taurath

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by taurath 2y ago
> If nuclear power had have had continued investment into engineering improvements, the world would be in a much better place WRT climate change. Thats the thing though, its already been the titanic. People have seen the ship sink, and t
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by taurath 2y ago
Radiation and long term consequences of radioactive contamination is very specifically terrifying to the general public because you can neither see nor feel it happening and the consequences may not happen until much later. Both of those ef
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by taurath 2y ago
I have ADHD as well as a bevy of other stuff - autism, a dissociative disorder and trauma that in bad times meets the criteria for ptsd. To be clear, I have not solved this problem for myself, but I figure it might be helpful to share notes
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by taurath 2y ago
This could be me as well - I’ve had a few careers and similar neurodivergencies, along with a nice smattering of trauma. This wasn’t asked for so take with a grain of salt, but as someone who had “rapid cycling bipolar II” as my closest dx
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by taurath 2y ago
Have you ever heard of anyone admitting they’re not fulfilling family obligations? It’s something that those who do, aren’t aware of. People who work 12 hours a day or spend their time off work doing side projects often are filling a role i
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by taurath 2y ago
A big problem when you're a more experienced engineer is when you have your hands in a lot of things and know the relative priority of stuff and how likely it is that something else of importance will pop up. So you anticipate things g
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by taurath 2y ago
Are you kidding they check credit ratings and will decide not to hire you if you have a GED at Taco Bell or many other min wage jobs. They absolutely will pull your history, just probably not check references.
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by taurath 2y ago
He must have been terrified that people would follow. That’s one of the things about the workplace - the second you’re out the door you don’t matter. He even had the temerity to show everyone around you how they’d be treated if they left. C
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by taurath 2y ago
Interviewing sucks, really hard, and when you put so much of your creativity up on the line like that it can feel like a test of the balance of your soul. Its not, its a test of whether you light up the right spots in the brain of someone y
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by taurath 2y ago
I have to deal with bouts with amnesia myself due to a dissociative disorder - this would be a really good appliance just to be able to see reminders to myself and also reminders from friends - relationships are really difficult to keep up
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by taurath 2y ago
One could imagine an unpiloted F-35 flying 65 miles in a random direction before crashing itself is probably more of a safety issue than an issue of idiology
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by taurath 2y ago
ADA accommodations can be a paper tiger when it comes to ratings and reviews - there’s a reason the majority of people with autism don’t work. Document everything, lawyer if you need to (if you think you may need one, call one for a consult
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by taurath 2y ago
> Sure, but you are also appealing for public sentiment. You can't count on public sentiment for anything labor oriented in the US - corporations have owned the narrative for the last 40 years. The reason teachers unions avoid clash
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by taurath 2y ago
> To think that employers are just randomly firing people for no reason has never struck me as being even remotely true Have you only ever worked with reasonable management? The problem with quick to hire quick to fire is that eventually
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by taurath 2y ago
I mean, if you want government to run like a business, and all the businesses are shit, then you want government to run like shit
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by taurath 2y ago
Thats precisely me as well. Its like a closed book in my head. This is killing me a bit right now in interviews, especially as I had to take a few years off to deal with some health problems. One idea I had that I'm not sure will work
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by taurath 2y ago
Came here to say something far less eloquent and well crafted! Neglect is sometimes the most difficult wound to see - its about what you didn't get that you should have. Everything is normal to a kid.
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by taurath 2y ago
This book also changed my life in immeasurable ways and set me on a journey to recover from trauma: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20556323-complex-ptsd
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by taurath 2y ago
Stop that. You are projecting the pain that you suffered at the hands of an abuser onto someone you have never met. Dehumanizing someone who is seeing a therapist and seeking help online trying to seek help is both legitimately unhelpful, a
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by taurath 2y ago
Biggest part is putting yourself into a different situation. It gives you a lot of different threads to pull on, especially if you are traveling more to explore and less to just participate in leisure. Leisure is still required for burnout
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by taurath 2y ago
I have ADHD with some dissociative features which tends to make my narrative memory very poor out of the gate. Unfortunately its one of those things that either you have a really good continuous memory or you have to be really organized and
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by taurath 2y ago
The articles functionally stated that you couldn't get an apartment, or pay for a hotel room if you were caught jaywalking or walking around with a scowl on your face.
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by taurath 2y ago
The thing that stuck out to me the most in the west were the long string of articles about the social credit system & the fear around the surveillance state. The surveillance state is probably about the same level as the UK, and the soc
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by taurath 2y ago
Understand myself better. Know my strengths, weaknesses. Know why I tick. Which people are good for me even if difficult, know which people are easy to be around, which are hard, and why. Not about comparison - but rather about my own tende
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by taurath 2y ago
Include that for yourself too. “I should” is often a way to shame yourself into doing a thing.
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by taurath 2y ago
> Also, what's up with drug studies always having such a low sample size? Is it really that hard to find people who'd volunteer to get free drugs? They try to make for no comorbidities and and for MDD that is pretty rare. It al
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by taurath 2y ago
Just as an example - the stardew valley offical wiki is massive and complete, and nearly everyone uses that, but google still directs users to the fandom site for almost any specific search. Its one of the main things that has led me to thi
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by taurath 2y ago
> If people and companies took the bigger picture in to account, they likely wouldn't do these things. Its important to denote that this decision occurs at the moment they decide to take someone else's money and promise them a
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by taurath 2y ago
When I think knockout, I think more about the MVVM method of 2 way data binding, which creates some of the most complicated and difficult to debug apps I've ever worked on - is that the same thing, or is that just in how they're a
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by taurath 2y ago
You may be looking for qualitative data and reporting which is on the rise! The term "evidence based" is bandied about all the time because insurance companies don't want to cover treatments that aren't considered standa

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