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I wonder what Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen thinks of this chap?

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Self-styled 'king of Germany' goes on trial accused of heading criminal group


Self-styled 'king of Germany' goes on trial accused of heading criminal group

Peter Fitzek is a member of a banned Reichsbürger group that sought to set up the "Kingdom of Germany" (KRD).
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Katie Fenn

All of my family before I transitioned told me I looked just like my Dad, and all of my friends after I transitioned tell me I look just like my Mum.

I don’t know if that counts as a useful comment, but it’s a thought that comes to mind now that I know she’s your Mum.

Transition is weird.

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It arrived too late for Halloween, but never mind!

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You may ask yourself what the essence of a manic pixie dream MILF is and I may note that I just did skincare in bed, in a red silk Intimissimi night dress, with a Dremel.
A dremel sanding my big toe

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Trying to explain amphetamine sleepiness to medics and they’re like, “that’s just tolerance allowing you to sleep on it”

And like, it’s not “allowing”. It’s like being shot with a sedative dart. It is more sedating than diazepam for me.

Given I have boosters, there are multiple nap danger zones during the day. It’s not every time, but when it happens … goodnight. You nap now. No, it isn’t a choice. Sleep.

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You can just stop caring about the border. It doesn't fucking matter. Let people come here if they want. Make them citizens. Let them vote. It's a fake issue. If someone brings it up, you say, "Fuck you, you fucking racist." It's nothing but a seed for fascism.

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This is not a subtweet. I promise it’s not. It’s just something that occurred to me as a really useful analogy for so many situations, so I’m sharing it:

Yelling at the tsunami alarm to shut up won’t stop you drowning. Get off the fucking beach.

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So sometimes it’s clear that my serum amphetamine baseline can start to get away from me. 3 days ago it was clear I’d fallen off the wrong side of the curve because the ADHD had got squashed so hard that I went very very very autistic. Like struggling to communicate with people at all autistic. It was very distressing.

So two days ago I let it wash out and took my regular Elvanse dose at 4pm, electing to not take the Amfexa booster at all. This equates to about a 40% dose reduction in daily dextro amphetamine intake.

Yesterday, on returning to the normal dose my Elvanse felt … somewhat ineffective but after I took the booster I was really feeling it.

Today about an hour after taking my Elvanse (Elvanse is Lisdexamphetamine which converts to amphetamine in the blood. It gives it a delayed release profile), at the point at which it hit, I started giggling uncontrollably. This lasted a couple of minutes.

And then my head is clear as a bell.

Back in the room, I guess.

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Silo spoilers for S3 finale
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Silo spoilers for S3 finale

Oh. I like how nobody is asking the obvious question.

About Bernard.

I expect they’ll get to that.

They changed the Silo 17 thing around a bit. I get why. In the books you were kinda left to work out the precise details of what actually happened out there right at the start. It was very heavily implied but never spelled out.

And I saw some people who read it and then completely missed the central point of WHY they were down there.

I suspect they’re gonna lay it on a bit more thickly here. Perhaps Troy will do some helpful exposition?

Assuming he works it out for himself. I assume he knows how the people sent out to clean die. No reason he wouldn’t.

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mild spoilers

Also I LOVE how much fan service/lamp shading there was in that ep;

“We could use a drone pilot” - TOO SOON

“Why would they need to kill a silo?”

The lift. Jesus Christ. If silo 1 found out about that … instant safeguard.

Bullet hole in very dangerous outside air mysteriously doesn’t kill when poor seals in the cleaning suits do.

I preferred the digger subplot in the book tho. The rationale worked much better.

Perfect end of season reveal would be switching to the “the voice”’s point of view as he utters those three words that he said to Lukas Kyle in the second book.

I think we’re gonna see the pez dispenser again.

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I had been taking it for granted that internal servers need IPv4 addresses.

But these days lots of them … don’t.

They just don’t.

Am increasingly experimenting with IPv6-only (as in no v4 capability at all), and it largely just works.

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Riley S. Faelan

There's a genuine trend of Big Pharma putting the Grouch'os mask onto amphetamine, hyping the result up as a next big thing that don't even "need" to be a controlled substance, getting a patent, and selling the "new" thing under a quickly invoked controlled substances regime for twenty more years. Methylphenidate is not one of these molecules. It was discovered in the 1940s, relatively independently from amphetamine chemistry, and was popularised as a medicine in its own right, in some parts even as an "ADD" medicine before amphetamine's usability for this became known. A classic story of a chemist making a molecule, trying it out on his wife, and naming it after her.
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FWIW, I'm pretty sure Elvanse's duration is dose-dependent. My last uptitration step was mostly to make sure that my evenings would be reliably covered when I take it in the morning.

AFAIU, its pharmacokinetic curve has three main components: the cleavage of the lysine dimesylate, which probably typically takes just one to two hours; the exponential decay curve of renal clearance after the amphetamine has become free in blood and gotten stocked up by the synapses, and some sort of effectiveness threshold. The exponential decay curve interacts with the effectiveness threshold in ways that are non-linear and can be non-intuitive to one who hasn't dabbled in calculus. But both components vary between people.

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Riley S. Faelan

This kind of sounds like your metabolism causes rapid swings, and the effectiveness threshold might be on the low side. Do you happen to know if taking, say, 30mg in the morning and 30mg in the aftrnoon, before the first dose runs out, might produce a friendlier curve in you?

Blood pressure of ADHD people going down on amphetamine is pretty common, AFAIK. The NT explanation is, it's because treating the ADHD reduces stress, but I kind of suspect that, at least in some forms of ADHD, the "paradoxical" effect of stimulants is directly applicable, kind of similarly to how RightHormones often directly improve a trans person's brain functions and happiness.

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@Riley S. Faelan Yeah. It's definitely not due to lower stress. I *HAVE* lower stress, but different stimulants affect me differently in terms of blood pressure.

Caffeine - mild effect on ADHD, blood pressure goes up.

Amphetamine - huge effect on ADHD, blood pressure goes "standing up is now FAFO"

Ephedrine - effect on ADHD comparable to caffeine. Blood pressure *craters*

That last one must utterly piss off anaesthetists.

I've tried splitting my Elvanse dose. It just weakens the first one and the second one does piss all. Elvanse 30 contains more dexamphetamine (eventually) than Amfexa 10 but the latter gives me 3 - 3 1/2 good hours and the former gives me 2 hours of "meh" (both after 70mg of Elvanse).

The whole "stimulants do the same in ADHD and non ADHD people once you account for the different baseline" thing is such obvious bullshit, brought to you by the same people responsible for such classics as "Only boys get this", "Only children get this", "This is never comorbid with autism", and, "emotional disregulation is not a symptom".

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The real answer to those people is, “It doesn’t matter what you think you can tell. If you make a high priority of ruining the lives of people who are just trying to live in peace, you’re a monster and a loser.”

The only person who has a right to ask about someone’s A_AB status is a potential sexual partner.

You’re quite pretty, too. But that’s not relevant to your (valid) point, or mine. Not that you should care about the opinion of J. Random Guy (of a similar age).

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Silo (mild spoilers for books but not for series)

Seeing Thurman take Daniel and Helen to see the construction site brings a whole new meaning to “the devil went down to Georgia”

Not sure what to make of the “billionaire secretly funds whole enterprise” thing. I guess it feels more in tune with our time but I liked the way it happened in the book: “we’re building a nuclear waste storage site. Nothing to see here. Just nuclear waste. Honest. It’s certainly not a ‘murdering the entire human race and chucking the survivors in 50 deep holes for 500 years thing’. Oh. Was that the out loud voice?”

I reckon I know what the end of S3 cliffhanger thingy is going to be. S1 and S2 departed from Wool quite a bit but S3 is taking Shift and completely scrambling it.

Wondering if Troy is going to give Mrs Simms the same line he gave Lukas Kyle in the book about how they all ended up down there?

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Possibly the biggest single hive of whining cunts on the Internet.

“Hello. I would like my partner to be someone else, but they aren’t, so I’m going to try and traumatise them into it”.

Have you considered the multiple benefits of “fucking off”?

reddit.com/r/ADHD_partners/

Reddit - The heart of the internet

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New gender neutral toilet just dropped. This one is a bit public. Still, some people are into that. bbc.com/news/articles/cdrvme6g…

UK's largest Harry Potter shop comes to London's Oxford Street

Warner Bros says the flagship store will be inspired by magical Diagon Alley and open on 4 November.
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