As someone with friends and family on the spectrum, my best tip:
Take a moment to breathe when you've completed a thought related to what you're explaining, and look at the other person to see if they have information to share, questions, or just to express what they know.
This helped a few folks pace themselves, and the break for others they believe helped in not appearing condescending.
Hope this helps!
"Not dismiss" <> "jump to".
The bar to 'decent' doesn't actually lower.
Donald Trump is just orders of magnitude further below the bar than Bill Clinton, but the bar is in the same spot.
Nope.
Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.
Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.
I'll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn't even the only issue I had with them.
Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet
Which, to point out, he never actually said. He said "creating" - which is actually accurate, since he pushed the policies that allowed for it to exist. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn support his stance that he was a primary driver behind its development from a policy perspective. I believe they even said no other politician has been as important to the internet (rough paraphrase, someone else can grab the exact quote) as Gore.
The claim that he said he "invented the internet" came from dirtbag pundits, of course.
My last library was.... Not great. Mostly because of the town it was in, not the librarians.
New one is amazing - 3d printer, maker classes, painting classes, museums and multiple online educational tools for kids....
Even a play area for under 8 with puzzles and nooks for them to read in. The one in town when I was a kid is bigger, and had a larger nonfiction/adult section by far, but this one is amazing for the teens and under, even graphic novels, mangas, etc available. I'm glad my kids have this library available to them.
Edit: And just to mention, youngest is too little to read yet but enjoys the learning play there. Oldest is reading 2 books between each trip, 2-3 times a week. Such a great resource, wish it was as good everywhere.
For anyone curious, this is a Sicilian rice ball (arancini), they go all over NJ, operating out of northeastern NJ.
For the same reason as WiFi supposedly making people sick.
To be clear, what I mean by that is "its utter horse shit".
By spacex?
Yes. No more from them.
Ideally, yes.
TONS.
My local library is about half for under 12, a quarter or the space for teens, and then the last quarter is a split of nonfiction and fiction for adults.
So if you go as an adult without a plan or a request that came in, you may not find much other than the librarians latest rec or the newest additions rack.
For kids though, my local library is incredible. Reading nooks, educational play areas for the little ones, etc. Its wonderful.
My oldest is getting anywhere from 6-8 books a week right now, she's going into 2nd grade. Libraries are awesome.