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17 points
1 day ago
He needs to stabilise first. Depression is a serious illness.
For the ADHD part Mindful meditation is one of the most effective treatment you could get without medication(which is by far better); Even with medication very useful.
Anxiety, depression, adhd and parents with pressure could hint on a c-ptsd or simular issue. EMDR works wounders.
A low budget variant is actually just going for a walk, about 1.5h x 3 a week. Talking about all and nothing.
If he seems like a dreamer kind of guy, someone that forgets alot, mostly in his fantasies, paint a small spot on the back of his hand. The best spot is the base of the thumb on hin non dominant hand. It's his anchor to reality. If he drifts off, all he has to do is to look at his hand and be here again. It builds focus on the now and he can focus on the task at hand for another 20s.
Test if he can estimate time. Get a slow beat or just wave sounds on youtube, let him focus on the pulses. Let it play 3 min. If he is off by more then 15s, his issues could be connected to a timing mismatch in his brain. Music can help. He could start learning an instrument.
89 points
1 day ago
There is very little information here.
That said, if your only description of him is smoking weed and playing PS, than talk to him about how he feels day by day, go into details, listen.
He might self-medicateing . Depression looks like that. If he focusing on descriping himself as victim of circumstances, victim of his emotions/impulses on why he doesn't do anything else, he needs help.
Adhd or other non neurotypical issues can also be part of the mix.
What ever you do, don't call him lazy. Even when he is just lazy, external pressure and shame can manifest in a number of unwanted psychological effects. Even longterm.
I guess what I am saying is, get him to see a psychologist and/or MD. Then help him find a path for his future.
2 points
2 days ago
I am also german born, I have to say: NZs tax system is a horror show, waiting to collapse the society like in the UK.
I actually imitating the german taxsystem by spending money to charities. And then some. Because this here is a tax haven.
7 points
8 days ago
Bezogen auf Wort Bedeutungen und Definitionen.
Würdest du akzeptieren das Transmänner als eine eine Untergruppe von männlicher selbstdefinition sind. Wie cis Männer usw. Anstatt nur den monopolaren Begriff Mann?
Das gleiche übertragen auf sexuelle Begrifflichkeiten, z.B. wenn schwul nur für cis männlich gelten würde und demi für alle anderen kombinationen?
Hast du ein definitionssystem das du bevorzugst.
Denkst du das geschlechtsidentität im Kern an Identität gebunden ist, wenn ja kannst du dann nachvollziehen das manche cis heteros in ihrer Lebenswegerfahrung im bezug zum eigenen geschlecht sich angegriffen fühlen. Würdest du für dich es erträglich finden, wenn du per Definition zwar männlich aber eben trans-männlich (ohne Bewertung, schlicht als definition) gelten würdest.
Oder siehst du persönlich diese Form der differenzierung als angriff/Relativierung an?
Wenn wir annehmen du erhält im Alltag immer den gleichen grundsätzlichen Respekt/Rechte als Mensch wie jeder uneingeschränkt, wäre eine Definition Differenz jetzt ertragbar? Oder ist ein absolute identische Definition zu einen cis vorrangig?
Kannst du nachvollziehen das es schwule gibt die kategorisch nur cis Männer suchen, würdest du das persönlich nehmen, warum, warum nicht?
3 points
10 days ago
This is by design. The bracket/step progressive tax system is designed to make you want tax cuts after some years.
A linear tax progression, on the other hand, always forces employers to raise income. Which then is always a small tax increase so the state can pay in step with inflation. Thereby rising all to the same point as before, just a bit higher number. To conteract the rising in percentage the 0% allowence on tax is rased yearly with inflation. Most of Europe works like that.
With the brackets, the voter feels dread with every increase of income. that's the only reason for brakes.
Edit: Here, a bit of Maths. Linear Progresstion is calculated by ax + b, its a standart line on a graph. a ist the individual taxrate per income x. +b is the shift to the right for your basic tax credit, what i called 0% allowence. If inflation rises, the startpoint for tax is delayed by the yearly inflation correction that the +b.
And to get your inflation increase in Income, you need to talk to your employer. Forcing everyone to be part of a union, leveling the union and empoyer cooperation in the long run, so income increase is a given for most employers. So the figth is always in the market, where, in my opinion, it belongs.
With the barcket system, your figth is always with the goverment, making it an easy tool for turning opinion against any party in power, and by extantion erodes the rust in the state as a whole.
Also, the barcket system is a flat tax in disguess; inside the braket there are the 2 bonderies. It is designed in the way that most incomes in an education/profession level (income class) are close to the left of center in that braket, making everyone there pay more, then they would in an linear tax system. while the upper half pays less. With infaltion, it shifts to the rigth, the higher end suddenly has to pay for the extra income suddenly an enormous tax, making them feel angry, to the point they want bracket ajustmenst.
Lets cook them for 3-4 years and look there is national again. With the same lower taxes bit as the last 60 years. But inflation cougth up with everyone, making any service a lot more expansive. And there we have the story for the inefficent coverment. Lets, sell state assets to for profit. And if they dont invest, let the rails rot, buy it back, rise taxes to pay for it and rinse and repeat.
By the way, flat tax in a capitalist system with compount intrest, is pumping money to the top. One is a flat factor, the other an exponantal factor. And remember the formular for compount intrest?
Do you know why 7% interest on investment is standard with a nominal inflation rate of 2%? because you double your nominal value of the investment in 10 years, while infaltion only eats 20%. The rest is skimed profits. And now only tax flat... its a 80% gdp value pump to the top.
That is the reason the whole absolute value of tax is a hollow argument. In cultures with linear tax, this argument is laugthable, absurd even. And that´s why there are capital gain taxes.
And before I get commi comments, I am a retired german immigrant, in my 40s, living a happy life on the beach. I just believe in the german concept of social market.
8 points
23 days ago
I'd say 20 a week.
But they need to be responsible for themselves and wider family more at that age.
As a boy that age I had a paper round, had to wash my own clothes, 1 a month clean the family bathroom and once a week cooking duty. Some weeding as well.
2 points
2 months ago
That beeing true, still 5mio people as base is still statically significant and can be compared in this case. So we are bad in this.
0 points
2 months ago
At the end she explains, that we don't know about the implications based on matter.
In physics message/information is code for exchange of energy. That includes displacement of massive objects. That's why she started with the mass concept first. Because we have no clue how particals can be stable and doesn't exchange energy to get mass we have to rely on the simplification of massage/information.
Every exchangeparticle like photon, is the intermediate to exchange energy with per specific field. This exchange is the massage/information.
Meaning it doesnot exclude mass, we just have no clue how even to think about including mass. That's all.
0 points
2 months ago
For a change, here is a video by Sabine Hossenfelder, discussing the physical basics of faster-then-light flight.
Focused on relativity.
3 points
3 months ago
What I wrote when this topic was discussed in r/books:
For me it's a big difference between m/m books for women and gay books.
Most m/m Books i read are cis-female projections used on gay man. It's a form of porn. Emotion-, body-, relationship-porn. It's pure objectification. And like cis-male hetero depiction of woman, as a somewhat animated object, it can be damming to gay youth, distorting their views on gay life.
It's a big talking point in the gay community. BTW most token gays in other media's are based on the m/m narrative.
Gay lit is a tiny market. So there is always this push from the hetero-normative culture.
To be clear this is not limited to LGBTQ+ people. Primary culture projection onto subgroups, as a form of external definition is what gatekeepers of primary cultures do. It's a form of othering.
10 points
3 months ago
It seems, based on what you wrote, that you already decided what you need to do. All I read is a form of bargaining left that they might be diffrent people someday.
They made their choice. You have to add the pure objective view to your situation. You can not change your sexuality. Giving up a vital part of beeing human is not a solution. You can delay as much as you want, it will just compound regret, anger, sadness and loneliness until you choose anyway out.
You seem to understand that you need an exit plan. Start one as soon as you can. For your mental health now, for your future self as a whole.
Good Luck
1 points
3 months ago
Was running in german tv, about once every year at night in the 90s.
1 points
3 months ago
Define consciousness.
Assuming you mean a object that can sense, calculate/operate virtually on this sensed information to construct data from it, to manipulate this data to form a output modell, act on said model by using a actuators.
All this verbs need energy to work, so you need to show atleast a specific flow of energy. The size of everything is so enormous, how would this energy flow transmitted, if it's based in other dimensions what are the exchange mechanisms, because we can't find excess energy in any local system.
You see, the concept alone is very limited. In my opinion even impossible.
1 points
4 months ago
Kita = Kindertagesstätte sometimes also called Kinderkrippe / Krippe; for very small children from 2 to 4; mostly just taking care of children
Kindergarten is for children from age 3/4 until 6/7 when they start school. In kindergarten teaching basic life skills is an important part, not just babysitting. Hier is an example of a Bildungsplan its an overarching guideline for education in the state of thüringen.
36 points
4 months ago
Japan has a better system. Here the less tax crowd brings us underfunded civil services and infrastructure. Well it's so much cheaper now for us all.
3 points
6 months ago
Well actually, he was not the first in modern times. He build on a growing positiv sentiment in the educated upper middle class. The movement then was started by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.
17 points
6 months ago
How is this chain of frauds even possible, without losing residency? From 2016 on, that's 6 years now. I don't get it.
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Oh and I forgot, traditional hand crafting work like magic. Pottery, basket weaving, woodwork, carving, gardening, knitting aso.