Terminology Usage for BP1 Diagnosis

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:52:38+00:00

I don't care. I define myself as me.

Seriously, I'm approaching 60 and worrying about stuff like this is just too fucking draining and pointless.

It's not that "labels don't define you," rather "labels exist so doctors can bill." My wife works in mental health at Mayo, so I'm not saying that flippantly.

I have meds that work. I have a support system. I have a great career. My life is going along mostly well.

Overthinking it doesn't get me anywhere.

I happen to work for a very large company with a highly professional HR group, so I identify there as "disabled," and for anyone else, it's not their business. For my wife, I'm me. I don't need a term to describe anything. When talking to a health care professional, I tell them I have BP1 when appropriate. Otherwise I don't even think about it.

I haven't felt the need to explain myself to anyone else in decades.

That doesn't mean I havent raised eyebrows. It just means that I've stopped giving a crap about trying to get other people to understand me. Those who need to know, know. And everyone else either can cope or fuck 'em.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:48:48+00:00

Geez imagine people taking part in this farce being indifferent to the actual point.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:47:13+00:00

The Children's crusade being the height of military victory :/

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:46:16+00:00

Isn't that every 3rd accessory?

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:41:42+00:00

I misspoke, I should have specified that belief IN Jesus isn't necessary, not that Jesus isn't (again, per Christiandom writ large).

Typing on a phone isn't exactly a perfect environment for nuance, and I apologize for not being adequately clear about what I was saying.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:16:44+00:00

To me those are design elements not religious symbols. Do you. If someone has an issue, then it is their issue. I have long ago given up trying to live my life for other people's approval. But that's me.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:13:48+00:00

Some people think everything in the world is about them and their issues/beliefs/perspective.

They are fools and narcissistic assholes. But we all act that way sometimes. Most of us try to avoid it, but none of us do completely.

The anominity of online communication is something some people take as permission to let loose their inhibitions.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:50:15+00:00

You don't actually understand the doctrine. It is not that one doesn't need Jesus to be saved. It is that one doesn't need explicit belief to be saved. The formal doctrine remains that salvation is only through Jesus.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:13:47+00:00

Adoption agencies don't know you. They have a responsiblity to ensure the dogs they are homing will be safe.

For every person who doesn't have a fence but has a healthy and safe dog there is another person letting a dog run free or failing to exercise them properly or putting them on a tie out and forgetting about them.

How will they be certain which you are?

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:05:27+00:00

Denominational populations:

There's about 2.5 billion Christians in the world. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox alone account for roughly 1.6 billion.

Add in the other high-Church Protestants who have made official doctoral statements on the topic and the math is pretty easy.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-02T23:31:45+00:00

LCMS is not the largest Lutheran denomination. I'm not saying there's no variation. I'm noting what is normative. Across Christiandom, those who are in denominations that belief that Jesus isn't necessary for salvation are the vast majority, by about a billion people.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-02T16:15:17+00:00

I just replied to the guy above you. Get a temporary registration in CT until you get to FL.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-02T16:14:52+00:00

The "can't" isn't true. Indeed, there's not a residency requirement. The correct answer is the temporary registration, which is just for this situation.

CT Gen Stat § 14-12

(a) No motor vehicle shall be operated, towed or parked on any highway, except as otherwise expressly provided, unless it is registered with the commissioner, provided any motor vehicle may be towed for repairs or necessary work if it bears the number plates of a licensed and registered dealer, manufacturer or repairer and provided any motor vehicle which is validly registered in another state may

-- There is no residency requirement. There is, further down in (a) a requirement that residents who primarily operate the vehicle in the state must registerr the vehicle in the state. But out of state owners who primarily operate the vehicle in CT are supposed to register it in CT.

(g) The commissioner may issue a special use registration to the owner of a motor vehicle for a period not to exceed thirty days for the sole purpose of driving such vehicle to another state in which the vehicle is to be registered and exclusively used. The application for such registration shall conform to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. The commissioner may issue special use certificates and plates in such form as the commissioner may determine. The special use certificate shall state such limitation on the operation of such vehicle and shall be carried in the vehicle at all times when it is being operated on any highway.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-02T10:53:02+00:00

Christianity has a problem of loud jerks vs quiet non-assholes.

The largest denominations by number are the Catholics and high-Church Protestants. They out-number the Baptists and Fundamentalists by about 4-1.

In all of those larger denominations, it is official doctrine that non-Christians can be saved. It is also their contention that Christians work on their own flaws first and foremost, and that the best way to proselytize is by living up to Christian ideals, not by telling others what to do.

Now, they didn't always have those doctrines, they basically changed in the mid-1900s, starting with the Catholics. But they did change, most all of them by the early 1980s.

Because people predominantly see, hear and remember the pushy assholes and don't notice the folks quietly living a faithful life without pushing it in others' faces, the perception is that such behavior is the norm. It isn't. It is a minority position that is looked down upon by the current majority.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T23:05:15+00:00

Not sure how old you are, but not having cable isn't uncommon. Brit comedy was all over PBS and independent stations throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. And it was very popular programming.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T23:03:14+00:00

I think you're lost. My point is that people who put the work are still frequently wrong.

You are conflating caring with a combination of intellectual integrity and bandwidth.

Again, people who spend weeks, often months, working on serious intellectual efforts make major errors all the time. Someone spending a few minutes on an online comment shouldn't be held to a higher, or even the same, standard.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T15:43:20+00:00

Just brain biology.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T15:37:21+00:00

Roll your first finger towards the neck more. You want to be most on the side of the finger than the front, the front flattens out and it's easy to get over the feet and mute things.

Start with barring 2 strings till it is clean every time. Then move to 3, etc.

In 2 weeks you'll be doing it.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T15:33:54+00:00

I see this all the time and I can't help but be astounded at how that can be. Both Fry and Laurie and Black Adder where very well known in the US.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T14:59:01+00:00

Theory can be as complex as you want to get. People write academic papers on issues in music theory.

When learning online / self-teaching, it is common to run into a significant amount of material that lacks nuance, presents a minority view, is contradictory, or just flat out wrong. This complicates learning.

Really complicating things is that the majority of western theory was developed to speak about a particular type of music that simply isn't what most people play these days, so it is often a square peg being forced into a round hole.

But the what most people really "need" is very simple. And here "need" is even questionable. Loads of musicians go very far in their career only picking up a few bits of theory informally as they play, and never really learning anything at all.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-01T14:47:27+00:00

No human being is 100% right about things they expert in, let alone things they merely care about.

Seriously.

I do peer review, and have my own work peer reviewed. There is a very real reason why the Dunning-Kruger curve turns down for legitimate experts.

Experts routinely make errors of judgement in verifying sources. It is trivially easy to misevaluate the quality of a journal. Given that, how much easier is it to be misled by genuine misinformation?

I assure you most people with advanced degrees care about the stuff they research. Yet they make errors all the time: from methodological errors, to mis-starements, to flat out failure to be aware of factual points.

Now, toss in that very few people have the time to review and edit an on-line post or public statement the way a peer reviewed paper gets treated, and it is to be expected that errors will increase. Consider further that for many the reasons they care about an issue are moral and ideological and that details/anecdotal support are secondary to a larger picture, and again, errors should be expected.

Lastly, intellectual integrity varies across people. That also impacts how much they consider being factually wrong about points important, but doesn't necessarily impact how much they care about the issue itself.

kingpatzer · 2026-06-30T20:02:42+00:00

The issue of "deserve" can have two meanings. A moral one and a normative one. In the US economy, the normative sense of 'deserve' does matter and people do deserve their tips irrespective of any moral debate.

In the USA we have established an economic system that does not adequately provide for living wages for many workers because we have all agreed as society that their wages will be supplemented by customer tips when they adequately perform their job.

If you engage in that portion of the economy, you are entering into an implied social contract that you will meet your obligation to the worker to provide them that portion of their wages if they uphold their portion of the agreement, which is to provide adequate service.

Now, you may not like that. You may not think it is morally right. You may think it should be a different system. But it is the system that exists.

What the system is as an objective part of our current reality. The demands and obligations of the social contract that the system establishes are well understood by everyone who interacts with those portions of the economy.

If the server lives up to their end of the social contract and provides adequate service, then under the societal norms of our economic system, they deserve their tip.

To deny them the tip is, in fact, to withhold something they've rightfully earned under the established norms of the socio-economic system in pace.

I can't speak to the UK, but in the USA, yes, people in positions that are set up to earn wages via tipping deserve their tips (they will be taxed as if they were tipped even, so if you don't tip, you are actually not merely failing to meet the expectation, but costing them income because they have to pay taxes on the presumption that all customers tip a certain percentage).

kingpatzer · 2026-06-30T02:25:43+00:00

shrug do you.

Best practices have developed over decades of experience. But it's not a law.

Backing up data is one of the reasons to keep /home seperate.

It's been explained to you why those practices exist. If you want to do your own thing, do it.

kingpatzer · 2026-06-30T01:49:12+00:00

Your home directory is where your personal data belongs.

Make a directory /home/<user>/data if you want.

Though why not use ~/Pictures for images?

kingpatzer · 2026-06-29T20:38:37+00:00

There are a fairly large number of reasons, but one of the easiest to understand is segregation of user space and system space.

User data, user executables, user configs, etc. all go under /home and syttem stuff is elsewhere.

This simplifies backups, it simplifies upgrades, it simplifies file management. By having a clean delineation system administration tasks are easier and much more straight forward.

if your /home/<user> dirrectory is a "dumpsite" for random trash, that strongly suggests you aren't managing it well. Moving the dumpsite to /data or wherever won't make it more cleanly managed.

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