🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@amerika

> I am skeptical of "fair" because this does not necessarily lead to "better."

Can you give an example where somethign which is fair is worse than something that is unfair? I suppose it would depend on who is defining fair. By what i would define as fair I cant find anything that would agree with this assertion.

> I am skeptical of "equality" because this always leads to parasitism.

Certainly our current notions in polticis of equality has some aspects that lead to that, no doubt.. but to say "always" seems like a huge leap. Though again depends what we mean by equality,if we are going by the idea that "everything must have an equal proportion of all sex and races" in that case I do agree. If equality however refers to equality of opportunity and NOT equality of outcome then I'd disagree.

@amerika

Well if you know anything about my opinions you'd know I have no love for the left either. But in this case they just dont happen to be whom I am addressing.

That said, equality in the sense of every race and sex must be in equal proportion in everything, is a flawed idea for sure. There are plenty of other flawed ideas of the left.

That said in their defense the general intent of creating a world that is a more fair place for people of all sexes and races is a good goal to want to achieve.

@amerika Probably because I deleted and redrafted it, your server probably had a ghost of the original it didnt clear from the cache

@amerika

I guess it depends on how you interpret the data. When I see a co morbidity in the range of 1% to 4% for a disease that has a background rate of 1% in the population my reaction is that Autism and ADHD have no link of any kind. The comorbidity can be explained away simply by looking at the background rate.

BTW I think you intended this as a reply to a post but instead made it a top level post.

A friend of mine had remarked to this post out of channel saying:

> ADHD and autism have an even higher comorbidity rate, AFAIK, which is interesting

I find this an interesting follow up, so here is my response:

Sort of, in the case of ADHD its far more complicated... for starters the overwhelming majority of comorbidity is subclinical in this case (so doesn't typically count as true comorbidity). Moreover the comorbidity is unidirectional.

To put numbers to it (according to the best study I know of anyway):

* According to their interactions with parents and teachers comorbidity is only 3.2% and 2.6% respectively.

* For those with Autism about 1.2% of them have clinical ADHD while 31.4% are subclinical (their symptoms do not qualify for a ADHD diagnosis but they show some ADHD like properties)

* For those with ADHD about 4.1% of them have clinical Autism while 5.7% are subclinical.

So in reality the comorbidity is much much less between ADHD and Autism. I dont know off hand the comorbidity between BD and ADHD for subclinical but it likely is much higher than the numbers for Autism and ADHD

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.3146

#BD #ADHD #Bipolar #Science #Biology #Medicine #Neurodivergent

This is pretty much what most Republicans sound like to me at this point.

#USPol #Republican #Republicans #Conservative

@olives yea we were still fixing things a bit... I **think** all the backend stuff and sluggishness is fixed now. just working on some ui minor things and were good.

If you see anymore weirdness please let me know.

Still sounds weird every time I see the little label next to my name reminding me that I am on the W3C Advisory Committee... So cool!

#W3C #Programming #ComputerScience #Computers #Computing #CS

What it feels like using AWS hosting as the owner of a startup....

Just testing a post real quick...

Ok everyone we just doubled up the nodes to machines twice as big as well... I hope that should be the last of it to get rid of the sluggishness... Anyone still seeing any slowness on #QOTO?

@Raccoon

Not sure what this is in reference to. What did Biden do this time?

@joel

Nice, I'm a sucker for a good Dragon Quest. Might have to snatch it up if i can find time to even play.

@joel

Any good?

Last one for today. Another poem I wrote, this one Inspired by An Essay on Man by A. Pope.

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Know your own self, and do not seek the stars;
For what you seek is found in who you are.

Placed here between the heights of heaven and ground,
A creature vast in strength, yet tightly bound.
Too sharp to trust in doubt, too blind to see,
Too frail for pride, too proud for humility.
He walks a line where shadows blur the day,
In doubt to speak, or in silence stay.
In doubt if flesh or thought should take the reign,
Born to endure, yet always to complain.
His mind a storm where reason’s compass fails,
Too quick to chase the wind, too slow to sail.
A whirl of passion, fury, love, and hate,
By his own hand he shapes his fleeting fate.
Made half for joy, yet destined still to weep,
Ruler of all things, yet no secret keep.
In search of truth, yet stumbling in disguise;
A baffled fool, a wonder in disguise.

#Poem #Poetry #English #Writing #AlexanderPope

Can the wings of the wind understand your cry,
O Second of the First, where flames twist high?
In the depths of my jaws, you are framed in fire,
As cups for a wedding, or flowers for desire.
Prepared in beauty for righteousness' room,
Where the heart beats loud through the chamber's gloom.

Stronger your feet than the stone, cold and bare,
Mightier your voices than the wild winds’ stare.
You are a building, not of brick or of wood,
But born from the thought of the All-Powerful, good.
"Arise!" calls the First, from the endless above,
Move toward His servants, in power and love.

Show forth your might, and let the world see,
A seething, a strength that flows endlessly.
For I am of Him who forever shall reign,
In the fire of His truth, untouched by pain.

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A toy idea im playing either. I am taking a text from the 17th century that I particularly like (original below) and trying to turn it into a rhyming poem. The above is what I have so far.

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Can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder, oh Second of the First? Whom the burning flames have framed within the depth of my jaws; whom I have prepared as cups for a wedding or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness. Stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds; for you are become a building such as is not, but in the mind of the All-Powerful. Arise, says the First; move, therefore, unto his servants; show yourselves in power, and make me a strong seething; for I am of Him that lives forever.

#Poetry #Poem #Writing #English #JohnDee #Enochian

@Gina

He deserves a cell right next to whoever thought clippy was a good idea.