My review of your post: you need to stop using so much emphasis on everything. Not every instance of the word Bitwarden needs to be italicized. Also five different ways of storing passwords sounds insane, and harping on for a dozen paragraphs about Bitwarden’s security incidents only to settle on another SaaS password manager sure is a choice.

Can’t believe nobody shared this classic: 「トレイン to トレイン」 AKA Trainroll

Space heaters mostly heat by convective heating, where the heat energy is transferred from the element to the air molecules around it. This doesn’t involve infrared radiation (though in practice it is involved because any object above 0 K radiates infrared).

They can already hook you on xanax, sleeping pills, medical marijuana…

With one simple trick she could make 10x more on PornHub, but this would reduce the YouTube income to $0.

What’s the source on significant over diagnoses?

I don’t believe I said the words “significant over diagnoses”. However, for example for ADHD there was a pretty good article in the New York Times last year (scroll down, the page has a bunch of whitespace at the top): https://web.archive.org/web/20250414202754/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html

Also, how can sacountry workout universal healthcare have such excessive diagnoses when so many aren’t even getting the healthcare at all?

These conditions are often diagnosed during childhood and youth, where most Americans are AFAIK covered by national programs as well as their parents’ insurance.

For adult diagnoses, there’s a selection bias towards people who have self-diagnosed and seek confirmation, which will logically lead to a diagnosis rate among patients that exceeds the true incidence of the condition in the general population (due to the selection bias), as well as a slightly or somewhat increased apparent incidence of the condition in the general population (due to people who self-diagnosed without actually qualifying for a diagnosis, but read enough about the condition to effectively lie their way to a diagnosis).

This exact same phenomenon applies to almost any mental disorder. And I use the term mental disorder loosely here, as I’m one of the people who doesn’t believe mild cases of autism are even worth diagnosing.

The reason it applies to autism too is that any diagnosis makes you a customer of the medical industry; the customer relationship doesn’t end when you receive a diagnosis, that’s when it starts. They may not be able to sell you autism medicine (yet), but they can sell you all sorts of other medicine and therapy.

Yeah particularly with ADHD I feel like many diagnoses are really “incompatible with wageslaving for 40 hours a week” rather than a condition that would, in a vacuum, affect the patient’s quality of life.

Of course many ADHD patients do have real issues with their quality of life even outside of societal obligations (read: work, studies) in the form of e.g. not getting chores done, but as a former “problem child” who nearly had this forced on him back in the day, I firmly believe that there’s a lot of pressure from the school system to get kids on meds just so they’ll sit pretty in class even though the real problem lies in the system.

I don’t know about autism, but there is definitely some of that going on with ADHD for which medical treatment is much more common than for autism.

Autism patients do get prescription meds too, not for autism per se but for the various associated comorbidities (depression, anxiety, sleep meds, etc.). That’s all fine and good when there’s a genuine need for them; the problem is that big pharma has a business interest in making the barrier of prescription as low as possible.

Unpopular opinion in these circles I’m sure, but:

The US (and the west in general, but especially the US) has a genuine problem with overmedicalization, driven in no small part by for-profit pharmaceutical companies having a financial incentive to sell medication and treatments to people. Part of fixing this problem involves admitting that it also affects autism, ADHD, OCD, etc. diagnoses, and that saying this is not erasure of people affected by those conditions.

Another unpopular opinion: making a medical condition part of your identity is generally not healthy, and if you’re upset about an “anti-autism diagnosis campaign”, there is a chance you have made a medical condition part of your identity.

I say this as someone with a childhood Asperger’s diagnosis who would no longer qualify for any kind of diagnosis.

Every western leftist knows someone who’s perfectly described by this article, and if you don’t then that means you’re that someone.

Thank you for this important information.

I read a book about this and it didn’t start well.

Excessive bold formatting. Short sentences. One-line paragraphs.

This isn’t just AI.

This is the most blatant LLM slop I have seen—ever.

I don’t think that’s on the cards. Non-microbial life has survived 70% of the planet’s forests going up in flames as a consequence of a massive asteroid impact, and the ensuing years or possibly decade+ of planet-wide ash and dust clouds blocking out the sun. And that was just the latest mass extinction event.

You’re giving humanity far too much credit by assuming we’d be capable of anything comparable right now.

I think this is precisely that staircase. Or rather, the real-world staircase it was directly based on.

“Reaganomics seems to be working” is such a 1983 thing to say.

Yeah those graphics tablets with a screen attached are a bit more complicated than plain drawing tablets. I have no personal experience with them, but AFAIK the driver side of things (the input method) is a fairly generic touchscreen/stylus device, and the main pain point is getting the display to work correctly.

Linux desktop has over the past ~5 years gone through a pretty foundational change precisely in the display configuration department, when the almost 40 years old X11 display server was replaced with Wayland. Most distros have moved over, but a lot of (imo clueless) people online still frequently recommend distros like Linux Mint, which notoriously is still stuck on X11, so if that’s what you tried, then… yeah, sorry, there’s a lot of bad advice online.

I’m seeing many reports online saying that specific tablet should work well out of the box with KDE Plasma 6, which is one of the most well-supported and up-to-date desktop environments, so next time you try Linux, consider that. A couple of examples of distros that ship with Plasma are the popular Bazzite and CachyOS.

Also, after googling a bit it looks like there’s official “drivers” for that device on the manufacturer’s website. By the looks of it, they’re not technically drivers (those are in the kernel already), but rather a desktop app/extension that adds software-based features like macro functionality. The device should work fine without it and the app seems to have trouble working on a lot of systems anyway, but if you used the corresponding Windows “driver” then you’ll be missing the software functionality you’re used to, and will have to make do with more generic solutions like quick selection wheels implemented by digital art software.

This is an unfortunately common situation on Linux, and also happens with e.g. gaming mice and other peripherals, where stuff like the Logitech and Razer and whatnot gaming apps generally aren’t available. On Windows these are often called “the driver” (though the actual driver is separate from the app). Linux users are often the kind of crowd that hates apps like that to begin with, but I suppose there are also people who actually use them and if you’re one of them, you’ll have to find more generic replacements to their features if you switch.

What tablet was it? Not every brand has good Linux support, but Wacom’s support specifically is excellent. And because the driver is in the kernel, it won’t stop working with updates until long after the hardware is completely redundant (if even then).

Let me tell you about the superior Linux operating system, where this is not a problem.