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Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?

I think fear is an important part of our development, and sanitizing children's upbringings is rarely the best approach. I love when my child communicates that they're afraid of something because that gives me an opportunity to guide them through how to encounter and process that fear, and how to continue functioning in life when fear is present (which is always for a lot of people).

Also, for kids who are scared of their closet or under their bed at night, if you remove those triggers I would be surprised if other triggers did not arise. It could easily turn into a never ending game of whack a mole.

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[AskMovies] What great movie did you watch this week?

Three Minutes: A Lengthening - documentary about three minutes of recovered video footage from a small town in Poland in the late 1930's. The scope of it started small and it expanded continuously throughout the movie. It was really impactful. The only footage shown is the video footage itself, the narrator is Helena Bonham Carter. I highly recommend it if you like documentaries.

Let The Right One In - 2008 low budget Swedish horror film. I'd always heard it was well regarded and it did not disappoint one bit. Delightfully tense, cathartic, and unsettling.

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Kitchen knife refurbish

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It's actually surprisingly easy! I've done it a few times for my other knives because my wife is morally opposed to having a knife block on the counter. So our knives go in the drawer each with a custom sheath to protect the blade.

All you need is two pieces of wood, each with at least one good flat face. You trace the knife on both sides of one of the pieces of wood. One tracing will be the inside of the sheath (the flat face if you're not using s4s), the other tracing will be on the outside which you'll use as a reference to shape the sheath. You then chisel or route where the knife will go, place the knife in it to make sure it fits properly. Glue the flattest face of the other board to the side you just routed. Once the glue is cured, use a belt sander to give the sheath the general shape you want, then orbital or hand sand to get it nice and smooth. Apply finish of choice, then you're good to go.

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Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom

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That may be true for some people individually, but I believe if no one at a company is able to build any connection (even on a professional level of base rapport ), that's much more an indicator of the company's failures to build a proper company culture that supports that.

People have been making close friends over the Internet with zero in-person interactions for decades now. And that's even without video chat being the primary way of doing it. I work 100% remote at a company with ~2500 employees. I'm pretty introverted, but I've managed to make a few friends mostly over slack that I would ask if they wanted to grab a drink or something if I were traveling through their area. There's no pressure or expectation of that from the company, there's no "we're family" nonsense, they've just created a company culture where that can happen.

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[Shams] James Harden: “Daryl Morey is a liar and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of. Let me say that again..."

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The league already investigated the Sixers for this and didn't find anything. If there was actually any sort of handshake deal, Harden was stomping on that as soon as Christmas Day 2022, not even halfway through the regular season when his camp started leaking that he was wanting to go back to Houston.

If there was a handshake deal, my guess is that it was contingent on playoff success, and Harden started getting cold feet after the really rough start to the season, so he started those leaks to try and leverage a deal early either with the Sixers or the Rockets. Word on the street is Udoka shut that down on Houston's end, and then no other team wanted him (or didn't make an offer that he was interested in) so he was essentially forced to opt in to the second year with Philly.

The way I see it, Harden is trying to save face as well as garner the support of other players by trying to put the blame 100% on Morey.

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Yeah it's just a little guy! The original knife I started with had a 10" blade and was terribly unbalanced. It also didn't have a full tang so it would easily flex where the handle met the blade. So I essentially shortened the knife so that I could cut a proper tang out of a portion of the original blade.

I always hated how small paring knives are, so I really like this size for doing a lot of things I would normally use a paring knife for while still feeling nice to hold and being a bit more versatile.

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Pay for a seedbox and install Plex on it (something like whatbox.ca). You'll have your own streaming service that you can add anything you want to, and it only costs as much as the seedbox. It will give you insularity so you don't get ISP notices, you can access it from anywhere, it's great.

From there it's just finding where you want to get your torrents from and getting used to adding them to the torrent client on your seedbox.

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Plex is truly great! I forgot to mention it streams music in addition to movies and tv. The Plex web app is not particularly fantastic for streaming music, but they have a separate app called Plexamp that is really great. So all in all you can use this setup to eliminate all your streaming subscriptions.