That's an interesting insight. I, too, tend to be anxious about negative outcomes and I think that comes from bad experiences due to ADHD and maybe childhood stuff. Idk.
Normalcy bias certainly is a thing. So is paranoia. I tend toward the latter lol. But have come to see that outcomes almost always land somewhere between, "eh, it will be fine," and, "omg we're doomed." And usually they wind up slightly more toward the "fine" side of things.
As someone with ADHD and in my mid 30's now, i have wondered the same thing quite often, because a lot of times solutions to complex problems seem extremely easy to me, where people around me are absolutely baffled by me calling a solution very simple and easy.
Coincidentally, I too, have ADHD. Oftentimes, I can envision the general shape of somewhat complex solutions. And either they don't see it as simple, don't understand it, don't understand the point, or can't see it at all. Now sure, sometimes I come up with idiotic ideas that make no sense once I know more. But not always.
I have found it is easy for some of us to get spun up about the sorts of things you mention. Like "omg how can you use Windows 11 with all the ads and whatever". The kind of stuff we rant about on Lemmy. And yeah I think people don't care a lot.
Sometimes it is because they have other more pressing priorities. I've had to learn that well in my infosec career. It is easy for me to fixate on something important to me. But if a person is just trying to get through the day (I mean, let's be honest, I am struggling to do that), raising a kid, paying the bills, and so forth, then they have better things to do than fret about an OS and try to find time to learn Linux or cough up the fortune required to buy a Mac or whatever.
Sometimes they can't seem to forsee the potential consequences. Either they just are incapable--my original point above--or, in some cases, they don't have any practice imagining what bad people could try if they wanted to. Maybe due to ADHD and anxiety I had a lot of practice imagining bad outcomes. (Maybe that's an evolutionary advantage of ADHD lol). I suspect about half my team has ADHD and I think that's common in the industry lol.
Nice to find someone with similar experiences! Helps to know I'm not crazy or at least not crazy alone 🤪
They're going to add most every federal government department to the list by the end of the next GOP presidency, plus a bunch more judges. They'll gut the EPA, and do whatever they can get away with -- possibly that will include everything if SCOTUS declares the president immune from all prosecution.
Doing that is kind of an obvious final warning sign that the GOP are about to establish the president as a putin-style dictator for life with bullshit sham elections. Every step clears the way for jailing those they don't like and setting up their final solution.
Maybe I am dumb but... I am genuinely starting to think many people are fundamentally incapable of imagining complex, abstract potential outcomes (like allowing Trump back in office).
I always assumed envisioning such things was easy, instant, and obvious for nearly everyone.
Several years ago I started noticing a couple of people make decisions that to me seemed insane and later they were surprised by the outcome that I saw coming a mile away.
And I started wondering, could this ability to imagine how things will turn out be much rarer than I ever imagined?
I genuinely don't know for sure. Not like I have a ton of conversations with different people let alone ones about cognitive abilities lol.
Like, I didn't even realize some people can't see images in their heads or don't have an inner monologue (think by "talking to themselves" using language) until fairly recently and I'm in my 50s.
Surely anyone can imagine some vague idea of what happens if they jump in front of a speeding bus. That's simple. Surely you can at least conceptualize that you'll be run into and injured or killed. Maybe even imagine it with some internal video of your body being run over by giant bus tires or being flung from the impact and landing in a crumbled bleeding mess. Nothing complicated there.
But is it actually impossible for some to imagine the many ways Trump and the Project 2025 people are going to fuck up everything?
That would certainly explain the bafflingly cavalier reactions to cybersecurity vulnerabilities I've seen over the years. Or the shrugging off of egregious privacy issues.
I totally believe it. Just based on complaints in gaming subs and communities I've seen over the years, I can confidently say there isn't enough money in the world to convince me to make a game and have to deal with all the grief from certain types of gamers lol.
If you're apologizing for something you did, you likely would say either.
If you're at a funeral you might say to the survivors of the decedent, "I'm sorry" as in, "I am sorry for your loss". Whereas saying "I apologize" to them can only mean you believe you're at fault for the decedent's passing.
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Anyway. Article is from Huffpost so of course it's got outrage headlines (and usually has rather biased reporting).
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That's an interesting insight. I, too, tend to be anxious about negative outcomes and I think that comes from bad experiences due to ADHD and maybe childhood stuff. Idk.
Normalcy bias certainly is a thing. So is paranoia. I tend toward the latter lol. But have come to see that outcomes almost always land somewhere between, "eh, it will be fine," and, "omg we're doomed." And usually they wind up slightly more toward the "fine" side of things.