Good catch. Some may prefer one genitalius to indeterminately many genitalia.

That Ea-nasir was a crook. Everyone’s saying it.

I’m sure we will eventually have political leaders who happen to compete on social athletics platforms, but yeah not this particular age group.

Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol

Yeah no idea who that is in OP

Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.

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Safari too, part of default tracking prevention, though both browsers miss a lot of tracker types, so extensions are still needed to handle the rest.

He NEVER calls for aid

Oh yeah, buckle up.

By bad idea I’m referring to the language and policies around childhood neurodivergence when I was young, and the term “giftedness” happens to be a tidy encapsulation of these shit ideas.

I’m sure it was well-meaning meaning, maybe to bolster self-esteem, encourage effort, whatever. But that type of language cemented your identity around what you are rather than what you do. If teachers would just think about it in these terms, it should be a straightforward adjustment. For example, “you organized that project well,” “nice job working that problem,” “this argument was convincing” etc etc. Easy right? Alternatively, giving kids feedback about what they are is pointless and directing their program based on what they are, as they did/do, is cancer.

Lots of kids in my generation drank the #gifted koolaid they were served, associating it with the most obvious thing: effort. Is something easier for you? Ha, #gifted. Then it went off the rails.

Now if something took too much effort, of course, must not be gifted, at least not at that. Best to avoid those tasks then I guess. It’s not your “gift.”

And everyone’s heard the stories. So now we’re like

• Why did all these #gifted people have zero stamina for long-form work? It’s needed for adult shit right?
• Why did so many #gifted people describe hitting a “wall” somewhere in college, grad school, or their early career?
• Why did so many #giftedz struggle with imposter syndrome, like they lost their shine or were broken?

And separating the #gifted for special needs — apparently just additional work to keep them from being disruptive or wasting their potential smoking the devils cigarettes — was a great way to rob them of valuable experience socializing with NT kids. Better to form a crack ND squad. Iron sharpens iron. Gifteds will make each other more #gifted.

Of course, the gifteds grew up and learned shit on their own, at least the ones who kept going and didn’t spiral or take the junkie offramp. They eventually reversed the unhelpful programming, swallowed lots of cum and a few difficult pills, like:

1. Aptitude/IQ tests are useless. Maybe poison?

Here are a few slices of a few super particular skills that roughly predict [standardized test] glory and will remain in your file.

Better to never take those tests. If they force you and you find it’s too high, that’s the cosmos telling you to “waste some potential.” Party until it returns to a sensible godly range. (For the optimizers, the magic number for life success is estimated to be around 115 or 120, according to science.)

2. There is no such thing as “a genius,” only genius work, “genius iq” was never a thing and the phrase is used only by cashy fart pumpers and the souls lost to MENSA. Oh and every “prodigy” is mostly the product of a fucked-up science experiment of a childhood.

3. And finally, #giftedness is nothing more than a few diddled dials on your settings panel. Often the gifts are the kind you’d prefer to return for store credit. “Quirks” is probably more apt, since they’re not strictly favorable trades. If a #quirked kid lucks into a stat boost that’s actually useful, they usually have to trade off another.

/gift

Feels condescending right. Maybe euphamistic or backhanded? Giftedness language always sounds like that. Good intentions bad idea.

Edit: dear gifted downvoters, no worries. I’ll explain below, as a gift.

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I assumed display damage because every time I’ve seen these artifacts it’s been due to a damaged display matrix, but i agree that if it’s intermittent and isn’t some kind of unusual defect in the display, the ribbon coming partially loose sounds most likely, followed by cable damage (e.g., pinched by lid hinge).

Ribbons are usually pretty secure, especially from factory if tape hasn’t been removed before, but with enough heat (e.g. left in car outside) and jostling, the tape can loosen, and cable’s weight plus jostling can be enough for ribbon to pull itself out.

To quickly check without opening case i would try lifting the machine in two hands and driving it gently but firmly into your right palm (which would jostle the ribbon toward/into its terminal). If it’s loose, i would expect to see the display respond in some way after at most a few tries, if the ribbon cable is loose. If not, it’s still worth opening and re-seating ribbon to be sure, but jostling it a bit should immediately worsen or improve the visual artifacts, confirming the diagnosis.

No worries. In case this is your first display replacement, few quick tips…

1. Helps to skim video teardowns like this
2. Take photos of internals of electronics when you open them up so you can reference them later after reassembly.
3. Keep track of screws. Trick: unscrew but leave them loose in the holes of the case tray with pieces of tape over each of them. Then you can remove tray without concern.
4. Bare display edges are especially fragile and often have coatings that scratch easy. Trick: leave protective film on, just put a few pieces of folded tape on edges so you can pull off after install.
5. Your display connects to the mainboard with two connectors wrapped in gaphers tape the right side:
6. Display ribbon terminal (tall one far left) is more fragile than camera/lid sensors (wide one far right). Trick: use guitar pick or credit card to lift clamp right to left, never knife
7. Ribbon itself often has physical tabs or printed white/color blocks indicating seat depth. This makes it far easier to verify its secure before closing case.

Good luck!

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Oh, that sounds like a recent laptop, and ASUS laptops have high interoperability. I’m sure there are at least 3rd-party generics available.

Edit: like this for example https://ebay.com/itm/364157672993

But in seriousness, as a rule it’s not possible to unfuck a display matrix, only replace. The easiest temp solution is an external. The easiest long term solution, if the manufacturer is no longer selling the part, is saving alerts for parts-only listings of that laptop on sites like eBay.

Online? Looks like there are plenty of lines on there already.

Goodbye

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Thanks, OP