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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I have a friend who, going by your comments and posts, was in a very similar situation as you including living with ADHD and autism.

    Most comments here are saying “yes but it depends how you mesh.” I’d just say if you focus on someone specializes in or has worked more with folks with ADHD and autism, that will probably help make your selection and evaluation process easier.

    Even if you don’t see it listed on their online profiles, you can ask about that in your initial outreach. I think that will help you make the process more effective.

    But I do think that, like with other help topics, if you’re willing to put in the work, having that resource can be very impactful.










  • This is always such an interesting topic. I remember doing a project on this in school. This would be such a nice upgrade for the public.

    The tough thing is how much US rail & land is privately owned by commercial operators. Plus virtually all of that rail would need to be redone to accommodate HSR. Additionally, I think tickets would often need to be subsidized to be competitive to alternatives in many cases (some regional flights will already likely be the same price as what commercial HSR tickets would be).

    The cost always makes it tough to justify versus other potential places for the government to spend its money.

    Not that I wouldn’t like to see it done. I think having HSR would be transformative for America in a great way.








  • I may be off, but I’d auggest looking up an “atomic clock” and either reading about it or watching a short video explanation.

    In short, let’s say you built a “clock” that measured time based on how long it took a photon (light particle) to bounce between two sensors (1 bounce = 1 “tick” of the clock). If you began to move the clock through space, the faster you’d move the clock, the longer it’d take the photon to complete one tick because the photon is now moving angularly with the clock. You can take this to the most extreme by theoretically moving the clock at a speed arbitrarily close to the speed of light, where it’d almost never complete the “tick.”

    I believe that is the principle at play here when they’re measuring light from ancient phenomenon like quasars. What they’re finding interesting is that, based on their math, effectively the shape of the light wave from those quasars is different than if those quasars were currently happening, which they can use as evidence that these events unfolded at a different “speed” than our current universal conditions.

    That’s just my best attempt to connect concepts I’ve studied to what is clearly a far more complex analysis. Still, I hope some of that helps introduce the relevant concepts to interested minds.