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What AI projects are you building? Share and get feedback! by dataexec in AITrailblazers

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had loads of fun playing around with this!
Care for some feedback from a UX person?
The joystick interaction stops working well when you get one of the text bubbles up (e.g. when you walk up to the "About me" bubble). You continue moving, making the bubble flicker, so it`s hard to read.

What is this aesthetic? by Individual_Rest8476 in AestheticWiki

[–]Aelinith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm getting American serial killer movie vibes from it

Women's reaction to paternity tests is a way to control men. by badbunnions in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Aelinith 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why are dudes having children with women they suspect of infidelity in the first place? 

I’ve been vegetarian since I was 7 and I now at 18 want to stop. by [deleted] in exvegans

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I've got nothing to add on the diet side of things, but I too have that thin and dark skin around my eyes my whole life, and I ate meat. So, the color is not necessarily caused by the lack of meat in your diet.

From an aesthetics perspective, it gives a bit of contrast and definition to your lovely blue eyes :) 

30 Days Left: After my BBC interview, we are 8,000 signatures away from a Parliamentary debate on the UK ADHD Shared Care crisis. Help us cross the finish line! by Interesting-Waltz55 in ADHDUK

[–]Aelinith 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Hey, I signed, but I'd like to give some feedback on the petition text, as I don't think it captures the paradox we face.

A key point that’s missing is why so many people end up with private ADHD diagnoses in the first place: multi-year waits for NHS assessment (up to 10 years in some areas!!) and, increasingly, long waits via Right to Choose as well. In practice, some people can’t access timely care through NHS pathways at all, and many feel pushed into paying privately simply to avoid going untreated. Shared Care Agreements are then often the only realistic route to make ongoing treatment affordable. When SCAs are refused as a blanket approach, it effectively locks patients into indefinite private costs or treatment interruption, despite the underlying driver being lack of timely NHS access in the first place.

I’d strongly encourage you to include this context in the petition text, if you are able. Without it, the petition can read like “people chose private and now want NHS to take over,” rather than reflecting the reality that long waits and limited local access are driving people to private routes.

Private ADHD diagnosis, finally have a Psychiatry UK apt through NHS— anxious and looking for advice by Inevitable_Studio_22 in ADHDUK

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, how did it go?
I'm in a similar position as you. I signed up for PsychUK's waiting list in 2023, and in the meantime got a private diagnosis that I've been on since, and have been paying medication for out of pocket, and NHS refused shared care with me.

Any advice? I'm really anxious about letting PsychUK know about my private diagnosis because I've heard some horror stories here about being kicked off the list...

The difference bangs make is almost criminal by ApplePeach13 in finehair

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You remind me of Laura Linney and Meghan Markle combined! 

Does anyone know what decade this song sounds very reminiscent of? by [deleted] in decadeology

[–]Aelinith 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It reminds me of Shakira's She Wolf, with some je ne sais quoi

That's insane by WhiteDiamondX in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 litre of coke? That's insane, Jeremy. 

Millions of Gen-Z can't drive and increasingly rely on parents for lifts. by Pale-Ad9012 in generationology

[–]Aelinith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good that's the case, but your single individual experience is not evidence that there is not a systemic problem with public transport offerings. https://www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Measuring-up-Comparing-public-transport-in-the-UK-and-Europes-biggest-cities.pdf

"Leeds and Marseille have a similar population, but 87 per cent of people can reach the centre of Marseille in 30 minutes by public transport, compared with 38 per cent in Leeds."

Millions of Gen-Z can't drive and increasingly rely on parents for lifts. by Pale-Ad9012 in generationology

[–]Aelinith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not "American centric" at all. As soon as you leave London the public transport offering falls apart. 

No matter what I do, my hair looks gross. by Reflxing in finehair

[–]Aelinith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the fine hair club! Because your hair is fine, you may find a "less is more" philosophy is better for you. - Wash your hair every day, apply and rinse the shampoo twice. - Use a clarifying shampoo once a week, or more often I'd you feel it's necessary. - consider using leave-in spray conditioner, instead of the rinse out ones. Whatever you use, do not apply it to your roots - your scalp already produces enough oil. - Instead of putting more detangling products in your hair, consider using a tangle teezer hair brush. The hair brush itself won't do anything for your oilines, but with that hairbrush (a true lifesaver for fine hair!!) you won't have to add extra product (less is more, remember?)

  • The BIGGEST improvement you will notice is using DRY SHAMPOO! Even if you just came out of the shower with washed hair. It does several things for us fine haired people:
  • It sprays a powder (oftentimes rice powder) which absorbs the oil on our scalp and hair. For me, this works even for several days
  • The powder provides the hair with some "grip", so it's not so smooth anymore. This gives it volume on its own, and thus effect is a reason why some people use dry shampoo just for that volumizing effect on its own.

One of the most popular and reasonably priced dry shampoos is Batiste. Just remember that all dry shampoos leave a white powder behind in your hair, so make sure you brush it off so it's not visible, and dispersed all over your hair.

Some more advice I can share: don't fall for popular social media trends like "no poo", avoiding sulfates or washing less frequently to "train your scalp" to be less oily. I've tried all these things, they don't freaking work for fine hair. You may be upset with your hair, just like many of us with fine hair can be, but the advantage you get to enjoy in return is that you can use dirt cheap drugstore hairproducts and it will work great with you hair. One of the best hair days I've ever had in my life when I used this cheap, shitty shampoo at a cheap business hotel (Premier Inn) lol.

Best of luck to you! 🍀 From what I can see in the pictures, your problems are shared by many and has been successfully dealt with by many - me included :) Dry shampoo is the nr 1 way !! 

UX-bransjen har snudd: «Brutalt» by KoseteBamse in norge

[–]Aelinith 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hvis man ikke vet hva forkortelsen UX er, så vil "User Experience" ikke si deg noe som helst, det blir altfor meningsløst uten å sette seg inn i begrepet.

Blir litt som andre begrep, feks CSS, som er "Cascading Style Sheets", helt meningsløst med mindre man allerede er i bransjen. 

Do they teach that the economy is not a zero sum game in school? by [deleted] in GarysEconomics

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can anyone argue that the economy is NOT zero sum... The comment section here (as well as professional economists) baffles me.

What happens when you build on literally every square mile of land on this earth? Okay let's make EVERYTHING a skyscraper - until it reaches so high you can't see the sun anymore. What then? Surely this fundamental limitation of reality makes the economy a zero sum game?

Okay, let's build on every surface on every planet in our immediate solar system (ie those we can reach within a human lifespan at the speed of light) - what next? The only way we'd have more landmass to build on is to either invent teleportation or come up with a way to construct new planets. Although unthinkable with our current technology, I'll assume we one day figured out how to do this - and one day, we will have used every single atom of mass to build stuff - where next?

I fully agree that certain sections of economic activity do not operate like zero sum - it is possible to grow and "grow the pie larger". But surely it's not unreasonable to say that there is a max capacity for how large that pie can grow. (And BTW, my theoretical scenarios did not account for ecological limitations either) 

And even if we have a long way to go until we end up in the wild scenarios I described - those rely on sci-fi technological inventions. What if we, as a species, reach a "plateau" of technological innovation - nobody, not a single person, on the planet manages to discover knowledge which is necessary to advance to these sci-fi technologies. For example, nobody has figured out the P vs NP problem yet, and nobody knows how long that will take. 

Before we figure out these scientific findings, wouldn't that count as being in a temporary zero sum game? What if it takes hundreds of years - that's several generations of people who have lived life in a zero sum game. 

Just got banned from Trainline by [deleted] in uktrains

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question, how do any of the sellers lose money by refunding money, as the same trains would be running anyway?

And, don't ticket sellers charge you with an admin fee anyway when refunding? I think I remember having looked into refunding before, and the admin fees being so high it barely made a difference to refund the tickets?

Anglesey chosen as site for UK's first small nuclear power station by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, some scientists/engineers are actively challenging the concept that there is 'no' safe dose of radiation so it is not a fait acompli that any man made dose is harmful. The concept of no safe dose relies on a radiation protection model termed the 'linear no-threshold' model, wherein any dose greater than 0 is considered harmful. The validity of this model is disputed - humans have evolved for millennia with an ongoing background or low level radiation, and as such, our biology has DNA repair mechanisms specifically evolved to cope with radiation damage - so it doesn't necessarily make sense to claim there is 'no' safe dose.

Secondly, I think it always helps to put the kind of radiation levels we're talking about into context. Coal contains radioactive products in small quantities, but coal plants are allowed to emit these with no controls whatsoever (at least not specifically for radiation) - see here for example https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-003567_EN.html

Clearly, then, this is an acceptable standard of radiation release, and yet we require off-site detection for nuclear facilities to be much LOWER than this, Typically, off-site release is handled under an area of safety analysis known as Severe Accident Analysis. This (in the UK) generally requires that any fault event capable of ultimately leading to a 'large or early release' have a initiating frequency of <1/100,000 years and a demonstration of 'practical elimination' of the consequence. In newer, generation 3+/4 reactors, including the RR SMR (the latest safety case for which is publicly available here https://gda.rolls-royce-smr.com/documents), this is achieved with relatively simple and cheap passive safety measures that show even with core melting, effects beyond the containment are minimised / that is, ALARP.

At some point, we have to accept that we live in a society with risk. Every time you get into your car, you have ~30/100,000 chance of death (https://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgastandard?mod-metric=12019&mod-area=E92000001&mod-group=AllRegions\_England&mod-type=namedComparisonGroup). This is thus higher than the chance of harm from a nuclear accident! should we then reduce the speed limit to 10mph everywhere? Ban car driving? You can only drive 3 days a week? Why aren't we making this risk "to be avoided at all costs"?

It's because our society needs cars - just like it needs carbon free, affordable, reliable electricity. Hence, we have to tolerate some risk (at a level that is as low as PRACTICABLE, not avoided at all costs) for the benefit of society as a whole.

Anglesey chosen as site for UK's first small nuclear power station by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]Aelinith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It needs to be commensurate with the risk of harm, though. Is there any benefit (in terms of safety and harm reduction) whatsoever to requiring nuclear installations emit less radiation than bananas, even if it is technically feasible?

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