David Sager

“You can’t smell a picture.” Me:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy be like

You can tell when someone has read neither Marx nor Austrians

I’m sure this will change as they undergo a demographic collapse.

More like 30+ years

US manufacturing capacity has shown solid growth for 16 consecutive quarters, indicating a consistent trend. This is the first sustained expansion of US manufacturing capacity in nearly two decades. What makes it more interesting is that many of the sectors leading the expansion are those that feed back into production itself: business equipment (+4.6% YoY), machinery, electrical equipment, fabricated metal, and computer and electronic products. federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/c…

Neuroscientist explains how the SAT is redefining education

This is the kind of recklessly American propaganda that I live for

@MostlyMonkey 200k without a duel-earner situation isn't poor, but it isn't rich either. It's kind if wild in the current inflationary environment

This is what a GP makes in the US Anesthesiologists make 400k Surgeons make 500k+ A fully licensed actuary is like 200k Stop. Being. Poor.

If you don't know anybody making 300k USD a year, you are part of the problem.

@DoctorPerin @AlobhaPatrick This is definitely a problem. Clinical faculty lacking clinical currency. Based on talking with people attending other programs my program was definitely well above average, and we still had this issue

@AlobhaPatrick Call me old fashioned but I prefer professors who actually have work experience. I meet a lot more PhDs in academia whose last seen patient was in grad school

I have news for you. At many universities we have tenure tracks, publication requirements, etc. even among lowly PsyD and MFT departments.

1/ Hampshire College just announced it's closing. NPR says a quarter of private colleges are at risk. Everyone acts surprised. The data has been screaming this for two years. Here's the data: kylesaunders.com/university-map/ Thread...

@TewFuller The literature I've seen on it isn't good. The term is not well defined on a consensus basis and the overexpansion of autism diagnoses does wind up capturing it as an "autism" problem when at root it functions as an anxiety driven behavior

@SagerDM Do you have any good literature on this. I’m very curious.

Pathological Demand Avoidance and no it's not "autism spectrum" behavior. It's an anxiety response. Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn: Freeze

„you should be holding more babies“ is now an econ paper!

Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.

Giving everyone a universal basic income will not reveal most people’s inner Mozarts or Emily Brontës. At bottom, this is about two competing views of human nature. One view holds that once basic material needs are met, people will use their free time to seek meaning and fulfillment. Unshackled from the burden of work, they will thrive. This is partly true. A small share of people would create, build, and explore. But for most, that is not what happens. When people are out of work, they do not spend their days painting or sculpting or learning another language. They scroll, they watch television, they play video games. Many advocates of UBI assume that people are simply waiting for the right conditions. Remove financial pressure, and they will pursue their creative passions. That may be true for a few. It is not true for most. Another view holds that meaning comes from the act of working. Earning your way, supporting yourself, and taking care of others provide structure and fulfillment. Effort, struggle, and self-reliance are not barriers to a meaningful life. They are part of what makes it possible. A society that removes the need to work risks removing one of the main sources of meaning in life.

"The new order is going to be defined by self-control, with a new elite selected for their ability to withstand the power of screen addiction, just as they withstand the country’s glut of drugs, gambling and poisonous junk food." edwest.co.uk/p/the-city-of-…

@ouranometrian2 @castlehillmom Yeah I could have made so many Elon buxx doing that 2010-2012 if that was a thing

@SagerDM @castlehillmom Also when ortho did the sahd thing for almost a year I told him he could get paid big elon bucks to talk about how easy it was 😂.

I see we’re pretending that Americans never had servants again. Read this book.

@ouranometrian2 @castlehillmom I would argue the opposite. I'm much more conscientious than most. Being methodical rather than being reactive. I don't have a constantly expanding task list per day as a SAHD

Yes. The task list you had is probably shorter than the average woman's task list. Im recalling all of the charts I find for daily cleaning online and id spend hours of my day cleaning if I followed it. Most of my thoughts were about the post partum period and pregnancy. That first 3 months is rough to keep up even just male normal😂