You can charge up mushrooms with vitamin D (D2) by placing them in direct sunlight for 30 minutes. Any ordinary mushrooms. So salmon (D3) and charged mushrooms would do just as well.
Yeah. England&Wales legislation is fairly comprehensible. Of course it could be better. I just ran a random tax law through Hemingway and it scores between Grade 9 and 11, occasionally hitting Grade 13. So that's sort of fine, I think?
Apart from the bonkers preamble which decorates every act, of course!
I do love it. I really do. I run a free code school for refugees, with an internal division where we also build products. All our teachers are volunteers, professionals from the local tech scene, so I work with hundreds of developers with all kinds of backgrounds and specialisms. It's both meaningful and technically interesting.
I'm the only technical person on staff, worldwide, so it's obviously an insane workload, but it keeps me fizzing with solutions. If I have an idea for something, I can build it and try it - so it keeps my crackpot inventor soul happy.
And it's wonderful to see my trainees flourishing in their lives and all their achievements. We have supported hundreds of people to become developers and restart their lives. It makes it easy to work hard, to do this.
Here's what we do with beginner developers who have never coded before:
- build pages in Codepen so they can see everything build as they go, fork from templates, and share/riff off each other
- export from Codepen to a folder so they can see that static sites are just text files in a folder and nothing mysterious -- at this point I also introduce an editor like VSCode
- drag and drop that folder onto Github and deploy to Netlify
Hard same. Adobe cheated me out of around six hundred pounds by making it freaking impossible to cancel.
I finally escaped in 2021, after being devoted to Adobe for 16 years. I will never buy anything from them again. It's over now. I do miss Photoshop and After Effects but nothing is worth that nightmarish hassle. Da Vinci, Affinity, Fusion, Smoke... there are other options.
In different ways, most things I've done have been meaningful. I learnt to code through cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website with my friends and that build helped... me! I was living in poverty on welfare and had no way to go to school as I was the sole carer for my quadriplegic family member. Then I took what I'd learned and worked on a new project, connecting profoundly disabled people and roboticists to explore the world through drones. Nowadays I run a free code school for refugees and other people living in poverty, where professional developers volunteer to teach and mentor the learners so they can get good jobs in tech and start their own lives in this country.
Interspersed with those three big projects I've done contracting and agency work, mainly in Accessibility FE, and that has been a bit less motivating to work on, though it's useful, I think, to make all sites and apps work properly for as many people as possible. I've always stayed in the arts or academia for those contracts. I've never worked at a megacorp or for any kind of prestigious employer, so I've never really had to worry about the ethics of an employer. (Obviously I've never been paid loads either. :D )
I count myself so lucky to be able to spend my days like this. I leap out of bed to go to work in the morning. I recommend it!
I notice this difference with my US friends. They do seem to think hunger is a genuine problem that must be resolved immediately. A sort of health risk. I've occasionally tried to press in on what the unspecified danger is meant to be but it's hard to do so without being obnoxious.
Obviously hunger where there is food insecurity is terrible. But the first pangs of hunger in an otherwise well fed and, in my case, well padded person? It doesn't seem like it's a big deal to me.
Snacking does seem to have become established in the UK now though for children at least. (I also remember being told not to spoil my appetite as a child.) The children I know now often have some kind of tiny packet of something on the go in between meals.
>> There is no cure for APD but there are things that can help.
I'm fairly sure I have this on top of regular hearing impairment. I've actually been through the NHS process and seen the graph that shows dramatic rolloff in my hearing above about 6kHz, and have a pair of NHS hearing aids.
I've not worn them since the start of the pandemic because I've not been in a crowded space with lots of people talking.
(Interestingly, because videoconferencing technology copes badly with multiple speakers and very rarely has proper working spatial audio, suddenly people with normal hearing can't disambiguate speakers either and everyone ends up rigidly taking turns)
Cookie bite hearing loss is more or less fixable, not CAPD. If you have both (which OP sounded like they did, or at least sounded like it was worth investigating) then you can fix it up a lot with targeted open dome hearing aids.
