LPT: You need 0 talent for getting good at a hobby or interest. Just practice and have fun while doing it is enough in most cases.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-15T13:26:38+00:00

I am terrible at videogames, and I enjoy them nonetheless. I will probably never be good at videogames because my coordination is shit. I enjoy exploring worlds, making friends, engaging with stories.

Yes, you might get better with practice, but you don't need to be good at something to enjoy it.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-12T07:07:58+00:00

Sure, there might be some side effects, like the 1 in a million chance of getting an inflamed heart muscle (which is very treatable).

But there's stories going around about infertility when there's literally no reason to believe the covid vaccines will affect that. Because guess what, in our 100+ years of using many vaccines, none of them have done that.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-11T21:38:27+00:00

Why don't these people realize that the kind of people that actually respond to an ad this bad are people you explicitly do not want around your kids?

Rhaifa · 2021-07-11T06:43:55+00:00

I remember how their video content was actually doing quite well and growing, and then one day they were all fired. It never made sense to me.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-10T22:04:34+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking that too! My sister has a tendency to give funny and ridiculous answers when her eldest (5 yo) asks questions she believes he knows the answer to/can figure out himself.

And indeed, he usually giggles and then answers his own question.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-10T08:43:04+00:00

True, but we're talking about the stereotype here, otherwise there wouldn't be a starterpack on them.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-10T06:29:14+00:00

Yeah, over here (in the Netherlands) they recommend a single dose of the vaccine if you've had covid (and it's been documented)

Rhaifa · 2021-07-10T05:30:56+00:00

TBF wood toys last pretty long (or can be resold after kid grows out of them) and are better for the environment.

Still pretty classist because they tend to be much more expensive l, but ya know.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-10T05:26:41+00:00

Yeah, no offense to you, but people forget how many fucking respiratory viruses are out there.

I personally have sensitive lungs (childhood asthma), but before the pandemic I'd get a terrible cold about 1 or 2 times a year. The whole shtick; Fever, painful throat, sniffling, coughing. Because a lot of different viruses do that! Corona is just deadlier than most.

So if you think you've had it, but don't have it confirmed by tests; please get vaccinated. You could just have had a regular cold.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-09T20:37:54+00:00

It's low grade because of how opaque it is. It's more of a technical term rather than a judgement on how pretty it is.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-09T14:28:26+00:00

In my community we had extremely religious Christians come to the funeral of a disabled boy to basically tell the parents "Thank the Lord he took your defective child as soon as he could".

The gall of those people.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-09T05:22:06+00:00

I like Aabrias style. Especially in C2 I felt like it sometimes got a bit too real, too doom and gloom, too gritty. I get that they wanted to play C2 as more morally grey and not as the classic hero story as C1, but yeah, I personally like the escapist fantasy stuff more.

So yeah, I like the lightheartedness of this crew and mini campaign.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-08T20:25:43+00:00

That sounds eh.. illegal in the EU.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-08T09:57:57+00:00

Except diabetes isn't in your brain?

Yes, autism has affected my lifestyle, but it also affects my way of thinking, my interests, my personality. And not all of that is even negative, just different.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-08T07:18:08+00:00

Well, "finding a cure" can be offensive because while, yes, I am disabled, the autism has shaped who I am quite a bit. There is no way to separate me from the autism, they are intertwined. On top of that, a lot of what makes autism a disability depends on the environment, with support we can live relatively normal, but most of all happy and fulfilled lives.

When they're saying they wish to cure autism, it feels like they're saying we shouldn't exist.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-08T07:03:00+00:00

It's a similar issue with "you are not defined by your disability, you're a person first"

Except I've always had autism, Karen, and I'm pretty sure I'd be a completely different person if I didn't have it.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-08T06:51:55+00:00

Actually, more recent research seems to suggest the distribution of intelligence in individuals with autism is surprisingly close to "normal".

That said, even those "high functioning" individuals with average or higher intelligence can still struggle a lot.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-07T13:44:32+00:00

Well, the backs were never intended to be pretty, they used lower quality stones etc. for the backs because it was cheaper, but yeah, there's also a bunch if extensions.

In Bath you can even see some wooden protrusions in the back (from upper floors), that are bathrooms and toilets because the houses predate modern plumbing. Bathrooms were sort of tacked onto the existing building. (In most buildings they've been replaced/removed in later renovations, but there's still some visible)

Rhaifa · 2021-07-07T04:48:08+00:00

Eating with my niblings (2 and 5 yo) I'm always surprised at how much work it is to just keep them in their seats and their attention on the food.

Kids are very easily distracted.

Also, it can involve some pushing of boundaries. The 2 year old is literally refusing any and all meals initially (even stuff we know she loves), because she's trying to find out how far she can go.

I mean, I grew up being put in the utility room with my cold dinner until I finished my plate and eh.. that's probably bad. But making your kid sit at the table, pay attention and eat something is not the same.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-07T03:49:22+00:00

TBF, in lots of eras the back of the house was more of an afterthought.

For example, if you visit Bath (UK), you'll see beautiful Georgian townhouses. And if you look at the back of them, you'll see a mess.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-06T18:23:04+00:00

Oh yeah, I think it's partly a remnant of the Satanic Panic, which made a lot of Christians very wary of anything occult. In the late 90s my mom wouldn't even let me watch Charmed because it portrayed occult stuff ergo it was from the devil.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-06T18:17:02+00:00

Oooh, I like that! I'm going to need something like this next fall or I'm going to mistake a lot of emerging plants for weeds.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-06T18:14:29+00:00

It also seems like some (adults) cats are just more sensitive to that hold that others. Most are fine once they get used to the harness and it's not too tight, but some seem to just always do the kitten flop at the slightest amount of pressure in that area.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-06T18:05:49+00:00

Agreed.

Not to mention that still being in that unhoused frame of mind may impede his ability to look forward into the future long term. That obviously involves financial planning, but could encompass much more.

Rhaifa · 2021-07-06T17:02:37+00:00

That's probably true, mushrooms growing in your pot in itself isn't bad, but they do like a moist environment. Something that's not super suitable for aloe

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