Initially I thought this would be about the Chat Control law and dodging end-to-end encryption. Turns out it’s just a clever little joke.

It’s good to be reminded sometimes that not everything is fucked up and there’s still room for a bit of fun.

I never knew how to get my voice out as a civilian. Thanks for the link. I’ve prepared a general email, but first asked a specific representative for tips. I wonder whether I’ll get a response.

Did anyone there experience it as a positive stay or expect a positive outcome at the end? It doesn’t really sound like a healthy place to be. Especially if you have problems.

I wouldn’t say really positive. But it changed a daily slightly negative into a daily slightly positive.

At work I regularly need to take short notes. I like to fill the page to the full. But it gets messier and more complicated aa the day goes on. So I’d strike through and cross out notes I don’t need anymore.
The thing is, crossing things out triggers a feeling of making mistakes. So instead of crossing out I started using check-marks (Dutch-style)., which feels like a succes and is also a quick fun flourish to draw. So small annoyances have turned into small victories.

Aside from the design of the flags, scrolling through these ones felt a bit like a colour blind test. Especially the demi-flags.

NPH dyeing his hair and eyebrows in an attempt to not be recognised.

Does this create communication blund spots? Because that’s dangerously good preperation for gulags or something

To check whether it’s raining

Yes! This must be it. I did not expect it to be on Steam, I’ll try it out. I forgot most of the interface, but it does being back memories.

That was quick, thanks so much.

Would it see a car driving towards it or would it see a car reversing away from it?

Trump is just the convenient caricature of a puppet pushed forward to be the face and disorganise everything. When he dies he’ll be replaced by someone else capable of filling that role. It wouldn’t surprise me if the follow-up person is already known in their circles.

Trump is old and messed up. The propaganda rocketing him up can just as easily shoot him down. He is here to do damage and to disrupt and corrupt the system. He’s here to weed out the failsafes against fascism/monarchy so a new political model can take over.

When he’s done enough, someone else will step forward to rebuild and ‘repair the damage’ but only in such a way that the fascist/oligarchy gains more power and the majority of people lose more power.

"Not a single commercial was memorable "

The fact that commercials are seen as anything else than annoying is already strange to me. But reading that it really is seen as an entertaining part of the Super Bowl takes it to a whole other level.

I’d like to link two vids from a youtube channel which depicts neurodivergent behaviour in an accessible way. Note that these most definitely are not check lists or a diagnostic tool

Pixie-gags Sociopathy & Narcism

It looks like a winky face and I interpret it as a sliding whistle doing the iconic falling sound

This is the funny cookbook. The author made it free to download. https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

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Hi,

Good of you to ask advice when recognising you experience problems. I’m not a professional cook, but I can cook well enough for it to be okay for other people. The problem in this case being that I learned by doing, trial and error and over a period of 15+ years now. Which means I can’t give steps to follow or the advice that will trigger improvement. Since I don’t know what your knowledge or experience entails, I’ll share the broadest of advice. (Even though NT people would find it too basic and might get offended. This is not my intention and I hope you will ignore every part which you deem redundant )

• Cutting, preparing, gattering ingredients etc. takes time. If something is already cooking/boiling it will not pause and wait for you. Even though it’s hard as you’ve already shared with us, try to read a recipe ahead of cooking, gather as much of the necesseities close by where you can find them, and wash and cut the ingredients before you start heating some other part of the meal. I’m notoriously slow in preparing too cook. I have burned or overcooked many meals by underestimating how long I need to look for or cut other ingredients. This rule of not turning on the stove untill after having prepared most of the things has helped me.
• Not everything has the same preperation time. “To start cooking” isn’t the same thing as “putting everything on the stove around the same time”. If potatoes need 14 minutes to cook, but a thin piece of meat will be ready in 5 minutes, start with boiling the potatoes for 8-9minutes and then start cooking the meat. If both start at the same time the meat will either burn for cooking too long or risk getting cold or chewy for being done too early. It’s better when most things are done relatively at the same time.
• As you said cutting can be hard. Know that the size of things impacts how long they need to cook/boil. Generally a larger chunk needs to be cooked longer to be done. So when cutting, try to have all the parts of your ingredient roughly the same size. Most of the times this means don’t have one part which is twice or more the size of another part. If it is cut it again. If things are not twice as big it often counts as close enough for the means of cooking.
• It’s okay and possible to check if something is done while cooking! For boiling potatoes or vegetables you can prick them with a fork. Just like on your plate, you want to feel it’s not too hard. If it is too hard, cook for longer. If it’s not, this ingredient is done. Some things like meats you can cut open to see if it’s still raw on the inside.

To summarize, a.k.a. TL;DR:

• don’t start cooking one ingredient untill you have prepared (gathered/washed/cut) ALL ingredients
• don’t put everything on the stove at the same time (if it has different preparation times)
• test while cooking

I hope you can find a bit of use in some of this advice.

My go too recipe is cooking (not boiling) garlic, onion, bell pepper and another vegatable in a pan (wok?). Depending on spices or sauce I serve it with rice, noodles/ramen or pasta. “Another vegetable” can change per day too switch things up and not eat the same thing everyday. I love zucchini (though dislike the English word for it), celery and/or carrots as the extra vegetable. But anything can work!

Also, I’ve found a funny cookbook which may help. It’s full of dark humour. Not to be taken too seriously, but it has helped me with the confidence too cook what I need. The premise of the book is “you need to eat something, otherwise you die” and it acknowledges that cooking can be a hassle and can cost a lot of energy. I’ll look up the pdf and edit this or add an extra comment.

Yay, duck safety

Congrats!

My friends suicide. His life has shaped my life in many ways. His death even more so. 10 years this month.