The vote is today, the propaganda war has been ongoing for years

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying “I’m ok with Intrusive software practices that provide a tangible benefit (fuck cheaters) because I air gap my shit.”

Malware implies malicious. It’s not malicious - it’s extremely intrusive.

Ultimately I don’t give a shit if they have every bit of data on the computer I play games on: there’s nothing there worth looking at. I do my private stuff on my phone. Gaming PC is for discord, games, and making shit for the games.

So I trust their root kit. They can’t do anything to me there.

Gotcha. The other issue with microwaving it on high settings is they burst releasing a dust of silica and indicating color, neither of which is good to breathe. If you’ve got good ppe and ventilate you should be fine.

It will kill the color changing effect tho

The video specifically calls that method out as dangerous and toxic.

Microwave is fastest but you’ve gotta do it at an extremely low power setting and he recommends not using it with a food microwave

It’s in the linked video

Taiwan is a natural fortress as well. Even if the mainland invaded the guerilla fighting in the mountains would be a new Afghanistan for the occupying force.

All for the political victory of “we did it!”

Taiwan has few natural resources that China doesn’t already have. They mostly have high tech industry… Which would be annihilated by an invasion. No way chip fabs survive: either they get bombed while softening up a landing or they get sabotaged as a spoiling action.

Misread another comment on the 40 part - my bad.

Good luck yourself - Everyone’s journey is different. My ADHD was crippling for decades and it worked out. I hope yours does too - but if it doesn’t ever quite work out I hope you give yourself the grace and the space to be imperfect.

I was definitely in a similar position but at a younger age. So I’m not sure how applicable my experience is to you at 40+

For me what helped most was 3fold:

1. Bupropion. I can’t state how much this antidepressant/ADHD combo medicine helped me chill out, function, and relax about social situations.

2. A major cognitive shift from “I must make friends” to “I’m totally happy alone, friends just make things better”

3. Learning to always assume the best. People aren’t out to get me, nor do they hate me. They’re generally busy, almost certainly have a small clique of friends they like to spend time with, and I’m not in that group. And that’s totally fine.

It took from age 23 until 26 for me to get that all straight in my head. I spent almost a year of that pulling back from all social responsibilities and taking time to be alone and heal.

Reading through your comments here reminds me of myself before that process and I’ll give you the same advice that a dear friend gave me - you need to go talk to a psychiatrist. Your mental state is unhealthy.

You don’t heal a broken leg by walking on it. You shouldn’t try to heal a broken mind by force of will. Medication is a modern wonder, and I’d seek it out every time in your position.

Interact with them just the same as before. they’re still friendly people, they’re just friendly people who didn’t come to an optional social event.

How many optional social events do you say no to? Personally I will decline dozens of invites to do things every year for various reasons including: nah I don’t feel like it.

It’s not that I don’t like the people doing the inviting: it’s that I have a limited social battery, limited free time and a lot of things I want to do.

And in the meantime: become even closer with the 5 who showed.

I am not! I hadn’t heard of it until just now. Very neat project.

No I’m just someone with a particular interest in corvids who feels represented by a god of Thought that is a bird

What a mediocre story

Not op - as far as I can tell they weren’t particularly warcrimey for WW2.

They killed a bunch of German POWs during the invasion of Sicily and killed 20 civilians while burning down a town for a supposed civilian killing a commander (turned out it was an enemy combatant).

Both deeply abhorrent but not “inventing new crimes”

I would but I get a 401 when I attempt to sign in.

I know it’s a functional Mozilla account because I use it every day for sync but here we are.

That’s because officially Putin knows who he supports has negative connotations for the electorate.

Whoever Putin visibly puts his weight behind is the opposite of who he wants to win.

The eye is literally a part of your brain poking out of a hole in your skull. It’s really hard to transplant. It’s nearly impossible to get sight from a transplanted eye:

There are on average ~7 million cone cells and ~92 million rod cells in the eye, each of which has its own separate nerve connection that runs all the way into the occipital lobe.

This guy would be the first person to ever get vision from a transplant.

It’s a dangerous command - I’d rather not run it by accidentally hitting the f key a second time.

Yeah it sounds like the real issue is lacking reinvestment.

I mean isn’t the Viennese model of social housing something like that?

Can a UKer explain the specifics of council housing? Is it housing you have to qualify for through low income?

I fucking hate Thatcher but it seems like a program that lets people buy the house they’ve been living in for so many years is a good idea: the problem is that the government doesn’t build more housing from it and subsidizes the sale, right?

You missed the point:

The original creator of a thing does not control the current usage.

It’s analogous.