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Cake day: October 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t think you understand how excellent your credit is. Most banks won’t extend different offers for an 830 and a 795. The amount of emotional energy you placed in this score isn’t commiserate with either your actions or your score. It sounds like you’re not using much of your credit and you’re a high earner. You’ll be fine. You’ll be better than fine honestly. You are well positioned to have access to money to get mostly every material need you want with little hassle. You are more well off than the last majority of people in this world. Appreciate that.


  • Opening and closing a new accounts has literally no effect on your credit score.
    The credit agencies pulling your report has a pretty minimal and very short lived.
    Your score was an 830. I’ll be surprised if it dips below 800. And that is still exceptional.

    Unless you have an immediate need to get a really good interest rate, you should not lose any sleep over this.




  • The framing of this article is all wrong. There aren’t just two choices: discipline or wild abandon. There’s times and places for both. Five pm at the colorful hippy burrito spot with dinosaur toys and a large play area, let them run free. Out at a special dinner with family bring them with, set your timer for their ability to keep it together and make adjustments as needed. If they don’t meet the standard, thats cool. Not their fault and probably not even your fault. Do a vibe check and leave if needed.

    Hell, I’m all for your kid doing frog jumps down the grocery aisle, but be a sentinal and see if there’s a person in that aisle that would care. You can read the people who are delighted by the child’s exuberance and those who want nothing to do with it. I’m not a big fan of screens, but they have their time and place like on the six hour flight.

    Any case, there’s only so much you can do when parenting. Creating a safe connection for them is so important and then trusting you to see them, receive them, and make the unknown a little bit safer is all a tall task.





  • There’s a number of points this comment misses. First, it wasn’t pharmaceutical companies, but moms group of autistic children that approached him.

    [I]n 1995, while conducting research into Crohn’s disease, he was approached by Rosemary Kessick, the parent of a child with autism, who was seeking help with her son’s bowel problems and autism; Kessick ran a group called Allergy Induced Autism. In 1996, Wakefield turned his attention to researching possible connections between the MMR vaccine and autism.

    And the time, he was still a well regarded scientist and doctor:

    At the time of his MMR research study, Wakefield was senior lecturer and honorary consultant in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

    This was also published in 1998 in The Lancet an important medical journal, but the controversy didn’t start with this publication, but his press conference after the publication where he did advocate for single vaccines and not a combined MMR. Pretty poor form and highly criticized at the time.

    The media took this and ran with it. It caused wide spread misinformation about autism and the MMR vaccine. But it was also a media outlet that began to tear apart the claims in 2004.

    It wasn’t retracted until 2010 and a full write up about what went wrong in the BMJ in 2011. There was a lot of criticism before then, but I was also highly cited as well.

    There’s a lot of lessons to be learned here and that is best done with the full story.


  • I’m pretty unclear about what you’re asking. So I’ll do my best to answer them as I read it.

    Humans need salt. As far as I know, there is not chemical reaction in our cooking that transforming the molecules in salt (Na+ and Cl- for table salt).

    With that said, I believe OP was answering of when to add salt for flavor maximization.

    Since salt doesn’t transform the process of cooking, nutrient absorption is the same. Microwaving doesn’t alter food despite it being radiation. Microwaves heat your food by vibrating the water molecules.