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  • AtomicPurple@kbin.socialto> Greentext@lemmy.mlIdentity's Kaleidoscope
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    1 year ago

    My partner has DID, and I’ve done a ton of research into it as a result. This story sounds extremely plausible to me.

    I’ve read multiple case studies where people with multiple personalities will get out of whatever situation was causing the disassociation, and over time some of the personalities will vanish / die off. There was also a very extreme case I read about where the fractured personalities managed to coalesce into a new whole, but it was a different personality than the original. Basically a fully formed identity that was suddenly living the life of someone they didn’t identify as, and whose memories they couldn’t really recall.

    Even in my partner’s much less severe case of DID, the less prominent personalities will sometimes go dormant for months at a time. Haven’t had any of them disappear fully yet, but it’s at least theoretically possible from what I understand.









  • Hard to say. Linus has always made it sound like his investment in Framework is a personal one, not one made by LMG. If that’s the case, then I think any potential issues could be largely sidestepped by just having someone else do all the laptop reviews.

    If that’s not the case and LMG is directly involved with Framework, then it gets a bit tricky. To their credit, they’ve done a good job of disclosing the Framework investment whenever the company is brought up, but I don’t watch most of LTT’s review content, so I’m not sure if it’s being mentioned in the context of other laptop reviews. If not, it needs to be.
    The whole point of having that kind of disclosure though is so people know that the information being presented is potentially biased. At a certain point, it’s on the audience to take that bias into account and cross reference other sources before making any purchasing decisions. I’m not sure there’s anything LMG can really do to alleviate the perceived conflict of interest, unless they just stop reviewing laptops altogether. Whether or not it’s ethical to continue reviewing laptops in that context, even with a full disclosure, is a question I don’t have a good answer to.





  • AtomicPurple@kbin.socialto> Greentext@lemmy.mlAnon asks about ARFID
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    I have ARFID, and at least in my case, my diet isn’t as restrictive as most stereotypes portray, even though my list of safe foods hasn’t really expanded since I was in middle school. I was raised vegetarian, and have never eaten meat in my life AFAIK, and I that think helped me to have broader, or at least healthier tastes than many with my disorder.

    I of course have some stereotypical safe foods, like fries, pizza (on which the only topping I will tolerate is pineapple) and mac & cheese, but that list also includes things like sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and tofu stir fry.
    The list of foods that I will not eat also has some things you may not expect, like most juices, sodas, and energy drinks, anything cherry flavored, and chocolate, which I will only eat if it’s mixed with something like caramel or peanut butter.

    There are some genuine benefits to ARFID as well in my case. The smell of red meat makes me nauseous, which has ensured I’ve stayed vegetarian into my adult life. it’s also prevented me from getting hooked on caffeine or alcohol, as I can’t stand the taste of coffee, tea or any alcoholic beverage.

    My biggest barrier to eating healthy is actually executive dysfunction, rather than ARFID. The healthy foods I like all take some active prep work, whereas I can grab a box of cheese-its or throw tater tots in the oven with almost no effort.


  • Second this. Just today, I was moving a couple terabytes from my work PC to my media server at gigabit speeds, and the transfer was absolutely hammering the poor quad core i5 I’ve got in it. Surfing the web was less than pleasant for an a hour to two there.

    Edit: I didn’t see OP’s reply to this comment when I first wrote it. I agree decompression is the most likely culprit, as it can be CPU intensive and compression ratios vary quite a lot from game to game.