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  • TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbs

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  • The same goes for everything that lives then. There is no such thing as a mammal, they are just a form of prototheria! A lot of them just evolved into what we consider marsupials or eutheria. But a koala is just as much a mammal as a lemur!

    Now this is a much smaller branch ofc, but you could slap it onto anything more vague. Reptiles, fish, crabs... and worse... fungi. Not to mention the archea.

  • TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbs

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  • How do they taste?

  • Treatment for ADHD seems engineered to be difficult specifically for those with ADHD to obtain.

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  • Shoutout to ADHDcentral. They tried to make the process as clear and accessible as possible. With automated reminders.

  • Those who went from good student, to great college student, to disorganized dopamine mess post college what do you do to manage yourself and get back to that organization and level of focus?

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  • Nice. Same here. AuDHD at 29. Got a chance to try out methylfenidate. Trying 27mg slow release now. The lower dose of 18mg did nothing, but fucked me up after a week of trying out.

    So far so good. Gonna warn you though, it still takes work, but it's easier to "just do stuff." It's as if I have a gas pedal now, instead of a button to move the car. As if I can choose to work at a lower rpm. Running on idle is possible now, and being idle (such as waiting 15min for the train) doesn't bother me. As if I can choose what to allocate working memory to. Allowing me to manage my dyslexia and high associative thinking better.

    I also notice satiety and thirst. Something I didn't feel before.

    I can quit stop doing "fun" stuff and switch to doing "less fun" stuff. Going from playing a video game, to studying! It never worked this way. I was only ever able to start study in the morning. Once I caved into gaming, it was game over.

    Reading is hard, but I am managing to get myself to start reading. I seem to be able to do stuff even when I don't "feel" like doing it. Like laundry! Still hard, but not impossible.

    Does nothing for my forgerfulness though, and the mental hyperactivity isn't zen. So the dose may be still too low for me. I was only able to experience "the zen" with 10mg fast working on the testing day. But the rebound caused me to experience something akin to a stroke and pass out for 5min and wake up in confusion.

    It's an alien experience.

  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • That's also technology. Used for good and evil.

  • Trump vows to strip funding from all schools that allow 'illegal protests'

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  • Probably anything they can label as "against christian values." To keep it as vague as possible.

  • Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

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  • South Korea allows women to be fired if they 1) want, or 2) have children.

  • The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever

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  • As someone who has been a teenager. Cheating is easy, and class wasn't as fun as video games. Plus, what teenager understands the importance of an assignment? Of the skill it is supposed to make them practice?

    That said, I unlearned to copy summaries when I heard I had to talk about the books I "read" as part of the final exams in high school. The examinor would ask very specific plot questions often not included in online summaries people posted... unless those summaries were too long to read. We had no other option but to take it seriously.

    As long as there isn't something that GPT can't do the work for, they won't learn how to write/do the assignment.

    Perhaps use GPT to fail assignments? If GPT comes up with the same subject and writing style/quality, subract points/give 0s.

  • Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

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  • I'm sure artificially lowering female med student's grades to increase drop-outs amoung women will help with the financial stability and job security needed to raise a child!

  • As the day unfurls

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  • Such a wholesome comment!

  • Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing

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  • Yup. The bible belt in the netherlands was a great contributor to the study of epidemics. Measles outbreaks are very consistent. Every 10 years an outbreak occurs there.

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  • Yup... it's all about picking it up. Preferably before the moment you start to lose it. Good news. Even if you lose it, you can pick it back up!

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  • The meditation that I liked were the ones that practiced mindfully shifting your attention.

    The first one was using a specific type of mandala made of harsh contrasting colours and projecting the image on your mental vision. Interestingly, its clarity would fade if you focussed too hard, or too little. Practicing the 'sweet spot.'

    Another was generating thoughts. Letting your mind make stuff. The point was to become aware of the thoughts appearing up. I noticed in this one that the first minutes worth of thoughts were usually garbage. After that, my mind generated stuff that I thought was useful. Like remembering to plan that dental appointment...

    This practice was followed by practicing to redirect your attention every few seconds on purpose. Which teaches you how to redirect your attention from your thoughts, into where you want to go.

    Ofc, meditation is nice, but the goal is to put that stuff into practice. I found it helped getting myself to do what I want to do, but couldn't get myself to. Like studying or cleaning.

    My tip is, choose 1 low-level and practice that. I started in the morning for 5 to 10min, and tried to apply the lesson throughout the day to make it useful. I did that for 1 to 2 weeks before going to the next step of the meditation. That was hard enough! xD

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  • Solid advice! Thanks

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  • Yup. I found that "taking the mind out on walkies" offers space for the mental storm to calm down a bit. Doesn't do shit for focus, but takes away stress.

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  • That's amazing!

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  • Yeah. Same here. Even my test results showed signs of overcompensation. I got most stuff correct in time, but my impulsivity (and gaming addiction) shined through. It was stressful as hell and I tried my best. Then took the test again on meds and 1) it wasn't stressful, I was zen! 2) I was far less impulsive. xD

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  • Not it's not. You are right. It takes a lot longer to learn those habits and apply it in a useful way. It's taken me ~9 years and of taking it more seriously. I still f up from time to time. Just not nearly as much as when I started trying to get my shit together. (Even my test results showed overcompensation in my attention problem lol)

    You still need to develop those skills on meds. Which takes practice. Meds make it easier to practice.

    I think a lot of people on these communities are at a point of discovery and realization. That there is a big factor (ADHD) causing their struggles in life. That they are not "just lazy and undisciplined." A phase that can look like self-victimization and excuses.

    Thing that worked well for me btw, is the ADHD guide on HealthyGamerGG. The name sounds stupid, but it's the online name of a psychiatrist with experience with ADHD patients, and he takes a hollistic approach. I usually despise every form of spirituality, but he managed to filter out the "woo woo" (as he calls it) and stick to the practical aspects of meditation and how the mind works. Helped me understand my issues and how to handle them better.

  • "A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power

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  • Except there is scientific evidence that women are held to higher standards. You're the delusional one here.