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woah holy shit a bio?
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 11 hours ago:
Actually that’s a really good post. I didn’t know that salt without potassium would make you sick, as the products I used always had an amount of potassium in them.
And listening to our bodies shouldn’t be that hard, but here we are lol
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 1 day ago:
I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I’m probably ASD, and there’s a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.
And no problem with that yeah.
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.
And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.
They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn’t really want to see other purple people
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called “vitassium”. They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.
It’s kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.
Well that backfired.
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
Well, bro, I got some bad news on that front.
I’ve been to two of the best hospitals in the world (not on purpose, just coincidentally and they wanted to check it out in their specialty clinics) and went through some unpleasant testing (one is called a thermoregulation sweat test that they cover you in color changing sand), and that’s the exact same thing I have to do.
I take 4 salt pills, drink 3 liters of water, Gatorade or Pedialyte and a beta blocker. I do cardio. The one thing I am starting to get better at now is lower body strength - my legs are pretty dinky and along with increased blood volume, bigger leg muscles can help ease the symptoms.
The beta blocker thing I got unlucky with though, there’s a few of them that are better for pots but I can’t metabolize them (or maybe I rapidly metabolize them so they don’t work at all, I cant remember).
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
Does really hot weather seem to cause it?
Do you seem to eat less salt than other people?
Do you have persistently low blood pressure but a heart rate that is easy to spike?
If you stretch just right will it happen?
I don’t want to just say “go see a doctor” but having collapsed at very bad opportunities, it is not worth finding out until it’s too late that you have to make some lifestyle changes to function.
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
I want to point out that Orthostatic Hypotension is normal to some degree.
If you experience it changing positions while sitting, or notice exercise and heat intolerance, talk to a doctor. In the short term drink enough fluids and get a bunch of sodium and potassium in you.
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 2 days ago:
POTS?
I actually had to start taking salt pills. I still greyout, but I don’t lose muscle strength anymore.
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 1 month ago:
I saw cybercrooks and had to take the opportunity
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 3 months ago:
This feels like an attempt to destroy open source projects. Overwhelm developers with crap PRs so they can’t fix real issues.
It won’t work long term, because I can’t imagine anyone staying on GitHub after it gets bad.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 3 months ago:
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 5 months ago:
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 8 months ago:
I imagine the children with these things are emotionally disregulated in some way shape or form. A small group of children sometimes don’t learn to self soothe when they are very young, others in ASD struggle with it for a lifetime. Some with ADHD have a very difficult time when their medicine wears off and their emotions kick back in to overdrive.
For all those groups I mentioned, the whole concept of this thing was almost brilliant. Something that they can go to knowing it will be able to help them guide through emotions while mom and dad are doing something necessary like cooking or fixing something outside, or in the bathroom.
If you haven’t had to deal with a child that has emotional regulation problems, then it is hard to explain the difficulty that the failure of this device will make. It is true that they will adapt it, they always do, that’s how things work. The problem is that the emotional disregulation leads to broken things at home, aggressive behaviors with peers, getting kicked out of preschool and day care, etc.
It truly is a nightmare scenario. The parents have to prepare for all of these things and a new way to help their child through the limited existing means.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 8 months ago:
AAAARROOOOOOO!
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 8 months ago:
Man those parents. Oof.
I do not wanna be in their shoes.
Telling your kid that needed an emotional support robot friend that the robot friend is going to take a nap for a long time and might not wake back up? Ooo boy.
Dealing with a kid in a divorce is hard enough. This seems like a terrifying nightmare.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 9 months ago:
I added an edit to clarify my reflection.
It’s one of the reasons I couldn’t go into the defense industry. Not just working on weapons that are deadly to enemy combatants and innocents; but making profit off of doing so.
If there becomes a point in my career where it’s clear that my work doesn’t make things better, then I know I’ve made a mistake.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 9 months ago:
It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.
I’m glad someone said it because this thought popped in my head yesterday. Been thinking about the consequences of my system, and really if it brings benefit to the users, but also who it affects indirectly.
So far, I’m ok with it. There is part of it that adds some safety for the business, the users, and people affected indirectly. But it still has a profit motive and that’s the uncomfortable part.
- Comment on Funny how uniting this is somehow 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure NBC, and ABC news, as well as several articles, have mentioned the similarity to the book title. Plus, deny, defend, depose has a VERY different statement.
“Deny claims, defend legally, remove from power.” The insurance companies deny the claims, know they can avoid court because the insured can’t possibly afford lawyers when they get buried under medical debt, and the last one has multiple purposes. Remove the power of medical professionals in their care expertise, remove the power of the patient’s voice, and remove the insurance companies and executives from having this power.
However, I acknowledge that the media shills for the owner class, and I see where the suspension that they would change the words to fit that agenda is very possible. Unfortunately, without seeing the bullets, we have no way to verify what the actual words are. The only way we get that is from NYPD’s evidence storage which would need a criminal case.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 9 months ago:
Ok that third one, come the fuck on.
Like don’t even pretend. You could never ride nearly the number of Pokemon you can compared to Pals in Palworld.
That’s basically patenting riding a fucking horse
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 9 months ago:
- Comment on Dummy Thicc 10 months ago:
I guess I don’t need vision anyway
- Comment on Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle 10 months ago:
A solar powered car that topped at 70mph would be ideal,
But goddamn, could you imagine just having one that topped at 30 MPh in a city? Infinite travel!
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 10 months ago:
Oh yeah. Windows XP Professional 64 bit. Each “upgrade” used the same license and never really got screwy until 10. Won’t go to 11.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 10 months ago:
Office 365. I hate it, but I don’t need a windows PC to use it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 10 months ago:
Wait. They want me to pay for something I already paid for?
Well guess my $2.5k new windowless machine is looking better everyday.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 10 months ago:
… Because it all becomes Crab?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Sorry I’m late guys Image
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 10 months ago:
I’m not going to get a mac anytime soon, but at least it would stop my cat from powering down everything spontaneously
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 10 months ago:
Look, I got enough for two hours with one whore, or enough for 10 minutes with a dozen different whores.
I actually don’t know where I was going with that, but something a long the lines of so many different distros and only so much time in a day.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 10 months ago:
Oh this one got me. Goddamn lol this is a good one
