For general public interactions: Find a place that prints business cards and order some with something along the lines of “I stop being able to speak when overstimulated. Please give me some time. Sorry for the inconvenience.” printed on them. Being able to pull one from a pocket instead of struggling to explain while unable to speak should make it less stressful.

Retaliation will be purely using military drones against strictly military targets. Like hospitals or kindergartens.

Visually at first it’s going to be mostly weight loss. How much depends on how much caloric deficit you are running - rule of the thumb if you eat 500 kcal less than what you burn per day you will lose about a pound/0.5kg per week. Diet is 80% of success. Your muscle gains will be low while you are losing weight, but your existing muscles will become more visible.

You see yourself every day so it’s going to be hard to spot differences - compare monthly photos.

It’s worse than that. Situations where something causes no harm to literally anyone are few and far between. Even less often you have a full and clear picture of a situation. Usually it’s a choice between who gets hurt to what extent and based on what you know you just try to minimize the damage. You will get it wrong a lot.

Life is complicated and all we can do is to try our best and hope others will too.

• don’t be an asshole
• everything is allowed as long as nobody is getting hurt
• act when you see something wrong
• when you are able to help do so
• in all other cases mind your own business

The mandatory in EU reversing camera.

It mostly is, but it has it’s drawbacks:

• if I don’t feel like cooking I don’t have an option of ordering a pizza or eating out - I’m outside of delivery range of everything
• closest town has limited choice of everything. I have to get everything shipped or drive for 1.5h.
• anything but essential services is more than half an hour away

also you end up thinking weird thoughts few people have before: e.g. “how do I stop moose from trampling my garlic?” I mean how many people throughout human history had pondered that? ;-)

I gave up on everyone: I’ve packed my shit and moved back to the EU, to a middle of nowhere, population 50. Closest neighbor is a 10 minute walk away. Started a large garden, learned some blacksmithing and basic carpentry. Still working remotely for the same company as before, but now when I go outside I have fresh air, I can see the stars and I can hear nobody.