yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 13 hours ago:
Yeah nah. I thought it looked fake, but haven’t looked at a real one in at least 15 years so I couldn’t figure out why. Goddamn…
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 1 day ago:
Same… There should be ice cream trucks that sell things people really want, like frozen Reese’s cups and blended margaritas.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 1 day ago:
Is 6 a real It’s-It, or is it some bullshit knock-off?
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 1 day ago:
Only because they really wanted to already. Boo
- Comment on Any second now 1 day ago:
Yeah I see what your see. This is good old fashioned bad editing
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 2 days ago:
Funny how they’re trying so hard to catch pedos not won’t arrest a single motherfucker in the Epstein files
- Comment on Sony Just Ended An Entire Evolution Of Gaming 3 days ago:
Same, it’s lit
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 days ago:
Thank you so, so much. Especially for the offer to talk about this stuff. I’m dreading the upcoming summer holiday. My mother is in town for most of it, and she’s useless at any kind of control, routine, or discipline. Every time family stays with us it’s great - free childcare - but also, all routines and hard-won norms go out the window for at least a month after they’re long-gone.
Something I said to him last night after thinking about what you told me was explaining about how rules should be generalized. I told him “rules exist for reasons, and those reasons are the real rules.” I went through a few examples, and he seemed to vaguely get it. I know I’ll have to explain this again at least a few more times, but if I can get him pilled on the idea that rules have conceptual depth, maybe that will help him with compliance and masking somewhat. Have you ever tried anything like that? I feel like the more self-aware he is, the more he cooperates with measures taken to mitigate the things he’s not good at. He is a sweetheart, but that always shines through best when he feels like we’re on the same side.
- Comment on look 3 days ago:
Shit, I’m gonna have to read that too. Lemmy recs have never led me astray
- Comment on look 4 days ago:
This is like an item from Dungeon Crawler Carl lmao
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 4 days ago:
Thanks for the novel - seriously. There have been times when I felt like my kid is just an asshole too, reading that was oddly healing. If I wasn’t his loving father, I could easily write him off as no good. I see the good though, and I’ve worked to make him self-aware about the things he struggles with. He definitely knows he’s time-blind.
Recently he told me he thinks I’m unreasonable, and I explained that it’s now how I prefer to treat him, and that sometimes he’s so unreasonable himself that being unreasonable is the only possible response. He seemed to understand. He knows we love him.
He’s more ADHD than spectrum (according to the expensive private assessment we ended up getting after years of waiting). But I definitely see him completely failing to generalize rules. He seems to do better when he knows the reasons for things, but he will still struggle with any frustration, distraction, understimulation - basically executive dysfunction.
I can’t imagine him even attempting to stick with a task for six hours, even in a completely dissatisfactory way. He would sooner fall asleep on the kitchen floor than even pretend to try to do dishes. So at least yours had that much going for her!
I appreciate the validation about ruling with an iron fist (as often as possible with a really soft glove on it, right?). I used to be the most easygoing one in the room, but dad life with AuDHD has turned me into a stereotypical stern-faced patriarch and I often struggle with the role self not matching my true self.
I do need to get him mixing with kids more often in clubs and what-not. He’s a social sponge, and the more time he spends gently being asked not to act like shit by people who aren’t me, the better for everyone in the long run.
I wish there was a silver bullet for the mess that gets caused when we let them off the hook one single time. I don’t like being strict, it takes a toll.
- Comment on Tony Blair think tank warns Burnham’s tax plans send ‘wrong signal’ 4 days ago:
All I need to know about the proposed tax plan is that Blair doesn’t like it. All in
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 4 days ago:
I’m going through it with my 8yo AuDHD boy. I wouldn’t do much mind needing to constantly remind him things if the reminders didn’t anger him. Any wisdom you may have any how to manage them would be like manna from heaven.
- Comment on Screw ai AND Mr Roger's pictures, I want Mr Dressup and his Tickle trunk photos! 4 days ago:
Komaji’s weird American cousin
- Comment on A Ripple in Space 5 days ago:
The rings are, in cosmic terms, exceedingly temporary. We’re lucky to have lived at the same time as them.
- Comment on A Ripple in Space 5 days ago:
Selections from Wikipedia, for others who may find it interesting:
Daphnis’s eccentricity causes its distance from Saturn to vary by ~9 km (5.6 mi), and its inclination causes it to move up and down by ~17 km (11 mi).
As it orbits, it creates gravitational ripples on the edges of the Keeler gap as ring particles are attracted toward the moon and then fall back down toward the ring. The waves made by the moon in the inner edge of the gap precede it in orbit, while those on the outer edge lag behind it, due to the differences in relative orbital speed. In a photograph taken on January 18, 2017, a tendril of ring particles can be seen to extend toward the moon; according to JPL, “this may have resulted from a moment when Daphnis drew a packet of material out of the ring, and now that packet is spreading itself out.”
Also, it little resembles any moon I have seen. It is more akin to a fat grain of rice.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
Girls, girls. You’re all pretty. It’s capitalists who are dragging the whole world towards fascism, don’t get it twisted with nationality
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
I’m noticing a bit too much circularity in this dialogue tree. We both know how each other feel, why keep banging on about it?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Either you genuinely think it’s realistic to expect any better from the average person, or you don’t care about the average person. Either way I don’t think we’re working from the same notes
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That’s a really good story, instructive on how building social fabric takes time and patience
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
In this specific case, that’s not apples to apples since most of the games on GOG are very small.
It’s kind of hilarious to imagine, but I can imagine doing a “BYO thumb drive” sale for physical media. They could even mail it back in the big box
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Ideally we’d get to keep both around. I can see a world where we’re trading digital media around on discs deep into the next century, but I can also see how currently there’s also room for more transient media to serve less preservation-conscious people who don’t go out of their way to own a disc drive.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Do they need to?
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 6 days ago:
People have literally committed murder for, started cults around, and gotten married to their LLMs. One brainlet who supposes they’ve invented ‘thoughts’ does not move the needle for me
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
I think the priority for the business is what people will buy. PCs don’t have disc readers as standard anymore. Now the barrier to entry for physical media is either pay more for a thumb drive or pay a lot more for a disc reader.
What if they adopted the C02 canister model. Slightly joking here, but why not treat the thumb drives as a recoverable container you can get a rebate for reusing?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Why not just sell it in a cheap little thumb drive? Most games like this are very modest in size, would save people the cost of a disc reader.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 6 days ago:
It feels like an attempt to incept me with the idea to attack somebody. Like this is supposed to be my Manchurian candidate trigger phrase
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 1 week ago:
Okay now I’m interested, I gotta see this for myself. Brb
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 1 week ago:
I heard good things about RVTY just earlier today, what sets it apart from other driving Sims for you?
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 1 week ago:
Agreed. If he’s not joking, I lack the software dependencies to operate in this reality