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Not really, surprisingly. They mostly only needed basic assisted living stuff (meals were provided). Both needed help with their medications, but my grandpa was mostly independent, only requiring help putting on his shoes and taking showers. My grandma was a psycho wannabe escape artist though. But she didn't really need someone to watch her all the time. The building was intentionally designed confusingly to prevent escapes.

A few years ago my grandparents were in a memory care facility as their health declined. It cost them $18,000 a month to stay there. Adjusting for inflation that's like $22,000 a month.

Tl;Dr:

• Get an electronics organizer bin. Raise up your bed and put it under your bed
• Clean with someone else (they don't have to be cleaning your mess)
• Have someone else tell you what to do
• Take your meds if you have any

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It's hard to offer specific advice without seeing what we're working with, but you could get something like this to store lots of little components. You can also buy little lifts for the feet of your bed which will allow you to fit lots of stuff under your bed (at the cost of a much taller bed). My roommates in college loved those things.

As for actually doing the cleaning, body doubling works really well for me. My wife and I will do our separate cleaning chores, but the fact that she's also cleaning keeps me focused on my task. I don't want to be caught in a pig pen while she's made her area pristine. If you don't live with someone, you could do a video or voice call with a friend. My wife's therapist has offered to supervise (via video call) her while she does chores too. Having someone to hold me accountable really works well.

Having another person who doesn't live with you come over to your place and give you directions or suggestions can also be helpful. I have a really hard time making decisions about where and how I should store some of my things. My brother occasionally comes over, accesses what needs to go where, and tells me what he thinks I should do. I follow his suggestion as if it were an order. Sometimes we switch: I'll go over to his place and boss him around. This works for me because the wall preventing me from cleaning is decision fatigue from trying to find the perfect solution to an organizational problem. Not being able to identify where to start or what to do next also can stop me from organizing. Blindly following someone else's decision, even if it's not perfect, seriously helps. When I offer suggestions to my brother, it's relatively easy for me to do. After all, it's not my stuff. I've got no skin in the game.

Of course, someone has to be willing to help you clean like this. Don't force them into it. Make sure they know what they're getting into.

Finally: meds. If you have them, use them. I've found that my meds will keep me doing what I was doing before I took them. Don't wait for your meds to kick in and then start cleaning. Take your meds, start cleaning something that's easy and mindless (for me that's doing the dishes), and by the time your meds are in your system, you'll be more motivated to tackle something bigger.

Everyone is different. Some of this advice might help. Some might be worse than useless. But my therapist always says, "If what you're doing isn't working, try something different. Just 'trying harder' to do the same thing over and over doesn't work with an ADHD brain."

Sorry for the wall of text. Good luck!

"Quack! Quack! Quack quack quack; quack quack." -- Joseph Ladapo

I'm not sure, I wasn't really paying attention since I was brand new lol.

But the doctor wasn't worried. In fact she told my parents that within a few months it would be impossible to tell my collarbone was ever broken.

The Internet says children typically wear a sling for 3 to 6 weeks for a broken collarbone. I'd assume my parents just swaddled me or something. I'll ask them.

Who needs wider pelvises when you can break your child's collarbone instead?

Source: My collarbone broke when I was being born.

In my mildly educated opinion, I wouldn't say so. The Sun, The Daily Heil Mail, and The Daily Mirror are rags. The Times has its issues, as any paper does, but I wouldn't call it a rag. It's a center right paper with high factual reporting.

I can't offer a specific recommendation, other than to get a used laptop instead of new. Since price is an issue for you, buying used will help a lot.

Late last year, I bought a low spec Dell XPS 13 from 2019 for $300 USD from a local used electronics shop. New, this laptop would have been about $1,000. The battery isn't great, but I can get a replacement from iFixit for $100 if I feel like it. The screen is excellent. The CPU is... fine for my use case. RAM is subpar (8 gigs) and soldered (gross), but on Linux it hasn't a problem. I upgraded the NVMe SSD from 256 gig to 1 Tb for $60.

eBay likely has a lot of decent options for used laptops. You can look for enterprise grade hardware too. Enterprise grade stuff tends to have replacement part support more than consumer grade stuff.

Good luck!

Edit: You can also look at factory refurbished stuff too! Just check frequently since availability changes rapidly.

They do indeed. My area has them. However, those buses require riders to book a ride a day in advance, which is far from ideal. But even if that wasn't the case, you'd have to wait for the bus to arrive, then you have an unknown transit time (depending on who else is being picked up and dropped off) to your destination.

There doesn't seem to be a good option for disabled people's mobility.

Luckily the train pulls up right next to my disabled grandpa's house. And it drops him off right at the doctor's office. No walking required!

Oh wait.

That's what ballistic missile submarines are for.

Lemmino creates amazing documentaries about a wide variety of topics (DB Cooper, JFK Assassination, Jack the Ripper). He uploads very infrequently, but it's totally worth it when he does.

Barely Sociable is similar in style and uploads high quality pieces about various mysterious occurrences.

Drachinifel uploads frequent, well researched content about naval history from the age of sail to the 1950s.

Our Own Devices is a very small channel that feels similar to Technology Connections (another excellent channel). He uploads content about the history and inner workings of old devices of all sorts.

Throttle House is the best car channel on YouTube.

Jason Cammisa's Revelations series on the Hagerty channel has really good deep dives into the histories of some important cars.

Aging Wheels/Under Dunn are excellent car and/or wood project channels. Chickens make frequent appearances too.

Mentour Pilot has excellent analysis of airline crashes.

Jay Foreman uploads funny and informative content about maps (Map Men) and tidbits about the history of London.

Cathode Ray Dude uploads deep dives into weird computers, computer peripherals, and old cameras. I've watched his half hour video about modems at least 5 times.

Mustard uploads excellent content about crazy ideas in transportation (like the Soviet love affair with the ekranoplan).

I mean, there are 2.8 million civilians in the United States civil service. I'd imagine a country with 4 times the population would have a few more than that.

Oh my God Vyvanse is amazing. I was on Adderall XR for years, but I got sick of getting a huge burst of energy for 5 hours, feeling ok for 3, and then crashing hard after that. It was really hard dealing with that while work a 4/10 schedule.

Vyvanse is so smooth, I get a gentle push through most of the day, and a subtle let down after 10 hours or so.

Now if I could just be more diligent with my sleep...

Precisely. And since these machine guns use water cooling, they might even be the most effective weapon for the job, period. That way they can fire for an extremely long time.

"Fun" fact about Sickle Cell Disease: it gives you significant protection against malaria. If you have the sickle cell trait, you're a carrier for the disease, but you don't have symptoms of it. Being a carrier also gives protection from malaria.

So you're just going to ignore data that says something opposite to your preconceived notions about how stuff works? In that case, I've brought you a nice box of sand for your head.

It is surprising that EVs are not as reliable as one would expect, but then again, we have way more experience building internal combustion engines than we do EV components.

Consumer Reports publishes their methodology for collecting this reliability data. It's not difficult to find. It's not a black box.

I'm in the market for a new EV, so I checked out Consumer Reports reliability data for the models I was looking at. They break it down based on 20 areas (engine, electronics, infotainment, build quality, etc.) and provide reliability for each of those areas. And those areas are not weighted the same. Most of the reliability issues with the EVs I looked at are with electronics (presumably charger related) and drive train issues.

But despite that, CR still recommends a number of EVs, even ones with meh reliability. Fossil fuel good ol' boys my ass.

I recently started using Logseq. It's open source and pretty intuitive to use. The game changing feature for me is the ability to link notes together with tags. With a little organization, it makes it pretty easy to find stuff without resorting to a searchI also really like the daily journal feature which is useful for keeping events straight.

For the most part, I agree. LEDs are not the problem. The problem is either moronic drivers, or poor implementation of LED lights. As a driver of a very low car, the vast majority of my complaints about bright lights boils down to lifted trucks with ridiculous light bars, LEDs bulbs in halogen housings, or dufoids driving with their highbeams on. It doesn't matter if the highbeams are halogen or LED, they're both blinding.

That being said, there are cars with LED headlights that are blinding from the factory:

• 2023+ Subaru Outback.
• Jeep Wrangler/Gladiator (compounded by having a factory or aftermarket lift)
• Hyundai Palisade

Then there are the cars that are designed by morons that have all instruments in the center console. That makes it harder for drivers to see when their LED highbeams are on:

• Toyota Prius
• Tesla Model 3/Y

But there are plenty of cars with LED headlights that I don't have any issues with. In my experience, Mercedes and Audi seem to do a particularly good job of having bright lights for the driver without blinding anyone else.

And there are plenty of other cars with halogen headlights that are blinding from the factory too:

• Ford F-Series trucks with quad halogen headlamps
• Dodge trucks
• Chevy Cruze (or some other small to midsize American sedan, I can't tell)

The luddites who want to strap jam jars with glowworms in them to the front of new cars are being ridiculous. Properly aimed LEDs are so much safer.

When I got my new car with LED headlights, I couldn't believe how much more I could see. I could see fae down the road. Retroreflectors on lane markings far beyond the reach of my beams are visible. Pedestrians running across the street against the light wearing all black (true story) are visible! Despite clear lenses, new bulbs, and being correctly aimed, the halogen lights in my old Civic barely reached 100 feet down the road. My other halogen bulbed vehicle is better, but it's still a far cry from what I'm used to now.

Woah! I didn't know they made heat pump ice cream makers (for non commercial users) at a decent price.