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BilboBargains

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  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

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  • I want to ban everything conservatives and corporations love. All drugs legal except alcohol, ban billionaires, ban lobbying, keep doing that until their heads explode.

    We know that social media is designed to be addictive and needs to be regulated the same way any addictive or dangerous substance or activity should be. Harm reduction and education is the best way in general.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • Nice catch lol

  • Hi, i have not been diagnosed, but have been compelled to try embrace what I have been told is my neural diversity

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  • Sensitive people are vulnerable to trauma, that often goes with the neurodivergent territory. We have sensory issues that overwhelm us, noise, mood, physical environment. We also take longer to come to maturity and that is interpreted as a failing by ignorant people. What we actually require is space and compassion while we develop the skills to manage out in the world. There are many scientists, engineers, musicians and artists who are neurodivergent and were probably considered 'weird' as kids but went on to create great works of art or solve intractable problems in science. You cannot do this without being sensitive to very small details. What we have is precious but misunderstood and fragile. Some people are lucky and end up in a nurturing environment, others have to fight more to get their due. Some fall in that fight, as evidenced by the abnormal representation of neurodivergent men in prison. Our life outcomes are inferior on average and that is the real crime. My life outcomes would be way worse if not for a few instrumental characters who showed me a different way. I'm determined my daughter doesn't go through the same things I did. If she tells me that she cannot summon the motivation to do homework I tell her I'm proud that she tried. If she's late and disorganised we laugh about it. That is what I needed as a child. Now I'm compelled to accept that these people were ignorant and I shouldn't condemn them. To that I say fuck no. Ignorance has never been a legitimate legal defence so why do I need to give a fuck about their plight?

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    Today I learned that despite its dissolution almost 35 years ago, Soviet Union is still #2 on overall Olympic medals won tally. They won 1204 medals in 39 years

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  • They would be #1 if it weren't for Lance Armstrong and his doping antics.

  • Why German building projects run over time and budget

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  • I would imagine it is the same situation everywhere. Does anybody know of a nation that builds on time? Failing that, a big project that didn't overrun? The only example I can think of is soviet rearmament during Barbarossa. You could argue they produced the t34 tank in time to save Moscow. There must be more recent examples that our governments could learn from.

    Unless the government is directly managing the project and they are also sufficiently competent to do so, we will always be at the mercy of shady contractors.

  • Hi, i have not been diagnosed, but have been compelled to try embrace what I have been told is my neural diversity

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  • The other thing to keep in mind is that whatever you feel right now is temporary. That doesn't mean how you feel is invalid, just that life is constant change. By the sounds of it your relationship with parents is bad. That is one framing. On the other hand you have a benefactor who is caring for you and believes in you.

    The inner monologue of a depressive person is often their harshest critic. That's the point of meditation, we become sensitive to the automatic generation of thoughts as they come into consciousness. We can be aware of the thoughts without necessarily following them to the conclusion that we are useless, not deserving of respect, our situation is hopeless, etc.

    Coming out of depression is a chicken and egg conundrum. We have to believe in ourselves to do it but the reason we are depressed is because we don't believe in ourselves. That is the challenge. Just know it is possible to do and many people have done it before you. Depression, substance use, unemployment, relationship dysfunction are all symptoms of untreated autism, adhd and many other 'disorders'. Neurodivergent people are often treated very poorly by society at large and that is a point of shame for them, not us. Maybe I'm a little further down that path than you are but it remains a huge source of resentment that I must work on. We cannot be truly compassionate with ourselves until we are compassionate with others.

  • Hi, i have not been diagnosed, but have been compelled to try embrace what I have been told is my neural diversity

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  • You don't have to follow other people's advice. Everyone has to find their own path to recovery because everyone has their own unique set of challenges. The important thing is to try something and see if it works. If it doesn't, think about why, gradually you will home in on the things that work for you. There has been long stretches of time when I have been incapable of self care and I still work on it. For me the critical element was self awareness. Whatever small amount I have cultivated has been extremely liberating. It used to be inconceivable to laugh at myself and I look back on that time and barely recognise myself, it feels surreal sometimes. Diagnosed ADHD at 47, by the way.

  • Cardi B Fires Back At Donald Trump’s DHS After Calling Out ICE At ‘Little Miss Drama’ Tour: “Why Y’all Don’t Wanna Talk About The Epstein Files?”

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  • Boom, roasted

  • Hi, i have not been diagnosed, but have been compelled to try embrace what I have been told is my neural diversity

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  • It's a weird space, not knowing what you are. It takes time to make sense of it and you should treat it like a long term project. Reaching out to people like this group is useful but try and do that in person if possible. It's important to have allies. Diversity in your social circle builds resilience so that you always have someone to turn to. I think being lonely and misunderstood is common. Things that have helped me:

    • medication
    • sleep, food routine
    • meditation
    • education and work
    • sport and outdoor activities (also a good way of meeting kind people)
    • cultivating compassion for myself and others

  • Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby

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  • What if I told you I wanted to suck on your nipples every day, unsolicited?

  • World's first 628Ah grid-scale battery enters operation

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  • Ah is not a good unit for explaining capacity, it's better to use Joules. Ah is better suited to throughput because it informs the maximal load that can be applied.

  • When you get older you lose the ability to do things quietly, such as fart, or let young people live their lives.

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  • I will concede the farting.

  • Teatime gone tits-up, UK, 1870s?

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  • She's a big old unit

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    Jeffrey Epstein Sent Five Nights At Freddy’s Porn Via 4Chan Links, Emails Show

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  • Five nights at epstein island

  • Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

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  • There's an argument for using these services in the early stages because they often operate at a loss in the hope that they will secure a monopoly in the future. The trick is to immediately abandon them when they jack the price up. I recently heard that in the food delivery space virtually no one is turning a profit.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • It would not be surprising if found to be true. Difficult to see how the current business model operates at a profit. Their long term goal is the usual loss leader model until a monopoly is achieved and then slug us with ads, sell all the data, hike the price, etc. Sickening to watch them cosy up to fascists. They are probably supplying any and all the agencies with intelligence scraped from their user base. If Facebook were a person they would be a psychopath.

  • Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?

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  • It's not a reason to discount someone's views, is why. Addicts are still people, worthy of respect and dignity. The real reason to discount RFK is that he's wrong about most topics pertaining to health and he doesn't respect the science or evidence that contradict his opinions. The problem is that most of the electorate is scientifically illiterate, the end result being an over privileged dunce like RFK deciding how your health care is organised. Can't put an insurance premium on that. Good luck guys.

  • How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?

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  • Seems that way. Physics predicts completely wild outcomes at the extrema, in this case gravity but also for things that are very small. Quantum entanglement is a very curious phenomenon seemingly transferring information over vast distances instantaneously, faster than the speed of light which is impossible.

  • How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?

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  • As I understand it, the enormous gravitational force causes time and space to become inverted. Instead of velocity being defined as time to displace position, time occurs over displacement. A person on the event horizon would be apparently frozen in place until they eventually faded to nothing. Not sure how that analogy works since light doesn't escape a black hole but it's how Brian Cox explained it.