to get mad, or not to hold users to a higher standard. I'm just posting so you know you aren't alone, and that users like him won't matter much in the long run. Hang in there lady.
And that, right there, is why I'm such a hellcat about getting more women in stem. Tech is our communications platform, it's the way we interact, it's vital in shaping the modern world. Yet once again, we are building a platform by white men, biased toward white men. I want to shorten the cycle. Let's not do another hundred years of this.
My console. Worked my butt off for this little guy. This book my friends and I made. When we went to Japan we had all this info, train schedules, itinerary, ect. So we printed it into a book. But we also included tons of inside jokes, puzzles, sudoku, ect. Kept us busy during the flights and train rides, and is just full of memories. This is the sketch for the cover art my friend did. He Google earthed random streets in tokyo to get the background, and while we were there we noticed some of the same ads as in the book! It was 2 am, we were all drunk, but after a multi block chase we found the exact spot he had looked up in Seattle, thousands of miles away. Was such a special moment from an amazing trip.
Why did I click that. Why. I've had a terrible day at work and posts like that just make me so done with this field. I'm mentoring a high school girl and some days I feel like I'm doing her a terrible disservice by not telling her to run the hell away and don't look back. The best part is people like Grendel are the guys who say "women just don't like to code, it's fine." Then they move to San fran or Seattle and whine about how there are no single women. Turns out when you chase women out of an industry, they become scarce in tech hub cities. Go figure.
I'm two days short of three weeks, so I'm going to take a bit of a risk and pester you with another question. If the majority of hubski users feel that way (and it seems like they do) why not make a policy change around it? Mute new users, or make the site invite/application only? If there's a two week or so delay between when people ask to join and when they are let in, that might encourage lurking. It could also be used to throttle new users so we don't swarm in and crowd out your discussions. I feel bad for people complaining about the reddit influx, but as one of them I'm also happy I found this place.
Relevant XKCD - 
It's really interesting how many of them are also active on subredditcancer and blackout2015. It's kinda poetic that the toxicity that has gone after minorities for so long is slowly starting to kill the site that fostered it.
I'm new here, but I've been told you try to talk out differences, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I keep trying to talk to him rationally, he just ignores me so far. Is there a way to filter him for just that tag? He keeps posting things with interesting conversations elsewhere, then trolling the feminism and gender tags. I'm a little disappointed he has so many followers. I thought hubski was different but right now 3/5 top posts in #feminism are mens rights clickbait.
Right, if someone is posting low quality attempts at baiting people who follow a tag, it seems like a good thing for people to know that and filter accordingly.
How do you define feminist? I follow the Joss Whedon definition, curious what yours is.