I’m not fancy either, it’s just obscure creative stuff not employment related, so no horrible requests just people looking for things I made or old friends.
Basically I’m just vain. A couple of decades ago (when the internet was much smaller) someone put up an incredibly unflattering photo of me online, so since I enjoyed making websites, I made a website just to win SEO with a flattering photo instead!
Not everyone though surely. At the other end of the scale there’s stuff like scientists trying to create a compound that will cause a very specific molecular behaviour in a particular set of blood vessels.
I’m glad he at least realises it though.
I have always had accounts everywhere to redirect people who want to contact me to my website. Even when I was working fulltime, my linkedin profile has always just said something like I work as Lastname at Lastname.
Amuses the hell out of me to get messages from LinkedIn telling me that recruiters are desperately looking for people with my particular skills and experience. To be fair I guess I have been a Lastname for ages now… 😄
Definitely, there’s also what I think of as the Listerine factor.
(The people who invented Listerine had no idea what to do with it. They wanted doctors to wash their hands in it, then they tried to market it as a floor cleaner. Finally they worked out they could sell it as a cure for bad breath if they called bad breath a scarier name, “halitosis”).
Hope you’re right.
That’s a cool idea!
There are so many drugs sort of like that rn. They get approved for one thing and then end up being approved for something totally different because it turns out they seem to do this other thing because reasons.
Found out the other day people are using low dose lithium of all things for cardiovascular health.
Thanks for clarification, that makes more sense. Standalones remain 30m2. Hmm I can think of some housing stock in my town that magically will become compliant with that change.
don’t see why floor size would have any effect on the weather tightness
No neither do I; that was a non sequitur from me, just general musing/thinking aloud about the regulatory climate. Sorry!
That seriously did cross my mind when I found I wasn’t bed bound! I did get the dead arm and that hard sore red patch around the site though, so they definitely injected me with something!
But yeah super happy about it. 😃
A doctor once pointed out to me that every time there is cell replenishment, there’s a possibility of cancer. 😶
I’m recuperating from a journey at the moment and too lazy to battle the newly terible search engine capabilities to find the articles I got the number from but as I understand it cancer scientists were pointing out that around 60- something percent of cancers in the body cannot be accounted for by environmental factors (diet, pollutants etc) once you control for those risk factors. Obviously it varies by cancer type, but this was the general estimate.
I think you’re right that knowledge will increase but I think chance is worth bearing in mind because I think knowledge of external risks (and internal ones, like a bunch of missing immune cells) tends to be overstated in our thinking. Someone I knew with leukemia was the healthiest most clean living person I’ve ever met and I got so tired of people asking me what he had done to get it.
50m2 as being considered the minimum for banks to lend to you,
Isn’t there a 60m2 unpermitted dwellings law coming down the pipeline?
I think there could be another leaky buildings style crisis on the horizon.
Hi everyone! My big news is when I got my last covid jab I bounced back from it in just over a week. Didn’t mention it earlier in case I jinxed myself. This is the first time ever that it hasn’t knocked me back hard.
So I sort of feel like this year I’ve got an extra 6 weeks in the year!
Used some of it to visit family for a week. Also, got to hang out with a really cute dog. I love how earnest dogs can be about stuff, it’s really endearing.
I don’t really understand why you seem to think either of these:
someone getting a university degree should have to primarily benefit NZ as a whole
OIA requests should have to benefit NZ as a whole
It sounds authoritarian and communist to me as well, and I’d guessed you were maybe centre-right or at least a proponent of status quo neoliberal economics, and pro freedom of education and information! 😀
Definitely. Something like 2/3 of cancer is luck for example.
Yeah I’m not going to let it get between me and takeaways ha ha.
Seriously though as well as being a single data point it was self-reported and I noticed it changed depending on the interlocuter - from memory they told the local paper that the secret is going to church.
Ah I didn’t see it. Thanks for the link, interesting.
On a casual read through: “satellite” is misspelt, “fibre” is randomly capitalized in the section on fibre quality, typo “team” for “term” in the ethnicity section, and in the employment status section “less” should be “fewer”. 😊
I used to know a sprightly 100 year old who still lived alone in their own home. Their longevity advice was “don’t eat too many takeaways”! Bet they had a low anticholinergic burden though 😃
That’s another plus about organizations, while they may also think you have to do whatever they say, they’re more realistic about what that is because it has likely already been tested in court.
I can if it’s not until next week.
I get what you mean now. Totally agree. There’s an element of creativity in STEM and creativity itself has an element of chaos.
On a related tangent there’s the idea of vocation - the people who most seem to know what they are doing tend to be doing it because they are “driven” or it “comes naturally” and both those things are essentially black box.