how can you be confident that anything supplied here will be retained if you were previously unaware you even needed to know in the first place?

The information I’m looking for wasn’t immediately important for me to know earlier in life, and because of a mix of the ADHD issues, a lack of home economics-type education and a lot of these kinds of responsibilities being handled by someone else growing up, I wasn’t really in a place to think of educating myself for the future. This all changed a while ago and I realized I needed to do a lot of catching up to be a functional, self-autonomous person. I’ve gotten the impression that there are a ton of folks who feel this way about stuff like learning to do taxes.

TL;DR, my brain holds it as useful, very important information now.

I understand and appreciate the intent of what you’re saying, but I have really bad executive dysfunction/ADHD/whatever issues that make this not a realistic choice for me. This post wouldn’t need to exist if I had the motivation to sit down and read my way to victory. Long-form listenable content is also just much easier for me to multitask with.

In the last 48 hours they’ve only posted on their Facebook about how they helped get Trump elected and criticized (insulted) a study that examines “the relationship between community-level firearm violence and dental health”. They seem pretty unconcerned

When you make this kind of comment it really just adds to the reasons to not use the nostupidquestions and ELI5 communities on this platform. There needs to be safe spaces to admit to being biased and uninformed and to ask people to help you out of it without being berated.

You’d have to specify which talking points you’re looking to verify/falsify. A nonzero amount of people surgically transitioning and then regretting it doesn’t do much good for the verifiably made-up points or eliminationist points that “right wing talking points surrounding Trans issues as a whole” often contain.

Anyway, here’s Some More News talking about detransitioners. His content tends to be a bit on the ranty side but I hope you’ll consider giving it a watch.

• Six-year-olds have very little agency over their minds and so little understanding of the world that IMO it’s not really worth it to view them as “guilty” of things.
• I don’t know whether this is a useful way of thinking about things for you, but most of the matter in your body has been replaced with new matter since you were six years old. I expect most of the way you think and the things you know have been replaced since then, and how your cognition works on a very basic level has changed. Like, if you’re over age 27 you have a developed prefrontal cortex that wasn’t all there before. You’ve changed enough that you could safely regard yourself as a different person in a material sense, and a much better person. Sometimes when I remember something terrible I’ve done ages ago, the way I’ll think of it is that I can destroy that other version of me by becoming a different, better person.
• You could see life-changing benefits by seeking therapy resources like DBT and CBT. Web searching these can lead you to free video resources that you could listen to while doing whatever else you do with your day.

Autistic adult here:

I do feel like I have a more childlike appearance sometimes, less so in recent years. I think that because of the seriously messy place my mind was in from the very start, it took me longer to interact with other people enough to develop the social awareness I needed to “fit in”, and not “fitting in” is often equated with being childlike, IMO. I still occasionally mutter to myself in public, have odd movements and posture, and generally act in a way that diverges from the social norms of the people around me, for better or for worse. Medication has changed all this around in ways that are too complicated to get into in one comment.

My mind never stopped developing. My brain chemistry changed as I went through puberty, and then through adulthood when the prefrontal cortex starts doing its thing. I kept gaining new knowledge from my surroundings and my peers and that changed how I thought about things on a basic level. There are certain specific areas in which I was always considered “more mature”.

My experience doesn’t necessarily reflect those of other autistic people who’ve had different hands dealt to them. I’d be happy to answer any other questions you have.

Probably not. I found a website that has TNG episode transcripts and I did a web search within it by putting “site:http://chakoteya.net/NextGen/ snoring” into duckduckgo. It only reports Wesley snoring in “Evolution” and Worf snoring in “Redemption: Part 2”. Searching for the keyword “snore” gave no useful results.

To quote the words of the Behind the Bastards podcast, I think you should make it absolutely priority #1 to get your condition treated and prevent yourself from committing sex crimes, as in, it should be a slightly higher priority than breathing

Ex-Catholic here, standard response where I’m from would be “No, our God is the only god and trying to contact any spirits beside the Holy Spirit just opens you up to all the evil out there”.

My understanding is that Abrahamic religions are universally monotheistic and have been since the Babylonian Exile got rid of the henotheistic aspect of Yahwism. Expect to get a lot of pretty convoluted reasoning if you ask a Catholic whether having three persons in the trinity is the same thing as polytheism.

I’m not a comic book lore guy by any means, but the few times I attempted to look up Cosmic Armor Superman he seemed like the biggest accomplishment of the absurd power creep stuff DC seems to enjoy. Wiki entries for this fella use some pretty intense language.

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permanent brain damage from sleep deprivation, huge new fear unlocked. tyvm for the info

They’re talking about application launchers for Android devices, the same category of system component that the Start Menu in Windows and the big app grid in OSX are. You can change your application launcher pretty easily on Android and some Linux systems.

map is outdated, Benedict XVI died in 2022

edit: map is not outdated, the Vatican is half a square kilometer

I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who’s very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can’t easily explain.

The image only contains consenting adults who look very happy to be with each other (the perspective on the muzzles could use a little work though), so no, not very problematic. It is problematic if you’re making an active effort to stop browsing porn and you still got far enough for your web browser to load that text.

sauce lot to, it fries things a french barbecue like on of on I works

We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki’s comment total

It’s meant to roughly gauge how clearly you picture things in your mind’s eye by asking you which apple you see when prompted to imagine one. #5 references the lack of a mind’s eye in people with Aphantasia (coincidentally this Wikipedia article has this same chart as a header image)