Acamon

It would be helpful to know what you're baking? It might be cooking longer at lower temperature, but it might also be about adjusting the size (a larger cake is usually cooked at a lower temperature to allow the centre to cook before the outside over-browns).

While it's absolutely true that baking is a strict formula, I don't agree that not reaching a given temperature means it's necessarily doomed. It might achieve a somewhat different outcome, but for a whole bunch of baked goods a lower or higher temperature with adjusted time will produce something perfectly acceptable.

As you say, most people have no idea what temperature their oven actually produces, or fail to adjust for the strength of fan assist or placement in the oven. Sometimes this leads to frustration and failure, but many delicious cookies have been baked with imprecission.

Depends what you mean. I think 'progressives' are usually more collectivist in the economic / social democracy sense. But 'conservatives' are often collectivist in the sense that everyone should have same beliefs, same religion etc. I think that's something that people sometimes miss, that right wing people are solely motivated by bullying people for being 'different' or wanting to control people's private lives. They do both those things, but partly because some geninuely struggle to believe that different lifestyles can coexist. Everyone needs to have same sexuality and eat the same kinds of foods, so of course they want the collective choice to align with their personal preference.

As a left-wing person, I find it mind-boggling that people don't see the unfairness of billionaires and poverty coexisting. And beyond unfairness, the existance of wealth disparity makes things worse for the poor than if everyone was equally poor. But conservatives think that its none of anyone's business what happens in the bank account.

I've got some tiles on my keys and my earbud case. I'm mostly pretty good with my keys (thy have hook hy the front door), but for the occasional time I've need to find them in a rush and they aren't where they should be the tile has been very helpful. The ear bud one I use multiple times a week, and before I had it I'd regularly waste hours searching through my clothes and bags looking for my headphones (only to find that they fallen off the table and were now in a shoe or something).

So, if you're prone to misplacing stuff they're amazing. But if you never lose stuff then I doubt they'll be very helpful.

This. Winning the peace prize doesn't mean you're a saint, it means you've further world peace. Most things in politics are so complex and involve so many different actors and factions that it's impossible to really boil stuff down and know whether the motivations are 'worthy'. Most peace is achieved by international arrangements that make it more attractive for decision-makers to choose peace over war, often for very selfish reasons.

I was completely opposed to anyone winning one for the recent change in Isreal / Palestine, because until we see the fallout from it I'm skeptical any meaningful peace has been achieved. If Russia remove all their troops, and Ukraine is at peace, and Isreal are no longer genociding, then sure give him the peace prize. That's the point of awards and shit, to make it tempting to do good even when it doesn't immediately benefit you personally.

Same. I can view it fine, but when I click reply it freezes the loaded back to me default feed. On 1.0.24

I'm sure that's true, but I've never managed to keep a pair of earpods for more than a couple of years. I always end up losing them, generally while travelling.

They usually charge themselves in their case (small pods) or have big batteries (over ear). I use my pods probably 8 hours a day, and just need to charge the case once or twice a week.

It's an understandable reaction, but it's not ideal or effective. In fact, depression and apathy is one of the key mechanisms of keeping a group oppressed.

Fighting to maintain power is costly and risky, but if someone can make people give up hope and stop struggling, then they can do what they want to them.

It was a university degree in the UK , and then I worked for the NHS for a number of years (until I moved to France and a much more relaxing job teaching at a university). I mostly specialised in pediatrics, particularly ASD and other developmental conditions. If I'd stayed with adults I would have focused on Aphasia and acquired language disorders. I found neurology very fun, and the way that damage could reveal the maaany faculties required for effective communication was super intresting to me.

LSVT is certainly well-evidenced and I've seen it be very effective. But it's quite repetitive, so colleagues who did a lot of it sometimes complained of not getting a chance to be creative in their approaches, just having to stick to the protocol.

Dysphagia is a bit scary, but it makes such an incredible difference. Even many years after working with stroke survivors, every time I'm incredibly thirsty I think about the poor folks who were 'nil by mouth' and so desperately wanted a mouthful of water. Having a nurse swab your mouth is really not the same. Doing a swallowing check with them and giving the nurses permission to give them some fluids (even if they had to be weird and thick) completely transformed their day.

Good luck with your studies! It's a very rewarding career!

Social stories can be really helpful for all sorts of things. But it really depends the individual and what their strengths and needs are. I've worked with children with ASD and they've been great readers, but struggled with verbal communication and understanding social expectations. For them having a short focused 'story' that explained how to ask a question in class, or how to share with a friend, can be really helpful.

I've also seen them be effective with adults with learning difficulties. But often that's more because it trains the carers and family members around them. Not only does it fix the language so that the same thing is explained the same way everytime, and in appropriate language, but the process of writing the story and trying to articulate a piece of advice into concrete simple language can help 'normal' people realise how complex the 'simple rule' they want to communicate actually is. "don't talk to strangers" is the sort of advice people give, but what's a stranger, how does someone become 'known', what about a police officer? Or even a waiter?

Hah ! Speech therapy was what I thought! I used to be an SLT, but you probably know more than me about a bunch of things, because it's been a while...