The “extroversion” is a mask / coping / compensation for the “introversion” of the autistic traits.

No one can force you to feel anything.

Not really mine, more French existentialism

Atreyu is in trouble now

My brother once asked why the new hoover (vacuum cleaner) had a light on it and was told “so you can still see what you’re hoovering in a powercut”

I think that’s a natural question to wonder.

He did not jump, he talked with my friend for a while and when the police got there they talked for a bit too and then he climbed back to safety.

It was surreal for me, being on the phone and hearing it all, but not being able to speak to anyone for most of it.

The last real “emergency” emergency I was involved in, was on the phone to someone who was talking to a guy on the edge of the bridge.

Friend of mine was out delivering parcels and stopped because of a crowd on the bridge. They were worried because everyone was watching and waiting for the police, no one was talking to the guy who was looking down at the water.

They called me to ask what to do or say when they approached them.

That friend of mine is now a therapist themselves and a damn good one too.

Has that got anything to do with whether I need a car or a bus?

Yeah we don’t have trucks here. Except for a few industrial people so you’re not making sense.

Hands up anyone who thinks my ancestors had public transport?!

Nah, lifestyle is well suited to the area.

We have roads here older than every American country and traditions even older.

The land and the people are one.

Tragic that the most radical left wing voice is fighting for this. What’s next? Paid paternity leave? Sick pay?

I agree.

Rural public transport could absolutely be way better, especially if it was viewed as a public service, not a business.

There’s plenty of places where even an optimised solution would mean cars aren’t needed.

That’s very true.

I think it’s a failure of imagination that the people running things believe public transport should turn a profit.

If it’s run well, the economic benefits cover the costs indirectly.

And still, there will be places where it isn’t the right answer, that an optimised and popular public transport system can not cover enough for people to be done with cars.

Utter tripe.

Where I live it’s dozens of little villages scattered about here and there, with four sizable towns.

Weaving public transport through all of those places is impractical.

I can’t function using public transport that’ll take me an hour or two to get between appointments in different places when it’s a fifteen minute drive.

To get close to that you need so many buses running empty and so many routes it’s insane.

Maybe let local people decide what’s right for them instead of making blanket proclamations for everyone and every place?

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Dunno.

Not familiar with that one.

Jellyfin is a good replacement for Plex

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That’s very fair!

Most therapists get into the profession because they were doing it already for free, unsafely and badly 🤣

Training let’s you keep doing it, but do it right.

The blue light thing was likely invented or overblown by social media firms so people would keep using their phones in bed.

Reality is there’s not enough blue light in a screen to wake up your brain, it’s the content on the screen that’s keeping you awake, not the light.

The cognitive stimulation effect and dopamine cycle is what’ll mess with your sleep

You know how many cards there are in a deck?

People can shuffle them into a random order and then memorise the order, so it’s really not that many cards.

Each time you shuffle the deck it’s the same familiar cards, we can easily recognise and differentiate every card in the deck.

But how many different ways are there to arrange that deck of cards? How many possible combinations?

More than there are stars in the sky. Every shuffle is unique.

I love my job because I get to use familiar ideas to help people make sense of their own unique shuffle 😊

That’s not how I teach therapists to work.

We don’t use leading questions, we do really and genuinely want to understand and I’ve never worked with someone who wasn’t totally unique even if their story was superficially similar to another