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?

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.

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.

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.

This is a legitimate concern and has been addressed to some degree in some areas. Unfortunately we don’t have a perfect way of knowing that a specific specimen is from a specific species. Two very similar skeletons could be from the same or closely related species. The same goes for development over the life history of a specific organism. Adult humans have a different skull to height ratio to babies, but the ratio between toddlers and young chimps is very similar.

Fortunately we have many different aged animals of the same species in the same context to compare. We can see the infant, child, adolescent, adult, and aged forms for many species and this acts similarly to transitional fossils, they help close the gap. We can be more sure with more hints like sharing a space, being buried in the same context, having the same nitrogen isotope ratios in teeth, and eating the same prey. Lots of other things can act as clues to the relationships and make us more or less certain of a given relationship.

That said, fossilisation is rare. Not all that many individuals will be fossilised. Different types of tissue fossilise to different degrees and in some cases not at all. If an animal is mostly spongy material they may degrade too fast to fossilise and preserve structure. Other examples may only leave their imprint as a hollow or pressing of one material into another. I think the record is very sparse and will remain so, but adding more example allows more connection and conclusions to be made.

Yeah, so for Bedrock it is hosted by Microsoft and they are responsible. For any hosting infrastructure they will need to manage things themselves, but Microsoft seems to be taking things a step further. They seem to have blocked chat for Java users who are not verified to be adults. This means you may have to use a third party provider to verify your account by providing them with various details and trust that they won’t sell that information on.

Honestly, it is not something required by the law and it fits with a pattern I have noticed over the last few years. VPNs are being banned, age verification is being required on more and more sites starting with porn but now moving to things like video games, and the third party companies who can verify your age seem to be able to either sell that data on or sell things derived from that data. If I were planning to use authoritarian methods to control a population, similar to what ICE is doing in the USA, I would choose this strategy. Given the information in an age verification check I can train my AI systems to recognise specific faces and link them to the IMSI from a mobile phone present at a protest. This would identify the protestors and allow retribution at scale. Is that what is happening? I don’t know. But does it look exactly how that would look? Yes.

To expand on this a little, there are tonnes of options for spying on people but the key is tying your face to your identity. If you have a phone with you at a protest and they capture your IMSI (unique identifier for that handset) they can place you at the scene. They then only have to narrow down a little which face is tied to that phone and they know who you are. If they have a way of making a large database of faces and names, for example requiring ID and facial scans to access porn, then they can make this process much more rapid. It’s almost like there is some sort of overarching plan here, some sort of seizing of power through multiple fronts which are all connected and share interests, like how people who are all rich share the interest of further concentrating power in their own hands, just as an unrelated example.

If you provide the server, the actual computer used to provide a service, you are responsible for that server. Minecraft Bedrock servers are operated directly by Microsoft and as such are something they are responsible for.

The browser accesses any and all servers for web pages. Regulating the browser would not work as they have no control over the content, nor do they have the ability to effectively filter.

The confusion comes from you running two similar programs on your computer and having one of those behave differently to the other. The key is that the game client is a client only for that game, but the browser is a client for any web server out there. The client is not regulated at all, the server is. Anyone can access any web server from a browser, but only one server from a game client.

Interestingly WoW has custom servers which are not operated by Blizzard and as such Blizzard is not responsible for what happens on them. The operator of the server is the responsible party here and has to control their platform.

January was $1262 in AUD. I eat a fairly meat based diet with ribs, pork belly, eggs, butter, and good coffee. I would consider it reasonable for myself, my partner, and my cat. That also includes other household things like cling wrap, dish liquid, and so on, so actual food cost is probably more like $1000-1100. In USD that is $697-767, so well under $200 per week. Also my meat is top grade Australian beef, widely considered some of the best in the world, and the butter is grass fed cow butter. I work 20-25 hours per week and can support my partner and myself on my pay and my partner’s disability payment.

The lack of a charger comes partly from an EU measure. They essentially don’t want huge numbers of unnecessary chargers made and sold while passing that cost to the consumer. On that basis they think you should be able to use the existing charger you have or buy one separately to suit your needs.

This is actually a good move overall. You are paying for the charger when you get it with your phone, you just pay more for the phone. They made it a requirement that devices have a USB C port for charging so they are all compatible. That means if you like fast charging you can get a charger which supports that and suitable cables. If you prefer lower charging speeds and want a longer cable you can do that instead. Or if you want to exclusively use wireless charging you can do so too.

I personally have not found the chargers from phones to be of good quality, mostly they were just barely passable.

Lol, true, the planned obsolescence is real. That said, I use Choice, a consumer advocacy group in Australia. They do reviews of products independent of the organisations they are reviewing. They get their funding from member subscriptions, not deals with manufacturers, so their financial interests are well aligned. They reviewed my washer and dryer and said they were the quietest and close to the most energy efficient available. If they die in a few years I will have made the difference up in electricity usage savings and not going mad from the noise, so it seems like a good deal.

Consider a heat pump dryer. They use way less energy and make the house much less humid by condensing the water for drainage. It is a much more efficient system and saves money over the fairly short term.

Lol, yes, though they secretly love the attention and love. Mine is absolutely clear about wanting pets and cuddles at all times and will even come sit on my chest when I lay down to be gently rocked by my breathing just like he did when we was a tiny kitten. Nothing is better than giving a cat what they need.

I like to think of it as saving the brush for when the replacement breaks. It is a spare now, having a lovely early retirement with the possibility of returning to work depending on circumstances.

That said, I have found that putting things back where they go is the second best tool. The best for me is to literally tie it to myself. My belt bags have all the important things including a first aid kit, phone, headphones, power bank and cables, nitrile gloves, pen, notepad, car keys, and so on.

For your cat I would recommend buying a few of the brush, identical ones are what I would go for, and place them where you would expect to find the brush. Maybe try looking for the brush and just note all the places you check in order. Then load each up with a brush and you will never be without.

The most important thing in life is to pet the cat so anything we can do to ensure we pet the cat is good.