- an ambulance will not be dispatched unless you physically witness someone trying to kill themselves

- otherwise, they send the police

- the police arrive without training and severely escalate the situation

- the person having an emergency will be taken into custody and stripped of rights until being medically evaluated (not arrested)

This is the program of an allegedly progressive state. After 2 experiences like this, adding trauma to already traumatic situations, I would never recommend these hotlines.

Backend is zig, frontend is in Flutter. First foray into zig and I'm really enjoying it.

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mame-sama-%E3%81%BE%E3%82%81%E...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mamesama&h...

It’s totally fucked.

My Japanese, on the other hand, isn't fluent, but I'm able to tap into way more emotion. It feels as if I'm singing when I nail a great sentence in nihongo. It really lands with the listener and I feel emotionally connected in that moment.

Could this be related to the increased brain activity required for foreign language?

Surely that's simpler than specifying those conditions before every call to show this dialog, resulting in plenty of duplicated code. And if those conditions change, there is only one place I need to update it.

Of course I can make a single operation to check those conditions like "shouldShowReminder", but that too is doubling the surface area of this code.

I see the merit of the argument here but disagree with the absolutist stance against "maybe" functions.

This is the only example referenced of which I know its origins. However it illustrates an issue with names that have no connection to the science of birds. The naming as tribute was surely transactional in some way (to curry favor perhaps) and really should be replaced.

If that's the clinical standard, why didn't the cited paper use it that way? From the research paper:

> autistic individuals

> autistic employees

> autistic participants

The peer reviewed research paper uses this standard. Only using "with" in reference to diagnoses.

It is "Science Daily", a news site, who skirts the standard by changing the paper's wording.

A large portion of the autistic community is very against this phrasing. Autism is not a disease you carry, or something you “have”.

It should be used as an adjective to describe a person:

“Autistic people less likely to succumb to bystander effect”

Edit: If you follow through to the actual paper referenced you can see they use the correct phrasing.

The hypocrisy of the United States government saying this...

When a link in Orion takes you into another app, there is a popup available when you return to Orion, allowing you to disable opening in the external app. Additionally, long-pressing always provides an “Open in…” option to purposefully choose the GitHub app.

My point being anything you label yourself or others is purely a function of your ego. The whole framework you describe above exists purely in your own mind. If I met you, I may walk away with a completely different idea about you, a function of my own ego.

If a diagnosis helps you, that’s fantastic. Making it part of your identity is a trap that will narrow your perspective of the universe.

It was chained to the back of our camper, as we toured the country living on the road. My now deceased dog and I put a lot of miles on that bike across the USA, him running alongside bursting with joy.

It was 2017, and we were camped in Santa Paula. Dec. 4th the Thomas Fire exploded as the largest wildfire in California. We had to evacuate for over a month. They let us into the area after 2-weeks to get some belongings.

Bike thieves had come through and stolen everyone’s bikes. Someone took advantage of a catastrophe to steal one of my most precious belongings…

I have zero sympathy for bike thieves. One of the lowest things you can do is steal someone’s bike.

(Edit: profanity removed after calming down)