Sadly you mimic the small-minded willfully ignorant people who call themselves Christians too well. People like that really get on my nerves since it is painfully obvious that they don’t know the Bible they claim to believe.
Isaiah 5:20 is always what comes to mind in scenarios like this (e.g. Trump calling accountability evil):
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Speaking of replicators, does anyone know where the larger industrials ones are supposed to be on the Galaxy and Intrepid class? I can’t recall seeing any other replicator than the microwave-sized standard ones. Not particularly useful for fabricating large parts or recycling large items.
Or does the cargo transporter fill this role too?
You get one dodgy episode and that’s all anyone remembers…
Yes, although regular brushing (esp. with a deshedder) and vacuuming helps a lot.
Yes! I have to understand how a process works before I can do it myself.
To all the people who just “give it a go” without knowing exactly what they’re doing - I cannot comprehend how you do that.
Something something deflector dish…
That was Jon Pertwee’s go-to for technobabble when he was in Doctor Who (although the full line “I’ve reversed the polarity of the neutron flow” only appears twice, IIRC).
Yeah, that’s got my attention too. Definitely going to try them out now since I need an alternative for remote support for family.
In my experience becoming non-verbal may also depend on who you’re with. It might be that your partner goes non-verbal with other people first and you last (since you are the most accepting of this).
If you’re able to speak for your partner in those situations (I suggest discussing how they should signal to you that this is needed, plus in what situations it would be appropriate) that can be a big help.
Also, as a couple of other commenters have mentioned, look into other forms of communication. Texting or email is often still possible if not too overwhelmed, so again discuss with your partner - perhaps there is a shorthand set of messages or emojis they can use when they’re struggling to communicate that will allow them to convey what’s happening and what they need.
Thanks.
Really appreciate you taking the time to explain that. Unfortunately the journalism issue is one of those that I haven’t had a chance to look into. I like to think I’m aware of the Murdoch propaganda (and the other major “news” outlets here) but there’s still clearly some topics which don’t register as problematic until I dig into them.
As an Australian, my government can go for it. None of the tech companies have appreciated the Australian government’s attempts to regulate them (e.g. trying to make Google and Meta pay for using our journalism). (edit: not a good example)
That said, we have had idiots in power from time to time that definitely have worked against us, usually arguing the “security over privacy” nonsense (metadata collection laws, encryption backdoor legislation, etc.).
I am glad to see this happening. Unfortunately a lot of the damage is already done, though - staff have been lost and may not be easily replaced, studies have been interrupted at critical points and cannot simply be resumed from where they left off, etc. At least this pushback from the courts may reduce the likelihood of further such cuts.
That’s true, yes, but I suspect the variation across NTs is not as wide as the gap between NTs and neurodivergents.
As an analogy, everybody’s colour vision is slightly different. But most people are similar enough that they agree on colour, whereas somebody who is colour blind has a distinctly different experience. Most people don’t even think twice that what they are seeing is not what another person might be seeing (and without special software it’s basically impossible for people with regular vision to gain an understanding of what a colourblind person might see, whilst a colourblind person can only get an idea of what regular colour vision looks like if they have the right colourblindness profile for a pair specialised filtering glasses to work).
To state the obvious: predominantly because they are unaware that their experience of the world is not universal, but in some cases simply because it inconveniences them.
Interesting, I hadn’t seen news about that Apple feature before… There seems to be a lot more press around Recall, which in turn amps up the amount of consumer attention and backlash.
That said (and I wouldn’t want Apple’s “semantic search” even if I had an Apple device), I’d still trust Apple more to manage the dataset securely compared to Microsoft. The Apple ecosystem is far more strictly controlled, whereas in Windows it’s more of a free-for-all (most people just used XP as an administrator, the UAC could be easily disabled on Windows Vista and 7, etc.). Especially with Microsoft’s move to put advertising in Windows 11 and complete lack of security measures in the initial version of Recall, it is very hard to trust Microsoft in this regard.
Gardening is one of my hobbies but I don’t have much retail experience… Guess that’s me ruled out then.
I partly agree and disagree with the description of executive dysfunction. I would also break it into two categories, but the first encompasses both aspects of the description by “overwhelmed”.
In this case, the anxiety or stress that impedes function is due to uncertainty around how to achieve the desired outcome. The degree of anxiety or stress is dependent on the cost of failure; e.g. something with no perceived stakes (or very low stakes) allows for a high degree of uncertainty and an imperfect or incomplete plan can be executed because the cost of it going wrong is negligible. However, as the stakes rise, the degree of uncertainty required to create a “barrier to entry” (i.e. a sufficient amount of anxiety or stress to prevent action) decreases. The uncertainty itself could simply be not knowing how to approach or break down a task as per the comment, but it is also often the uncertainty introduced by other people. If you know someone well, then you can have reasonable confidence in how they might respond to a particular topic. If not, though, and they are a key part of achieving said goal, then oh boy does that cause stress!
The other category is not directly due to anxiety/stress but instead a result of fatigue, burnout or being overwhelmed (i.e. near meltdown). The brain effectively goes “nope” and refuses to process the required information no matter how much you want it to or how important it is. The irony is that if the anxiety or stress from the previous category is high enough, it can actually create this overwhelmed state, but in my experience severe fatigue, too much sensory input or too many cognitive demands (i.e. being forced to juggle too many tasks/problems/interactions at once) will readily create this situation too.
I think Christopher Heyerdahl is Canada’s answer to Jeffrey Combs. Not only does he show up in Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3’s “People of Earth”), but he plays three roles in the Stargate franchise (two recurring ones in Stargate: Atlantis) and another two recurring roles in Sanctuary (where a lot of other Stargate actors show up too).
At least it looks like one of the quick-release ones (the clip pulls apart if the collar gets caught on something). We have those for our cats.