The text on the top blends in a bit and I thought that this was an endorsement for a sec.

Breathing exercises like square breathing can help:

• Breath in for 4 seconds
• Hold for 4 seconds
• Breath out for 4 seconds
• Hold for 4 seconds
• Repeat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison#V-coding

Hormones are active in the brain and if you are low it can cause mood problems. Most sources I’ve seen show a 4-5 day half-life for estrodial valerate. This can leave you pretty low before 7 days are up if you are on weekly injections. There are two ways that people typically work around this:

• Increasing the dosage high enough that you don’t dip too low. This unfortunately also means that your peak levels may get higher than your Dr is comfortable with.
• Splitting the dose in half and injecting two times a week instead of one. This will significantly smooth out the curve, but have the downside of requiring twice the injections.

This is an example simulation with a once weekly 5mg injection vs a twice weekly 2.5mg injection to illustrate the difference between the two:

I guess what I am saying is that there are options if the dosing schedule you start off with causes you problems that you can work through with your Dr. Also, the 5mg I used for the simulation was a semi random number and not a recommended dose.

“Non-lethal” should really say less lethal, since the can and do kill. Especially when they are intentionally misused as they so often are.

…that the NY Times went out of their way to help usher in.

They are in fact awesome books.

I did as well.

30 grams is a round number somewhere in the ballpark of a musket ball. I am also uncertain as to how you ended up with 19.2 km/s.

To the best of my recollection the energy should be conserved according to the formula: energy = mass * velocity squared

Mass is in kg and velocity is in m/s

So solving for v would give us around 2.3 km/s for a 0.5 g projectile. At that speed, the projectile would most likely detonate immedeately due to air resistance rendering it problematic as a firearm.

Unfortunately people who have X instead of M or F on their documents haven’t been able to get a passport at all, even with the wrong gender marker. They have functionally been banned from traveling.

Many of the things we take for granted as obvious these days were anything but until recently. Take bolt cutters for example. The compound lever that let’s them function so well seems like something that would have been around for centuries, but in reality wasn’t something that was widely used/understood until the 1890s when they were marketed as a wonder tool.

On the other hand, this is a game and should be fun regardless of how anachronistic it is at times. At least as long as the witch/duck proportionality is maintained. There has to be at least some realism.

I was assuming that the total energy would be maintained (In this case 1350 joules) and thus the damage should be the same if weren’t spread out. It has been 20+ years since I has to do any of that math so I could be wrong about any of that. And since the only paper that was handy happened to be an envelope I guess it was technically back of the envelope math. :)

I imagine that the momentum would be conserved. So if the rifle normally shot a 30 gram ball at 300 meters per second, it would shoot a 5 kilogram ball at around 23 meters per second.

• The larger size and lower speed of the cannon ball would likely reduce the range.
• The larger size of the projectile would spread out the impact causing reduced damage.
• The ballistics would be significantly different making it far harder to hit with.

This is how I would do it in my game:

• Reduce the damage from 1d12 to 1d10
• Change piercing type to bludgeoning
• Reduce range from 40/120 to something like 20/60
• Add knockback of 5 ft to medium targets or 10 for small

The really neat thing would be shooting non standard rounds that wouldn’t be possible from a musket like incendiary or smoke rounds.

Most of the increase can easily be explained by the change in diagnostic criteria. The rest is pretty well covered by the fact that autistic kids do not in fact magically disappear when they grow up leading to the uncomfortable realization that adults can in fact be autistic. Well that and the fact that people who aren’t white exist, and I suppose women are real too.

We went from only middle to upper class white male children being able to have autism to black grandmothers* being able to be diagnosed and people wonder why more people end up with diagnosis. These studies are staring off on a false premise at best and often dive headlong into eugenics.

It is worth noting that one couldn’t get diagnosed with both ADHD and autism until 2013, and since 50-70% of people with ASD also have ADHD, that would increase the numbers further.

ADHD has a similar story, but I think I’ve rambled enough for now.

*(if she is wealthy enough)

The paper can be accessed from this site: https://yaghi.berkeley.edu/publications.html

I really needed this today. Thank you.

EEE is Eastern Equine Encephalitis should anyone else be out of the loop on acronyms like me.

The top is the percentage of people while the bottom is the total incidence. This is an apples and oranges comparison. In this case the bottom map is functionally a population map as others have pointed out. Most stats are best in “#/thousand people” or equivalent, but should always in the same unit if compared.

Facts, reasoning, ethics, ect. are outside the scope of an LLM. Expecting otherwise is like expecting a stand mixer to bake a cake. It is helpful for a decent part of the process, but typically is lacking in the using heat to process batter into a tasty desert area. An AI like one from the movies would require many more pieces than an LLM can provide and saying otherwise is a a category mistake*.

That isn’t to say that something won’t be developed eventually, but it would be FAR beyond an LLM if it is even possible.

(* See also: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-mistakes/)

I’ve not been on that one in quite some time, but I’ll try to remember what I can and pull from experience with other meds. Psych meds like that one can take a few weeks to get used to / reach full efficacy. I can’t remember what the specific timeframe for that med is, but in general it takes at least 6-8 weeks at a specific dose to give a med a fair trial. The initial symptoms when starting a med often resolve in that time, but if they don’t you may need to try a new med. If the symptoms are bearable for until you’ve made it that far, it can be nice to know that you can check it off as helping or not with some certainty. For me, this med just made me a bit out of it and I believe made my anxiety a bit worse. Trialling meds with alexithymia can be a real pain in the ass…doubly so when you have the wrong diagnosis and or doctors who don’t believe in yours.

Since this med is typically prescribed for ADHD, I’m going to assume that is what you are taking it for, if not the following probably won’t be relevant: I’ve read that meds that act on norepinephrine (like this one) tend to work better for people with hyperactive or combined ADHD, while inattentive ADHD tends to (but definately doesn’t always) respond better to meds that work on dopamine. If this med doesn’t end up helping this is some info you can talk to your doctor about and if stimulants are not an option other meds like DNRIs (like bupropion/wellbutrin) may be a path to consider with them. Additionally, clonidine and guanfacine are two blood pressure meds that have been shown to have some benefit, especially with reguard to anxiety around starting tasks. I’m not a doctor so don’t take any of this as medical advice. It is just some info you can bring up with your doctor if this med doesn’t pan out for you.

As another note, this is something I’ve found useful a a reference for people who are skeptical on ADHD related topics:

The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8328933/

Finding the right treatment/meds can seem daunting and hopeless at times, but it is worth it. Meds are also not magic fixes and often are better in combination with therapy or other steps to improve your situation. If you are looking for a therapist, I generally recommend looking for one who practices trauma informed therapy AND works with neurodivergent clients. Finding a good therapist for you, which is not the same as a good therapist in general, can be a lot of work and take a few tries, but it is worth it. If therapy isn’t something that is an option, there are free resources online. I’ve found a lecture series by the American Psychological Association on trauma on YouTube that was pretty good and there are quite a few therapists who put content on that site as well. Healthy Gamer is a channel that I’ve found good content on that may be worth looking into.

Sorry for rambling on for so long.