Eric Bohlman

[Eric Bohlman @ebohlman]

@adaarkc @paulg If you've got a key to the executive washroom in your pocket, you conceive of that as your branding getting more eyeball time. What's not to like about that?

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@seerutkchawla extraordinary for a medical facility or practitioner to see it unless they were the one filling it out in the first place.

[Eric Bohlman @ebohlman]

@seerutkchawla In the US, the public part of a birth certificate is a legal, not medical, document, and is normally used to apply for forms of identification that serve as evidence of citizenship; rarer uses are as evidence of parentage in custody or inheritance cases. It would be 1/2

[Eric Bohlman @ebohlman]

@Racing_Away @BallouxFrancois difficulty taking metformin because of its smell. I've never been able to smell the stuff, and I've never met anyone who could. I really had to do some digging to determine it wasn't an elaborate spoof. 3/3

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@Racing_Away @BallouxFrancois (CONTENT WARNING: Make sure you're wearing pants that you don't mind peeing in.) A few years ago, a company obtained a patent on and marketed (well, tried to) blackberry-scented metformin No, you're not hallucinating. The claimed indication was for people who had 2/

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@The_Purple_Haze @seerutkchawla I'd be interested to hear what the people from @LetGrowOrg have to say; it seems very likely to me that kids used to learn boundary regulation through free play and that spending all their time in adult-led activities leads them to delegate boundary issues to authority figures.

[Eric Bohlman @ebohlman]

@kirstenfbanks @seerutkchawla "Poisoning the well" is probably the most specific term; it's a special case of the genetic fallacy, which is in turn an ad hominem fallacy.

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@BrightIsadora1 @seerutkchawla Not all detransitioners are lifelong patients; not all transitioners go as far as having their natal gonads removed (particularly not most FtMs), and they can simply discontinue exogenous hormomes (although some irreversible effects will remain).

[Eric Bohlman @ebohlman]

@SWM_in_SEA @rasmansa The original version of the experiment did include a condition where the promised marshmallow wasn't delivered. Not surprisingly, all those kids later chose 1 now rather than 2 later. Also not surprisingly, that result was almost never discussed.

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@CenasDaFaba @jessesingal I think "Harry Potter and the Pizza Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pizza" work better, but ...

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@jessesingal Put out more pizza (Evelyn Waugh)

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@JayGnilrad2 @aklingus There was a spate of school shootings between '96 and '98.

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@JenFarkas2 @leopoldasch @lymanstoneky Also increases in the length of education making kids financially dependent on their parents for much longer.

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@DystopiaWizard @jessesingal My hunch is that it's the result of heavy-handed "child safety" Internet filters blocking the word "sex" so people started saying "gender" instead.

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@jessesingal I'll let @IonaItalia be the judge of that.

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@FPphilosopher @seerutkchawla Isn't that called a flying carpet?

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@SymposiumSilver @JohnFPfaff @Popehat Notably, though, most people say crime hasn't been rising in their own neighborhoods.

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@NotGonnaShareIt @JohnFPfaff Yes. Mass shooting deaths account for only a tiny percentage of homicides. They're (incorrectly) perceived as bigger because of the amount of coverage they get.

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@a_bbound @MollyJongFast as you get older (though not by a constant amount per year; in affluent developed societies the increase is quite slow until you hit late middle age) 2/2

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@a_bbound @MollyJongFast Yep: life expectancy at birth takes into account your chances of dying at every possible age; at an individual level it only applies to newborns. Once you've reached a certain age, your chance of dying younger than that is exactly zero, so your life expectancy increases 1/