Plumpy nut getting some NYT Magazine attention

imitationcheese

If someone wants to kill themselves, they're going to do it.

this has actually been proven false. really, we need to not perpetuate this myth. physical interventions (sub-toxic doses of medicine in an entire bottle, suicide barriers) and human interventions (phone lines) have done this. people might try and fail, and many don't try again (but what if it had been toxic doses). other people try and are stopped (physical barriers on the empire state building, etc.).

there is a whole public health research literature on this. i recommend you read some of it before perpetuating this myth.

imitationcheese

Any test that's 100% accurate? Not yet. Sorry friend, that's not how medicine works. Go read up on 'sensitivity' and 'specificity' of tests.

imitationcheese

hi 'lived their' welcome to the english language.

imitationcheese

l&b. hands down the best pizza i've ever had, and i've had it all.

but you've gotta make the trek to practically to coney island.

imitationcheese

boston.

food is surprisingly not as bad as nyc food snobbery would suggest, but it is more limited.

one problem is that traffic in new york actually makes sense, where as in boston it's just inefficient, chaotic, and not even on a grid.

the worst though, is that like many other cities and most suburbs, is that everything closes super early. i loved walking around at 3am seeing people out an about. i loved going to the park in the middle of the night. i loved that restaurants are packed for dinner at 10 or 11pm. here they close at 9 or 10pm, and they really want you out.

imitationcheese

who is upvoting this shit? i want to downvote them!

imitationcheese

whatever. you pour enough of anything on top of anything and it kills the second anything.

imitationcheese

people have said thomas's comment is like telling blacks to go back to africa. that's a really poor comparison. the best one is telling ex-slave descendents that moved to liberia, who enslaved (and have pretty consistently held political power over) original liberians, to go back to america.

yeah, the liberian elite isn't originally from the US. and they are originally from africa. but their behavior upon moving back hasn't exactly made the power they hold deserved. same goes for israelis.

thomas's comment was politically dumb, but the content of it really isn't that offensive, it's just hyperbolic and impractical.

imitationcheese

I just walked across Central Park at 3am last night with my girlfriend. Neither one of us was wearing running gear in case we wanted to sprint away from muggers. We saw a woman walking across the park by herself, and then 10 minutes later saw a woman wearing high heels and a fancy dress also walking by herself across the park. This wasn't possible 20 years ago in the city.

imitationcheese

The NYT and AP both did not call this group a terrorist group despite their being a political group conspiring to kill a police officer, bomb a funeral, and incite an antigovernment uprising. By any legal definition, this is terrorism.

imitationcheese

Bush did this, which is Constitutional but controversial, when the Democrats politically held up appointments. Good for Obama FINALLY starting to do the same after many many months and, as you said, far more appointments being held up. Not sure what all the hate is about, it sounds like we're on the same page.

imitationcheese

Umm. She is clearly too articulate to be a Tea bagger. I'm really curious what here deal is. Ron Paul libertarian? Maybe.

imitationcheese

Oh for sure the Daily Mail. But even this is pretty tabloid-y. Definitely no Guardian or BBC.

The Guardian's account is more tempered.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/24/barack-obama-israel-settlement-plan

imitationcheese

I just wish this was from somewhere other than the timesonline...

imitationcheese

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