Both my kids had jaundice and had to be under a blue light for a few days after birth. Not doing so doesn’t necessarily kill the kid, but it can cause brain damage.

I wonder if these parents are refusing this, it’s a bit unsettling so I bet they are, which is an upsetting thought. :/

That was my guess, some is the most deranged driving and parking happens by schools, even high schools where the kids don’t need anyone there to get them. They swarm in all around the block, as if there weren’t a dozen other ways to get them home.

I’m so grateful my hybrid from over a decade ago still gets 45mpg. People thought me crazy to drop roughly $5k more on a car but who’s laughing now?

Although, there were so few options back then and I really wanted an EV, even before we had places to charge it. If I just had a little more money I’d probably have had to get a Tesla. No way past me would have guessed the current state of things regarding that… I knew gas was gonna be a liability, but not that Elon was a lunatic, or even who he was. This was pre-Trump, even!

I think it’ll also do it if you return after a long time. I duel boot and get hit with the “we’re doing this right now” updates, which oddly still wait a few minutes before going it, I guess so I can settle in first and get annoyed that I need to open that proprietary PPT again.

Real question while we shitpost; if they require a 4 second video can you just wear a disguise for fun? I’ve got neat prosthetics I don’t get to use often.

And if so, which aspects are best to cover up? Bushy unibrow? Demon contacts? Pointy ears? Crazy nose? Forehead ridges?

Imagine, you’re a conservative PM, self described Iron Lady, meeting your ideological ally and he says something so insanely offensive and stupid, you change your whole worldview for the better.

I can dream, but we know she already knows whose company she’s in and she’s secretly fine with it as long as the world order shifts right.

Not just likes but also… whatever threads calls a retweet. What human being freely echoes an advertisement? Lol

I say it is a lunatic, because who says this on fucking LinkedIn, lol. Also I really would hate to be that person’s son, even if they’re trying to make a valid point because they’re totally throwing their kid under the bus here.

Basically it’s like LinkedIn poisoned their brain’s ability to form an argument and before that they were a perfectly reasonable adult with sensible values that are still there, hidden under the c-suite talk.

A 4070 Super is an expensive and powerful card, though, so that’s not a very good sample. DLSS 4 is more for lower end cards, like a 4060, and only on games with bad optimization (which tend to use in house engines, rather than something like UE5).

Hell, graphics haven’t even improved all that much since my old 2070 days, and yet somehow it can’t even run half of the new releases at 1440p. Some of that are those expenses special effects (which you can’t always disable) but some of that is just really shit optimization.

I’ve seen it in reverse; people who saw the initial yassification of characters were impressed by the “rendering” but after a few days, have realized that perhaps it isn’t the creative intent to make everyone look like AI slop.

Plus even if the tech ends up being good, the demonstration (and subsequent response) is very much not. Shadows getting washed out, people’s arms disappearing, and other things, people looking it over realize it’s not even doing what it wants to do.

Maybe it’ll work out when the creators have control over it and can prevent it from undoing important stuff, like a character’s plot related scars or lighting effects used to show players where to go, but that’s all suspect until proven otherwise.

You’d hope so, and reviews suggest it’s better but takes a while for each turn. And to be fair, HoMM3 was decades ago, back then they’d compensate for bad AI by giving them considerably more resources per turn. That was just the standard at the time for any turn taking game though.

Fair point, and I appreciate the clarification as I didn’t mean that as a happy pills concept or that you can just be happy. Neurotypicals aren’t usually happy, either. I just meant not depressed and, perhaps happy, or anything else that is unlocked by not having that heavy burden. I simply forget the broader audience might have that “happy pills” impression and I’m sorry if anyone thought that’s what I meant.

And yeah, therapy and lifestyle changes are important, plus addressing anything else that might be comorbid with depression (i.e. other conditions that came with it).

My ex took my axe, and she lives all the way in Texas.

Nationalism tells you your nation is what to be proud of, but that’s dangerous and manipulative.

Instead, focus on the people. You can be proud of the people who are protesting, people who are running secret grocery runs for people hiding from ICE, people promoting progressive or scientific thought in threatened educational spaces, and so on.

There are still plenty of us left in the US, some against our will, and you can still be proud of them for still trying when so many others have given up.

It’s indeed the time. I found Cachy was a good pivot, similar feel but seems to work better overall. Manjaro is still based on Arch after all, technically.

My Internet is significantly not conservative, hehe. But yes, yes they did and it’s depressing.

For me it’s obvious: my dad’s an alcoholic. There was a sufficient reduction in random hallway pissing, insults, death threats, and so on.

I still somehow have a relationship with the guy, but living with him w/ vodka in the house is a miserable time.

They’re obviously wrong, and commenters already gave you correct information that it typically isn’t long term (especially in combination with therapy, for some).

I will add two things I’ve seen before on the parent side (typically parents at a school). One, they might not understand that depression isn’t something they caused- in many cases, it’s biological and out of anyone’s hands. There’s a lot of taboo, much of which can be shame or guilt, which is fully unwarranted, but treating it admits it’s serious. “Could I have some something better?” and “what will others think?” are a common thoughts. I’m not sure if that’s the case in your culture, but perhaps.

Second, seeing a change in your child can be a little scary. They misunderstand what the change would be (y’know, happy) but imagine you love your child and all their qualities, and that’s going to change under medication. Maybe they’ll be less creative? Maybe they’ll lose their human side? And it’s true there will be a change, but the thing is depression is what’s changing who you are, not the medication.

Anyway that’s my two cents since I work in education and teach about these things to other educators. Parental approval is a REAL hurdle for education professionals and they don’t always succeed, but be persistent and make sure they understand it’s not shameful, it’s no one’s fault, medication will allow you to be yourself, and as everyone else has explained, it’s likely only temporary.

The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.

The irony is I’m pretty sure Windows started getting dumber as it copied MacOS when it gained popularity, removing file extensions, making file systems harder to navigate, spending lots of resources on GUI effects, etc. I mean 11 even centered the start menu, c’mon!