Tattoo Removal Is Insane
Just don’t get tattoos.
Self-care
Becoming Useless
The trap of a good job is, that you can become useless. You are good at it, and it works out on the job, but it might happen that you stagnate and have no skill applicable, or even worse, presentable… Read More »Becoming Useless
You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk
Not everyone needs to be classified. “Since its first edition in 1952, the DSM has gradually evolved from a slim document meant to standardize psychiatric recordkeeping into a sprawling classification system that shoulders a set of responsibilities it was never… Read More »You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk
“Everyone Drank Raw Milk!” No They Didn’t
Do not drink raw milk.
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
A lot of stereotypes have deep history. “E.W. Barber (Women’s Work, 29-41) suggests that this division of labor, which holds across a wide variety of societies (though commercial textile production was often done by men in pre-modern societies, something we’ll… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
100 Million vs. 100 Billion
It is a huge difference.
Fat
It is more complicated.
Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
Water is expensive. Especially when you are poor. “Apart from land – which was actually not a major limiting factor in the village – the main forms of agricultural capital were ox plow-teams (something I’d expect) and wells (something I… Read More »Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
This still applies today. “I led in with all of that risk and vulnerability because without it just about nothing these farmers do makes a lot of sense; once you understand that they are managing risk, everything falls into place.… Read More »Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People
Or just try to think before you put an estimate of confidence.