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Ours has been down since yesterday afternoon and I'm wondering how many others are affected by the outage.

Update: It's back up for me as of ~12:00pm

My spouse has this thing where she will get overstimulated by our kids (particularly while I'm not around to mitigate things) and then instead of getting out of the situation when I provide an escape, just continuing to insert herself and escalate the issue. Even if I get her to step away, or even remove the kids from where she is she tends to follow and insert herself into the overstimulating situation.

I'm not going to lie, this behavior is extremely frustrating and tends to cause small issues to snowball. Has anyone else experienced something similar and found a way to stop this behavior?

We have a friend from out of town who has a severe gluten allergy. Any good restaurants that would be able to accommodate this safely? Bonus points if they have an interesting menu.

I see people posting here fairly frequently confused about why Carl wouldn't be excited to have to sleep less. I've always thought the answer was pretty straightforward so I decided to see what other people think.

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Simply, the Crawl is torture and time spent sleeping is literally the only thing even remotely close to a respite for him. It's not much of a respite which is why he doesn't have a stronger rejection but it's enough for him to simply not like it despite recognizing the obvious advantages.

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Not really sure which book this happens in but I'm reasonably certain it's before 5. I don't really think this is much of a spoiler either way though.

I was diagnosed this year and I've noticed that my cgm tends to get bumped and pinched frequently when playing/cuddling with my almost 3 year old son. It rarely causes immediate discomfort (except that one time it got pinched under me when I rolled over - ouch) but makes the site tender for extended durations of time. I wear my cgm on the back of my upper arm so I was thinking of trying a thick arm band over it? But I really don't know if that will affect my readings.

Despite being very common throughout sci-fi, none of the works I've read or watched have really explored the implications of artificial gravity beyond having it fail in order to ratchet up the tension of a scene occasionally. I can think of a number of ways to take something that's normally just added to make the world more relatable and transform it into a really fun concept like a glitch in the controller crushing the crew or the field leaking beyond the ship to allow boarding parties jump "down" to a ship from above.

So are there any works that do this?

Edit: For clarity, I'm talking about the magical handwavium artificial gravity where they have micro black holes in the floorboards or something crazy like that. Thrust gravity and spin gravity are very cool but I think they already get pretty well explored in the works they are used in.

5 minutes is how long it took me to understand that my son repetitively pressing his index finger against random stuff, pointing at it with his other finger, and yelling "want this!" while steadily getting more frustrated at my stupidity meant he wanted the laser "point"er.

Language development is fun.

It is very messed up from an ethical standpoint.