Trafficone

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[–] Trafficone 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His response is absolutely not an appropriate response for an equal partner to make, and he knows it and knows you didn't do it to "make him feel guilty." He feels bad and so he wants you to feel bad, and that's just not how adults deal with their feelings. I feel close to this because I could see myself slipping into being like this person if I weren't devoted to being an equal partner.

If he wants to be an equal partner, he needs to own up to his mistakes, acknowledge the emotional labor you're doing, and come up with accommodations for his shortcomings. You have tried to accommodate for him, and that's just taking on more emotional labor without any payoff. You're not his mother, your his spouse, you shouldn't have to tell him what, when, and how to take care of these things. He may need accommodations, and he can ask for help, but you can't accommodate for him.

That said, my spouse and I both struggle with ADHD and one way we've accommodated our shortcomings is we have a stamp sheet which we fill out every week with cute stamps depending on who completed the task (mine is a penguin). It's taken a lot of the emotional labor off of both of us, and shows what we need to do or if we're done for the week and can relax. I'm not saying that solution will help in your case, but recognizing he has a problem, needs accommodations which may involve the whole household is the second step he needs to take. The first, of course, being that he needs to stop trying to make you feel bad because he feels bad. He's gotta cut that shit out.

[–] Trafficone 4 points 1 year ago

Oh jeez, the security nightmares I've seen here keep me up at night. You're doing good work, fixing what you could from the inside of where you worked.

[–] Trafficone 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)

...now? I feel like climate has been the "old reliable" culture war issue when climate denialists need to generate buzz on a slow news day going back at least 20 years.

[–] Trafficone 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, you might be a primitivist, feudalist, syndicalist, or any of many other ways of organizing society. What you adopt will depend on your values and how you perceive the relationship between people and capital. Ultimately the labels are helpful up to a point, because the application of theory, or praxis, will manifest in ways to meet the need of your time.

Just to get ahead of it, capitalist can mean both one who supports capitalism as a way to organize society, and one who owns capital. From context it's clear we mean the former definition.

[–] Trafficone 24 points 1 year ago

i want to close the app and go on with my day

That's exactly the "problem" being portrayed here, the expected/ideal mode of interaction with social media is compulsive and perpetual. It's the best way to maximize advertisement exposure. I'm not opposed to the slot machine of content, but it's absolutely reasonable to expect users to want to go on with their day.

[–] Trafficone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure! So, there's this mechanism called "methylation" that can turn off which genes are expressed at different times/in different tissues. It occurs in almost all organisms, but we don't fully understand the role it plays across different tissues in plants. However, the evidence suggests it may play a significant role in cells going from being stem cells (as in can become many kinds of cell, not literally part of the stem), to being the tissue they ultimately end up as. Better understanding this may help us figure out why some plants can easily be vegetatively propagated, while others are more picky about it.

[–] Trafficone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trains have some weird environmental impacts, but they all can be mitigated through careful planning. Electric trains can be 100% renewables-powered, take less space for the level of transportation they can provide, are easily integrated next to green spaces, etc.

One problem trains face is steel. From a harm-reduction standing, trains use less steel than cars, but if we're going to look at it from a solar punk perspective, we can't ignore the energy it takes to prepare hundreds of miles of track that needs to be repaired and replaced regularly. The challenge here is effectively with manufacturing, and it can be mitigated with efficient electric or hybrid furnaces with careful consideration as to the disposal of slag.

Another challenge is that trains disrupt natural environments. Tracks would need to be elevated, put underground, or other features would need to be included to minimize impact on the natural environment.

Something else considerable is that trains produce and distribute pollution. Brake dust, lubricating oil, and other man-made waste makes its way to the tracks and beyond. Environmental cleanup would have to be part of the plan for a solarpunk train system.

One thing that attracts me to the solarpunk ideology is these kinds of questions. Everything is linked to everything else, and even "obvious" solutions to today's problems aren't without their own potential pitfalls.

[–] Trafficone 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Researching plant genomes! Honestly, it's a lot of fun.

[–] Trafficone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, Chinese ephedra has pseudoephedrine in it, as w well as ephedrine which can function more effectively as a bronchodilator. Just don't take it if you're taking NDRI antidepressants.

[–] Trafficone 4 points 1 year ago

IMHO, DIY medication would benefit from a blend of biology and organic chemistry. Plants, fungi and recombinant bacteria can produce plenty of complex organic molecules that are biologically active for free. Then harvesting, isolating, and doing final modifications would be much less difficult than producing medications from scratch.

[–] Trafficone 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have one of these, and the analog stick started to get some drift. NBD, I thought, I'll just pick up a new stick and swap it out.

Turns out, I'm rubbish at desoldering. So now I have a pile of parts until I get up the courage to try again.

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