bioavailability of supplements is a long debate, and iirc there's no simple answer (ie. varies by vitamin and producer of said vitamin/mineral/nutrient)
1so maybe they're only noticing vegans who don't take supplements (that contain b9).
This seems reasonable -- I think they have casually tested it among friends (they're in the berkeley rationalist circle iirc). But if someone is vegan and supplements correctly, they likely wouldn't guess that they're vegan to start with
On the unhealthy to be vegan point:
idk about "mitochondrial dysfunction" but I can easily clock vegans by the quality of their skin (w/ false positives from malnutrition/MTHFR issues, but few-no false negatives.)
Unrelatedly, shifting demand of meat into more humane meat creates stronger economic incentives for the companies to treat their animals well
As a girl, it absolutely makes a difference. I'm more likely to get approached if I'm wearing contacts + dress than if I was wearing glasses + jeans and t-shirt. The variance in how people treat you is strongest with strangers (because they have no other information about you to go off of; for example, I would think someone who has a hole in their shirt as more likely to be low-conscientiousness). I stand and sit somewhat non-optimally but I haven't been able to correct this reliably.
Your description of old waterbottles etc. signals that you're frugal, practical, and don't care much about optics, and you probably want a wife with those traits. Seems reasonable for you to keep doing what you're doing if you don't care about her putting a ton of effort into her appearance.
a lot of h1b folks are engineers, not researchers. and a lot of the O-1 requirements are academic/research-oriented, or at least it's marginally easier if you're a researcher
even if the $100k h1b fee change will be struck down by the court, opening the overton window on making legal immigration more uncertain is bad especially if the US wants researchers/academics, who are often very risk-averse.
also top people often have more options, so they are more likely to leave the US on the margin as well
I think there's some about of misinformation or wrong facts that you'll believe when you read enough things. Maybe twitter users who use it for news etc. end up with a higher % of incorrect views about the world, but I think anyone who reads the news regularly if only just from reputable sources (ie. print) will have weird beliefs
I do mutual escalation if I'm really into them, approve/disapprove when I'm not sure if I'm into them, or like if they'd be safe to flirt with. But even with mutual escalation, I usually match what they (the guy) is doing, maybe go a tiny bit further, depending on how I feel that day. This is likely confounded by how I can get attracted to someone if we spend a few hours talking, even if I wasn't attracted when I first met them. I think I was more likely to do mutual escalation when I was younger too
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Sorry to hear about the mold and I'm glad antidepressants worked for you! Anything that messes with hormones/brain seems to be ymmv given the long side effect sheets that the drug manufacturers publish alongside the drug. One of my friends on antidepressants phrased it as "antidepressants don't make you happy per se but you feel like there's a lower bound to the sadness," and others needed to experiment a bunch so they definitely work but it's unclear which one exactly sometimes