Unless it's fluids being discharged from a body. Not so much then.

I been using android since version 2 and never encountered this. I guess it depends on the device a lot, as I've worked a lot in the mobile industry I've tended to have the more powerful devices.

Which makes sense, smart phones being small computers and all, the slower ones are slow sometimes and the faster ones tend to be faster.

Androids diversity has always been it's strength and weakness

They probably know a lot of this.

They may not know it's a problem, or if they do know, then they probably don't know what to do about it.

So that's how I'd go about this. Rather than saying they need to expand their support network, I'd ask them what stops them from expanding their range of friends, support and opportunities for connection?

Means you're not pressuring them or saying you know what they need better than they do. It's asking about them, what they think and feel.

Be me

Sitting at my station in the shuttle bay waiting for someone to need a shuttle

Two people on the deck below me activate their replicators at the same time

My console explodes, tearing off an arm and burning half my uniform off, and skin too.

Stagger out the door looking for help.

See someone in the new medical uniforms, so glad they changed that so I don't accidentally ask a botanist for help.

It's a betazoid psychiatrist

Die and get fired out of the ship in a torpedo.

Speaking from a therapist point of view...

Empathy is the ability to understand someone else's experience, to grasp something of what they're thinking, feeling, etc.

It doesn't automatically imply that you care, you can respond to that understanding of someone else's life with compassion, indifference or anything else.

The colloquial usage of the word empathy to mean "consideration and caring" is problematic as is oftentimes an imagining of how the observer would feel if they were in the difficult situation, rather than the useful version of understanding how the other person feels within that difficult situation.

Is that the one with the robots who challenge him to a dance contest?

Rhythm is futile?

Today I learnt my sexuality is USB

One person you're destined for by a grand design of the universe? No.

Someone you connect with on a deep level that goes beyond rational considerations and even emotional sensations? Yes, absolutely.

This is why it's possible to meet more than one in a lifetime. Timing is also a big part of it, I've met half a dozen people over the last thirty years who I would have spent my life with, where I was in my life at the time made all the difference of how those relationships played out.

I think you literally just described to secret to a content and fulfilled life.

Don't waste energy trying to live life with zero irreversible or undesirable consequences.

Plan to avoid them, sure. Make good choices, sure. Accept that a lot of your learning, growing and opportunities will emerge from irreversible and undesirable outcomes

"Fake News"

There's been good and bad journalism for as long as there's been journalists

Silent? 😁