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... 'course, vec, sometimes it's the exact opposite. It wasn't until I started using computers heavily to assist with math-y stuff that I got even the most remote of intuitive grasps on mathematics, and that was with a childhood that had plenty of cooking and carpentry. Pretty sure it was actually a straight up accounting class in high school (that used mostly calculators, occasionally even of those glorious printer calculators -- maybe we should use those more, or at least make calculation history a bigger/more obvious part of our calculators?*) that did more for me in regards to that sort of thing than pretty much my entire life beforehand, and most of college afterwards. For me, I didn't start getting easy (well, easier... it was still probably three or four years post-highschool that simpler stuff started getting really comfortable) mental manipulation until I was able to do easy physical manipulation (of the numbers/formula/etc.), and that didn't come until digital (or at least stuff like those older calculators) was available.

Frankly, just using spreadsheets to solve problems in other things (optimizing gaming, messing with statistics, etc.) has probably done more for me than absolutely anything else I've ran into. Being able to easily shift around and make a fairly visual representation of what you're doing is just... it helped more than anything I'd previously worked with. You could sorta' do it with pen and paper/chalk board/etc., but that was much slower, much much less fluid, so on, so forth... being able to build the equation, see how the parts shift when you change numbers... it's just something you can't really have outside a digital environment.

That finger and toe stuff, hands on things in general... y'could do 'em, but actually contextualizing what you were doing instead of just doing it rote. Not so much. My grandmother, just as an example, didn't have calculators for most of her life, and still barely uses measurements when cooking. Couldn't and still can't do much with math even if her life depended on it. There's just... other skillsets that can be learned when you're doing that sort of thing than mathematical internalization, y'know? Or it's really hard to go from those particular skillsets to other mathy things.

*Actually, that might really help to some degree. In retrospect when I was doing accounting/spreadsheet tutoring that several of the older (we're talking, y'know, 50s and whatnot)/less math inclined students seemed to do a lot better as the semester went on apparently just from showing them how to open up the history function on the calculator programs the comps we were using had.

That's generally the big thing, yes; still the problem(s), but the physical symptoms are pulling back to whatever degree, meaning it's notably easier to actually express the rest of it. Still, it could be something else, too, including just straight up increased aggression and whatnot, or some other side effect that's causing it*. One of the trickier things about antidepressants (That I figure vec is already aware of/the doctor has emphasized, but still) is that people just don't react the same way to any particular one very often -- there's general themes and likelihoods, but it's a great deal of trial and error, often leaning towards the error side of things until something workable is found. It can be pretty rough, both for the person taking them and the people that care for 'em.

Which... yeah. Best of luck, vec, and definitely keep in contact with the doctor, especially if he's been taking them long enough the effects should have kicked it. Hopefully the prescribing doctor told you/your family this, yeah.

*I've actually just recently started on some myself, and one of the physical side effects for the initial dosage was uncontrollable tremors in my basically everything -- if I had even the most remote of tempers, I probably would have been a nightmare to be around when it was particularly bad, because holy fuck you cannot easily maintain composure when you're constantly losing fine (and sometimes not) motor control.

Conditionally male norse god. Loki works well enough for a female, if you're okay with the association. Maybe check and see if loki used a different name when he was genderbending, use that instead?

i can't help but think that sentence embodies someone's fetish, and the thought terrifies me

thank you

for what it's worth, ree did specifically mention the cost of hiring a replacement for the leave period, if my short term memory hasn't completely left me. From, uh. From what I've seen that generally only happens (and then, only sometimes) in schools, and K-12 at that. Everywhere else someone(s) else just covers for 'em, at least from what I've personally noticed. There's maybe some loss in productivity (Redking, I believe, mentioned how arguable that is considering what new parents go through), but it's not so much the company spending money to make up the difference as it is them telling everyone else to work harder in the meantime or get fired.

Also that tweet isn't so much cry as be rather inclined towards punching whatever staffer felt constructing that sentence was a good idea in the face. Seriously, how the hell do you think that's a good idea?

If it's any reassurance, GD is significantly more than just furry fanservice :V

It pretty much has all the cake, furred or otherwise. Also fairly fun adventurey bits alongside it.

... it doesn't, actually. It means that everyone that wants/is seeking a job has one, at least by the actual definition of employment used in any official sense. There's no guarantee that means that all job slots are filled (generally it's actually a good thing that they aren't, because the employee market normally changes and having flex room there is a kinda' needed thing), nor does it mean the entire population is employed. Just that job seekers find jobs sought.

And ninja'd, but eh.

Though that's not actually entirely accurate. The unemployment rate measures the amount of the population not currently employed that both wants a job and is looking for one. Folks that want one but have given up finding it aren't included :V

Hey, not alone, and heresy it is not. I think I finished kotor2, but I can guarantee you I didn't pay a single iota of attention to the talkybits. Planescape I've tried probably six or seven times to get into... I don't think I've managed two hours in at any point in the process, if that. Game's a bloody wall to me, and that's as someone who got pretty far into or beat at least a plurality of every other game of that general style on the PC (BG et al). LP was pretty nice, though, much nicer than actually trying to play it.

also vec, your last bit is pretty much the entire reason i mostly read fanfiction these days. shit's just hella' more consistently... not that :V