u/StriderLF

This person has been my coworker for two years and gradually became one of my closest friend. Over this period we had ups and downs in our relationship, we went from haters to best friends back and forth. I realized that she was a quite complicated person to be with, I knew she was on antidepressants, but I had no ideal what the precise condition was, so I tried my best to understand her.

A few months ago our friendship started to take a more romantic turn. Since we were spending even more time together, I started to realize some patterns, such as how much she slept, how she loved to plan to do things together, but would pull out from almost every plan. After a lot of talking, she said that she was diagnosed as a bipolar type 2. I felt extremely bad for being mad at her for impulsiveness and other bipolar traits that I failed to realize.

Since she is 6 years younger, she listens to a lot of my advice. Ever since we started getting closer, she quit smoking, started working out and seems to be becoming more stable overall.

My greatest concern is: how much should I try to police her? She does things which I struggle to cope with, such as drinking alcohol while taking anti-psychotics and antidepressants, but I really don't want to be bossing her around. I don't want to see her destroying something I love, but I know I might end up suffocating her instead of helping.

I hope this question doesn't feel offensive at all, but if it does, I apologize right away. I recently got into learning Chinese and as a result, I started to come across a lot of things from daily life in China.

It seems like Chinese people are really into drinking alcohol, offering alcohol appears to be a sign of friendliness.

Since Buddhism has had a lot of influence in China, I wonder how these two aspects of the Chinese people go together with each other.

I would love to hear your thoughts and I apologize if my perceptions are wrong.

Comecei a andar de moto ha pouco menos de um ano e apesar de não ter tante dificuldade, eu comecei a notar um certo excesso de confiança que me faz fazer coisas um pouco idiotas no transito.

Vocês tem esse tipo de problema também? Como conseguem controlar?

Desengripantes são muito úteis no mundo da gambiarra, porém existe uma diferença de preços absurda entre o WD-40 e as outras marcas. Vocês costumam comprar o WD-4 original ou preferem as alternativas mais baratas?

I've bought a few too many apps to learn Chinese already, but Du Chinese seems to be pretty unique and useful. Before buying, I would like to know from you, do you think it's worth it?

Quando eu comecei a fazer a manutenção da moto, eu não deixava aparecer ferrugem em nada. No menor sinal de ferrugem, eu limpava com WD40. Porém, acho que estou sendo um pouco paranoico em tentar deixar uma moto de trabalho impecável.

Então onde eu não posso deixar ferrugem aparecer de jeito nenhum?

I wonder if any of you like to fire harden your spoons? Which techniques do you use?

Pergunta de iniciante no mundo de mecânica. Fui trocar o óleo da moto (Bros 150 2013) com 600 km desde a ultima troca, porém quando fui medir o óleo trocado, deu apenas 750ml.

Eu ouvi dizer que esse motor 150cc geralmente queima óleo, porém 250ml em 600km rodados é norma?

Obrigado.