• Last oil change

Roughly two weeks ago oil + filters, did that myself.

• Current oil level

Right at the “F” mark on the dipstick

• Mileage

~178’000km

• Timing belt/chain history

Belt changed @ ~160kkm, two years ago.

• If the noise is present in neutral as well as in gear, and if there is any perceived difference between the two.

Harder to check, I’ll have to get back to you on that one.

Sometimes

There are plenty of things that Americans, in general, actually agree on. As much as the expression is disliked, there is a broad center that endorses at least moderate reform.

The problem is the fptp system that bundles people who are okay “just a little reform but not too much” with actual regressives, and people who actively support moderate reform with those too progressive for the “just a little” folks.

The end result is stagnation in popular issues due to the inflexibility of the electorate and enabling less democratic influences to dictate policy.

Doing something that gets your org banned by a government that isn’t even the one you’re protesting seems not only ineffective but counterproductive to me.

Censorship laws in the UK are quite dystopian, but even in less authoritarian countries, this kind of action would result in serious consequences.

that equipment was being used to further a genocide against the Palestinian people.

[Citation needed]

Finding out part of fucking around.

Countries don’t usually take kindly to people or organizations that break into military bases and vandalize equipment.

They already are. Marginal tax rate on income is ~66% and tax pressure as a whole is close to 50% of GDP. Hence increasing taxes isn’t really feasible.

No. Citizenship for a child in my country is tied to a huge amount of rights and access to welfare that essentially extends across a lifetime. Birthright citizenship would inevitably lead to an increase in (already significant) abuse of our strained welfare system.

Right now what’s needed is rapid reform in order to salvage as much of it as possible. We can’t afford to rapidly expand the system to include more people.

iirc a large reason is that trees for paper & lumber can be grown in areas less suitable for agriculture, whilst hemp competes with foodstuffs. Hence, despite the hemp being a more efficient producer of cellulose, it may be less economically efficient due to the relatively high value of alternate uses for the same land.

But when everyone is anonymous here on Lemmy, I feel comfortable venting about things. I dunno why this feels different, but I prefer it.

Part of the reason is that the professionals are constantly in it and either get desensitized (or burn out) and stop empathizing as much with their patients. Haven’t seen it with mental health professionals, but the most jaded folks I’ve ever met were nurses/ANs approaching the end of their career.

Internet strangers on the other hand - we can step away whenever we want, which makes emotional investment less of a burden.

This handle some irl folks know about, but it isn’t really feasible to find out who I am IRL from anything online associated with it.

Unironically why it can be safer to “trust” in anonymous internet strangers who don’t know who you are and can’t find out. Unironically how I learned to be able to start opening up about shit again and finally an irl friend who I can vent to (a little), but there’s still things I’d never bring up with someone who knows who I am.

Yeah I’m in a single payer system so at least I don’t have to pay anything excessive, but still.

Honestly, having worked in healthcare, you never, never ever want to answer anything but “no” to the question “do you want to die?”

It’s basically one of the few things that’s liable to get your rights to autonomy nullified in an instant. Worst thing is the professionals don’t have much choice in this either as not acting on someone having indices of suicidality may cause them to be fired or even lose their professional license.

What I said to the question was “No, and if I did I wouldn’t tell you, or even be here in the first place. But, I can envision future scenarios where I might consider it as an option if I don’t manage to figure my shit out, which is why I’m here. I have no intention of suffering unneccessarily if a day comes where I’m miserable and there’s no longer any hope for improvement.”

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a look. Seems like it’s available for reading at archive.org

Personally I’ve only been to a therapist once - got access to an online cbt program that ended up being of more help than she was (which wasn’t a whole lot).

Mostly just me talking, highlighting this and that. Her advice basically boiled down to needing to learn to be happy with where I am in life, setting lower ambitions and talking more to people around me.

Kinda rubbed me the wrong way because I specifically mentioned cause and effect with procrastinating on certain things and ended up being increasingly unhappy/distressed because of that - noting that I’d like advice on how to better align my actions with my goals (not vice versa).

I’m still a young guy and yeah there’s things I’d like to achieve in life. Not exactly revolutionary stuff, just basic human life goal shit: finishing my education, getting a job, owning a home, finding love y’know.

It’s possible to reduce the privacy issues by using APIs with a local frontend. Given that APIs usually cater to companies instead of end consumers they actually have simple opt-outs for information logging.

Requires a bit of know-how, and you’ll be paying for your llm per use (not that bad actually, I’ve personally averaged <10$/yr in api costs) but at least you get to have all your personal issues on your local device instead.

For a chatGPT-like experience you probably want the ooga booga web generation ui but there’s others too.

Tehran Times is completely untrustworthy in this context, they’re - essentially a propaganda outlet for the islamist theocratic regime in Tehran. Given that they make such an absurd claim and that it hasn’t been independently verified - this is likely false.

See link below regarding Tehran Times:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Times#cite_note-regime-1

As others have mentioned - 2-3 hours of sleep is very tight and I don’t see a mention of time budget for your commute either, or any studies outside of lectures. Uni requires more than attending lectures, personally I’m probably closer to 50/60 hrs / week spent on studying, 20/25 hrs work and 6 hours commuting.

Ideally, you want to minimize overlap between work days and study days since you’re full time. In this case you’ll get away with only two days of lacking sleep.

Another thing to keep in mind is that studies can be rather mentally exhausting - especially for a more advanced degree. Being fresh and well rested makes a huge difference for learning capacity. Consider also that you’re paying for your education, you want to be getting the most out of your money. Maybe planning to take a slightly slower pace will allow a more even schedule, an also might avoid a situation where you burn out and end up needing an extra year anyway.

Honestly from the point where

…he lost all my sympathy. I was increasingly curious about how things were going to go wrong for him. More fascinating train wreck, less investment in him personally.

Same here. Back before that I was basically only on reddit. Now I’m only on fediverse. One (anti-)social media is more than enough.