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  • Nobody is actually shitty here but some things seem like they are not going to work long term. It is reasonable to have a need for some quiet time and to unwind from work. It is reasonable to need connection and validation of the relationship. It is reasonable to be upset.

    He is not being reasonable about how he interacts with you. He is taking your lack of ability to be social at the level he needs as a rejection of him and in turn rejecting you. This is a lashing out response and it is not appropriate or effective. It will either result in the dissolution of the relationship or it will result in longer term toxic behaviours which will then result in the relationship falling apart.

    You need to work a little less. That is basically the conclusion you have come to above and that may take time to enact, but it needs to happen. Neither of you will be happy until then. So your action should probably be to reduce just as you have said.

    On your partner's end he needs to build his own supports to take some of the load off you. He has a lot of free time that he could use going to a rock climbing class or something similar. That would give him the social interaction he cannot get from you at the moment. He also needs to work on how he talks to you about needs and his responses. He can't put his self worth entirely in your hands. It is unsafe for his wellbeing and horribly damaging to your relationship. He needs to internally validate his worth and that is a skill, not a trait, he can learn that.

    Some of what you describe above sounds like he doesn't really understand ASD/ADHD very well and doesn't get how burnout works. Maybe he could spend some time learning about how to be safe and healthy for himself in a relationship with someone on the spectrum? It is hard to know how he would react to hearing this, but he needs to recognise that a relationship with you is not the same as a relationship with a neurotypical and he needs to take care of himself to be safe in that relationship. It is not worse, but it is different. If he doesn't learn how to manage his needs then they will continue to be unfulfilled and he will have a bad time.

    And honestly, the dog situation is just devastating. If my partner lost their companion animal I would expect up to 6 months of very low function. For you to be working in this condition may suggest you are not able to grieve properly and are working to be away from demands, but it could also be it just doesn't affect you in the same way it would affect my partner, we are all different. Take care of yourself and grieve as you need to, maybe spend some time talking to him about it if you feel safe doing so.

    Oh, and consider planning out movie night or similar things, make it explicit what you need and book it in. Those expectations in advance can help.

    So yeah, NTA, but also, nobody is fully shitty here, his behaviour seems less ideal, both of you can do things to make life better, I think this is salvageable.

  • One thing that gets me about AI chat agents is the idea of attack surface. If you have a clearly defined protocol you can curtail most of the possible attacks by narrowing things, only accepting well formed requests, and validating both on the user end and then on the server end before processing anything. An LLM is inherently wide in attack surface given the way it is structured. It can take a prompt which can be any set of characters connected together into tokens. These tokens can't easily be filtered for intent or goal and yet they can get the LLM to drop other rules or restrictions because they are just other prompts.

    A simple coded padlock is not very secure, but a door with no walls is less secure.

  • There are a few options for age verification, but the one I like best is at the ISP/device level. You make the account at the ISP level have a flag for being a kid friendly service. You could also have the government establish simple tools for parents to install on their kids devices which would limit other apps and services, for example by blocking porn or violent age inappropriate content. You could even have it tie in with the age advice for film classification, though the current classification guidelines are pretty horrible. All of that could be handled by a very small government team and could be deliverable in 6 months.

    These are active steps a parent can take to limit their child's exposure to the internet and do not come with added cost to the parent. They would be just as available for someone who is poor as for someone who is rich. It would be possible to protect kids from many of the more dangerous aspects of the internet while also leaving unmanaged devices free and clear, preserving the good things about the open internet.

  • Yes, they are fantastic. They do have a little bit of a Windows 95 aesthetic but I kind of like that.

  • Rubik's cube was my favourite for a few years when I was commuting by train. I had a 40-60 minute trip each way for work and it was an amazing way of killing time without going mad.

    Then podcasts and audio books came in and honestly, I can manage sitting still with audio playing. I need it to be stimulating enough, but running everything at 2x speed is fantastic and really makes a huge difference.

    That said, I also have a notepad and pen so I can write things down while sitting, so I plan projects and write questions to be answered later. That helps a lot. I also have my phone which is great for passing time, Offline Games is a fantastic set of games that dont require purchases or ads. I also have my first aid kit on my belt and I regularly go through it and make sure all is well, along with my tech pouch. Organising those and cleaning them out works well.

  • Down here in Australia we constantly have people walking around with thongs (flip flops) or barefoot and in swimwear, so bikini top for women and bare for men. Honestly I don't see a problem with it, I walk around with very minimal shoes now and I used to walk around barefoot most of the time when I was a kid. If you aren't walking on a road with tonnes of broken glass and no footpaths then you are fine. As for people who complain about women having their chest exposed honestly, learn to not stare. It isn't the job of women to cover up so you don't have to put in effort.

    Our beach culture is great because it is so laid back. If I had a business near the beach I would assume my customers would be barefoot and topless and make appropriate accommodations including somewhere to clean their feet off and taking care to keep the floor from being sticky. When I lived in the UK I found the constant demand to wear shoes stifling and awful and the USA felt really judgemental and gross.

  • Just to reply in a real and not snarky way, the BBC has a strong anti-trans bias as well. The question is about factuality and reliability. Fox News will run anything that fits their ideology and in the case of trans issues demonizes trans people and trans affirming care.

    To be clear, this doctor is making a vague claim of there being "young children" getting "irreversible" medical interventions. I mean technically getting a vaccine is irreversible, getting antibiotics cannot be taken back, and setting a broken bone can never be undone. Irreversible is meaningless in this context. What he is claiming is that there is some sort of harm. This is not true.

    Surgery is not done on young kids in general. The rare cases are not really worth considering and do not represent trans care in general. The exception does not prove the rule and honestly I have not seen any evidence of children getting trans surgeries.

    What is common is the use of puberty blockers. These are medications used safely for preventing precocious puberty and they delay the onset of puberty. This allows time for the child to work through their gender issues and be able to make an informed decision before starting hormonal transition to trigger the correct puberty for their gender. Putting off puberty has small enough consequences to be reasonable and for trans kids it can be really important for reducing risk of harm.

    Fox News is dishonest, this doctor is dishonest and violating their Hippocratic Oath, and this discussion is a bullshit anyway. This constant ranting and raving about half a percent of people is just crazy. Nobody needs to talk about this without a qualification or loved experience. If you don't know what you are talking about then it is a good idea to say nothing.

  • Nice, I always run a quick live image to test the hardware with a new machine. If it doesn't work with something using Linux I will try something else possibly including windows 7 just to check that sound works for example. Knowing it if is hardware or software saves days of agonising troubleshooting.

  • I just found out a out this a couple of days ago and it is amazing. The games look so good and are way more playable on my laptop with a native port than with an emulator. Trying to get the emulator to render was insanely hard with tonnes of characters having random black eyes or just not rendering their textures at all. The native port is beautiful and has so many improvements. Such a cool project.

  • Pictish.

    It is a lost language from the British Isles and from one of the coolest populations in the area. They would paint patterns on their skin in blue then charge into battle naked. I reckon their insults and swearing would be absolutely raucous.

  • First and foremost, you sound like you really need meds. The way the your medication was managed to when you were younge was likely due to it being too high a dose. It also may have been the wrong medication for you. If you tried ritalin and it didn't work out very well for you I would recommend trying dex amphetamine, and vice versa. They work differently and have different side effects, and some people are very well suited to one while finding no function from the other.

    The side effect you're describing of a loss of appetite is usually attributable to the amphetamine effect of too much stimulant. Remember that amphetamines were prescribed as a weight loss drug early in their development, so that side effect is to be expected.

    To manage food while on amphetamines you often have to have either deliberate planned structured meals or you have to have meals at the right time to be able to make up for the skipped meals. This might mean having a meal before you have your dose then having your dose, skipping food through the day, and then after the last of the dose wears off having another meal. I personally only eat once or twice a day, and always in the evening after my meds have run out. There is nothing wrong with doing that as long as you get sufficient food.

    As for the job I would recommend thinking about what you actually do thrive doing. I sucked at working in an office but I work in disability care now and have wildly different clients with very different needs, so every day is a new and stimulating challenge. Doing the same thing, especially something like paperwork, every day with minimal variation would not work for me at all. Maybe you are trying to do jobs you aren't suited to?

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  • Also, if you do decide you need to escalate past this asking them to explain the joke can work really well. It works wonders for bigotry and other issues too, if they say "it's just a joke" say "I don't understand, can you please explain the joke?" This makes them articulate their explanation for why they find it funny and chances are they will sound like a complete dingus in front of you and others, heavily disincentivising this behaviour.

  • Freecell is good, same with Fourty Thieves and Spider Solitaire.

  • Yeah. The titanium is awesome. I have screws and they bonded very well with the bone, absolutely no issues. Apparently the titanium expands and contracts less with temperature changes which is good for preventing aching in weather changes.

  • To be clear, the current system has a similar bias against non-white people. The rate of conviction is higher for non-white people, the sentences are harsher, and defence is less likely to be adequate. This is an attempt to balance things out a tiny bit and to hopefully not completely ruin the whole life of a person due to a series of bad choices. She should have known better, she has no justification for this behaviour, and what she did was wrong.

    She will serve a 3 year sentence rather than a 4 year sentence. That is still 75% of the time and still has all the other associated harms such as being denied freedom, difficulty reintegrating with society, and loss of social bonds and status. She is not getting off without punishment, she is not getting off with a slap on the wrist, she is being imprisoned and will be marked as an abuser.

    If the argument was "No abuser should get off with so little time in prison" or "Prison time is I effective at preventing SA" then we could have a conversation, but in this case it is all about the fact that a factor like cultural and social background resulted in a reduction in sentence when it normally results in a higher likelihood of sentencing and long prison time.

  • Lindsey Vonn

    She is a competitive skier and had a had injury recently and the doctor is sharing x-rays of the injury. Recovery from this type of injury is very hard because of how separated the bones are. It is hard to get them to actually knit together so you often need to use wire or screws to connect the bones and it often is only partially successful, requiring second or more surgeries to set things in place again. I had a much more minor injury which required two surgeries because the muscles in my hand were not held correctly due to the compromised bone and dislocated another bone.

  • My current streak for

    spider solitaire is 2416. I like spider solitaire and assume you probably like chess. Better than doom scrolling I think.

  • I can't see a ROM for it. Looks like it isn't supported as of now, but perhaps if you check XDA forums you may find another degoogled ROM worth your time.

  • In our current capitalist hellscape I think the crew will be listed as test equipment for measuring radiation.

  • This is a good example of how unscientific thinking works.

    Ketosis works well for epilepsy,especially treatment resistant or treatment incompatible such as in kids. It also seems to help with depression and anxiety, along with showing promising though not yet conclusive results for supporting ADHD and some difficulties with ASD. In those cases we see lots of overlap with schizophrenia in terms of family history and symptom presentation, so they seem related. A reasonable enough conclusion is that if something helps with one of those it may help with the others.

    A good example is sodium valproate. It is an anti epileptic medication and helps prevent seizures. It also helps with bipolar disorder. Is this because they have a shared underlying mechanism? Is this because the drug has more than one effect and both disorders are benefited by valproate? Is there a third thing that valproate impacts which impacts both disorders? We don't know.

    Ketosis helps with a bunch of things but has not been shown to be useful for schizophrenia. It is possible it is the treatment of the century, a wonderful intervention which will make problematic schizophrenia symptoms a thing of the past. Is that likely? I don't know and neither does he. We simply don't have evidence for that yet. We don't know if it is useful for schizophrenia or how useful or in what context. A scientific thinker would say that. A lawyer who wins not be making a scientific argument but by convincing people doesn't care about evidence, he cares about making a reasonable enough argument and sounding authoritative while doing it.

    It is not science based. He is a crank. If he tells you the sky is blue check for yourself, but don't Google "is the sky blue", search Wikipedia for "sky" and read the whole article.