Well, I never wanted you to be any kind of model, but here I am.

Thanks! I’m definitely interested in not letting meds be the only tool. I’ve heard countless times that lifestyle changes are much more effective at changing things.

I’m in the phase where I was hoping the spring board would be more noticeable. Right now, I have a marginally better ability to work at work under certain conditions at the cost of focus for the rest of the day (when I’d have an opportunity to work on my own routines-health). It’s also possible that it’s being really effective at just keeping me from drowning in some normal but overwhelming life changes. But it’s still early days. It’s definitely encouraging to hear that others get benefits from a wholistic approach to facing ADHD. Thanks!

I see someone has found the back alley of the Geoff’s Trash Anime restaurant.

Same. Though I’m new to treatment, so maybe there’s still hope! I’ve been trying to play through FFVII (original) lately, but before and after treatment, it’s still a lit to dedicate time to. Other games on my list feel more daunting too, and that builds a rusty-game feedback loop if I’ve already started the game as it’s more daunting the farther I get from them. Might still need some adjustment to dosage or type.

My brain went in reverse once I got treatment, I’d get hooked for hours on these sorts of puzzles and now it’s a bit harder to fall that deep into something. I did all of fez in a weekend and it’s not entirely a weekend game.

For those looking for more. Fez is a delight and a classic in the genre. The very last puzzle is more interesting from a community lore standpoint than actually being a decent puzzle, though. So be kind to yourself on that one.

The update has been queued for about a month on my work computer. No. I won’t do it.

Guess I’m no longer an Apple fan. Huh. I’m just locked in at this point. Switching would just spread my data around more and I’m already committed to not upgrading for a few years.

Enjoy! I was eating it while writing, so had all the “wish-I-hadas” fresh in my mind!

And fair warning, I’ve enjoyed failed attempts as many times as successful ones, but if I don’t kill it with soy sauce it’s usually still delicious.

I see “radial” and think radius and go for the equator of the onion, but I think you’re right and say, an onion ring would be an orbital(?) cut.

When I say “pole-to-pole”, I don’t get confused at the terminology, so I go for that and can be confident. The others get me in negation loops around thinking it was one thing and remembering that I got it wrong last time and it wasn’t…which one?

Do a breakfast bowl, usually on a weekend and much closer to lunch than a normal breakfast, but it’s still great:

Leftover rice; breakfast ham, sausage,or chicken; sautéed red and green onion, sautéed tomato chunks; and eggs both folded into the rice before frying and separately scrambled and quick fried.

The key is the sauce: light and dark soy, rice vinegar, oyster sauce, brown sugar or honey, minced garlic, and a cornstarch slurry.

This combo is sweet, salty, savory, and still pretty complete.

If you’re doing one wok or sauté pan, get your ingredients ready and turn up the heat.

I do the eggs in a clean pan with only hot oil. I pour in scrambled eggs (with a little soy and parsley). This cooks them instantly, puffs them up, and browns them soon after. They’re meaty and fluffy. It’s great.

Next is the meat. In the pan, cook it through, add a little sauce, out to the side, staying warm with the eggs somewhere.

After that are veggies chopped to be picked up. I save the very top of the green onions for garnish and the very bottom for the fried rice. The middle gets cut into logs and sautéed with thicker-cut onion slices (half-onion, pole-to-pole) and cubes quarters or sixths of tomatoes, salted and seasoned. Cut, salted, cooked in a little oil or butter until lightly charred, then out and warmed.

The rice should also get an egg stirred in during prep and a little soy sauce and garlic, parsley, etc. to preference. Then oil the hot pan with a little more than you’d think and once the eggs are in, stir vigorously then stop and let cook, repeating every 30 seconds or so until each piece is a little brown and golden. Then add back everything, coat it all in sauce and stir vigorously. Alternatively, sauce the rice with half and add the rest back for the other half.

It’s delicious and gets plenty of protein and veg. It’s DEFINITELY healthy for you if you don’t think about it and just take my word.

Saw an Xbox ad for Palworld that was the epitome of a filler ad: “check out the hottest new game here” that’s what I write when I’m trying to wireframe a template, not when I’m trying to actually sell something.

Tell me your marketing team was replaced with AI without telling me your marketing team was replaced with AI

I use “Observational Maintenance” all the time:

When you ask someone to look at a problem and it’s fixed by the time they do.

A friend showed me an issue they’d been having for over a YEAR. I did almost NOTHING and it was working by the time I looked at it.

More often than not it’s me that looks dumb, though.p

They got a pandemic too. The “Spanish” flu hit right after ww1. AND they had their own antimaskers.

It’s two halves of a bagel stuck together with jam and peanut butter to reform a solid torus. It’s math. They COULD have had an easy time eating your math, but the construction made it more difficult.

That’s definitely my hope.

It’s less the repaired retail market (which they control on Amazon at least) and more the “I could repair this for cheaper than half of a new phone” lost sales. They’ve been quietly letting that group slip by for years of progressively more expensive to “repair” (read, “swap modules”) while people who could get a basic repair done for cheap are pushed to buy new phones instead.

What are the holes that can be poked into this as written? I firmly believe Apple is still against repair that would eat into their new sales. So where does this, as written, give them the room to keep that going?

Is it just that they can continue to make their “screen issue = replace whole top shell of laptop” and similar the default and draw the line there, standardizing high-cost repairs even if it’s just a wire or small component replacement? If they don’t allow ANY standard repairs more granular than swap module for module, they don’t have to provide more granular resources than that. I’m not fully up on what repairs Apple authorizes.

This is definitely a win to some degree, though. But when your opponent goes to your side and draws a line, that always gives me the chills.

At the funeral home for my FiL talking about urns. We ask about the little ones they have. While doing their little pitch, the funeral director says that “they hold a spoonful of the- the-“ and one of my FiL’s children finishes “spoon full of dad”.

And now I can’t think about cremation without thinking about “spoon full of dad”.

So, ignoring the fees involved in making it happen at all (which I assume the person did, because wow.) Say they spend ⅓ the price of the car to get ⅔ again as much use out of it. That’s a profit. They’re probably looking at replacing the car and not the battery when thinking about it, so it’s really good then. And they probably assume the device is transferable, so they can get more than one use out of the investment.

So they’re selling themselves on almost 2x performance that they can apply to all future batteries or cars and thus they extend the life of each car in the fleet by a lot.

And if it’s doesn’t live up to the claims, they pay ‘nothing’ and reap any benefits they managed to get out of it. And SURELY it would give at least SOME benefit, right?!

It’s absolutely stupid and foolish, but it’s not one single thing that makes it stupid or foolish, it’s a cascade of assumptions and estimations that makes something stupid sound plausible. There’s a world where the person “logic-ed” their way into buying this scheme—and either way it was a scheme—that was sold to them as no-lose.

They just had to forget all the other associated costs. The real world is probably either that they were completely incompetent and bought “battery rejuvenation technology” or that they tried to payout to a buddy and were had.