solarvector
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- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 4 days ago:
Some great clinical advice here. As others have mentioned, staying calm is important as part of the process. A few things might help with that:
Focus on the problem and symptoms, not what might be. E.g., not “oh god are they dying???”, but instead their chest hurts when they breathe in, they sound a little out of breath, they do/don’t have a fever. Then work the problem in front of you. Practice bringing your mind back to what is observable.
Part of you, maybe unconsciously, may think that they’ll be safer if you’re worried about them. That if your brain is constantly on alert, gaming out problems, or otherwise figuring out what might happen that your family and friends will be safer. This is anxiety speaking, not love or reason. You do not need to be in a state of worry to love someone, or to take care of them. Working towards an understanding of that can help with your default state and help keep yourself and them more safe on a crisis.
- Comment on Where have you been? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know how to just share an image, or they’re using a shitty app that limits that ability.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 2 weeks ago:
Something like 4 minutes of my 25 minute commute is through trees, and it still makes a big difference. I think you’re on to something.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Part of why I still hate it at work; work knows almost everything about me. People with poor understanding of PII have my personal information, and use MS products. Microsoft knows all of that, and everything that I type, the notes I make, the phrases I use, inferences on my interests, and can combine that with other profiles. It helps put together a much more complete picture and profile of me and why I interface with. And I can’t opt out, can’t use Linux, and can’t just go somewhere else to avoid it.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 3 weeks ago:
I just found my solution to bringing water to a concert without using a shitty plastic bottle.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 3 weeks ago:
Alright, that’s fair.
For me I think it’s more that nothing about the official story makes sense. It seems much more likely he was being a shithead and got punched while shopping. What he was shopping for should be largely irrelevant.
It’s similar to other conservative hypocrisies.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 weeks ago:
Eh, he victimized millions of people already, lied repeatedly about his story, the cops lied to support him. He isn’t the victim, he’s the asshole.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 month ago:
It really does say something about the audience they’re targeting
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 month ago:
How does geo engineering dim the sun?
geo-
word-forming element meaning “earth, the Earth,” ultimately from Greek geo-, combining form of Attic and Ionic gē “the earth, land, a land or country”
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 2 months ago:
This was the context I never knew I needed, thank you.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
Funny meme but also inflation is bad
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 2 months ago:
I feel like I just need to watch someone use it… and then will still wonder what the point is and why an interior platform has so much more traffic.
- Comment on Protip: 2 months ago:
I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.
Also, parasites 😬
- Comment on FROM DOWNTOWNNNNN! 🎃 2 months ago:
You better be built bigger than LeBron if you can shoot a pumpkin from downtown
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 3 months ago:
Depending on the company this is exactly the argument I’m favor of lying about a degree: the hiring manager doesn’t care, and HR is checking a box.
Whether or not it’s a “good” idea in terms of efficacy is probably based on too many unknowns. It’s all a crapshoot anyway in terms of the random shit that a resume can be filtered for.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 months ago:
Do you have a source we can reference for that particular bit of shitbaggery?
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 3 months ago:
Then tell them a holy parable about finding cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Good point, should have the cluster size from #3, just offset.
- Comment on i broke 3 months ago:
I think the point of therapy is to help you effect changes in your behavior (mental and physical). Sounds like you were able to make some changes that help.
- Comment on Fair warning about vote manipulation 4 months ago:
Why not immediate ban instead of fair warning? Fair warning is more for a mistake in good faith, vote manipulation is kinda the opposite by definition.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 months ago:
Thank you, they’ve been ruining search results since the day SEO was coined.
- Comment on Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction 4 months ago:
Source: Shell via Fox News
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 months ago:
For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it’s a pretty good target for the US Republican party.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Privacy, UI/UX, admin controls, ads, pop ups or notifications, nagging about online services, AI, forced account creation, not working with older hardware.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Might be worth testing Linux with a separate drive. I know people still have trouble with Nvidia, but there are a lot of people (myself included) that just had to install the drivers and have had zero issues thereafter. Mine is a slightly older gaming laptop.
I have a desktop with an AMD card that I tried to put Linux on and couldn’t get the drivers to work. I’m going to try again in the summer and hope they’ve caught up.
- Comment on Or more 5 months ago:
What show is this from?
- Comment on Short attention span 5 months ago:
In similar vein to what others have posted:
I think you’re describing a combination of stress and preoccupation. I suggest looking into mindfulness as a way to start helping with both.
If it’s more than that and you have healthcare, both a Dr visit and psychiatry visit to discuss with a professional could be helpful.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 6 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as “never again”.
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 6 months ago:
My favorite apple auto correct: changing the word before the one you just finished. You mentally verify that it’s correct, type the next word, auto correct fucks up the next word and then retroactively fucks up the word you already moved on from. Absolutely brilliant interface.
- Comment on heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp 8 months ago:
I don’t have many answers, but a couple more things to think about:
The fixture needs to handle the increased heat and wattage.
If you’re using something built in, the switch also needs to handle increased wattage.
Most of the above are probably not designed to handle “dimming” to control the heat.
Electric blankets might be a good starting place
I think it’s a cool idea, please let us know if you’re successful!