In this one instance they are actually losing their money, maybe, nearly a decade after the fact. Up until now he's been living it relatively large.
I'd also put money on him still having a significantly higher amount of money to throw around, even assuming he loses the string of appeals and other legal bullshit he's undoubtedly going to pull for probably the next decade.
Same, they are currently still working through the 2019 backlog.
There is the option of going through "Right To Choose" system, which is ostensibly quicker but i think you have to pay for things yourself.
GP or doctor can give you proper advice about that though.
There are officially recognised tests that potentially lead to officially recognised diagnoses. For ADHD specifically that can lead to access to medication you wouldn't have without the official diagnosis.
For me specifically, the setup and config oftentimes is what I'm doing with the computer, the learning and knowledge gained from the practice is what I'm after, which is good because it's significantly less fun than it used to be.
Admittedly mine is probably a non-standard case and it ties in with other things in my life.
Condolences on your loss.
Depends on how you define 'cost' I suppose, but seems like the trade off isn't worth it for you, which is fair.
Some might value the perceived benefits much higher than you do.
What if the life I'm imagining I'm protecting is one where I have the option of choosing a platform/application that isn't scraping the absolute dregs of the barrel to squeeze out that last bit of profit margin.
That's a win win right?
The way that sentence is structured implies otherwise, but that could be a misinterpretation on my part, I suppose.
Yeah, I'm going with a tiny dedicated infra bootstrapping box with all the tools I'd need to bootstrap the main infrastructure.
Using a hypervisor (proxmox in this case) I have some prebuilt vms's and container images that I can use for the bootstrap instances so i'd not need to completely hand roll it again should it be needed.
I'm looking at cloudinit scripts to see if that's useful for this.
I really like packer but I'm hesitant to rely on anything hashicorp until whatever they have going on shakes out.
Then I just load up the bootstrap box with the main infra code and use woodpecker to deploy.
Code and config backed up, also mirrored to newly created infra forgejo instances, just in case.
If I can get a semi presentable cloud init based bootstrap system working nicely I'll stick it somewhere people can get to it, in case it's useful to someone else.
I know of it but I've not put any effort in to specific practice.
My personal opinion is that most communication between anyone contains manipulation, even if they aren't doing it consciously, it's an intrinsic part of how we deal with each other.
The difference is that i don't have much of a natural instinct for it, i have to practice and be much more intentional, which brings benefits and drawbacks.
I find that a lot of people in general can be manipulated in similar ways (I'm no exception to this) but techniques vary by culture, upbringing, experience, context etc, i don't like to do it , however, for the reason stated a bit further down.
Identifying which markers work for which people is a a lot of the battle initially.
Unfair is relative and heavily context dependent but in some circumstances yeah it can feel a bit like a cheat, what I've found over time is that I'd be cheating myself just as much as anyone else, my goal in general was/is better communication and understanding, if I'm intentionally manipulating outside the norms then the interaction is tainted in terms of learning natural communications patterns.
If they are intentionally manipulating outside of the norms then that's significantly more interesting and useful for gaining samples from uncommon behaviours.
Lots of practice.
For me it works like an elaborate pattern recognition tree.
e.g. This face in this context means x thing 75% of the time so far.
Then it's "strong opinions held weakly", you now have a working hypothesis but it's just that, a hypothesis.
Every facial/body/word/etc change could be a modifier to the previous assumption. You could also match some newly remembered memory to the situation that also changes the impression of what is going on.
It's exhausting, but it becomes easier with practice.
It's gets more refined the more you are around the same people, as you get a 'feel' for their patterns.
You also start to build up a library of 'shortcuts' that you can sometimes apply to unfamiliar situations/people.
At some point it starts to become 'muscle memory' and the energy required to do it is greatly reduced.
YMMV however, I've no idea if this will work for anyone else in the way I have described.
I'd also say to remember that everyone is guessing to some degree or another it's just that your guesses might require a bit more intention, whichever method (s) you settle on.
You do what you can with what you have, that is the best that can be reasonably expected of anyone.
I genuinely have no idea if it's an option for you or if it'd even help but for 10/11 days of relative isolation you could try vipassana
Not sure what the northern US wait times are like, but you generally need to book ahead.
It's free, it works on a volunteer basis, no idea how if it works for people with no fixed abode but proof of residence was not required where i am.
Do check if it's suitable for you though, there are rules (albeit not many), they seem reasonable to me but might not be for you.
Isolation wise, there is no communication between attendees, but there are group meditation sessions (though they are also non-talking).
The three aspects that weren't silent :