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I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.

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  • Games you've given honest tries for and just don't find fun

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  • I sort of feel that way but I still enjoy some of them on the lighter side, but complicated af in other ways. I’m not smart enough for full automation in most of the games I play, because I’d wildly complicated, but I do enjoy very much learning how game mechanics work, so as long as I can go sufficiently far without any automation, or at most very basic automation, I very very slowly add it in many many hours after I’ve gotten sucked into the game. Usually not until several new games have been played, and dramatically fucked up because I can’t manage everything manually.

    But stuff where automated base building is the main focus so everything else is kinda slow and painful.. I try to like it but it’s all just too much and also not engaging enough.

  • No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts

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  • Are you under the impression that everyone was required to be functioning at 100% at all times in order to survive or be a meaningfully-contributing member of a society? Because that is so very very far from the truth. The actual labor involved in hunter gather societies amounts to a few hours a day for each individual on average, but that doesn’t mean every individual had something that needed to be done every day in order to be a valued member of their society. Most tasks didn’t happen every day, and those that did didn’t require all hands to do.

    Even after the agricultural revolution, many months of the year were much slower, allowing recuperation to prepare for the labor intensive period, a schedule I’ve liked in the modern era similarly; 3-6 mth contracts followed by 6-9 mths of vibing and living off what I saved up during the working phase, supplemented by a variety of projects I find compelling to keep my spending very low or sometimes earn a bit of side money. I find it works very well to keep my adhd symptoms from being crippling during the active work phase, and I’ve been unmedicated. Then I take a month or so to ooze into the ground to recover from the burnout, and I become productive in my personal life again. It’s a decent compromise if money has to be involved, but it’s sometimes a financial struggle because we don’t value paying people properly right now, an entirely late-stage capitalism problem.

    Beyond that, knowing a lot of things about a variety of specialties and being curious enough to learn, something ADHD people tend to excel at, makes for a variable worker who can be slotted in to fill different needs for others who were unable, or simply when the labor demanded more bodies. Jack of all trades were also incredibly valuable back before modern transportation, especially for smaller communities. Couldn’t really get an actual expert without months of travel if one didn’t just happen to be around. So they got to feel valuable, like they were actively contributing to the social fabric, because they were, and got to do things that were actively interesting them, and just stop doing those things if they stopped being interesting. Having that sort of self image as well as flexibility would be intensely motivating, at least for me, and help overcome a lot of the inertia and sensitivity.

    I genuinely do think a lot of the dysfunction we face from adhd has to do with how we structure our modern societies to optimize for efficiency and shareholder value over the wellbeing of the people. I mean when even non-adhd people are facing extreme burnout and excessive levels of stress, anxiety, and depression, what chance do we really have without meds?

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • I had measles as a kid in the 80s, either before I was old enough for the vax or a breakthrough case, unclear which as idk the recommended schedules from the 80s. I was in the hospital for weeks. I take vaccination very seriously, get every single one I can, and was quite pleased to have gotten all my childhood vaccinations a second time as an adult, just to be absolutely sure (my records went missing and it was required for my job).

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • Alternatively: Humans are capable of adapting to intensely negative situations orchestrated by a few people in positions of great unearned power and privilege. Some people do their best to survive by betting on their own continued lack of survival, because they see no other options and the buy in is low.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • Looking forward to being a future target for never having married and/or taken a man’s name next!

    None of us are safe until all of us are safe.

  • Fuckers

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  • The drug testing and having to call for renewed prescriptions every month were too much of a barrier to me, so I’m back to being unmedicated. I just don’t have it in me to make appointments every month that feel like a gigantic waste of time.

    “Yep, still have adhd” “Ok we’ll renew it, come by next week for a drug test”

    Cool, yeah, I can definitely totally remember to do that every single month forever with ‘my can’t remember to function until it’s a catastrophe’ disorder, even though it’s nonsense. Not problematic gatekeeping at all.

  • Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids

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  • I dunno if Roblox would even want to put on the effort

    Well yeah, they clearly don’t because they haven’t done it yet, that’s why I said they should be required to do it. If your site targets kids you should be legally required to make it as safe as practically possible for said kids.

    Just because some hypothetical clean record abuser could exist does not mean nothing should be done. That’s just dumb. You could make the same argument about teachers, or daycare workers, or parents. Yes it happens, that’s why lots and lots of oversight should be in place for these services. Maybe external oversight, like idk a licensing board or something. Like most other occupations that work with kids.

  • Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids

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  • Teaching kids to be responsible about their online activities is good, but it can’t be the only solution. Just like teaching women to be wary of men can’t be the only solution to stop date rape. (Also, making the victims responsible for stopping their own victimization doesn’t really work anyway, particularly when it comes to kids. It just saddles them with tons of guilt if they fail to stop it, which can be used to keep the abuse going)

    I don’t see why it’s such a problem to have billion-dollar sites aimed toward kids being required to hire adequate moderation if they have social services available. No age checks needed, no verifications or anything, just clear and very strict rules (because again, this is aimed at kids, if adults want to use it they can conform to the kid rules or gtfo) that get enforced across the board.

  • Consumerism ahhhhh moment

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  • I just assume that anyone who needs to spend a lot on bothering me about their product.. is either pushing a really shitty product, or offering it at a really shitty price, because so far that has been the case about 90% of the time.

    If it was a good value, people would spontaneously recommend it when appropriate, with only light advertising in places where it makes sense (athletic gear advertised on sports websites, for example). Hell, it doesn’t even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p

    It’s so clear when you know what’s going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and don’t hear bad things to the same degree, that the thing must be good. Propaganda is everywhere saying exactly that in lots of different ways, so hard to really blame them..

  • Nobody wants to work anymore

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  • This perfectly voices why I’ve been disenchanted with things recently. It feels exactly like that. Exponential progress at first to get you hooked on hard work, because you have the energy to find and do jobs and no perspective on how much things will eventually cost, but then the rewards for things you can do depreciate, and the cost to unlock the next balloons, and man you just can’t unlock that next tier because it’s so expensive and your jobs income could only be leveled up so far..

  • Wanted: Sanitation workers. Existential hangups a plus.

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  • That’s why most of them these days refer to themselves as sanitation engineers or whatever else. Sounds better to the uneducated and judgmental masses, and is more accurate anyway.

    Current society puts so much emphasis on appearances and not nearly enough on what jobs are actually vital to social harmony. Trash collection and other sanitation jobs -should- be high-prestige high-paid jobs, simply because of how crappy they are to do and how indispensable they are to social functionality. There is no universe in which being a sportsball coach or lawyer is more vital to society than sanitation work, yet sportsball coaches and lawyers at almost any level are paid far better and have far more prestige. Instead we collectively treat sanitation workers like shit, mock them for doing a dirty job we certainly wouldn’t be willing to do, without which we would all die quite horribly from infections and disease..

    Me ex’s dad was the mechanic for the city dump. Not just collecting trash but crawling under and fixing the very dirty trucks used to collect it. He was an odd duck and would salvage all sorts of stuff, but his very gross very dirty job kept 25,000 people from living in filth. That’s super important. Especially since we’ve largely forgotten how to live without constantly generating waste.

  • Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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  • I rebuilt my pc just a few weeks before the ram explosion (replaced cpu, mobo, ram, and cooling), only thing it doesn’t have upgraded is graphics card, but the one it has is …… eh.. ok for now until I can afford to pick something else up. Also definitely glad to have made that decision. And probably will be with my storage choice too, once it’s hindsight. I just hate spending money.

    So yeah, thanks, that helps. :)

  • Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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  • Heh, yeah, I’m assuming hard drives are going to do the same thing graphics cards did.. get wildly expensive and never come back down, even if they could. With that in mind, this sounds like a good option.

    Also I currently have no backups, and this much extra space fixes that handily. So it was sort of needed and something I was considering anyway.

    I’m trying really really hard to convince myself I made the right choice here. 😅

  • Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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  • I just picked up 40tb for exactly this reason. I was already considering an upgrade, but was planning like 16 tb. But with this news… Might as well get it while I can at prices I was expecting to pay anyway, even if it’s more than I really had budgeted for it..

    (I got refurbished drives, with 3 yr warranty, so this wasn’t like several grand with no protection or anything)

  • TIL about Selkirk Rex cats who have a curly fluffy coat

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  • Hairdresser’s cat got into the perm stuff again

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack/pad that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. It isn’t cold, more like cool water that stays cool. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

  • So when you were a kid and didn't like to eat something, you'd give it to your parents. But what do you do with food you dislike as an adult?

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  • I give it to my chickens if I can’t stand to eat it myself.

  • Performance enhancement

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  • I know, I was making a joke

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  • 'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility

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  • But then how will I get shin splints trying to keep up with people who walk just faster than my top walking speed??

    And if everyone has them, how can I feel superior by being faster than them because of the years of shin splints???

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