Unofficial/self diagnosis helped me in my personal relationships.

I mentioned to my partner that a doctor friend thought I had ADHD, and it really helped them not take some of my most annoying traits personally.

I get where you’re coming from with needing an official diagnosis for work accommodations, but none of your friends are really going to demand to see a doctor’s note, so why would personal relationships depend on an official diagnosis?

It’s all just the new testament. Before you fuck with poor people and nail them to a cross, make sure they aren’t just slumming it, and actually have a very powerful father.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

It’s always one of the first things to get cut when companies try to save money.

Because there’s all these fertilized eggs that don’t become people. If you believe life begins at conception, then IVF kills a lot.

It’s all unscientific nonsense, and requires you to ignore how many fertilized eggs don’t become a viable fetus, but the anti-abortion stance has never been about science. It’s about control.

That’s not how it works.

Parties are at the national level, and form alliances/blocks at the international level in order to get things done. These blocks shift and there is no guarantee that one party will continue to vote with a particular block.

Pick a country. Generally, the political parties in that country will stand for local elections, national elections, and EU elections. At that point you can ask what their politics are. But EU wide parties aren’t a thing.

Except that England’s national dish is chicken tikka masala.

You can use DNS based adblock, but this tends to break on public WiFi networks.

One other option is to use brave as a web browser. It’s a chrome derivative with a built in adblock. Most browser extensions don’t work on iOS so there’s not many options.

Teams defaults are pure scummery.

No, don’t alert me on a Sunday night with notifications that I might have missed over the last two days.