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andros_rex

@ andros_rex @lemmy.world

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  • How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?

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  • When I had them, they were very sudden. I didn’t have auras or anything.

    It was very odd. The first one I had I didn’t realize was a seizure - I was out working on a farm and removed up very confused and missing my glasses. It wasn’t until I had one in front of my ex husband, and removed up fighting firefighters, that I figured out what was going on.

    So yeah, wouldn’t have warnings if I was driving. I’d honestly be happy to never drive again if I didn’t live in a place where that was impossible - I haven’t had one in years and think I figured out why I was having them, but it is scary knowing that there is some trigger that could hit me out of nowhere.

  • How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?

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  • You are incorrect when it comes to the United Stares. There is a varying period of time you have to go without seizures, but you are not permanently barred from driving.

    When I had seizures several years ago, I was told to wait for six months by the doctor. They didn’t report anything to any regulatory authority, it really just worked on the honor system. My seizures were controlled, and I drive regularly now.

  • How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?

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  • It’s state by state. Some states don’t make physicians report, so there’s not necessarily enforcement. I waited the six months my state requires after my seizures, but there wasn’t really any mechanism by which a cop would have known if I hadn’t.

  • Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy?

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  • I really need things to be habeñero level at least. Sometimes I’ve gotten a grinder of dried ghost chiles to get things up to snuff.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy?

  • force-femming Hitler rule

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  • They kinda be in charge of a lot of things lately. Hard to avoid talking about them.

  • force-femming Hitler rule

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  • “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

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    force-femming Hitler rule

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    ka-chow rule

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    safety rule

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • I’m certified in special education and spent two hours of my day today teaching an adult how to do subtraction. I’ve worked with kids with Down syndrome. I entirely believe that it would be possible for 95% of students, if given the appropriate support, to learn how to take a simple derivative and have some vague understanding of what they did. It just takes visuals, good use of real world examples and metaphor, and patience.

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    What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

  • What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • It’s not uncommon to have a sneeze reflex when aroused.

  • Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward?

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  • I found out my mom had spent three decades of my life lying about who my biological father was.

    She has always spun some romantic bullshit story about a specific guy. Like I’m talking there was a whole ass story of her life leading up to my conception that she liked to tell me. A pretty fucked up story - she was a teenager, this guy was in his early twenties. But still, a mostly normal and consensual story barring the statuary aspect, not at all shocking where we live. He knocks her up, chickens out immediately, dumps her, etc. There was even a cathartic story about her being a then abandoned pregnant Sonic carhop, discovering the guy as a customer and throwing fries at his face. She describes my eyes and hair as his.

    I reach out to the guy as a teenager with help from family, who keep track of this guy throughout the years in case I’d want to ever make connection. I reach out, he denies that he’s my father. Well, sucks, but nothing too unexpected.

    As a lark, I get genetics testing kit one year. It’s on Amazon prime (back when that was a good deal and back before I realized how problematic that giving my DNA to a random company.)

    I take the test. A woman reaches out. My aunt. And she’s not the sister of my “father.”

    My biological father was a different adult man (mid twenties) who raped a teenager he met at a party. Even told me to my face that he hadn’t been interested in her, but more in her older sister.

    When I confronted her with this. It was a non reaction. It was “oh.” She’s told so many lies throughout her life, but this was finally the one she couldn’t bullshit her way out of. She lied to me for thirty years, and unlike any other lie she’s told, there‘s no “oh you’re just remembering it differently” or “I didn’t really mean that.”

    The most difficult thing is that maybe it was traumatic for her. Maybe it was violent. I’ve met him twice, and neither experience was really pleasant. He has a history. Maybe she did block it out, repress it in that Freudian way and did convince herself that some guy she had a crush on and her had some secret little tryst. Realizing maybe the hell of my childhood had an explanation - that she was trying to punish me, that she hated me as a symbol of rape. Can I forgive her for that?

    It’s just such a complicated and difficult thing to wrap my head around. Nothing about her as a person has ever made any sense.

  • Choose Your Distro!

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  • But using them interchangeably is accurate to Old English.

  • Choose Your Distro!

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  • Eth and thorn were interchangeable. (go to timestamp 8:06, for some reason lemmy keeps eating my attempt to link directly to that time.)

  • If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent, we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.

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  • If you are a dissident and your government is threatening you and your family/friends and demands a public apology and to publicly recant/renounce your beliefs, would you do it? Why or Why Not?

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  • wut

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • How do you make the cheaper brown ones not super bitter?

  • What are some more websites like Project Euler and Kattis Kattis?

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  • I was showing a student the Collatz conjecture last week. It would be a nice way to enter the millionaire class.

  • What are some more websites like Project Euler and Kattis Kattis?

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  • Probably needs no introduction. Lots of companies use this to screen programmer applicants, but you can just treat it like a challenge for fun, too.

    Realistically, would going through many of the challenges on this/similar websites be useful in finding a programming job? My degree isn’t in CS, but I often teach programming including some higher level data structures/algorithms material.

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    What are some more websites like Project Euler and Kattis Kattis?

  • ‘It’s quite useless to us’: what autistic people actually want from the Trump administration

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  • Don’t forget controlling and terrorizing women. A big aspect would be to punish women who take Tylenol during their pregnancy - possibly charge them with crimes, or use it as an excuse to take children away…

  • bench rule

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  • From Acrylic Painting for Dummies - Colette Pitcher

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    bench rule

  • Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised?

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  • It’s primarily a Jewish and Muslim thing. Christianity doesn’t really require it.

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    patriotism rule

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    accidental gay sex rule

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    social stories rule

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment

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    bible food groups in a pattern formation on a telephone pad rule

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    trucks rule

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico?

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    God’s rules rule

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    ayn rand rule

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How does one become a clown?

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    just saiyan rule

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account