I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and then pursued a psychiatrist to oversee my treatment, who determined I didn’t have ADHD.

The way he described my situation made the “ADHD superpower” meme make more sense than anything I’ve ever read. I’m gonna butcher it but I’ll do my best to share:

There are structural differences in the brain that contribute to a person having ADHD, but the structural differences themselves ARE NOT ADHD. The last D in ADHD is “disorder”, and there are a whole bunch of external circumstances that mental health professionals use to determine whether or not you count as “disordered”.

You can have an addictive, impulsive, obsessive, stim-hungry brain and not have ADHD.

Many children develop habits, coping strategies, or other accommodations that allow them to “overcome” the weaknesses that come along with these brain structure differences.

This is the situation where ADHD looks like a superpower.

In my case I have a very, very easy time slipping into flow state. When I’m intensely focused on a task I am time blind, I often don’t respond to questions or acknowledgements, and I have an intense temper if I’m interrupted. So I’ve used timers and meditation/CBT to manage those drawbacks.

By comparison most people I know have a difficult time motivating themselves and accessing flow state. So to those people, especially when they DON’T see the extra work I do, it could look like I have a sort of super power.

It’s not a super power, my brain just works differently and I’ve come up with ways to manage the problems and use it to my advantage.

Lemmy only has the information that I give it.

And it demands fairly little information.

I’ll take that in exchange for nobody privately owning as much of my shit as they can get their filthy hands on.

There’s a pretty big difference between stupid declarations about things that simply aren’t true, and trying to start a conversation. I just assumed with an axiom like that there was no conversation to be had.

Hamas is a jihadist organization though…

If they don’t represent the majority maybe they should hold elections and let a party that represents the majority take the lead?

There’s no extermination. Quit getting your talking points from Tiktok and Twitter.

His victory last time was entirely due to Hillary being a weak candidate and exploiting Cambridge Analytica’s illegal/immoral data scraping to tailor his message in swing regions.

While his base is more riled up this time, I’m pretty sure they are smaller, and many moderates that took a chance on him would never make that mistake again.

At least IMO. I guess we’ll see.

Also more equal societies tend to be happier and healthier. Reducing overall wealth and income inequality is a net gain for everyone.

The richest guy in the cemetery probably lived a pretty good life.

He could host his friends, people wanted to spend time with him if he wasn’t particularly foul.

He could afford better food, better schools, and better medicine. So he was better nourished, better educated, and better taken care of.

He could pursue his interests and support things he cared about, so he felt actualized.

Of course rich people die of cancer or suicide just like the poors. But they do it less and it’s more of a tragedy when they do.

I was agreeing with you, sorry, should have been more specific!

Money can’t buy me happiness, but I’m happiest when I can buy what I want, any time that I want, get high when want…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBLmhpA8Ig

Activists aren’t given carte blanche to break the law. That’s called vigilantism. And it’s illegal.

There’s no place like home Reddit.

There’s no place like home Reddit.

There’s no place like home Reddit.

What? You voted to support someone ELSE’S freedom?

Blasphemy.

You pick songs, they squeeze ads and other songs in between (IIRC) and can gather data from how you interact with all of that.

You’re understanding the value of big data.

It’s why I reject all of these services. CDs, baby!

The article sure reads like AI word salad. Unfortunately it’s just legible enough that it could just be a dumb human with a thesaurus.

The government website is way more readable.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023

I hate Elon Musk and I still like the cybertruck.

I’m ashamed but I’d probably buy one and be happy with it, 100% in the city, doing mostly light hobby work, towing a boat, or locally camping.

Look at the tires, they are pretty suboptimal.

I switched to an EV 3 years ago and there is way too much torque at low rpm. The power curve just probably isn’t designed for loose dirt. Not to mention the cyber truck weighs a billion pounds.

Firefox with Adblocker Ultimate working fine for me as of last night. I’ll check again tonight.

I’m THRILLED with the promise of technology making human labor obsolete.

Is labor the best use of your limited time?

Why should we design a society where people must labor in order to survive?

However I’m DEEPLY concerned with our blind dedication to the private ownership of everything, exclusively for the purposes of growing the wealth of the few.

I don’t believe we’re in a post-scarcity world yet, and so I don’t think we’re able to stop laboring altogether. But we’ve definitely reached the point where many have stopped laboring and are surviving on the backs of others. Their lessers.

That needs to become embarrassing instead of a point of pride. We need to start shaming people into doing their part.

Seriously, I don’t know why this is news.

Wait, yes I do, half the population is stupid.