Omg thank you, anytime I see covered up text it’s like something goes off in my brain where I really want to be able to read the rest, this is extremely satisfying! You have my respect for keeping spare napkins to use later, which I try to do as well, but also for using them appropriately for your own burgers, which is oddly satisfying.
As far as recreating your favorite discontinued burger and modifying it with bacon, it looks like you’ve done an incredible job! At this point I’d say it looks like you’ve got the skills and the drive to take a shot at recreating their ketchup – make sure to post back in this community if you do!
And of course for anyone curious, their napkin goes over the ethos, in part roughly translating to: “It has always been clear that burgers mean more to us than just chow. Everything we’ve learned from burgers, and what we’re still learning, we’ll share with you. So that you can experience the same passion and joy of realization as we do.” It’s signed by “The Burgermeister” which is not only the Burger Master but I think possibly a clever play on words, since “bürgemeister” refers to a mayor/chief/etc. as I understand it!
is the constant internal dialogue a function of Autism's "bottom-up" processing, or a function of shame-based masking?
I'm wondering if I'll ever be able to just act or speak without that layer. should I be trying to act/speak thru the layer of dialogue or should I just let it happen & be less anxious about it?
I guess I'm wondering if it comes from my masking coping strategies or if it's more ingrained and unavoidable #ActuallyAutistic
@seanwithwords@actuallyautistic I was lucky enough to find my tribe at university. It was a tiny university, in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere that just seemed to draw in people from the edges of society. There was no cinema, no shopping. All the pubs were old man pubs, with dogs and fire places. Full of hippies and farmers. Anyone not a little odd left very rapidly, as they just couldn't cope with the isolation from society. While some of us felt like we belonged for the first time.
The US government arresting foreign nationals like this ultimately endangers Americans who travel abroad. Other governments at odds with the US have to arrest US citizens to use as bargaining chips to get their own people back in prisoner swaps like this. It ruins lives and could be avoided if the US didn’t go around trying to play world policeman.
I had come to assume this update would never come. I always found it so odd the 6 year old last update was to prepare for a an update that never came. I wonder why the developer waited 6 years on a single massive update instead of… well just not doing that.
On St Thomas’s Eve in Austria, unmarried ladies would slice an apple in two to foresee their wedding. If there was an even number of pips, she would marry soon, an odd number meant a wait, if she’d cut through one of the pips she would have a more troubled life and end up a widow.
I’ll start. Not to toot my own horn but I feel I’m at least partially responsible for getting a friend to see the value of romantic love, which she managed to find!
Not sure about the whole idea of being proud of something. It seems to me that it is a concept that evaporates when you look closely at it.
However I am pleased with the role that I played in getting some meadows that were going to be sold off for housing included a nature reserve instead when I was the ranger for the site.
I’d created some good toad breeding habitat nearby and then I put in a lot of my own time in building a volunteer group and recording in detail where the toads went and how they used the land - including the area that was going to be sold - over the course of a few years. It turned out to be the largest recorded toad colony of its type in the UK one year. The data was a critical point in the final decision by the local authority.
The thing about being proud is that it seems odd to be proud of something over which you have no control. Well, OK, I did have control here: I chose to spend my time in doing this, certainly. But I can be quite determined about things like that - that is down to my temperament. Do I actually have control of my temperament - or was I just born that way? Even if I have developed my own temperament over the years - wouldn’t that simply be because I was born with the capability of developing it? And so on and so on. Ultimately it always seems to boil down to something over which I really couldn’t say that I have any control.
But I can be pleased at any of those, no matter what.
An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN....
She was perfectly in the clear to get an abortion. She ignored medical advice twice. So yeah, there’s more to this than the headline.
OP didn’t say charging her with a crime was right. OP said nothing like that. OP even went out of his way (2nd paragraph for those with low reading comprehension) to state that he wasn’t making any sort of judgement. Merely that this didn’t seem the result of abortion restrictions and it’s an odd case with some unanswered questions.
Honestly though, it’s all OP’s fault for reading the article and not reacting emotionally. Do better OP!
American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Ironically, without the “bigger threat” of the USA, they’d likely be at odds against each other. China still wants Outer Manchuria back, a region it was forced to cede to Russia back in 1860. Iran wants to be the de facto power of the muslim world, but has to deal with many other muslim countries that don’t want it, plus Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are countries that Russia would prefer to have control over.
but if you don’t like the majority of the fediverse blocking threads then get fucked because this is what the people want.
That seems like an odd position to take, given the information available. The only number here – the instance count involved – has a majority not blocking Threads.
Game of Thrones is an odd one, because what they did was fuck up the characters. All of them. I don’t think a single character who survived to the end was left unscathed by shitty writing outside of a couple minor characters. It doesn’t really help that they obviously rushed the ending out, which only made it worse by making the actions of the characters make absolutely no sense.
<p>A study recent found that the mothers of autistic boys drank over three times more diet sodas during pregnancy than the mothers of non-autistic boys. This difference was absent in mothers of girls. The study was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15173772"><em>Nutrients</em></a>.</p>
<p>Autism spectrum disorder is a category of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by challenges in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors. The term “spectrum” reflects the wide variation in symptoms and severity that individuals with autism spectrum disorder can experience. This disorder is typically diagnosed in early childhood, and its impact on daily functioning can vary widely.</p>
<p>The share of children suffering from autism has risen dramatically in the past 40 years in the United States. Numbers went from 0.3 per 1000 children before 1980 to 27.6 per 1000 children in 2020. This increase is largely, but not entirely, due to better testing and diagnostics. Researchers are intensely studying whether there are other factors that made autism more common.</p>
<p>One point many researchers look at are conditions in the uterus during pregnancy and, consequently, the lifestyle of mothers and their dietary habits. Studies indicate that maternal intake of vitamins, folic acid, omega-6 fatty acids, and a number of other substances during pregnancy are associated with a reduced risk of autism in children.</p>
<p>In contrast, higher intake of methanol has been linked to an increased risk of autism in children. The primary source of dietary methanol is aspartame, a widely used artificial sweetener. During digestion, aspartame breaks down into two amino acids (aspartic acid and phenylalanine) and methanol. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved aspartame as a tabletop sweetener, these findings suggest that pregnant women might unknowingly expose their unborn children to an increased risk of autism by consuming products sweetened with aspartame.</p>
<p>Aspartame is mainly used in diet sodas, so study author Sharon Parten Fowler and her colleagues wanted to explore whether the quantity of diet sodas consumed during pregnancy or the equivalent amount of aspartame (calculated from data on diet soda intake) differs in mothers of children with and without autism. Noting that the risk of autism is 4 times higher in boys than in girls, they also wanted to make comparisons within sexes.</p>
<p>The study involved 235 families with at least one child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and 121 families with non-autistic children. Recruitment was conducted through the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio between 2011 and 2014, as well as through media in San Antonio and southern Texas.</p>
<p>Parents provided information about their households, demographic details about the children, and whether each child had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, Asperger’s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified, or childhood disintegrative disorder. Children diagnosed with any of these disorders were included in the autism spectrum disorder group. Researchers also inquired if there was a period when their child started using “at least three words” they could understand and then stopped talking for a while. Children whose parents answered “No” to this question were further classified as non-regressive autism spectrum disorder cases.</p>
<p>Biological mothers of the children completed a retrospective questionnaire about their consumption of diet sodas and other diet drinks during pregnancy and breastfeeding. They reported the number of cans or bottles of diet sodas or other diet drinks consumed in a specified time unit. The questionnaire also inquired about the frequency of low-calorie sweetener use during pregnancy (such as Sweet ‘N Low, Equal, or Splenda).</p>
<p>The researchers divided mothers into two groups based on their reported diet soda consumption during pregnancy – those drinking up to one can of diet soda per day and those drinking more than that. Similarly, after estimating the likely amounts of aspartame from all diet beverages and low-calorie sweeteners, mothers were categorized into those consuming up to 177 milligrams of aspartame per day and those consuming more.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>Results showed that shares of mothers with high intake of aspartame and diet sodas during pregnancy increased sharply with the severity of autism symptoms in boys. Approximately 25% of mothers of boys with non-regressive autism (a more severe form of the disorder) fell into the high aspartame intake category. In comparison, 22.1% of these mothers consumed more than one diet soda per day during pregnancy, while only 7.4% of the control group (mothers of non-autistic boys) did so.</p>
<p>Interpreted in a different way, odds of high exposure to dietary soda <em>in utero</em> progressively increased with the increasing severity of autism symptoms. The odds of exposure to diet soda and aspartame <em>in utero</em> were more than tripled in boys with autism compared to boys without this disorder.</p>
<p>These associations were completely absent in girls. This made researchers conclude that the likely effects of early exposure to diet soda might be specific for boys. Overall, between 24% and 30% of mothers reported using low-calorie sweeteners, diet sodas or other diet beverages during pregnancy.</p>
<p>“Compared with male controls, males with autism in our study had more than tripled odds of having been exposed daily—gestationally and/or through breastfeeding—to either diet soda itself or comparable doses of aspartame from multiple sources. These exposure odds were the highest among cases with non-regressive autism,” the researchers concluded.</p>
<p>“These associations do not prove causality. Taken in concert, however, with previous findings of increased prematurity and cardiometabolic health impacts among infants and children exposed daily to diet beverages and/or aspartame during pregnancy, they raise new concerns about the potential neurological impacts, which need to be addressed.”</p>
<p>The study sheds light on the links between aspartame consumption during pregnancy and autism in children. However, it should be noted that the study design does not allow any cause-and-effect conclusions to be derived from the data. Additionally, data on aspartame-sweetened products was based on participants’ reported memories from years ago. Studies directly tracking the consumption of such beverages in mothers during pregnancy might produce different results.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15173772">Daily Early-Life Exposures to Diet Soda and Aspartame Are Associated with Autism in Males: A Case-Control Study</a>”, was authored by Sharon Parten Fowler, David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, Michael D. Swartz, Paula Stigler Granados, Lynne Parsons Heilbrun, and Raymond F. Palmer.</p>
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Tesla has removed Disney+ from some of its vehicles amid Elon Musk having an online fight with Disney CEO Bob Iger. The fight started when Disney halted its advertising on X after Musk agreed with and amplified antisemitic content, for which he eventually apologized....
"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. "
George Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf. Gave it two stars.
They’re so odd with acquisitions like they don’t want to be seen to buy up something that people can see in their product just the smaller firms that enable the technologies. They could have bought this crowd out but chose to be cunts.
Vet said he needed shots to boost his nerves and if he doesn’t respond well in a couple days he’ll do an X-ray and decide on a further course of treatment. He’s back to purring in my lap again. Hug your kitties extra tight for me tonight.
Feline hyperesthesia is probably what you’re referring to with her tail self-mutilation. Definitely odd there would be a random residual infectious tick in a new house lol, but stranger things have happened! Weird !
As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money....
The method to it’s madness is fairly underhanded to adults, much more so for its’ intended audience.
I wish I could find the video that did a basic deep dive on all (negative) aspects of the roblox community, from the robux, to the game makers potential for being exploited, and the oddly nft/stock market of cosmetics which are a massive fomo money sink. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t aimed at children, but because it is, that only makes the handful of bad/fringe cases even more unsettling.
It’s no big secret that kids are dumb enough to try and get robux for free from almost any link saying they can online. But the incentive is there for them to try.
Removing roblox from a kids library is a good thing for peace of mind. Plus there are plenty of other games out there to play with friends and depending on how they spent their time on roblox, it likely wouldn’t be terribly hard to match to another game within whatever genre they were playing.
ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he’d resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn’t change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations....
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
At least 1,201 people were killed in 2022 by law enforcement officers, about 100 deaths a month, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit research group that tracks police killings. ProPublica examined the 101 deaths that occurred in June 2022, a time frame chosen because enough time had elapsed that investigations...
That’s a side effect, not the goal. The goal is to make a ton of money on microtransactions, that’s why they have a revenue sharing licensing model, not a per seat model. They don’t lose much by being friendly to smaller devs, because they’re banking on raking in profits from the few that go viral.
I argue that until the recent change, Unity was the best engine for indie devs. You pay per seat and that’s it, you keep the rest. And you don’t pay until you make more than $100k, just like Unreal (Unreal is 5% after your first $1M). So if you earn $2M, you’ll pay $50k to Epic or $2k/seat for Unity (assuming pro plan). If you expect to make >$1M, Unity will probably be cheaper for smaller studios. If you want support, Unreal charges $1500/seat/year for the Enterprise option, and you still need to pay for royalties.
So here’s how I’d decide which to use:
Godot - most indie games
Unity - indie games with high revenue expectation (if it takes off), and studios with infrequent releases (you only pay if you’re making >$100k)
Unreal - big 3D games with latest tech, or indie studios with lots of smaller games with lower average revenue targets
Most studios don’t need the features of Unreal, so it’s an odd choice for your random indie studio.
I Made - Burger and Fries (sopuli.xyz)
Brioche Bun...
The US has released an ally of Venezuela's president in a swap for jailed Americans (apnews.com)
Geometry Dash - Update 2.2 is out now! (store.steampowered.com)
New level "Dash"...
Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... (lemmy.ca)
That’s, what, 7% less…
Jjimdak (Korean braised chicken) (crazykoreancooking.com)
Fantastic dish. I made this tonight. Oddly enough I never had this dish growing up. I subbed in daikon for the potato since we had it on hand....
What's something you've done that you're proud of?
I’ll start. Not to toot my own horn but I feel I’m at least partially responsible for getting a friend to see the value of romantic love, which she managed to find!
A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide (www.cnn.com)
An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN....
The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community
Really, how awesome is that?...
U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)
American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
AI for Web Devs: AI Image Generation (austingil.com)
41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! (tech.lgbt)
Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. (variety.com)
Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger (electrek.co)
Tesla has removed Disney+ from some of its vehicles amid Elon Musk having an online fight with Disney CEO Bob Iger. The fight started when Disney halted its advertising on X after Musk agreed with and amplified antisemitic content, for which he eventually apologized....
Does it make sense to replace your phone's android recovery mode with TWRP, OrangeFox or ClockWorkMod?
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Trump Unable To Come Up With Own Material, Keeps Ripping Off Hitler (www.wonkette.com)
Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute (www.macrumors.com)
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Went to the vet yesterday since my boy was acting weird. Turns out he was showing very mild signs of paralysis. (lemmy.world)
Vet said he needed shots to boost his nerves and if he doesn’t respond well in a couple days he’ll do an X-ray and decide on a further course of treatment. He’s back to purring in my lap again. Hug your kitties extra tight for me tonight.
I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money....
The Clarence Thomas Scandal Is Somehow Looking Even Worse (www.vanityfair.com)
ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he’d resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn’t change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations....
Pope says priests can bless same-sex unions, requests should not be subject to moral analysis (apnews.com)
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
Body Cameras Were Sold as a Tool of Police Reform. Ten Years Later, Most of the Footage Is Kept From Public View. (www.propublica.org)
At least 1,201 people were killed in 2022 by law enforcement officers, about 100 deaths a month, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit research group that tracks police killings. ProPublica examined the 101 deaths that occurred in June 2022, a time frame chosen because enough time had elapsed that investigations...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)