My experience is that meds take the symptoms away. You no longer feel sad, but you are still "depressed". Kind of like pain medication takes the pain away, but your leg is still broken.

I experienced depression as symptom of a deeper "illness" of the brain that needs to be cured with psychotherapy. If it wasn't for that I'd still make the same mistakes again and again that made me depressed in the first place.

Stimulus generalization comes to mind. IIRC Pavlows dogs at some point reacted not just to the food, but even earlier on him entering the room.

I doubt that they train dogs like "Steve's having a seizure. Good! Get that dog here."

I imagine that you do a preliminary training with faked seizures to get responses right and then hope (meaning: Train under real conditions) that the dog will react on a real seizure as well.

Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton changed my view on pretty much all aspects of mankind.

By giving vivid examples of failing or badly functioning and "maladaptive" (processes in) various (indigenous) societies he made made me value our current state of existence very much: Government, rights, laws, police, infrastructure, jobs, and all that really are a great achievement of mankind.

70$ for glasses in Germany? I have to pay about 200€ per glas. Maybe weaker glasses are cheap. After all you can buy glasses in the supermarket for a few bucks.

Those modern glasses get scratches after just a few years of careful handling and cleaning only with „Mikrofaser“ in my experience. No fun having weak eyes in Germany.

I'm sure you can get good glasses for around €120 in Germany. €60 at the cheap end.

I carry lenses made from mineral glass so I can wipe them with any cloth I've got handy. They are not more expensive and scratch significantly less. The lenses are heavier and shatter quicker though.

You might consider an ultrasonic glasses cleaner. They are pretty cheap (around €50), and clean without touch.

Thanks, I’ll check that out. But otoh it’s another thing you’d have to carry around.

I‘ll also try buying glasses online as suggested elsewhere. I do that with contact lenses already (dailies for when I’m on stage).

I've had good luck with eyebuydirect, and have heard some good things about Zenni too.

I've recently got 1.67 thickness, de-glared, blue-filtered lenses for 149€ total, including the frame, and my diopter is -7. I think you may be paying too much.

I had an eye exam today, and I need new lenses. The exam is vouchered on the NHS. I'm keeping the existing frames. The lenses will have an anti-reflective and anti-glare coating. I've never had a scratch, that I can see anyway. Total cost: £39.

Sorry, but no: Don't keep cats indoors or on a leash.

Cats are predators. And they need freedom. If you're concerned for birds et al. don't get a cat.

Don't be cruel to cats to satisfy your need for a pet by forcing your view of how nature should work onto them.

Cats are domesticated. They made the indoor outdoor decision a long time ago.

My cat lives more than 50% of its time outside the house. It also can sit for hours on a window sill.

I paddled alot of these: The old wodden "Deltas" width the ridiculous beam width of 75cm as well as a monstrous version made out of composite that was near impossible to trim in windy conditions. I hated those.

I made a few strokes in the famous 2001 model Olimpia that was extremely difficult to trim. Like dancing on a toothpick. I liked the characteristics of that boat though: Very stiff and always straightening itself up. Due to it's shape it had bad directional stability. In situations with wind or a competitor next to you, you had the disadvantage of having to steer alot. Steering slows you down and costs stamina as hell.

Then the Dominator that had a much better directional stability, but would always tilt unless you kept in in balance. I never really liked that.

Now Plastex uses a trapezoid geometry in it's Fighter-line. For me that's the best of both worlds. It combines the characteristics I like from the Olympia and the directional stability of the Dominator. It's a pleasure to drive that boat! Still, it's even less stable in waves than the other ones and I regularly get frightened in churned up water. The Dominator was much more smooth here.

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My sister instead of her hand turns the page nearly 90° counter clockwise. She writes "upwards". I always thought that was pretty neat.

Well, transfers are "reversible". There's nothing technical stopping a bank to wire money back.

But, banks are not allowed to mess with your funds. If it's in you account, then it's yours. It would be illegal for a bank to simply reverse a transfer. Crooks are protected by the laws as well.

Even if some obvious mistake was made at a e.g. payment provider and funds were wired to the wrong bank account, your bank has to send you a letter asking for your permission to reverse the mistake. Reading a batch file twice is a nice example: You get two credit entries, but the bank is not allowed to reverse one.

What happens with smaller scams is that crooks withdraw funds as soon as they've been booked. So most of the time the money already is physically lost before a (legal) claim arrives. So there's that.

I usually just grab another paper towel or toilet paper to open the door. I also carry a small bottle of hand disinfection with me especially in the winter. I use it after e.g. grabbing handle bars or seats on the train. Comes in handy as I not always remember to not touch my face (eyes especially when I'm tired).

Same. But, there are plenty of bathrooms these days that don't have paper towels at all.

Kind of a pain point if you have a beard or mustache and just want to clean a sauce or some other messy lunch out of it. Pretty awkward to dry a beard on a hand dryer.