Every choice we make has an impact on the world around us. Sometimes that impact is very small, but it is still real. For example, we live on a planet with a limited amount of clean drinking water. This can make me wonder if using a service like ChatGPT uses resources that contribute, in even a tiny way, to water shortages in the future.

I also think about the things I buy. If I wear a T-shirt made in Malaysia, does that support unsafe working conditions or child labour? If someone is harmed in a factory that makes these clothes, do my purchases make me partly responsible?

These thoughts lead to a difficult question: if I am responsible for even a small part of many harms, such as being 0.001 percent responsible for the deaths of 1000 people through many small everyday actions, does that mean I have caused a death simply by living my life?

I wonder if it’s my autism that makes me consider these things because to me it seems no one else does.

It took me way too long to realise that, though a tiny sapling can block the wind, a huge solar panel works just fine in the wind block zones.

The post directly after was a link to this article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/children-hurt-after-vehicle-drives-into-richmond-hill-daycare-1.7630446

Maybe you put a canoe on there somehow?

It’s hard to build stuff in the shield.

That seems good. Though I wonder if there is a third party behind those gift cards and the transaction process from them. I suppose as long as it’s not Visa it’s a good option.

I feel this situation is only going to get worse for everyone. We as consumers, gamers or otherwise, don’t really have alternatives to this monopoly. At least that I am aware of. Typically if a company acts up we can just boycott it. But what other options do we even have here?

Aside from kindly asking the monopolies to be less evil, are there any alternatives that would work?. I nearly got my card paid off and would be happy to chuck it into a volcano. However I still need to make online transactions.

Even if there’s a good one that’s not supported widely yet the first step may be to demand its adoption.

Every time I mention I like Undertale and get “Did YoU bEat Sans?”

No, because I’m not a genocidal monster and I never will be. I did the pacifist route. Game over, nothing else to see here.

Getting a diagnosis can be extremely difficult for people. In my area you either need to pay about $5k or go through a 2+ year ordeal.

Even with all that, diagnostic methods are murky at best. There is no binary you have it or you don’t kind of thing, no physical test that can conclusively say you are autistic.

All that to say as someone who went through the process to get diagnosed. I think self diagnosis is perfectly valid with autism.

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I’ve had the itchy nights. Sheets cleaned with sensitive detergent helps. I paid out for pricey modal sheets which made a lot of difference. However I still get the bad nights, NyQuil has saved me from those (I don’t recommend using that one too often).

I’ll check my local community center, they sometimes have one.

I am also envious. That’s a super power I’d take over the ability to fly.

A sauna would be lovely but they are not very common around here at least not in ways that are accessible or cheap. And many of the ones we have are just a heat lamp in a hot room, they are not as effective on the airways without steam

Thanks for this. Calcium was actually a big concern. In the place I grew up the water is notoriously high in it causing all sorts of health issues. I moved away shortly after my first (thankfully only) kidney stone. My blood calcium levels were very high. then I’ve been having my doctor test my blood calcium regularly and its been normal.

Thank you! This will help me.

Do you have a heightened sensitivity to noise and touch when trying to sleep? I noticed I get that, lot of nightmares regarding bugs and my skin will crawl all night after one. I become every hair on my body and they all terrify me somehow.

Thank you for the concern it’s my friends sleeping that long not me, but they each doing things about it with their doctors.

I have been doing that. I also had B12 issues but they assumed it was because I am vegan. It was my hemoglobin levels that concerned the doctor enough to do the study.