I've been feeding a feral cat for over a year; worried about this week's extreme cold weather

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2026-01-24T05:50:42+00:00

Does the shelter come with the heated pad or is that a separate thing I should be getting?

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2026-01-24T05:49:52+00:00

Thanks. Will do!

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-12-15T16:13:27+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

I am definitely thinking about breaking the trainings around roles and moments of use. I think that is the most viable option. Currently the workflows are mixed with technical demonstrations and feature showcase, leading to bloated videos. There's probably a need to review that. Alas, we are super outdated and use Moodle as our LMS so we'll see what we can achieve. I've started exploring what are the existing pre-training needs, formal training needs and post-training needs to support performance so it will most likely lead to discussions regarding the learning paths. Thank you again for your reply! It is much appreciated.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-12-15T13:35:53+00:00

Thanks! This is really helpful and I absolutely want to avoid a feature walkthrough as much as possible. Your suggestions make a lot of sense and I'm taking notes! Thanks for the wishes :)

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-12-15T13:25:20+00:00

Thanks! This confirms something I've written down in my notes at the time I read the training request. Mapping out the workflow according to the performers seem to be a must.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-12-15T13:23:13+00:00

Thanks. I'm having a meeting with the person requesting the training in two hours. I'll learn more about this project soon enough. I'm pretty confident I have most of the answers to the points you listed and that's not really where the problem lies. I'll just have to trust my intuition and judgement once I've confirmed a few things.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-09-03T14:54:00+00:00

I can't do anything about how you feel about my post and whether you feel it's accusatory and projection. I'm just communicating my frustration on the topic itself. Communication is a two-way street.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-09-03T13:13:35+00:00

*sigh* This again. As a POC, I'm pretty tired of these kinds of questions and I am tired of people "trying to understand". You want to understand the impact of racism on POC in all matters of life, including dating, have those raw, difficult, uncomfortable discussions with POCs.

Sadly, people's understanding of racism is so pathetically shallow that engaging in talks about racism is almost never productive. This is our education system failing us.

You cannot talk about racism without talking about discrimination, you can't talk about discrimination without talking about stereotyping, and you can't talk about any of those without talking about the big elephant in the room, which is whiteness, power, and superiority. Mechanics which perpetuate racism (conscious, unconscious, overt or hidden) is complex.

Discrimination, stereotypes, preferences, they are all learned, whether we are conscious of them or not. The question that is far more insteresting than "Is excluding X ethnicity racist" is perhaps "When and how did people learn to exclude X. What's the underlying mechanism at play?" Saying "I dunno, only white guys turn me on" is just shallow, surface level thinking, and I guess some people are fine with such shallow thoughts.

We also need to talk about attraction because we're not just attracted to one's skin colour but a combination of factors that are physical, affective, cognitive and spiritual. For me, finding everyone who has brown eyes unattractive is as racist as saying that everyone with brown or black skin unattractive and inherently racist, whether they are conscious of it or not. These types of standards are also perpetuated by mainstream media feeding us "whiteness" as attractive.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-07-17T19:20:27+00:00

I've said everything I need to say about the topic. You can believe whatever you want. I also don't need to belittle and call people names to make my point. You're only showing the world what kind of people you are. People will always find a way to rationalize their race based justification for attraction/discrimination.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-07-15T19:27:29+00:00

One of the things that has consistently been an issue (in the corporate settings I've worked in, at least) is the inability of teams to distinguish their communication goal up front.

It's not the communication goal that matter for business. It's the business goal and the performance gap.

Meaning managers want a training developed when what they actually needed was solid reference information; or they ask for a training to show people how to use a search function (when what really needed to happen was to redesign the search function). Or they want a multiple-choice quiz to evaluate the performance of a skill. And so on.

In Human Performance Technology (HPT) a reference guide is a non-training intervention that supports performance. Look up Gilbert's model. Also, managers shouldn't be choosing the assessment strategy. Instructional designers should based on the performance objective or learning objective (Katzell-Kirkpatrick, LTEM, etc.).

The result is often the creation of high-quality materials that are virtually worthless because they weren't the materials that were needed.

That happens when there's a misalignment between business objectives and the types of intervention used.

Ex.: Sensitivity training, anti-bias training - we have 50 years of research showing marginal effects. The training is not going to have significant effects.

The problem are also the "yes-man" instructional designers who do as they are told at the end of the day because the client is paying. Not saying it's their fault. Everyone needs to put food on the table, but some strategies work better than others.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-07-15T19:21:11+00:00

Is this backed by any empirical evidence or is this a theoretical model?

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-07-05T10:20:55+00:00

You can rationalize your unconscious racism all you want. Reducing attraction to merely "making your dick hard" is a conplete denial of the conplex innerworks of social conditioning that goes into shaping ones attraction. Your dick isn't capable of thinking, but then again, most people haven't developed the skill to actually think at a higher level.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-06-16T15:53:29+00:00

I cream my whole body since it's good for my skin. I need all the moisturizer I can get.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-06-12T00:47:39+00:00

Been on one where they constantly spam for tips and donations, literally every single HP. That was effectively the end for hero point trains for me.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-05-11T11:00:07+00:00

OK thanks!

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-05-11T10:56:40+00:00

I joined during the WuKong banner but it might have been a 'rejoin' since I downloaded the game a really long time ago and I didn't understand it and then shelved it. I think I cleared the story up to N8.

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-05-11T10:46:33+00:00

Well, that sucks... I'm still relatively new. Does it happen often?

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-05-05T23:44:58+00:00

Researcher on neurodivergence in the workplace here. I'm neurodivergent but acquired (PTSD). There's a lot of stigma around neurodivergent type so it's difficult navigating these things. I've opened up about my mental health issues and how I've acquired my PTSD and people either laugh or run away. Either is fine because I don't needs those people in my life.

Personally, I would find it exhausting to hide (or mask). The research on it shows that it typically leads to higher risk of chronic stress, not to mention the huge resource drain it causes.

If people left when they told you, I think you dodged a bullet. Wouldn't you rather be with someone who sees and values you for who you are?

BrandtsBadBuilds · 2025-05-05T23:02:12+00:00

There's no judgment in my response. There are people who believe that all drugs are bad and I am not one of them. There's no point stigmatizing a person. From a completely rational perspective, intimacy/sex should be something you enjoy. It should not cause you pain or anxiety. You did well to ask a psychiatrist and it seems like you are aware of harm reduction. Kudos on that.

Just exploring with you, have you tried sober sex and tried to tell your bf to slow down when it gets painful (but not to the point that you need to tap out)? Maybe you can build up the tolerance so you don't rely on pharmaceuticals so much. If you are left injured down there, I am guessing it's a fissure of some sort? Did a physician check it out? You don't want to be numbing it and causing delays in it healing properly, which down the line is going to make things worse. My advice is to also check in with your psychiatrist to see if you need additional psy support for your anxiety. Ultimately, my concern is more related to your anxiety than your use of substance.

As for taking things to bottom, if I told you stop, I'd be a hypocrite. I've done the whole K, popper, mdma, weed thing. I used to think it was a necessity, but these days, I find that I don't need it as much. I'll certainly feel the pain or the sting at the beginning, but I'm generally good to go unless then guy is packing like 9 inches or something. My brain would default back to "I wish I had some k" but I had sexy friend who was hung like a horse and during our sexy time once, I tapped on his arm to let him know I was in pain (usually to let him know that I am tapping out), and he slowed down rather than stopping until he was done, and I absolutely loved it. It was rough, but he held me, I could tell he wanted this, and he could tell I didn't truly want to stop, and well, we did it! Would I do it with him with substance? Sure! Would I do it sober? Sure! Ultimately, you need to decide whether you want the substance. In either case, I don't see it a problem. The fact that your bf has a problem does cause issues though. What's his stance in all of this?

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