Absolutely, especially with ADHD in the mix. When demand aversion kicks in, your brain literally tries to undermine any attempt to focus unless you can force it to cooperate. Music usually helps me with this.

Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

We don’t have a natural ability to infer emotions from body language, for a start. We have to learn to actively pay attention to it. Replacing natural instinct that a neurotypical person has with an active thought process is tiring, for a start.

Add to that most ASD people have trouble with emotional control, need to actively think about their own facial expressions, and often have social quirks that are unacceptable like nail biting which must be actively repressed… and being around others for hours on end is exhausting.

On top of this, most ASD people also have ADHD, and in the modern open office environment between the social aspect and never ending barrage of distraction, and the workplace is hostile, actively hostile to folks with ASD.

This combination of factors leads to having no where to unmask and relax until they get home. When they do, they are so exhausted from being something they are not for 10 hours (commute has to be included as its all public space) that when they get home they just shut down. They don’t call family or friends usually, they don’t get things around the house done. They have to turn off and try to re-energize themselves for doing it all again tomorrow.

I know all this as I am ASD and ADHD

Being able to work from home has brought actual balance to our lives as we can unmask the moment the camera goes off, we have rooms at home where we can close the door and remove distractions (well except mandatory work chats, but its a matter of muting that for focus) and at the end of the day we still have energy for our actual lives. In other words, this is the true work-life balance that I had always heard of but never truly felt I had.

True, though I would much rather see an NDP gov for once. The liberals make tons of progressive promises and then never deliver. The NDP strong armed them into the dental care plan else it likely would have never gone through.

Trudeau also seems to think he’s not the problem with the party… Or something. He recently said he has no plans on stepping down (or something to that effect) so I have doubts we’ll see him step down.

The same could be said for NDP. I like Signh but he has failed to woo the electorate for multiple federal elections. Time to try something different. Why not try a woman? Show you are actually progressive as a party and maybe we’ll see hardcore Liberal voters put their vote behind the NDP.

Been voting NDP for 12 years. I also donate what I can. I made one strategic vote in the first Trudeau election to make sure Harper was out. That’s it.

Trump is going to put a 10% tarrif on Canadian goods. Conservatives and Liberals will likely push Trudeau to respond in kind, upping prices, all but guaranteeing a PP win because most of the people angry voting for the right now are not politically engaged.

The politically uninformed have no comprehension of cause and effect. They look up and shits expensive one day and they look at the people up at the top of various tiers of politics and blame them, or they get told they are at fault by the opposition, and even though that opposition passed the legislation when they were in power and a delayed effect is being seen, the uninformed voter takes that at face value and doesn’t question it. They are uninformed and they like it that way. So they are a tool that can always be weaponised.

Nothing will stop PP coming in short of a miracle because those voters will not get informed by the next election.

To add on to that, provincial and country leaders have little direct control of prices today. Any oversight or controls have been severely hampered. They can make them worse, but any policy that may make them better will have a long lead time to take effect and will be unlikely to affect the global reality unless passed by someone like the US that has enough buying power to affect markets.

Neither Trudeau or Poliviere can solve the cost of living problem because Canada is too small a fish in a now global sea.

Now I need to see a photo shop of a Post brand cereal named Nut Clarity, with picture of fuzzy almonds floating in milk.

Alternative title: The Skids

What if that is exactly what puts Freeman on Starbase 80?

So, is anyone else anticipating some crossover with Prodigy and the events that affected the Prime Universe in it’s Season 2?

Because that’s exactly where my mind went when they did the whole foreshadowing of “someone sure is opening a lot of time rifts lately”. (I might have that quote off a bit from Captain Freeman but I’ll edit once I get a chance to rewatch.)

Trained chefs who know how to get rich colour from onion soup for one. As well as anyone who knows how to make good sauteed onions.

Many things can taste sweet if you caramelize them. Carrots will caramelize in butter if you sautee them on low heat in a cast iron and you can make them taste candied with no added sugar

It would be wholly unsurprising if this was part of the reason, however is there any source that would link this to the cancellation?

My tracking the years implies this season will take place in the same year as Prodigy season 2…

Given that I have some idea in my head that it would be somewhat more difficult to do a season during the Synth incident and the aftermath given how serious that time is so they are ending it tastefully before that.

Also, I’m sad it’s going but also recognize that some of my best, favourite comedy shows are like 3 seasons long. (IT Crowd, Black Books)

The Brits have it right I think, end the comedy on a high note where the whole thing stands out rather that slogging it along for the cash cow.

Damn, just incredible work by the art team here.

That’s awesome. TIL.

They should do a Cerritos like crossover and make the character help the Cerritos on a long list of backlogged second contact missions, including this one.

Which seems crazy, because with the Delta Quadrant being as accessible as it is in STO, it seems like making contact with a Human colony of over 100k people would be a priority.

I doubt this is in the US. The key indicator for me is the Napa valley wine beside it. Unless Costco does things very differently, imported bottles are always grouped into the same aisle. Given that I’d guess its outside the US.

This actually stems from long forgotten common courtesy to remove a hat when entering someone’s home or place of business.

https://bestlifeonline.com/rude-to-wear-a-hat-indoors/

It’s an ancient custom dating back to the days of knights, and generally courteous when visiting some one new or entering any professional establishment.

I am truly sorry for what our governments have done to your people and their half-assed reparations. This shit needs to change.