kaeriani.bsky.social
Bookdragon (as opposed to bookworm!) Cat and dog and chicken friend. Parent. Ally to LGBTQ. Liberal, progressive. Tries to be witty and sometimes succeeds.
Likes: Sleep Token, my cat, helping people
Dislikes: authoritarianism, fascism
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@mementomorty.bsky.social is this a crime?
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Oh no
I'm one of those pedantic "nauseous only means nauseating" people
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Have you heard the song After All by Dar Williams?
There's a line, "I guess life chose me, after all," (it's also about surviving depression) and it reminded me of your story. I'm glad you had kitties to get you through it. I'm very glad you are here. 🫶
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Right, that's exactly why all the white people are stepping up to pick cherries when immigrants are intimidated into not coming to work.
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honestly, I’m glad this is not what happened because “the VP got banned from bluesky” is a recipe for unpleasant government focus on the site, but “the VP tried to troll bluesky and it went over like a wet fart and everyone blocked him” is not, it would just look pathetic
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I've also thought autism and/or ADHD for several of the posts.
I know there is high comorbidity and a lot of overlap between the conditions and it can be hard to distinguish.
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My 15 yo has lowered appetite, often thinks food tastes weird or wrong. Frequent headaches and nausea. Exhaustion. Too ill to go to school more than 1/2 the time.
But she "has POTS" or "an eating disorder" and no one will consider long COVID.
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Idk; you will learn it better in the explaining, and, you just are fighting it out so maybe you can use what clicked for you to explain it and click for someone else!?
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YAY!
@autismsupsoc.bsky.social 's explanation did it for me and I got to pass on to you!
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a 1/3 chance, so it STILL has a 1/3 chance, you haven't changed anything about the original choice.
BUT because you're now being offered a new choice there's a new set of odds ONLY about the new variable being offered, because you're now offered 1/2 on door 2, and it doesn't change door 1's odds?
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Ok. I think we are most of the way there then?
Can we accept that once one of the doors is revealed that the problem changes and the new problem is "you have two doors with unknown things behind them now" and the fact that you're "holding" one of them doesn't change that when you picked it, it was-
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Yes! Somehow it clicked for me!
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So the principle there is that odds/probabilities are static and don't change based on future or past circumstances. Therefore the first selection has a 1/3 chance no matter what happens next, because an uninformed choice of 1 of 3 items results in success 1/3 of the time.
Can you accept that?
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Ok I sensed this might be why there was trouble.
This premise has to be granted before we can move on.
Are you familiar w/the fact that flipping a coin 50 times in a row, the # of times you've thrown Heads already does not change/affect the probability of the next throw being a 1/2 chance of Heads?
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I didn't know it was possible to turn off reposts!
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Ok.
A 1/3 chance remains a 1/3 chance *no matter what happens* with any other door. It will always be a 1/3 chance because it started as a 1/3 chance. Other doors being opened and showing "not a car" does neither increase nor decrease the chances of what's behind # 1 being 1/3.
Agree to that?
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Ok.
Can we establish as given that there is a car behind 1 of 3 of the doors?
And therefore that when you choose any random door, your chance of getting a car is 1/3 or 33%?
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Can I try to help?
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Ok I read it, thank you, that actually does help!
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Me too please
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Did you try doing a control-alt-T?
At least in Chrome this brings back the most recent set of tabs.
That is, if you want to
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Seems to be the same crowd who say thee-ay-tor for theater.
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Lyz, I love your writing. I'd love to continue reading and would consider subscribing if you moved off Substack.
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How would one know that a random person who needs medical help would be aided by narcan? Is that taught in the training?
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Yes omg so good
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A lot of spammers joined proton and some providers have proactively blocked the entire site as they've been not helpful in curbing outgoing spam.
You never have to use Google, there are other alternatives, maybe the best bet is an email associated with your ISP?
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No one does this.
Literally no one.
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I immediately felt in my body a sense of relaxation from reading about the affirmation you received, I knew exactly why it was meaningful and how that would be so helpful even alongside the sad about being unintentionally hurtful. I'm glad you got that!
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You can warn them, but they'll never listen. And worse, they'll gleefully take hedge clippers to the few safety nets we've managed to put in place, because *they'll* never need them, no.
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(that said it's often when I "overdo it")
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I can't watch movies with shakey cam...can't ride rollercoasters...can't watch other people play 1st person or overhead perspective video games...
And from time to time I just feel nauseated and dizzy, for no predictable reason.
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HOLY CRAP is this why I frequently experience vertigo??!??
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Ah, that makes so much more sense!
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Oh.
That's an autistic thing too huh?
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I keep discovering new things too and now every time I notice I do something "weird" I wonder if it's my neurospicy brain or just me being weird old me 😂🤦🏻♀️
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Maybe it's making the request explicit? 😂
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Hell yeah.
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That's right, I forgot them too.