immature techno-geek with moral autism

If you can, it can be nice to have a friendly presence at outpatient appointments too! If you and your friends can use the same medical provider, you could even try scheduling routine appointments in a block, to make it easier to go together.

A friend can help catch little mistakes that probably aren't malicious (forgetting to mask, leaving someone else's water jug in a room, et cetera) too. A friend can also help a patient remember to bring up a topic they forgot.

Some people get hospital delirium, or milder psych symptoms like non-distressing hallucinations. Healthline claims having a friend around is useful for making things feel more familiar and less disorienting, though I haven't verified this.

At least one hospital exists that lets visitors buy food from the patient cafeteria. This was useful for me when I was supporting a friend, as it meant I didn't need to pack meals. I suspect it gives the hospital good incentives to make the food decent, too.

“It is to your benefit to ensure that we, who labor for you in a place you will not venture, continue to carry out your will. This agreement specifies the fate of damned souls. In exchange, it allows us to draw magic from these souls, so we can fuel our spells and maintain our powers.” “I'm not sure I like the sound of that,’ said the flinty Moradin. “Your concerns are entirely understandable, O Maker of Dwarves,” said Asmodeus in his most reassuring tone. “But since we will be separated from you, we will not be able to draw our powers from you, as we always have. You would not wish to make us gods independent of yourselves, would you?”

(Fiendish Codex II, page 4, pub. December 2006)

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

If there were a small minority of people who might get sick if they saw a hexagon, I would probably want to list my art as "may contain hexagons" and let other people sort out which pieces did or did not contain them, because consistently warning for hexagons would be extra work for me.

If the government suddenly decided artists can't do that anymore, and that I would be liable if hexagons weren't on the official image description and then someone got sick from an incidental hexagon, I would want to add hexagons to all my image descriptions instead of sorting. If there was also a law that image descriptions couldn't list shapes not present in the image, I would probably start adding hexagons to things so that I could list 'hexagons' in every image description.

Also something I like about playing old games in emulators, you can always pause the emulator.

Also: You don't necessarily have time in which you're allowed to be uninterruptible, but you should probably get to have some.

Some people are caregivers for small children or have other similarly intense and incessant responsibilities. These people kind of need to be on-call 24/7, because even if they've talked to a partner about taking breaks, their child or such might suddenly have a problem that requires multiple people's worth of effort.

The rest of you should get to not be on-call 24/7, though.

Yes, there's a chance someone might have an important phone call for you outside of business hours that can't wait half an hour. It could, in theory, happen that one of my loved ones gets fatally injured in a way that will kill them in a short span of time, but also leaves them capable of saying last farewells on the telephone. It probably won't happen, though, and being on-call 24/7 is a huge cost to pay to prevent this sort of thing.

I take walks without my phone sometimes. I make sure I've used the restroom before taking such a walk, and I check in with my roommates beforehand about whether they need things from me, and I go during hours when I don't really expect to receive an important phone call. These same strategies should also work for gaming.

Also something I like about playing old games in emulators, you can always pause the emulator.

People have said the tag is unique to Claude only and therefore there’s no way a human-made fic could have gotten wrongly flagged as AI. But how accurate and trustworthy worthy this is, really? Even IF, hypothetically, this method is proved correct 99 times out of 100, that still means “there is 1 time out of 100 times where a human-made fic is wrongly flagged as AI due to an error”. And that to me nullified the credibility of the whole doc. Like, sorry for not trusting another newly-introduced machine and for being skeptical about it.

“But how could the tag get there if the author didn’t use AI?” Besides the possibility of an error, I can already see people weaponize this method by faking screenshots of fics that are about the ships or topics that they hate to make it look like these fics have Claude tag in them, and then spreading those fake screenshots around. And the worst part is that authors cannot prove their innocence because people would just say “they got caught so now they removed the Claude tag from their fics”.

Like. I hate AI, but I hate witch hunts, accusations and harassments more.

These comments below sum it up really well.