My wedding hit full population inversion. It was quite funny watching the few neurotypicals slowly realise the whole dynamic was wrong/unusual. Most of them adapted quickly to join the rest of us weirdos. The few that didn’t were quite out of sorts.
Oh, and my wife didn’t get diagnosed until well after I was. Nothing was wrong. She was no weirder than her friends… Half of them are now diagnosed in various ways!
Part of the issue is that the category of “ebike” is quite large. It really needs to be split into multiple subcategories for regulation.
For bikes intended to mix with pedestrians, you definitely need to limit speed and weight. Europe’s 250W, 25kph rules seem reasonable for this.
The problem most places have is the grey area between ebike and moped, particularly for cargo bikes. They are fast/heavy enough to be a risk to pedestrians, but not enough to be classed as motorbikes. They need some restrictions/licencing to keep pedestrian areas safe, but not so much that they get lumped in with cars.
I’ve also got a steam deck. Unfortunately it just doesn’t cut it for games like satisfactory or factorio.
Luggables are quite common for gamers who travel a lot. I can’t take a tower into hotels easily, but most of my free gaming time is on the road. I know quite a few people with portable gaming systems.
My current laptop is rocking a 4080, with a water cooling loop. It has to fall back to internal graphics when on battery. The batteries just can’t provide the current required.
The perfectionism maladaptation is evil.
The best way to break it is to practice getting too minimally “good enough” with various fun projects. It helps you retrain your brain to accept mediocre when required.
This helps a lot, since you need to be mediocre before you can finally get good at something.
Most of the meds have a 4 hour half-life. You’ll get a day or 2 of recoil, worst case, but you don’t have to be medicated the whole time.
I find it’s a trade off. Off meds, I come up with ideas, but can’t implement them. When medicated, the ideas slow, but I gain the ability to actually work on them.
I often adjust my meds based on what I need on a given day.
It can be formed, just not in the vast quantities it was back then. It requires unusual conditions to stop fungi making a meal out of it, before it gets buried deep enough.
It could be worse. A “more information” button that automatically starts a voice/video call to the restaurant.
He just really likes pressure.
If it’s something new, stolen food is best food. Have something different yourself and let them try some from your plate. There’s no expectation that they have to eat more, if they don’t like it.
If it’s something they chose then they have a choice to eat it or not. It doesn’t get replaced however.
If it’s something you chose, then that’s more on you. As soon as my minion was talking, she started getting a say in what she wanted. Even if it did mean a mixed bowl of peas and sweetcorn became a staple for a while.
Assuming 1MW of transfer, and a 10m diameter beam, your looking at 12.5kW/m^2 . Not instant vaporisation, but dangerous in seconds to humans. The penetration was also mean the energy is delivered internally, where it’s harder to deal with (short term).
Any viable power transfer beam also, inherently, makes a good anti personnel weapon.
While the maths is slightly better for short range transfers, like drones, it would still definitely not be something you want hitting your body.
Imagine you have a paper balloon setup. It randomly takes hits from a high powered rifle. In theory, you could harvest the energy. However, it’s delivered in such powerful, random bursts that capturing it is difficult.
Gamma rays punch straight through the structure of the craft. The actual energy is small (around 1/1,000,000 of a joule), but it’s so focused that it damages anything it hits. If it hits the atoms in a transistor, that transistor gets ripped up at an atomic level.
Makes me think of Crawley, in “Good Omens”.
Plenty. Unfortunately it’s mostly the nasty damaging kind, rather than the sort that can be turned into power. It also doesn’t take much damage to add up, when you’re dealing with large millennia time scales.
The ring around it makes that less likely, though still plausible. It would also have to leach through the paint.
Most likely.
The box tends to sit slightly proud of the wall. When they plaster it in (particularly retroactively) they need to build up the plaster around the socket.
Thicker plaster means more insulation, and less condensation. Less condensation, less mold.
The ring around the socket also supports this. The edge where the new plaster gives way to the old. That point tends to be rougher, and so more prone to capturing mold.
It could also be thicker paint causing the same effect. Most people do the wall with rollers, but sockets with a brush, leading to a thicker coat.
As a parent I fully understand the need to curtail it. I also get how some parents could shake their baby to death. Feeling it and acting on it are totally different things.
It’s ok not to feel it. Our brains are often wired differently. I personally only get cuteness mildly. I mostly notice it by how I’m being biased, rather than a strong, independent emotion. You likely have chunks of it, but mentally bundle them into different emotions.
Cute is part of our “don’t kill the screaming baby” programming. Best described as emotionally attractive.
It makes parents bond with children. As a spill over, it makes other adults not want to drop kick annoying small humans. It also stops older siblings wanting to murder the attention magnet that came into their life.
The level of activation of this effect varies. It kicks in hard during pregnancy, both for mum, and anyone around them. Not feeling it strong is not a huge issue.
It also tends to be blended with other emotional responses. You might actually feel it, but not recognise it as a separate emotion. The positive feeling towards cats is partly due to them being small, squishy, and big eyed. We default to them being babies/small children, and give them the leeway we would a child causing minor chaos. Cuteness is part of that effect.
The problem is a race to the bottom happens. Smokers tend to drink more and are quite… militant in their opinions on where to go. Basically non smoking pubs would suffer, and so likely allow smoking, ruining it for everyone else.
It doesn’t help that those left smoking cigarettes, in the UK, tend to be the rudest, most inconsiderate of the original group. The average heroin addict is considerably more polite than the average cigarette smoker now.