u/Rod_McBan

Got a "Vote yes on 3A" flyer in the mail today, so I decided to look into it.

tl;dr- 3A proposes an increase to sales and use tax and property tax to raise money for public safety services. That money would go to adding 43 police positions, 31 fire positions, and 12 Collaborative Service positions, building a new fire station, rehabbing fire station 4, some new vehicles, and equipment upgrades.

More information can be found on the city website

I'm torn on this one. I have no problem with the fire services, but I feel like the numbers on police vs collaborative services are backwards. We need more people who can be sent to situations that a gun will absolutely not improve, like wellness checks and mental health crises. If nothing else, an even split between the two categories would feel better to me.

Moving over from Fusion to FreeCAD, and one of the things I discovered today is that sketches should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. I'm working on a shape that has a regular pattern of features around the circumference (two different types, 90 degrees apart) and I think the best way to go about it is to draw the feature, pad it, and then do a polar array.

The problem is, the rotational axis I want doesn't line up with the origin of the model, the part, or the sketch defining the features. In Fusion, there were multiple tools to create construction planes and axes. I'm not sure how to create a reference axis in FreeCAD, and all the ideas I come up with feel all a little "around the ass to get to my elbow".

What am I missing?

I managed to lose a trash can full of awesome stuff in my recent move, and among that stuff was the power supply for my E7L. I'm trying to figure it out with support via email but it's not going very well. They sent me a link to order a replacement but the link didn't work.

At this point, I'd be satisfied just to know what the power supply connector is and make my own. I have enough 24V power supplies lying about the place, I just don't know what connector to buy or what polarity it should be. Can anyone tell me what connector it uses?

I'm just fooling around now, and I decided I wanted cats in Sanctuary, so I built four cages and started releasing them. Probably 60 of the little buggers running around, now.

I just saw Dogmeat carry one out of his doghouse by the scruff, drop it, and go back into his house. Poor guy.

Obviously, the jetpack opens up access to a lot of places that are otherwise inaccessible, but are those places worth the pain of plugging along in power armor? Are there neat things hidden on rooftops and collapsed highways and stuff? I know the fall protection legs require a jetpack to reach, but are there other things up there? Not even legendary items, necessarily.

Edit: WORTH it, not with it. Stupid autocorrect.

I'm watching a documentary about the Gemini program, and I've got two questions.

First, if Gemini 6 was intended to launch after the Agena had made one orbit, wouldn't the rotation of the earth have carried the launch facility out of the orbital plane of the Agena?

Second, the RCS tanks were pressurized with helium to ensure fuel flow. How did that actually work, though? How did the pressure force the fuel against the fuel line intake?

Several times recently I've seen a car with the license plate "FAITH 7" in the vicinity of the post office and I'm just wondering... Is there a Gordon Cooper fan in the area?

I know it's a long shot but, well, he's my favorite astronaut, so I have to ask.

Not autism therapists, therapists who are, themselves, autistic. Bonus points if they understand what autistic burnout is.

I am, and have been for some time, experiencing the worst executive dysfunction of my life. I'm AuDHD, so it's already a weak point for me, but this is ridiculous. There's a short list of things I can sort of autopilot through, but outside of those, I'm stuck. Task initiation, decision making, prioritizing tasks, all these things are just not available to me, and haven't been for some time. I just sit in my chair, all day, every day, thinking of the things I could do, unable to move. The frustration is becoming unbearable.

At this point, I'm desperate enough that I'm considering going cold turkey on the cymbalta and just dealing with whatever the consequences of that are. I feel like it can't be worse than this.

Does anyone have any advice? Anything that worked for you? Even just similar experiences would be nice to hear.

I feel like a man floundering in the middle of the ocean. I'm surrounded by well meaning fish (allistics) who are Very Concerned about me, giving me absolutely useless advice, because it's all tailored to _fish_ in distress.

I say, "thank you fish, but I'm not a fish I'm a man and I'm drowning in all this water". But fish, being fish, _are incapable of even seeing water_, because it is always there and they cannot even imagine that it exists, and that it could be harmful.

"Well if you're not going to flip your fins and push water over your gills, this is your fault."

"I don't have fins or gills!"

"Not with that attitude you don't!"

And that, friends, is what it feels like to ask for help or go to therapy.

Despite the heat, every day I walk from my apartment at 2nd and Main up to the north end of downtown. This weekend, a local business scattered index card sized flyers along the sidewalk, in the planters, and on the tables of some of the eating establishments along Main. On Saturday I stopped maybe a dozen, today I picked up and threw away around 8.

If you are a business owner, _please_ don't do this. At the very least, it's inconsiderate to the person or people who have to follow along after you and dispose of your litter.

I always feel a little bad for killing mutant hounds. They get so excited when they think they're going to get to eat a human!

I also came across a mongrel playing with a teddy bear. I let that guy live.

... And I am completely paralyzed.

Obviously they don't need to know how many socks I have, but organizing and discriminating the things that go on the list or don't and where to start making it have me just unable to do any of it. I'm tempted to ask an AI chatbot for help but, well, I have pretty negative feelings about AI.

Someplace I can find someone who might want some hand-me-down maker goodies?

Scrolling through my past purchased items list reminded me of a couple things I hyperfixated on in the past. For a while I was eating a small jar of maraschino cherries every day, and before that crushed up uncooked ramen was a staple.

I struggle with executive function, so my food choices tend to be limited as I frequently can't do multi step preparations. I'm curious about other people's experience. What are some foods you've gotten hung up on?

... Or, how Fallout 4 helped me accept my autism.

I've been in burnout for three months now. I've spent my whole life as a "high performer" (most of the time) in highly technical job positions, where my ability to spot patterns, solve complex problems, and hyperfixate on interesting problems made me quite successful. Right now, though, I am (if you will exist the colloquialism) dumber than a sack of hammers. Skill regression has me unable to access 25 years of engineering experience, and executive dysfunction has me unable to even try.

One of my existential crises since then has been around my sort of "intrinsic" value: could I bring any value to a mobile tribe of al paleolithic hunter gatherers?

I spend most of my days playing Fallout 4 as a comfort stim. I've put in about 1400 hours now, and I realized last night that the things that game largely resembles (knowing a large geographical area, remembering where useful things are, enjoying the application of the knowledge you've worked hard to acquire) would've been clutch for hunting.

I would've been a great caveman. You would have, too.