For me personally, the trick was realizing that:

1. I already know it needs to be done
2. I know I’ll feel good for getting it done
3. I’m not lazy

And then realizing that time blindness has a huge deterministic impact on the causality chain of your life.

Imagine you are doctor Manhattan. Doctor Manhattan has clear view of his entire personal timeline. He knows exactly when he is meant to do what he needs to do.

ADHD makes you completely and utterly time blind at worst, or a bit tardy at average, or on time if you’ve developed great coping skills.

So the trick I realized is prioritization. You need to convince yourself that the present moment is the point on the timeline you were meant to complete this task.

Anyway I hope that makes sense to everyone. It worked a treat for me.

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Relevant fiction that helps cement these lessons. Watchmen (2009), Steins;gate (anime)

As an autistic person I felt this in my bones. I cannot STAND email based authentication.

Ah, your brain works like mine, it see the simple math everywhere.

Yeah, this is true. I just like to tinker. I already pay for one AI tool for like actual use as a tool in my life. The self hosted image thing attempt was like, hey my next home lab project, let’s see how easy it is to just get an image generated from scratch with nothing currently setup! The answer I found was, "you still need more training grasshopper. Much to learn. "

As an autistic person, comprehending that I’m out of touch is all I do. I wonder how this will impact me at 80.

I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn’t know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuce_Bigalow:_Male_Gigolo

I always hear the “it’s ok for boys to have sex” part and I guess I’m a pod person but me and my entire circle of friends would say neither sex should be promiscuous. So we’d say both the men and women in question are whores. Also, it’s a proven fact that a small percentage of men get the majority of attention from women on dating apps. So I’d wager the average male’s body count is lower than the average woman’s.

And no I’m not saying the online vitriole is ok, good, or warranted. I’m specifically talking about the idea of celebrating high body counts of men. I’m just saying no one I know thinks a man having a high body count is a good thing. But that line is always said so confidently.

What stuff? We don’t make anything. Oh I guess weapons.

I mean even ignoring the dosage argument someone else already made, we’ve got malfunctioning neurodivergent brains, we’re already aware that these drugs have different effects on us than typical. What we may not find addictive, someone else may.

It’s really really simple folks. Vote your conscience at the primary. Vote pragmatically in the general. Primaries are for changing your party from within. The general is for winning.

I am the Plex guy in my group of friends and family. I think there’s probably a bit of confirmation bias at play. Being on Lemmy alone puts you into a niche area of Internet already, which is going to make hearing about geeky things like home labs more common.

So yes, they exist.

False dichotomy. Why not both?

Well this begs the question of whether or not radical actions are required at a certain point and where that point actually is. Surely complacency only gets more necks stepped on.

Yep, specifically home defense, not carrying in the public. My duty to retreat ends at my house. But I don’t leave the house that much, usually work from home, if I was out there more often I may want to look into open or concealed carry laws in my locality, but all those things cost money. I’m already annoyed that I felt worried enough to buy a gun in the first place. Annoyed that I feel it’s prudent to dig up my passport card and carry it in my wallet despite me not traveling abroad.

I bought a gun.

Damnit!

What’s the difference between kicking a country out of NATO vs all the other countries just saying, ok NATO2, same members minus one?

But if it were an NVMe slot… That’d be juicy.