You’ve made an enemy for life!

Oh yeah, now that you mention it, there were dire humidity warnings all over the flooring I got.

I imagine there might be similar disclaimers on carpets too

Always has been meme

Ditto on bamboo, it’s nigh indestructible

It used to be Shithouse

Nothing at all.

It works subjectively but is meaningless objectively.

The pot/sand/whatever is a heat sink. It heats up and slowly re-releases the heat closer to the observer (you) giving the impression of more heat.

TL;DR: leave them where they fall.

Next best thing is mulch-mow them into the lawn.

If you have to collect them up, compost them in a pile, mix it up occasionally, eventually it’ll become soil-like and fed it back to the garden.

An alternative to compost is a worm farm, you can feed it food scraps too.

In the southern hemisphere? Summer.

It’s the best time of year, amazing weather, long days, warm nights.

Only if it’s Mel Gibson “Frrrrreeeeddddooooooommmmmm”

“Be free”

Last two laptops over bought for family have been AMD. They’ve been brilliant.

IMHO Intel has eroded the last scrap of trust I had in them with the 14900K crap.

Prior to that was Intel’s refusal to release Vulcan support for an older generation of iGPU to compel upgrades to newer CPU’s (by buying an entire new laptop). So I did, an AMD one.

The thread is a bit of a dumpster fire…

I’ve been mulling over your actual question a bit. I could argue that some of the stigmatisation could just be that it’s really easy to dislike someone who’s self centred or selfish, that NPD can present similarly (gross assumptions on my part there, sorry) makes it easy to dislike someone with NPD.

Disliking someone makes it very easy to stigmatise any and all of their traits. It becomes a feedback loop.

Anyway, I hope you manage it well and hope you can surround yourself with supportive people.

It had to be stigmatized before that to be applied to selfish people.

Good point. I suspect it was a plot point in Medical Drama #17 or Police Drama #12, thus was thoroughly misrepresented.

How do you cope with NPD?

Also, what kind of things can other people do to support someone with NPD?

It’s stigmatised because the term has entered common (mis)usage to describe people who are just selfish

Miller columns

Cascading lists.

It’s a way of projecting a tree structure into a table.

Best complaint I heard was “it’s just mad max on water” .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

Fascist dichotomy: the “others” are both strong and weak at the same time.

Just like immigrants are both “lazy” and “taking all the jobs” at the same time.

Not necessarily them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.

Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.

Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.