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Badabinski @ Badabinski @kbin.earth Posts 0Comments 393Joined 1 yr. ago
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I bring up the mouse wiggling thing all the time when I'm sharing my screen at work. I get impatient with computers very easily, so I start wiggling and jiggling and doing figure 8s with my mouse cursor and say that "it makes the computer go faster." Then I get to be distracted by telling someone how that used to be kiiinda true back in the good ol' days of PS2 and single threaded cooperatively-multitasked operating systems (the fact that PS2 sends hardware interrupts still blows my mind a bit).
Funnily enough, I learned about it from a greybeard who did a stint at Novell. He'd constantly jiggle his mouse around while waiting for shit and I bet he was just waiting for me to ask him why he thought it made the computer "faster."
shit got fucked
Yeah, the edited title is implied to be unburying the lede, but there was nothing being hidden by the original title.
I know someone with an issue kinda like this. Some childhood trauma and neglect lead to her forming limerant relationships and made it difficult for her to be platonically friendly with men that she viewed as eligible. Her fix was doing evidence-based therapies like EMDR and healing her fear of being alone/unsupported/unloved. It took her a while, but she's much better at having platonic friendships with men now.
I'm in one of those places. In Utah, many crosswalk lights won't turn on at all unless you press the button, and the button can completely change the light timing and ordering (e.g. a protected left turn light activates at the end of a cycle instead of at the beginning).
Traffic engineers here are sometimes allowed to do some fairly interesting things.
Your last sentence is like garnish on a beautiful dinner.
Yeah, Mullvad seems to have done the most to prove that they're not harvesting your data. You still have to trust them, but there's evidence that they're trying.
tbf Apple membrane keyboards are pretty nice for what they are. I wouldn't daily one, but I've frequently used them in a professional context.
Source: I'm a huge keyboard dork sitting at a desk with an OG TX-CP.
Yep. I personally hate debating semantics with people online and have had decent luck in the past by replacing "wrong" with stuff like "it prevents me from being happy" so that people skimming don't latch onto "wrong" out of context and assume it is a value judgement. It appears that didn't work in this thread, however. When I think about it I find the necessity of that replacement to be pretty annoying.
It's frustrating and tiring for me to see how hard it is for people to understand their own privilege. Like, it took me waaaay too long to see my own privilege, and seeing it required a very patient person to lay out parallel life situations where something went well for me and terribly for them. At this point, I don't begrudge people for struggling to understand the multiplicity of human existence (because who the fuck does), but it does drive me bugfuck nuts when that lack of comprehension leads to people saying that living a life like my pre-medicated hellscape is better than the relative stability I have now. Ign
All that besides, thanks for your comments. They've been quite validating and reading them has helped me to feel a bit better about all of this. Hopefully I'll be able to stop perseverating on this thread and get back to my life.
It's frustrating because all these folks need to do is just use the word "I" rather than "you" or "we" when talking about their mental state. Like, let me rewrite the comment that made me so mad:
As someone who also has depression and ADHD. There is nothing wrong with me. It's OK for me to take medication to survive in an environment that's actively hostile to me, but it's also OK for me to acknowledge that if our society actually valued people I could live the way I need with the community support I need and I likely wouldn't need to be medicated any more. It's like covid, catching covid doesn't mean there's Something wrong with me. It means our society isn't structured in a way to prevent people from getting sick (masks, vaccines, etc) and values profits more than people's wellbeing.
They'd probably go on to say "this is how I feel about it. I don't know if you've considered this, but having this mindset has been hugely helpful for my life" and then I'd say "oh yeah I have thought about it and that just doesn't work for me" and we'd be on our merry way. To me, that is not invalidating or invasive or presumptive or whatever. I might feel a little irritated, but lots of things do that and it's fine. Regardless of whether or not I agree with the axioms this comment is built on top of, I can respect that it is someone opening a small window into their mental state. Like, shit, who the fuck am I to tell this person that they'd need meds if they lived in a better world? I'm just some dunce on the Internet who isn't going to lecture someone on what their lived experience is like.
I just wish that folks would realize that other people have different experiences and requirements for happiness and health, and that not meeting those requirements/having those requirements met is, as I understand it, one of the definitions of trauma. Having to live my life unmedicated was traumatic because my brain does not work in a way that is conducive to happiness. Please don't try to tell me otherwise.
The license of a GPLv3 project can change moving forward provided all copyright holders agree to the change. The license cannot be changed for code that was already released. If the Paisa devs could get every contributor on-board, then it's fine. Alternatively, if they forced contributors to sign a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) which signs over the copyright to Paisa (most CLAs include copyright transfer), then that's basically free rein to rug pull shit whenever they feel like it.
Fuck CLAs by the way. Try to avoid contributing to projects on your free time that force you to sign one. If you're contributing on behalf of a company, it's likely that your legal team will take umbrage at you signing a CLA, but it's not like you'll own the copyright to your work anyways, so it's less of an issue there.
Support projects that have you sign a DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). The DCO protects the company or individual running the project without forcing developers to give up their rights.
Those magic wands are great for men as well. Hitachi created a truly magical people pleaser.
Like, it kinda is aimed at people like me though? I've talked with my therapist about how fucked up the state of the world is over the decade or so I've been working with them. I had a psychiatrist try to increase my antidepressant dosage when I was struggling through some really terrible EMDR therapy (dealing with childhood trauma caused by how shitty our society is) because they thought it would make my life more bearable, which is exactly the meme. I pushed back on that because I knew what was causing that specific misery and I was solving it with therapy, not psychiatry. I don't engage with my psychiatrists like they're therapists, but I have otherwise been in this picture. Psychiatrists treat problems with pills, and sometimes they try to fix things that aren't best addressed with medication.
I've also spent my life being told that I was stupid, weak, incompetent, or lazy because no matter what else is going on with my life, I have baseline physiological issues that prevent my brain from functioning. I am far from alone in this. I would have had a better life if my condition had been treated as soon as it was noticed. The stigma surrounding psychiatric medicine meant that I wasn't and I suffered as a result. This post perpetuates the stigma that caused my suffering so I do not like it and will say something about it.
Like, I think your conception of science fiction is very specific, and that's fine. I'm guessing you really love sci-fi and feel strongly about it, and you think this shit is just weird af. The general consensus is that Frankenstein is the first novel to really be considered science fiction and not, say, proto sci-fi, and there are plenty of reasons why people think that which you can read about if you care to. I personally feel like Frankenstein is science fiction because it explicitly uses a contemporary understanding of science and the modern scientific method to tell a story about something that had previously been entirely supernatural—the creation of new life. You have your reasons for disagreeing with that. I don't know what those are, but you've got them and clearly feel pretty strongly about them.
Kinda! I wouldn't say that it is exactly science fiction since our modern understanding of the scientific method didn't really exist back then, but it's fiction using extrapolations of what might be possible based upon the natural rules of the world. Those extrapolations are used to justify and explain the things that would otherwise be impossible, which is the core of what science fiction is to me. It probably doesn't vibe like modern sci-fi, but science fiction is not based on vibes.
Like, don't get me wrong, I fucking love 50s and 60s sci-fi. I read Rendezvous with Rama (EDIT: 70s, not 60s! I'm surprised, I thought Rama came out before 2001) when I was 8 and the novelization of 2001 right afterwards and that had a tremendous impact on my life. I just don't think Arthur C. Clarke or Heinlein or Asimov created science fiction. They pioneered new subgenres and ideas that have been hugely influential for everything that came afterwards.
What about War of the Worlds? That was published in 1898. Are you saying the book where aliens invade from Mars and then die because of their inability to tolerate our microbial biome isn't science fiction?
EDIT: or what about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? That's 1870.
EDIT: shit, what about The Last Man?
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.
that's the most sci-fi sounding gd thing tho
rsync -avr --progress in termux or a file explorer app built on top of scp or rsync. It doesn't work like your use-case, but I've been happy with it.
Right or wrong doesn't factor for me. I do not make value judgements about my neurochemistry, I just care about how well I am able to exist. I do not believe I'd live a happy life if I was unmedicated, regardless of our society. You are free to believe that about yourself, but I know what my untreated depression feels like—an absolutely crushing nothingness where I starve myself because I'm too apathetic to eat. I know what my untreated ADHD feels like—a bottomless pit of unmotivation and a maddening lack of emotional mindfulness. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong or shameful with having a medical condition that requires medication to treat. People with physical conditions shouldn't be told that they'd be fine if society just accepted them when the consequences of not treating their condition is misery or death. I have a physical condition that affects my neurochemistry to a degree that prevents me from being happy and living. Some people have depression and can deal with it by making concessions or exercising or meditating and I'm happy for them. Therapy helped me a lot with my depression, but the baseline miserable nothingness is still there. Some people have ADHD but have found coping strategies and don't need meds, and I'm happy for them. The D in ADHD is too strong for me to deal with on my own in any conceivable circumstance, and that is fine. There's nothing wrong or shameful about that, it is what it is, like how someone with a congenital issue might need a wheelchair. I am entitled to my own understanding of myself, the shit I've suffered through, and how I deal with it.
I absolutely agree that our society treats neurodiverse people like shit. I agree that we're generally lonely and don't support each other well. Nothing wrong at all with that premise. I categorically disagree with your statement that we "likely wouldn't need to be medicated anymore" if things were to change. I am either not a part of your "we," or you are attempting to invalidate the decades I've spent coming to grips with what I need to survive.
EDIT: I don't like being this hostile, but as I said, I am very fucking touchy about this topic. I've had enough of people assuming they know how my head works.
No.
Do not assume you understand my mental state. You can be a "hunter in a society of farmers." I'll just continue being a person with an imbalanced neurochemistry that I use medication to balance. I just want be able to get out of bed on a Saturday and do things I love.
My life has been filled with enough invalidation and unsolicited "advice" about my mental health, so I'm a little fucking touchy about this shit sometimes.
Yeah, if strong emotions were such a liability then we probably wouldn't have them anymore. Emotions aren't vestigial or useless or contrary to rational discourse, they're an integral part of what it means to be sentient and sapient, and they can be incredibly useful when doing things that are decidedly "rational." I can tell that some code I wrote is shit because it "feels wrong" a hell of a lot faster than I can by logically reasoning it out.
I'm hoping that quote is simply lacking context. The alternative is that the people behind the quote are just fucking insufferable.