cynar @ cynar @lemmy.world

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Thankfully we have an election soon. The current polls put the Tories in a VERY bad situation. Hopefully we can send a clear and unequivocal message about things like this.

You can bribe a guard dog, you won't bribe a flock of geese. The owner will know you are there, and there WILL be blood!

I have ADHD myself, so my EF is screwed. I actually use audio books to keep my brain from stressing while doing dull tasks.

I would suspect it's low information voters.

Anyone who pays attention, and isn't part of his cult, realises how bad trump is. Unfortunately, a lot of voters just don't pay attention. To them, they seem mud slinging in both directions, and just tune it out.

A felony conviction is a different beast. It's not just mud slinging. If he's been convicted, it's not just smoke, he's a bad man!

There's a reason that the right pushes the "both sides" mentality. This just managed to cut past the smoke screen that they threw up. Whether it sticks is another story.

My phone autocorrect has been ducking annoying recently.

Thanks for the heads up.

The consensus in the trans community is to let a potential partner know earlier, rather than later. It avoids the situation you've encountered. Some men also can react violently, when they find out, so it's quite a critical dilemma to them.

Unfortunately, not all follow that mindset. They also tend to bust out a lot, and so lead a lot of men on.

It's a bit like the scumbag dilemma women face. Very few men are scumbags, yet women encounter them regularly when dating. Most men try not to annoy the women they find attractive. They are careful in their approach mentality. This means they only make a few approaches (relatively). They also tend to pair off, and so exit the pool. Scumbags cast a wide net, and don't hang on to women for long. This means they make a LOT of approaches, and so annoy a vastly disproportionate number of women.

Basically most trans people try to be as polite and careful about it as possible. A few, unfortunately, can destroy the reputation of the rest by being scumbags about it, at least locally.

The problem is they fit TOO well. We struggle to get either relativity or QM to deviate significantly close to their "realms". However, neither predicts the existence of the other, and are incompatible in basic ideas about reality.

Basically, we know they don't align, but we can't access the middle area, and we can't find any useful cracks to pry at within the accessible areas. It's been driving physicists up the wall for decades.

What's really screwy is you can force light to only travel as a evanescent wave. It's completely undetectable without a second interaction, but light must transmit energy using the purely imaginary part of the complex wave.

The imaginary component definitely has some physical meaning, it's not just a useful mathematical trick.

Not offhand, once I figured out what was happening and how to fix it, it became a fairly solved problem for me, about a decade back.

The NHS has a reasonable writeup on it. The hibernation theory is less proven, so tends not to come up in medical advice.

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/overview/

It very much depends on the task. So long as the tasks don't overlap, in cognitive requirements, you're fine. E.g. you can listen to a podcast, while washing up. As soon as the requirements overlap, then your point holds. E.g. I personally can't write anything down, while listening to an audiobook. The resource requirements overlap.

It's also worth noting that different people can do the same task with different parts of the brain. E.g. accurate timekeeping. Some people do it visually, others audibly etc.

They are excellent for seasonal affective disorder. Basically, humans technically have a mild form of hibernation. Our modern lifestyle doesn't allow for that however. When you don't get enough sunlight, our body assumes it's time to bed down. This is experienced as an extended bout of apathy and tiredness, leading to depression.

A sunlamp has enough light, of the right spectrum, to help reset this system to summer mode.

I was more thinking of a properly made Sheppard's pie, or a beef roast with trimmings.

If you really love our jellied eels though... 🤷‍♂️

I'm fairly sure they only still exist to prank tourists.

We've been completely screwed over by the supermarkets on this one. A lot of our base ingredients are now bland and tasteless. This has had a knock on effect.

Good, traditional English food is far from bland and tasteless.

That's the one. I'm involved in a UK based shed. Our makerspace is technically part of it.

It's also worth noting the existence of the "Men in Sheds" movement. It's nominally aimed at retired or disadvantaged men, but generally they are open to all.

If you want to get maximum impact, it might be worth looking into tying into them (retirees are often extremely bad at making websites).

Glad I could help. I still remember reading the forum posts when the author came back from his hiatus. He was almost freaked out by the fact his throwaway story practically created an entire genera of story.

I just spent the weekend driving a remote controlled Henry hoover around a festival. It's amazing how many people immediately anthropomorphised it.

It got a lot of head pats, and cooing, as if it was a small, happy, excitable dog.

The latter is called deathworlders. It was written as a short story. The author disappeared for a while. When he came back, he started writing a whole web serial on the premise.

I also remember reading the former, though where is another question.

Quick save, from the web serial "The perfect run"

Ah, but ARE they a tiny minority? They could be anyone, ANYONE, and you would never know, until it was too late!