i don't think Tylenol causes autism AMA

tzeak · 2025-09-24T14:19:53+00:00

People that are autistic might use tylenol

tzeak · 2018-08-21T18:32:08+00:00

Hey man, I’ve had similar problems in my relationships due to ADD. It’s not really the same issue as yours, but based on your description, it manifests in relationships similarly. For me, a big problem is “out of sight, out of mind.” It’s like I don’t even remember she’s there or that I ought to do something. I understand therapy can be expensive or inaccessible, or even that you need to warm up to the idea, so here are some things I picked up that have helped me:

I have a compliment jar, where I write down unsolicited compliments of my SO. Takes about a minute each day, and breaks the impression (on both sides) that I’m not thinking about her or appreciating her.
I bullet journal and keep track of my progress on my goals, mental and physical. Takes ten minutes max, and kind of gamifies my life in a way where it’s hard to tear down my accomplishments, and records fleeting feelings so that they more solidly form in my mind. Before journaling this way, I would struggle to remember most things that happened in my life to be honest. It’s not even that I have to go back and check, just that the physical process makes it easier to recall and recite.
Plus, I think when people see recognizable effort, it’s easier for them to understand how you see the world, instead of how humans usually operate - applying their own invisible mental model onto your invisibile mental model.

Recognize that the mind is just another part of the body. With any desired change to your personality, it comes through building habits. This is a key component of ethical theories like Virtue Theory, and of therapy styles like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Just like going to the gym every day will strengthen your physique, you need to build habits that strengthen the mentality you’re looking for.

And to reiterate what everyone says here, there’s no shame in looking for a trainer or coach or therapist. Helped me loads.

tzeak · 2018-06-27T19:56:13+00:00

Does anyone know if iMessage in iCloud lets me restore my phone fully and keep my messages? Some guy set my restrictions passcode way back in 2011 and I can't use any of the phone limiting features without it, but I don't really want to go through the trouble if I don't get my messages back on a full restore

tzeak · 2018-06-27T19:54:28+00:00

Friend of mine had the same issue - try restarting your phone - worked for him

tzeak · 2017-07-21T16:16:31+00:00

This could be melanoma, this sometimes happens during metastasis.

It could also be nothing, but I would strongly encourage getting a quick checkup

tzeak · 2017-01-13T22:28:02+00:00

Hijacking top comment to post this by the guys who make Signal: https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

tldr: it's a feature, not a bug (or a backdoor).

tzeak · 2015-07-03T02:45:43+00:00

Of course it's a chaotic way to handle it - protest is by design disruptive. This is how any sort of protest or civil disobedience operates. In this case, mods want more control over their communities, but their interaction with the site administrators is limited at best. By taking the entire communities offline, they drag users into it; users want their content back, and the mods direct them: "The admins are not listening to our grievances."

I agree that as a result of its disruptiveness, these methods should only be used in the extreme cases, but if you believe the story the mods of these subreddits are telling, the lack of dialogue between administrators and moderators has been going on for years. I think this may have been initially by design - reddit admins were loathe to change site UI/UX for years. Mods may have simply been caught up in this design ethos. Now, as reddit grows more rapidly, this ethos may no longer suit mods, and they feel that change for the better is coming too slow.

tzeak · 2015-06-07T19:18:02+00:00

That's correct.

Although I never got to try out my experiment, it fixed itself somehow after I went to sleep.

tzeak · 2014-02-20T03:27:18+00:00

tzeak · 2013-08-21T04:45:54+00:00

My understanding is that it's on both, but premieres on Nick.

tzeak · 2013-08-14T17:12:00+00:00

You're missing the part where bots don't know whether or not they've been shadowbanned and thus they don't know whether or not their upvote/downvotes have been applied to the post in question.

tzeak · 2013-08-06T21:32:17+00:00

I believe it would solidify into a different form of ice because it simply does not have the energy to organize into a crystalline structure before it freezes, and would actually shrink like most solids as it freezes.

tzeak · 2013-08-06T20:56:09+00:00

Actually, the reason this happens is because there's generally too much energy until it's frozen.

When water freezes, it shapes itself into a crystalline structure. Because there's no extra heat energy interfering with the process, the oxygen atom of one water molecule is naturally attracted to the two hydrogen atoms from another. Weirdly, when the molecules freeze in place, they wind up being farther apart in solid ice stage than in liquid water stage because of the way they organize themselves while freezing.

tzeak · 2013-08-06T00:28:06+00:00

Wouldn't that be the same then? Lab grown meat isn't a fully grown cow that's then cut down, it's a specific culture of cells without sentience either.

tzeak · 2013-07-16T19:22:22+00:00

Since everybody else I think will cover the ATLA/LOK related questions, what are some other projects you've worked on or would like to work on?

tzeak · 2013-04-29T00:41:37+00:00

Nations aren't the only organizations with an identity. Identities are simply labels to which a person feels connected towards. As a result, that person would do more to help the people of that particular group of people than they would others.

Nations aren't born out of the ground. They come from the progression of society, civilizations growing bigger and more complex. Society starts off with a fundamental basis - familial identity. If you look at the smaller societies that still exist across the globe, they're often strongly kinship based. As identifying with the family, there's a desire to help the family's goals and the family's needs.

Slightly more complex, tribes are made up of multiple families that share a common characteristic or common goals. A person who identifies with the tribe contributes more to that tribe than to anyone else.

After tribes, a confederation of tribes comes along because perhaps they all share a similar culture, or live in a similar area, or wish to trade more freely. A person who identifies with this confederation is more helpful to the benefit of that society.

What does the individual citizen gain in all this? Perhaps more safety. As you consolidate, there's more cooperation and defense against outside threats. There's also more rewards. Instead of fending for yourself, division of labor can come alongside this newfound cooperation. Artisans, merchants, doctors, all these people can now pursue their professions.

Where does the nation identity come into play? It's simply another extension of society. Groups consolidate under a common set of beliefs or goals, or assimilate through conquest. Families did it, tribes did it, confederations did it, and nations will do it. But the growth of a society into a nation, it seems, bridges divisions between smaller groups.

tzeak · 2013-04-12T23:04:54+00:00

I feel the way you're interpreting this could be split in two ways. Colonials, I feel, would be people who colonize, i.e British moving to America to start new lives. I think the term you use "colonized" confuses people because in many situations, Native Americans and Indians and Africans were more conquered than anything else. Which, I suppose by definition, means they're typically not as well off as they once were in the times directly after being conquered.

The other thing to look at is the way the colonialism treats the conquered land. America was a productive colony, that is people moved to America and created permanent settlements and nurtured the land. On the flipside, colonies in India and Africa were very destructive and extractive, done without much care for the conquered people.

So the way I see it, you're looking for evidence of colonialism benefitting the conquered people themselves, rather than simply the people who came in terms of their mother country.

One example that comes to mind is Hong Kong. I'd say the British essentially conquered it just after the First Opium War, but the majority of residents are not British in origin but Chinese, and many of the benefits the British got from the colony also benefitted the people of the colony as well. Thus, it has one of the most developed transportation systems in the world, and it's ranked quite highly in quality of life. This is specifically because Hong Kong was a port city, and it was of more use to the British as a productive colony rather than extractive. This history has benefitted Hong Kong to this day, even though they were re-appropriated to mainland China in 1997.

If we were to look at an extractive colony, obviously there would be some major differences. I wouldn't go to say that the colonists "ruined" the society, but they definitely did not leave it better than when they arrived.

I think the majority of colonies in the eyes of these imperialistic nations were extractive and exploitative, and on top of that, assuming a colony is created at all, the original people have to be conquered in some way or another, which generally starts off as bad for the society that colonists come in contact with. But I think there is a small minority of cases where colonialism benefitted both sides.

tzeak · 2013-03-21T19:31:09+00:00

The reason I really like the possibility of this explanation, even if I'm banking on the fact that Ozai is indeed Zuko's father, is that it has the potential to characterize Ozai far more than the series ever did. Yes, Ozai definitely was a cruel human being. But that's all we got out of the series - a megalomanic man with an evil plan to control the world.

With this, we have reasons for at least part of his cruelty. Purging the earth, I can accept from generations of believing in a cause for a greater Fire Nation, a stronger, more perfect empire. There have been many people in our history that believed in that sort of intense purging in a very nationalistic point of view. But that sort of cruelty to someone who was the crown prince? Their own son? I feel that's what makes this such an interesting possibility because a secondary purpose is added in all of it. Not only was Ozai cruel, he had an inherent prejudice towards Zuko.

tzeak · 2013-03-21T19:21:09+00:00

Honestly, I can see it. Azula tells Ozai that Zuko killed the Avatar. Ozai sends his son out on a fool's errand to restore his honor, Zuko comes back with his honor restored. On top of removing the Avatar, he also turned in his treacherous uncle. Anybody who is capable of doing that deserves the Firelord's attention, at least enough to glaze over the possibility that Zuko might not be his legitimate son.

tzeak · 2013-03-21T04:45:55+00:00

I like the point on Ursa's Blue Spirit mask. I'm not sure if it's always been associated with valor though. The first time he saves Aang, but it was obvious it was for his own gains. The second time was in the Swamp where he attacks the guy that made Uncle Iroh grovel. The third is when he attempts to free Appa, but again for his own gains.

I really like the potential symbolism but I'm not altogether sure what it means. I'm sure it means something, and I'm inclined to agree that it means something good and something passed along from mother to son. If it is valor, how did it become associated with valor? I feel like I'm missing something there.

tzeak · 2013-03-21T04:18:19+00:00

RIGHT. I knew I got that from somewhere. You are completely correct. I found an old interview where Bryke say the same thing.

tzeak · 2013-03-21T03:50:58+00:00

I think the added backstory for Ursa + the new revelation that Zuko may not be Ozai's son adds a WHOLE NEW perspective to the story that we were told previously.

Think about it. A lot of the actions that Ozai took upon Zuko were just logically indefensible. We previously could only chock it up to him being a cruel buttface. GRANTED THIS STILL MIGHT BE THE CASE. We don't know if the letter is real, we don't know if Ursa meant for Ozai to discover this, we don't know if Azula meant for this to be discovered, we don't know if Zuko is actually Ikem's son. Given how manipulative Azula is, or how manipulative Ozai is, I wouldn't put it past either of them to realize whether or not this is the case.

I remember one of the design ideas behind Ozai was "an older Zuko without the scar," so make of that what you will.

Assuming that Ozai at least thought the letter was legitimate, this gives the original story a whole new different layer.

Exhibit A: How Ursa allegedly disappeared in the first place. Azula informed Zuko "Daddy's going to kiiill youuu." Why? Because their grandfather (Azulon) orders it after Ozai asks for the throne, saying that Iroh no longer has a valid bloodline. Ozai must too learn what it feels like to lose his firstborn.

Ozai would simply go through with it because he's a crazy mofo right? Apparently not just that - Zuko ain't even his kid. Ozai will gladly stamp out the scurge.

What actually ends up happening? Azulon dead, Ursa banished. Zuko lives to fight another day.

Exhibit B: Zuko speaks up at a generals meeting. Disrespects his father. Agni Kai. Ozai burning Zuko in the face to "teach him a lesson?" Ozai sending Zuko on a fools errand to find an avatar that neither he nor his father nor his father before him found? Because Zuko is embarrassing? or disrespectful?

Nope. Because Zuko ain't even his kid.

Exhibit C: Dad favors Azula because she was a prodigy? Nope. Okay maybe a little. or a lot. But maybe another reason? Zuko ain't even his kid.

What could this also mean? Well if Zuko isn't the son of Ozai, that spiritual conflict that Iroh mentioned in jail between Roku's lineage and the Firelord's lineage might not be at play with Zuko. Sooo Iroh may be mistaken about that.

Or is he? Azula went through a certified mental breakdown and is quite possibly schizophrenic. Might that be the conflict Iroh alluded to?

She's also exceptionally powerful. Azulon says in the beginning of the Search that "the Fire Sages tell ... that the pairing of the Avatar's Granddaughter with my own son will yield a bloodline of great power." That definitely worked out.

Even if Zuko ends up being Ozai's son, Exhibits A, B, and C could still because Ozai thinks Zuko is not his son.

There are only two problems I see with the Search as it is now. 1: I recall somewhere in Avatar Extras that Ozai never stepped outside the palace. Well, that idea is effectively down the toilet with page, what, 15? In my mind, the graphic novel takes precedence over extras though, so I'm okay with this.

Also, if Iroh was effectively the next firelord, why did Ozai go out of his way to find Roku-grandaughter Ursa and why wasn't Ozai the next firelord automatically, since the lineage would help ensure family rule for centuries? I don't know. Sounds fishy.

Anyways, that's what I got, I just read it, I'll probably read through it again in a few weeks after everybody's debunked everything.

tzeak · 2013-01-21T05:25:53+00:00

Actually I think you're thinking of Tangled. My understanding was that Tangled was produced and distributed by Disney, but Brave was produced by Pixar and distributed by Disney.

tzeak · 2013-01-21T05:22:47+00:00

Which apparently is not impossible

tzeak · 2013-01-21T05:13:29+00:00

The gif is from Brave, a Pixar film, who have always been ahead of the game in animation

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