That’s a possibility. The guy acted grossly negligent and thus the accident insurance can reduce the coverage and in some cases even deny it completely.

Oops, it’s ASD in English (but ASS in German)

Another “no idea about the situation im CA” comment, but I think this is pretty the same everywhere (in Western countries).

• If you don’t think it will help you to know for sure and you don’t need others to adopt to your needs and you don’t need therapy or even medication, there’s no need to go for a diagnosis.
• If you’re diagnosed, that’s between you and your psychologist/psychiatrist (and maybe your primary care taker and, if you need them to pay for it or further therapy, maybe your health insurance).
• If you decide to go back to school one day, a diagnosis could help a lot with adopting it to your needs. Well, the same should be true about your employment but that doesn’t always work out and as you say it could also have negative effects. Not sure if CA has employer protections for cases where disclosing such a diagnosis would lead to negative outcomes.

Personally I suspected I have some ASD symptoms but that I actually have ADHD. But now it’s clear I have no ADHD and I will learn later today whether I get clinically diagnosed with ASD. By now it’s clear I have some symptoms very strongly, some rather mildly and some probably not at all. Knowing this has already helped me deal with myself better (e.g. less fighting against my nature where I now know they’re lost battles anyway) so the formal diagnosis matters less at this point. But it would enable me to get more insurance-paid therapy to start into this “new life” and I could make some demands at work of I feel them necessary (currently that only includes keeping a fixed/own desk when we soon switch to shared desks, but that might change the more I learn about my needs).

In your situation, particularly if you’re hesitant about seeing a professional about this, I’d read some books on the matter. I think there are three important categories and I recommend reading at least one of each: 1) scientifically(-inclined) ones that explain the “theory” (like those by Atwood), 2) first-hand experiences (auto-biographies and such) and 3) guidebooks (how to deal with it as an adult or as an employee or such).

Edit: Oh, I forgot one benefit of being formally diagnosed. Or maybe they’re two. Autism fairly frequently comes together with other psychological syndromes/whatnot, and a psychologist should be able to identify them which might further help you. Autism also fairly frequently is the cause for other psychological illness and a formal Autism diagnosis might speed up your access to help (and medication), e.g. when you suffer from depression.

Edit: oops, it’s ASD in English, fixed

I can’t speak for the church staff, but personally it’s just much more convenient to do it on my work laptop.

Also, my employer isn’t allowed to monitor me without good reason. So yea, I don’t even disable the VPN to my office for it.

Will Google really manage to make it impossible to root your phone?

Google has managed this years ago, but it’s optional. There was a fairly short timeframe when most phone makers enforced it, but now most allow power users to disable the security and root their phones. But usually they will disable some security-sensitive features like Samsung Knox. And many security-sensitive apps like banking apps will not let you run them anymore (if yours does, great for you, but that also means your bank’s security is shit, just FYI).

If you use 1 rubel coins, sure. Personally, I prefer to splurge on TP.

Let me know once the 50 rubel note is cheaper than a sheet of TP.

Is there a labor shortage in the construction industry? Because otherwise I’m pretty sure there’s enough time to hire more hands.

Dude, 100Mbps isn’t good enough anymore either

One day in our lifetime will be the last day we see ice that doesn’t come out of a freezer.

X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.

So yea, he’s been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there’s also Tesla Model X.

*We’re a giant shithole with a few decent states that hold us up

lol what? Maybe 40 years ago

Check out all instances with grad in their name as well as all instances with .ml domains.

Either you’re wearing it (way) too tight or it’s cheap garbage. Going through two wristbands per year is not normal.

wtf do you do to those wristbands?

Bird flu is an influenza virus, not a corona virus. Thus the “flu” in “bird flu”.

Also, Covid-19 wasn’t Corona 1, we already had SARS, etc.

Fish

Japan, just like China, has disputes over several groups of “islands” with several of their neighbors (at least Russia, South Korea, China and Taiwan). A very small number of these islands are inhabited. But many are more or less just rocks that formed from underwater volcanoes. (Japan grows by a few more islands regularly due to those.)

The islands this is about are claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan. They hold strategic significance, but it’s mostly about suspected resources at the bottom of the sea.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks

Isn’t the Quran supposed to be read only in Arabic? Or was that just the Torah and Hebrew?