Thanks for that, I appreciate it.

I feel like they probably would taste nice. Maybe composting them would be better

It does mean something to them, but not in a way that will stop you from getting laid off; what it means is that after laying you off, they’ll quickly come to regret it and scramble to try to fill the knowledge gap they now have. I know a few people who were called up by the company basically begging them to help. A couple of people I know were able to leverage this to get a short term position contracting (at exorbitantly higher rates than their salary way), and a few others instead just cackled in schadenfreude.

You’re probably due for some more water. Humans bodies are very high maintenance and ideally need water multiple times per day

This comment brought to you by the fact that your comment prompted me to remember to hydrate

I feel that. Something that I found helpful was to pair up tasks. So like, if there was a task that I wanted to do that was causing me stress, but it was relatively low priority compared to stuff on my actual to-do list, I’d allow myself to do one of the important-to-me tasks for every actually-important task that I got done.

It didn’t help much with the problem of actually getting the tasks on my to-do lists done (though I think that battle is a never ending quest for anyone with ADHD), but it meant that on a day where I did get some stuff done, I got to chip away at the list of stuff that had been stressing me out as well as the big Tasks. Occasionally, I found that this helped me to build momentum

Noted, thank you

Never heard of it, but you and the other person who replied to you have made me decide to check it out.

I was talking about this recently with someone (read: ranting as they nodded sympathetically) and I finished up by saying “what’s the point of ‘smart’ tech if the humans who use it are steadily disempowered and ultimately, made less smart?”

I’ve recently been dabbling in HomeAssistant and learning how to set things up properly feels like it’s been making me more smart.

You have picked a weird hill to die on. I wonder if that is also in New York.

I’ve heard a lot of people say that llm code can be a timesaver, but only if you’re already proficient enough with the programming language that you can see at a glance what the generated code does. Otherwise, the experience is much like your own.

A lot of them went into academia, the poor fuckers. My old university tutor comes to mind as the best of what they can hope for from that path. He did relatively well for himself as a scientist, but I reckon he was a far better scientist than what his level of prestige in that area would suggest.

There’s one paper he published that was met with little fanfare, but then a few years later, someone else published more or less the same research that massively blew up. This wasn’t a case of plagiarism (as far as I can tell), nor a conscious attempt to replicate my tutor’s research. The general research climate at the time is a plausible explanation (perhaps my tutor was ahead of the times by a few years), but this doesn’t feel sufficient to explain it. I think it’s mostly that the author of this new paper is someone who is extremely ambitious in a manner where they seem to place a lot of value on gaining respect and prestige. I’ve spoken to people who worked in that other scientists lab and apparently they can be quite vicious in how they act within their research community (though I am confident that there’s no personal beef between this researcher and my old tutor — they had presented at the same conference, but had had no interactions and seemed to be largely unaware of the other’s existence). Apparently this researcher does good science, but gives the vibe that they care more for climbing up the ranks than for doing good science; they can be quite nasty in how they respond to people whose work disrupts their own theories.

I suspect that it’s a case of priorities. My tutor also does good research, but part of why he left such an impact on me was that he has such earnest care in his teaching roles. He works at a pretty prestigious university, and there are plenty of tutors there who do the bare minimum teaching necessary to get access to perks like fancy formal dinners, and the prestige of being a tutor — tutors who seem to regard their students as inconvenient obstacles to what they really care about. It highlights to me a sad problem in what we tend to value in the sciences, and academia more generally: the people who add the most to the growth of human knowledge are often the people who the history books will not care to remember.

This is supremely silly. I will never use it, but I’m glad that it exists; you’re delightful

I’m also not sure what I mean by “end apartheid”, because I also don’t know whether it’s realistic in the short term. That would still be the most realistic path to deradicalising Palestine.

A reasonable first step towards that long term goal would be to end the ongoing genocide. It’s hard to even speculate about possible futures when each day of needless bloodshed makes future peace more difficult.

“TIL i do women people things. lol”

The point of “you don’t have to hold your farts in to be a woman” isn’t to suggest that only women fart, but that farting is a thing that people do, and that given that women are a subset of people, women fart (and that farting doesn’t make someone less of a woman)

There’s a balance. I have known plenty of women who felt it was not permissible to fart around people/in public ever. One would not even fart around her husband of 10+ years. Another would only fart when they were at home, in the bathroom. Another felt it was inappropriate to ever fart, even when she was pooping (as a result of this, she once was so constipated that she had to go to the hospital).

Whilst these are particularly extreme examples, they’re just instances of a general trend where women farting is stigmatised more than men farting. I interpret the image in the OP to be resisting that excessive pressure and unrealistic standard rather than advocating for disregarding basic courtesy and farting with impunity

“Historically patriarchal” — there are contemporary Japanese politicians who argue that the job of women is literally just to be baby making machines. I struggle to imagine how a “hardliner conservative” female politician could fit into that without being extremely hypocritical.

Edit: Yup, as I expected (source: Associated Press)

“Takaichi has been seen as opposed to all the reforms that advocate for better representation and the position of women in society. The soon-to-be Japanese PM has supported the LDP’s view that women should serve as good mothers and wives. She opposes same-sex marriage, male-only imperial succession reforms, and legal changes allowing married couples to keep separate surnames.”

Edit 2: Though I suppose that’s very on brand, given that she apparently idolises Margaret Thatcher

Society tends to value highly specialised knowledge, but this doesn’t mean you are worth any less. Especially if we’re talking about hobbies, if flitting between so many different interests that your knowledgebase feels super shallow, then that’s fine. Some people don’t get it, and would judge you negatively for it, but you probably wouldn’t get along well with them anyway.

I bet that there’s loads that I could learn from you, and I wouldn’t mind that the depth of your knowledge in any one area isn’t very deep; I just like learning cool stuff, and I’ve found that people who know lots of little bits about lots of things are some of the most interesting people for that.

I wouldn’t say “more broken”. There’s a lot of diversity across the ADHD community, especially when we account for how other life circumstances intersect with ADHD. For me, for example, I find that the vast majority of what I typically consider to be “ADHD-related brokenness” is actually probably more linked to past trauma.

I think it’s important to recognise that there is no universal ADHD experience because in many respects, we’re still figuring out what the hell ADHD actually is (“we” here meaning humanity); Science plays a big part in increasing our understanding of ADHD, but so does community knowledge (which includes memes)

Okay, I’ll bite. Let’s say that Palestinians also need to be deradicalized. Surely the first step should be to stop the ongoing genocide and apartheid?

“gimmick shoes you wouldn’t wear for more than an hour”

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Do you mean that the light up shoes look like they’d be uncomfortable, or are you getting at something different?