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  • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.netHATE.
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    2 months ago

    Warhammer40k-ass name. And like 40k it looks like someone made an obvious satirical exaggeration that is meant to make you recoil and then some asshole came and said “that’s actually good and cool and represents my personality”.

    And then they park at 3 parking spots simultaneously in front of an McDonald’s in an desolate American suburb to get the new BaconChokerSupreme and they feel absolutely nothing. An empty void where the human soul should be.


  • I think that’s a good sign of taste though. Games are so incredibly diverse, even the ones that reach the peak of their genre can be just eh for others.

    I’ll never finish Witcher 3 because that’s just too much stuff for my little adhd brain. Ghost of Tsushima was a wonderful 2 hours of ogling at the most beautiful wind-swept grass fields I’ve ever seen and I’ll never touch it again.

    There is probably fantastic shmups or fighting games that I will never touch. But I gladly bang my head for 5 hours against the next Gulgagram, Darkblood Impaler From Soft throws at me and defend the 15 ms reaction window I have to dodge his instant kill grab.


  • Because I like to live on a habitable planet more than I like your ability to prompt a defective and stylisticly pathetic essay for your college class.

    Scientists have estimated that the power requirements of data centers in North America increased from 2,688 megawatts at the end of 2022 to 5,341 megawatts at the end of 2023, partly driven by the demands of generative AI. Globally, the electricity consumption of data centers rose to 460 terawatt-hours in 2022. This would have made data centers the 11th largest electricity consumer in the world, between the nations of Saudi Arabia (371 terawatt-hours) and France (463 terawatt-hours), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

    By 2026, the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to approach 1,050 terawatt-hours (which would bump data centers up to fifth place on the global list, between Japan and Russia).

    If your phone could do the ai trash, it would still be morally bankrupt and devoid of any humanity. But it’s done on 5 gpus that eat as much energy as your entire household.

    The real usefulness of ai technology is probably limited to 1% of what it is now. Signal processing, protein folding, translation and transcription are all fine and well. But it is 99% spam and so I’ll judge the technology on that.




  • $1 is worth BRL 10.

    You buy $ 100 with BRL 1000. You tell your broker, you’ll pay him back later the BRL, for a fee. That’s a “short”.

    You package it in a bet that says “whatever the difference is in BRL when I pay you back, we will do it 10x”. That’s “leverage”, alternatively also “insane stock market gambling nonsense”.

    The tariffs get announced. You can now get BRL 10.2 for $1, because that’s how the stock market thinks it’s should be. You pay back your debt in BRL with $98. The difference of $2 gets increased 10x because of that bet. Congratulations, You made $20 with insider trading.

    Usually you try to hide these things among the general stock market noise and not trade so much money, that it makes a visible dent in the evaluation of an entire fucking currency. It’s common place, but as usual with Trump, just more on the nose, more blatant and just more fuck you.



  • For children it was perhaps the last time where at least a bit of your innocence could last beyond age 12 or 13. Less control, more “well, the sun is shining, let’s hope they will be back by dinner”. I’ve probably never have known a neighborhood in more detail than when i was 8. You could do something stupid and it wouldn’t be filmed or photographed, with date and location tag, immediately uploaded into the cloud and available at a buttons press. You could get BORED, and then you’d do something that you hadn’t tried before, because you couldn’t just grab your phone and bombard yourself with tiny dopamine hits.

    My nieces/nephews are struggling with this so hard. They are good kids and their parents are doing a commendable job, but they are lucky to have enough time and enough awareness to strictly limit their kids access to media.












  • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.nettotraingang@hexbear.netHmm,
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    10 months ago

    This looks ai generated. As in, what an ai believes streets look like, but it doesn’t quite get the concept of space and connection and just adds random exit ramps and parking lots to fill the picture. It’s the civil engineering equivalent of a third hand growing from a leg.


  • First off: Congratulations on getting diagnosed. It’s a huge step and 18 is a really nice timing. Untreated ADHD in adults can be really crippling, because all the supporting structures like school and family break away and suddenly you realize that managing your own time schedule and house hold is really fucking hard. So good job 👍

    Second: You took 30 mg of Elvanse/LDX for the first time and you felt nothing? That’s… impressive, honestly. Methylphenidate Non Responder are fairly known, but usually that amount of dexamphetamine does something to the human body. From your age I’d guess you are not a regular user of recreational amphetamines and have built a massive tolerance…

    I also started with 30 mg Elvanse and was pretty seriously zoned in, deep focus, elevated mood, highly awake, loss of appetite and a very revelatory feeling, that I could finally tackle all the bullshit that I had avoided, delayed, ignored and forgotten. For me, the 30 mg were honestly too much. Over the last year I’ve built a tolerance and am now taking 40-70mg daily, depending on the challenges of the day.

    Still I wouldn’t worry. No effect also means no bad side effects. Adjusting the dosage is entirely normal in the beginning and something your psychiatrist should do anyway. The therapeutic dosage goes up to 70 mg and there are edge cases with even higher doses. There is also methylphenidate (Ritalin, MPH, etc) and Atomotexetin. But for now, just stick with what you got.

    Dealing with ADHD is a marathon, not a sprint. You’ve just started, so take the days as they come and trust your feelings above all else. If it works, you’ll know. And if not keep at it.

    Also check out /c/neurodiverse, there are a lot of good posts and ADHD experiences shared.