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This is already a serious problem imo

My counseling practice is geared at queer people so I don’t get a ton of sports gambling types generally but I do get some and the amounts they reveal spending is mind boggling to me. Like 20-30% of income

I have a colleague at a more affluent practice in the city I used to work in that is geared towards “men’s issues” and he sees this far more. We’ve discussed it a few times now. He tends to get more of the bro type

It’s silent too, very often hidden from partners. I increasingly hear about it as a source of stress in relationships too: someone comes in one day and everything was going okay but their shit is blown up because it turns out their brofriend is spending 1800 a week on parlays

Deregulation works!

A text file encrypted with aes-256/gpg on a usb drive with a hidden veracrypt volume that also have a decoy encrypted veracrypt volume is essentially uncrackable even by state actors unless you give up the passphrases or use some dumbass passphrases that are easily guessed.

This is the kind of shit where if you have critical evidence on the drive they’ll hold you: there was a police sergeant in Philly who (probably) had child porn on his macbook. They couldn’t prove it becuase his drive was encrypted and he refused to give up the passphrase. He was held for four years on contempt charges and they finally gave up. He wasn’t even using an esoteric approach, he just had macos filevault turned on

The approach I described sidesteps that issue because it creates a decoy encrypted veracrypt for them to find and for you to give up. The hidden veracrypt with your salacious details is a volume that is created within the free space of the outer volume so it essentially undetectable unless you give it up and by design you give up the outer volume that shows innocuous data. Of course, having veracrypt at all invites suspicion of a secret volume but this puts you in the above spot: catching a few years with no real charges for refusing to give yourself up. Much better spot than catching charges for whatever crime (or being executed for political activism/journalism/etc)

Meanwhile this guys journals were immediately found and well documented for his federal complaint. You could just burn them I guess but then you no longer have all your data

They didn’t need the game, the greatest generation was already teaching them the slimy tricks

Case in point: monopoly was a game stolen by Charles Darrow in the early 1930s and sold to Parker brothers. The original game was “the landlords game”, invented in 1903 by Elizabeth Maggie, and was played with 2 sets of rules. One with fairly classic monopoly rules and one with anti monopoly rules that shared wealth. The point of the game was to illustrate how rent enriches property owners and makes tenants more and more poor over time. It was notable for being one of the first board games to be awarded a patent in 1904.

Monopoly was popular so Parker brothers later bought the patent from her to secure legal rights to the game. Their version obviously stripped away the messaging and solely focuses on greed and pro capitalist propaganda given that’s how they conducted business

They paid her $500 for the patent (roughly 11-12k today) and went on to earn millions from the game. She was furious they removed the messaging

They should be aware, it’s not a new or poorly explored correlation. It’s been pretty well substantiated. That said it would not be the first time a doctor was ignorant about issues for people with autism, of course

From a quick search:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27546330241238668 - 80% of adults and adolescents with asd experience sleep disruption

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00273/full - 50-80% of asd populations in western countries experience sleep disruption relative to 20-50% of neurotypical peers

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00366/full - rates reported higher, as high as 65-93%

There is a high comorbidity of sleep issues with Autism, 60-80% vs 20-30% of neurotypical pop that has sleep disturbances

Melatonin system differences is the main neurological causal factor. Tends to be lower production overall and abnormal secretion schedule. Supplementation with melatonin is cheap, relatively safe, and easy place to start. Consult a doctor if you have an autoimmune disorder or are epileptic as melatonin can mess with immune activity and lower seizure threshold. like all things it is possible to be allergic to it but that’s astoundingly rare. Can also interact with other meds like SSRIs and birth control to increase melatonin levels more than you’d want or meds like warfarin to increase bleeding. Basically if you’re healthy it’s very safe but if you’re already taking a bunch of meds, diabetic, etc just ask a doctor. It’s probably fine but never hurts to be sure

Other potential causal factors are what you’d expect: sensory issues, anxiety, etc. managing these ranges from not that bad to extremely difficult. Sleep masks, ear plugs, medications, white noise, etc

Apneas are also more common in autism and are more difficult to treat. CPAPs are poorly tolerated by everyone. there’s a reason insurance companies have pushed to have metrics built into them. You last had one a decade ago so it was potentially before this but modern ones snitch on you: they take usage statistics and if you don’t use them the required amount the insurance co demands you return it or they stop paying for it (this may have been the case 10 years ago even, definitely how it works now).

Outside of CPAP your options for treating apneas are fairly limited and depend on how the apnea presents. If you’re overweight losing weight is the biggest factor in management of an apnea. If your tonsils or adenoids are enlarged surgeries to reduce or remove them can reduce or fix the apnea. If you have narrow jaw issues that can be similarly corrected and reduce apnea. Steroids and such can be used if you have bad allergies but this generally is only an intervention for fairly mild apneas and then you have to deal with side effects of steroids

Otherwise it’s best to find a way to desensitize yourself to the mask if possible. I know it sounds impossible but I’ve worked with many people on doing this and it can be quite a significant positive impact on quality of life. Apnea ultimately means that while you are sleeping and even sleeping excessively you likely aren’t getting much restorative sleep. There’s unfortunately not much to do for that aside from getting oxygen into you while you sleep (or correcting the issues that prevent your airway from becoming obstructed)

There is no allegedly, the dude was a total boomer and literally wrote out instructions on how to dox someone in his notebook which are shown in the federal complaint against him

Literally outlines which sites are free, which ones have free trials, etc

Like you you would think he would just use a text document or bookmarks or something

Donations isn’t going to cover the hunger of a 40 million dollar VC round. Those investors want more than a return, they want plex profitable ASAP

FWIW while my hardware serving Jellyfin is more powerful, my hardware accessing is not much more, I forgot to mention that detail

I typically use a ugoos android tv box flashed with coreelec. I believe it’s more powerful than a pi for this application but it’s not particularly powerful.

I use Jellyfin for kodi over Jellycon. I’m not saying one is better than the other, I’ve never tried jellycon, but that is what my experience is based on. In my experience initial library scans are very lengthy (building db from scratch) with the size of my library, 20-30 minutes. This never is necessary at this point though and was only needed because I was testing something for coreelecs nightlies that required me to trash my db a lot. Typically I login and it updates within a few seconds, even if I’ve recently had a somewhat hefty update. It does help that the ugoos has fairly speedy emmc here - my initial testing running coreelec off of the sd card this was a bottleneck. Flashing to internal emmc and enabling hs400 mode made this notably quicker

Pinchflat is interesting! Thanks! I have been looking for a better YouTube archival tool

IMO kodi plugins are very hit/miss. This is why I prefer the setup I have where storage nas runs Jellyfin then flashed android box runs coreelec. Kodi and Jellyfin both have IPTV plugins, for example, but they are terrible. So when I want to use IPTV I boot to the degoogled android side and use tivimate, which is much more stable and convenient. I also have an APK for youtube there with adfree and sponsor block integrated. There is a build of freetube for android but unfortunately I cannot get it to work on the box. I don’t watch a ton of youtube though

I have much more powerful hardware than you but Jellyfin shouldn’t take more than a few seconds to load directories. The hardware is fairly irrelevant, this was still the case when I was on my old nas (which was an ancient pc that was garbage). Jellyfin doesn’t require much. My library is gigantic too, easily over 100,000 items across music, movies, and tv.

What do logs say? How is your network? When I moved into my new place i went ethernet only and had issues with Jellyfin (and other self hosted stuff) and tracked it down to one cable that was super cheap and limited to 100mbit.

Jellyfin isn’t really geared towards viewing media in a folder structure though.

You may be best off going with a freetube access. TBH I find Jellyfin works best with media that can be scraped or that I’m willing to create nfo files for. My music/tv/movies? These are overwhelmingly fine. Every once in a while a niche show or album requires manual scraping or a custom nfo. But I also have some other collections like music videos. Imvdb exists but is far less complete compared to other scraping sources and as a result I don’t even bother using it, the overwhelming majority of my collection needs manual nfos. When I’ve tried to contribute to it my contributions have sat in pending for literal months pending approval, even for obvious videos by major artists.

I don’t know of any scraper for youtube videos and such a thing would be a tremendous undertaking. If you archive a lot it’s a lot of nfos to create. Perhaps you could make a script that generates them automatically by scraping the description and grabbing the thumbnail as fan art?

Disconnect sometimes. It feels callous but it’s necessary for your own mental health. The inevitability of our mortality, the frustrating reality of accepting that which we cannot change, identification of what is possible within our sphere of control that actually may influence change, etc all are important things but are exhausting. It is okay to take a break

This isn’t a “blaming immigrants” thing. 14% of the population is notable and while much of that population can speak, read, and write English better than native speakers a sizable portion only learn to speak it. This does go back to the official language thing (which actually is not true anymore, trump executive ordered it in his flurry of bullshit EOs). Before that EO they could just get government forms in their native tongue but now that’s probably jeopardized

But these studies generally look at literacy rates of English since, while it wasn’t the official language until very recently, it functionally was. So it’s not blaming immigrants but more explaining that yes, a portion of the data is attributed to people that do not speak English as a first language, rather than the native speakers who were failed by a collapsing public education system

I knew one person who justified additional cost for vegan options because the volume of sales was relatively low but he felt it added a bunch of complexity because he made efforts in the back of house to respect that vegan options stayed “sterile” (separate vegan cookware, one fryer solely for vegan options, etc)

I dunno how realistic that is on impact of bottom line but I did appreciate that he did that. I think vibes based is the right thing to call it, I’m sure he didn’t run an analysis of the cost of having all fryers universal vs decreased stock costs. Of course lacking creativity and loading your “vegan” options with expensive shit like impossible and beyond that costs more than meat doesn’t help (and is also technically not vegan even if it is labeled as such because it relied on animal testing to quickly get soy leghemoglobin approved for human consumption)

I know it’s pretty nitpicky but I’m sure a lot of restaurants that serve cauliflower “wings” just throw them in the same fryer as the chicken wings. then people make them at home and wonder why they don’t taste the same? Because you didn’t fry them in oil flavored with chicken fat