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As someone who never had any friends in school, my personal recommendation is make friends based on your interests (whether in person or online) and then keep to yourself the rest of the time. Expending effort to try to fit in both drains you and is immediately noticeable to others so it has little merit.

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I mean that’s the cynical view largely based on how conditions in mainly one particular country have developed sure, but it’s not philosophically what economics is about (which is allocating resources in a utility maximising way)

I got prescribed medical cannabis and it definitely helps with the anxiety/stress part of the stomach issues

Like others, medical stuff has revealed everything ‘looks fine’ for me but I’ve basically gone down the road of eliminating everything from the diet and bringing in safe foods one at a time to see how you react. I realised for me certain things are a no no, cut out most dairy, onions etc. Then just make a routine diet out of the stuff you know works, making sure you’re getting enough protein, fat, carb, fibre etc.

The Apple M processors are pretty good at this. My MacBook has no fan and it’s incredibly performant with all day battery and my Mac studio is basically inaudible apart from extreme load, and yet can encode video in sometimes seconds in davinci.

Amazing narrative that I’d fully recommend people play completely blind if possible

100%. I’ve thought the same thing before too, both my monitor and my TV spend most of their time sitting on a Mac desktop with menu bar and dock in exactly the same place. I have had the TV for almost a decade and the monitor for about 5 years without issue. Even my older computer monitors I’ve either sold or given to a friend because they worked like the day I bought them. There would be guaranteed burn in if either one of those panels was OLED. I’m pretty happy not to have to replace screens every couple of years thanks. If I was only using a screen for watching shows or movies then sure, an OLED with its contrast makes sense, but I don’t see how they can ever be recommended as monitors for anything other than casual use.

If you like anime style JRPGs then yes, otherwise not really.

Thanks for this reminder at the end. I sound similar, ‘normal unless everything collapses’ and I have got a lot better these past few years from just backing out of things more often

Eh personally Deus Ex is one of my favourite games of all time but none of the subsequent games interested me because they were much less freeform. Unless Warren Spector decides to do one himself I don’t think the series has much value to older gamers like myself, and I suspect they’ve probably done the analysis to suggest that the mainstream audience will be more receptive to whatever kind of thing is popular right now.

I’m not sure I understand this? Is this a reference to something?

BBC is publicly funded and generally aims to be factual so yes. The guardian and telegraph are good quality reporting but the guardian has extreme liberal bias and the telegraph has extreme conservative bias so you have to bear this in mind when drawing any conclusions. The Times is a bit more in the middle. All the tabloids like daily mail and the sun are trash for ‘the masses’, essentially clickbait before the internet existed.

Thanks for sharing. I’m not in this position myself right now but I do have similar kinds of fears for when I get older.

That’s a fair point!

For the sake of argument, what would you call a seat that was not next to the aisle? I’m not defending them but at the same time I’d understand window seat just means ‘against fuselage’, yet I agree this is a confusing term.

Just give me a way to play Gran Turismo on PC and I’ll be happy honestly.

My dad is a retired driving instructor and has come across people similar to this. Undiagnosed learning difficulties are probably part of it, but in many cases the people that struggled also had English being not a native language. Maybe it is the combination of the two in these extreme cases

Maybe I need to try that, I zone out pretty quickly