I’m kind of curious about local opinions on whether this guy is a known liar and he’s saying what he thinks will get the controversy to blow over, or if he is legitimately working on getting alternative energy for this.

the fact that he’s like “we’ll use something else nuclear or whatever i dunno” makes me lean towards “liar,” but i know fuckall about utah politics.

Nice! I got a new one a couple weeks ago because one broke and I couldn’t find my other couple. Of course, immediately found them after the purchase. So it goes.

i think most of the time was watching a youtube video of someone doing it to build up confidence

i ended up replacing the mirrors of several other people who were putting off getting new ones, and the powered ones were slightly more complicated, but still not terrible

I was surprised how uncomplicated replacing those turned out to be. I was really expecting to never be able to get the door panel back on, but it wasn’t that bad

It makes sense it’s being reported on, since the US federal government did something unusual in these kinds of cases - they sent a government aircraft to return the child. What about this international abduction case is different than others, that this government would take that step?

It’s like when an immigrant commits a violent crime in a distant state. Why am I learning about it, far away from where it happened, and not more local violent crimes?

If a lesbian couple in California commits family annihilation, why do I hear about it, and the family annihilation in the same county as I live gets some immediate local news coverage and then…nothing?

If there are 1000 outstanding international abductions a year, and I hear about two, is there a reason for those two? Are they local? Do they involve celebrities or politicians? Is there something exceptional or weird that catches public nterest?

Also, this administration lies. Regularly. In ways that have shown up whenever their claims end up in court. By that point, it’s already spread through the news that an ICE agent was attacked with a snow shovel, or the person they shot tried to run them down. So, care is warrented with initial reports involving them.

If you think you have been drugged or spiked, seek help immediately, tell a trusted person and go to the hospital or call emergency services.

Oh, which trusted person? Not that one. A rando on the street is more trustworthy than the person who said they’d care for you until your dying day.

I worked at one of these warehouses for a little while. It was bad, and it sounds like it’s even worse now.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/202105/why-some-rape-victims-continue-to-date-their-rapist

It would probably take a lot of work to make like a wizard for low tech people to use for jailbreaking, right? A relative has brain damage and used to be tech savvy but now gets uneasy about things like that. I could jailbreak it for her, specifically, but I keep thinking about people in her situation who were early adopters of ebooks and would love to keep using the same device but can’t do steps like that anymore.

Sorry I asked this on your helpful comment! It just made me think of that kindle using relative. I second using that wiki and removing drm from all your books.

That came out of nowhere after a bunch of already known but reasonable advice. Was it written by AI and not checked for misinformation, or is it just spreading the cell phone radiation misinfo in an organic, human way, I wonder?

It’s not ideal, but keeping food on the table, a roof over your head, and light/heat running are going to be bigger priorities than worrying about a tomorrow that might not come, anyway.

I could’ve gone to school with your microwave. RIP

Well, if the assessment tool she made was created with the explicit intention that there would be room for notes and it could be overridden if necessary, and those aspects were removed to save cash by denying necessary care to the elderly, it’s not really the tool she made anymore. If I make a hammer, give it to someone, and they take off the head, I don’t need to feel responsible for it not working anymore.

Should she have expected this of the government? Maybe? But the responsibility has to primarily lay with the people who are using parts of her tool to abuse and neglect the elderly.

My parents still have an 80 year old christmas cactus. I should see how it’s doing next time I visit.

Do you have a metric of what would count as an obscure indie game? Like, number of reviews or something? Or is the rule just to avoid the big ones like Stardew Valley?

I’ve played Tchia, Coral Island, and My Time at Sandrock recently, and they feel like middle of the road as far as indies go. MTaS and Coral Island both had successful kickstarters. Would they count?

Sorry, this kind of thing is difficult for me to judge.

I do think it’d be interesting to do a real study on it. Keto can reduce seizures, and after study it might turn out the same mechanism of action that helps there helps with schizophrenia symptoms. I hope there’s a more extensive study being planned out there.

It’s a treatment for people who don’t respond to medicine.

https://www.epilepsy.com/treatment/dietary-therapies/ketogenic-diet

It’s pretty interesting! I listened to a medical history podcast about keto years ago.

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-ketogenic-diet Apparently the diet started as a treatment for epilepsy. Way back in history people noticed that if you were inclined to have seizures and were starving, you had fewer seizures. In the early 1900s there were experiments to figure out how to reduce seizures without, you know, starving them to death. keto!

I wouldn’t be shocked if keto had some kind of effect on the brain that helps with schizophrenia, but there’s no real info yet.

The evidence that ketogenic diet might help with schizophrenia symptom remission comes from two case reports that Palmer published in Schizophrenia Research in 2019. When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that “yes, it’s only two”, and that “case reports don’t prove anything. They’re not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias.” But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work. Palmer thought it was valuable to publish these case reports because remission of schizophrenia symptoms is incredibly rare.

Two case studies! The scientist quoted knows that it means nothing! Don’t read one article that might show something that confirms your bias and go “this is real.”

It’s a budgeting app, it looks like. So this community is for people to find alternatives.