Literally at this point I assume any headline that mentions a pastor in the first half ends with CSA.

Yes! I just did this with 25000 pieces I got on FB market place.

Identifying what you can build: You want: https://rebrickable.com/

• Add any sets you have.
• Add any parts you have.

Then you can search for what you can build - filtering by exact colours/close matches/any.

You can also filter only official sets, alternative builds for official sets and MOC (make own creation - builds other people have come up with - both paid and free)

Identifying Parts: Finally as someone who took weeks adding all my parts and only discovered this app in the last few days...

https://brickognize.com/

This website you can take a photo of any one piece and it will give you the part number so you don't have to hunt for it on the rebrickable parts list. It is astonishingly accurate!

Other tips: Sort your parts first. I went through 2 key stages...

• Reduce to broad categories: brick, plate, bracket, minifigure etc.
• remove every part of one type at a time regardless of color and then add them etc.

With rebrickable you can just select 1x2 brick and add 10 black and then just quickly change number and color to 8 green etc. So colour's are not worth sorting til the very end!!

Plus identifying all the green 1x2s in a pile of 1x2s is a LOT easier than identifying all the 1x2 greens in a huge pile of green stuff.

I'll stop now as it's becoming a wall of text but any questions feel free to ask!

Kids are easy to manipulate in general. But kids raised in this environment are a predators dream come true.

They are told they are sinners from birth and therefore unlovable outside of god's infinite generosity of murdering his own kid. They are told whatever happens to them is for a reason and doesn't need to "make sense" as it makes sense to god. They are taught never to speak out against "gods anointed" and see everyone around them they trust speak of this pastor figure like they are a god.

Predators like these pastors know there is a low chance they will ever talk. Beyond that they know they will be "forgiven" if they are caught a lot of the time. Thinking of that viral clip a couple of years ago of a pastor being given a standing ovation for "bravely coming forward and confessing sexual sin" [r*ping a 14yr old]

The whole thing is a god damn mess and the sooner we are done with it the better.

Holy shit, after years of trying to convince my wife to join Reddit it turns out you were here on Lemmy all along.

Thanks so much for sharing this Bookwyrm is on my radar to try (currently use storygraph). I've been looking for ways to contribute to the open source community as a non-coder so def going to check out bookbrainz. Freedom of information is one of my biggest passions and this goes hand in hand with those goals as they form the backbone of meaningful archival efforts.

I've been checking this site on and off from Europe for about a month. Can someone who knows more than me explain the expected timeline for what remains?

I feel like it jumped up into the mid 30%s after only a month or so and then stagnated for weeks.

Now it seems to have jumped again. But I guess I’m wondering at what sort of percentage does everything go to shit (not that it isn't already!). Are there points where there is a no turning back or civil war becomes inevitable, etc.? Or does it hit a certain percentage where it will jump to 100% overnight due to certain protections being removed.

I guess I’m struggling to wrap my head around what I’m seeing, what it looks like between 40% and 100% and how quickly this might happen?

Even a guide somewhere on the net that breaks it down would be great.

As a psychotherapist I've found myself working with quite a few people in the last 5yrs going through the process of questioning if they are neurodivergent after social media psychoeducation.

In my experience many professionals are woefully under trained in the area of both trauma and neurodivergence and both would be primary considerations if you friend is resonating with descriptions of experiences and symptoms of ADHD. It is very often overlooked and misdiagnosed or missed as a diagnosis. Additionally many Therapists are trained to stay in the clients frame of reference and would not suggest a diagnosis that would be the job of a psychiatrist (at least here in the UK).

I think this can be a really complicated field to navigate. The way we diagnose mental health divergence in the west is primarily using the ICD or DSM both very problematic for various reasons but most of all because they look at symptoms to diagnose. Generally when diagnosing a physical condition symptoms are key to bringing people into the doctors office but you wouldn't want chemo because you had trouble breathing... You'd want some further tests to identify if it was lung cancer or a broken rib. Hell even some good additional questioning can drill down to this. Now in saying that a good mental health professional will do this, but many don't - especially somewhere like America.

The reason this is such an issue is many underlying conditions can present as ADHD - and visa versa. Your friend could have complex or chronic trauma, or any number of personality disorders for example. On the flip side I've seen people with probable ADHD be turned away from medical help because psychiatrists have (in my opinion) wrongly presumed it's trauma.

So to me the thing I tend to focus on more than anything is how does this stuff show up in people's lives and how can they alieviate the pain. For many seeking a diagnosis and getting medical help will be worth trying. For many other just having a community that struggles with similar issues and supports each other with tools and techniques that help is enough. Whatever it looks like for your friend I'd recommend you ask her what supporting her would look like from her perspective and do your best to be there.

To be clear I don't think you did anything "wrong", we all react from our own frame of reference and yours was different then than it is now as you are considering other angles. But I think you are asking the right question and sound like a good friend.

On the topic of these psycho education social media platforms - ultimately, I’m more thankful for the increased awareness and access to tools and techniques that help people than for any false self-diagnosis that undoubtably occurs because of it.

As much as people seem to hate her I have to say I think she was a fabulous leader. Especially given she ran a country with very little power and finances given the puppet strings that ran from westminster. People go on and on about how bad the SNP were but the simple fact is Scotland declined a LOT slower than England and Wales did in that time because of their leadership.

She was fierce, passionate, committed and measured. It is unfortunately rare in the world today to have a leader that is worthy of respect on the public stage. Next to folks like Boris and Trump she was a powerhouse.

Christ I reread that first line about 5 times trying to figure out how introducing a comma would help make things better.

Guess I'm all in on the original.

Oh and when searching parts look out for printed parts or very unique looking parts - often you'll find those are in very few sets and it'll give you an idea of sets you might have.

Additionally rebrickable let's you convert parts into sets if you have all the parts.

That it isn't different when they are your own... I really don't like young children (like under 3/4 or so.) Thankfully I actually do like them as they age but fuck me are young children the absolute worst (for me).

This is interesting as I've not even heard of Floorp and alternatives have been such a hot topic the last month between manifest v3 and firefoxes updated terms fiasco.

Can I ask, what for you had you opt for floorp vs the more commonly mentioned alternatives like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc.?

The world: How much are your eggs?

Trump: $100

The world: Sure we'll help... that will be $99.

Psychotherapist in the UK here. I cannot stress enough that many of these services are quite predatory both on the therapist and clients. Additionally many do not vet their therapists properly.

I don't know where you are in the EU but your country should have regulating bodies. Here in the UK we have BACP, BPS, COSCA etc. All of which have online directories that let you search by speciality, filter for online/in-person etc. In the UK (and I've heard this is true in some other places in Europe but not sure where) you do NOT have to be qualified to call yourself a therapist or counselor so going with someone outside of these regulatory bodies often means you are doing therapy with someone that did a weekend online course. It is also why these online services are full of people you don't want to be working with.

Before COVID, in the UK we were required to have specialist additional training to work via phone/online but since COVID it's a bit of a wild west. It is substantially different working online than in person - that can be a very good thing... But it can also be a very bad thing too.

My advise is find a regulatory body, search their directory and look for people who specialize in exactly what you want to work in. Many will tick a box as one of 100 things they can work with - ignore those and look for people that in the description talk about neurodiversity etc.

Oh and finally, good practice is to offer clients a 15-20 min call so you can explain how you work and help them get an idea of if they'd like to work with you. Take advantage of this and talk to 2-4 people first before picking someone. The number 1 metric for positive outcomes in therapy is how well you connect to your therapist, so don't compromise on that.

If you would like more pointers feel free to ask, I don't want to overshare info that isn't relevant.

There is an Organic Maps ios app which I use to mostly good effect. Occasionally have to fall back to Google maps and then I make a note to update OSM with the details missing where possible later.

I searched high and low and couldn't see anything to suggest it does. The screen caps of searches on it seemed to be based on metadata or tags so I'm guessing not. Either way the price point for me is way too high unfortunately discount or not. Will stick with self-hosted immich as my plan to degoogle from drive and photos.

So zero critique but to me these numbers still seem insurmountably huge. I wonder what makes $10/100 million your cut off points?

I ask because it's hard for me to imagine how one individual can amass $100 million in wealth without theft from those actually producing value. But I’m also aware that somewhere along the way actual lines have to be drawn and don't necessarily have my own metric for where that should be.

So full disclosure I am ex-christian so take my input with a pinch of salt.

That said, I think many of your concerns would make exploration of progressive forms of Christianity something worth exploring. Your pull to community and the teachings of Jesus (whether or not he taught them or not) would be able to remain central without a need to see the Bible as a history book to be taken literally. Progressives, much like the Jews (broadly speaking), do not see the text as explicitly "true" as in factually true but rather true as in true of nature and value. In the same way that Romeo and Juliette never had to have actually existed in real life for their story to impact us and shape us.

A good place to start might be someone like Brian McLaren who was central to the movement throughout the 90s and 2000s. He has a lot of great books exploring how to bring what is good and helpful within Christianity into a world of science, inclusivity and globalisation.

So take everything I say as a sample size of 1. I am autistic and have CPTSD from childhood neglect.

Yeah it's true. But to me it's not a good thing. It's that your standards go to shit! I've said my whole life that parents don't seem happier with kids they seem so utterly broken that they are able to celebrate really basic things.

You become thankful for the small things because the big things are gone. You choose to love X because Y is not an option any more etc.

There are chemical processes that make you all lovey dovey for your kid for sure, but to be honest... Definitely not enough. I remember in the first year thinking how did we survive evolutionarily? I would def without a solid moral compass have left this thing in a cave and walked away so many times! 😂

In short, before I had kids I could do what I want, when I wanted, I had friends, I saw my family, I had more money, I could spend time on personal development, I could take a couple of hours to breathe and reset my nervous system if needed, etc. For years those things stop existing and they mostly will not be the same again for at least a decade or so... Even then I don't know. It's genuinely a horrific decision in so many ways.

To be honest I’m not entirely sure the whole "your mind clicks a different way" isn't just a trauma response 😅

Anyways, I know I’m an outlier. But it's hard for me to really believe folks that speak SO positively of it... I just don't see it in their lives, they also look like they have given up so much for so little.