I have the feeling that intense interests often lead to being awkward because it is assumed that "normal" people don't so this. If I start passionately talking about my interests, neurotypical people often don't get why I'm so intense about it and either find me boring, too much or cute (in a patronizing way). And having learnt to mask a lot and not show my interests, I often feel frustrated not to be able to share my interests. So for me, being awkward and having special interests are tied together.
But still, I'd rather be awkward than being such a boring person without the passion for their interests. I'm also trans and queer, and I wouldn't like to be a cishet person either. Although it sucks so much not fitting in society and frequently being discriminated against, I wouldn't be me without these traits. I would just be a very narrowminded, boring and passionless person I guess (I obviously don't know how to imagine being someone else, not meant to be offensive). In my utopia, people would just be accepting of others and different needs and expressions.
There are so many monocots (huge taxonomic group) that all look roughly the same in this stage. Maybe just let it grow a bit and see how the leaves turn out and especially how the inflorescences might look.
Same. I often find people identifying with "nerd stuff" and wanting to be seen as nerdy somehow annoying for exactly that reason. I didn't choose to be awkward or to have intense special interests.
I see your point of trying to help everyone communicate with each other. However, as has been pointed out repeatedly in the last few months, the threat of a 3e strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish) applied by Meta is imo very real and dangerous to the whole fediverse. That's why people want to defederate threads. And when large corporations use their huge userbase to make everyone else's life harder and peer pressure you into joining them then that's on them. I mean, there is a reason we few people are here on the fediverse. For most it's probably making the effort to stay away from those privacy-invading, controlling corporations and create something by the people for the people. I get that it is tempting to be able to reach the masses stuck in platforms like Facebook or Instagram. But this comes with the real threat of destroying what we've build here. Restraining from federation doesn't cost us anything though, as we've already made the decision to get together here in this small community.
As you probably speak Spanish, why not look into Latin American countries for therapists? My ex girlfriend (from Colombia) told me that especially in Argentina there are a ton of under- or unemployed therapists. There are even some WhatsApp groups of therapists where you can post and then you'll get many therapists responding you. Unfortunately many of them are pseudoscientific or esoteric. But the brother of my ex girlfriend lives in Buenos Aires and found a great therapist for tdah. So you probably would have to filter out quite a bit but I'm sure there are some qualified therapists that are pretty cheap compared to European prices.
Sorry, but where did I personally attack you? And maybe I misunderstood why you referred to "the media" because this gets thrown around by a lot of people like conspiracy or right wing folks. And gaslighting is imo a pretty heavy term where someone intentionally tries to manipulate you into distrusting your own sense of reality. (I know that it is thrown around a lot these days, but that's what I would associate with it). In combination feeling gaslit by "the media" sounded like you distrust the majority of media outlets and that you imply that they intentionally deceive you until you cannot tell what's actually happening. But obviously that was just my interpretation of your statement...
Haven't heard of glassdoor before, but the article repeatedly states that the name is not shown to the employer and that reviews are still anonymous. That is not the issue though. The issue this person and the author have is that there might be data breaches or that there might be information on fishbowl that would link your account name to your real name. And they make out that this is a real possibility. Also they have an issue with the company trying to find out your real name and saving it without consent. They do not say in the article that your real name would be visible right now.
But by you talking about "the media" I guess you are trying to find reasons to further your already present distrust in any media that contradicts your beliefs?
From a European perspective I can only say that the US is as bad as China in terms of privacy violations (probably even worse). The whole Snowden and NSA scandal really broke any trust in nations or corporations to respect anyone's privacy. I want to see how the US stops spying on everyone and regulates its own companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft. I get that banning tiktok is done out of competition over information etc. But the US certainly has no right to claim moral high ground or argue in favor of trying to protect anyone.
Well, my therapist is actually helping me with trauma stuff and my depression. But this is obviously intertwined with ADHD and autism. I am on a waiting list to get diagnosed for both of them. But I've been waiting for over 2 years now and still have to wait...
My therapist doesn't believe in adult ADHD and therefore also not in my self-diagnosis. This text just showed me again how obvious it is that I'm audhd though... Good read, thanks :)
Meanwhile I can do all that what you describe on Signal just as easily as that. A friend of mine often sends me Instagram reels on signal because I don't have any insta account. And I actually don't know anyone who has or at least uses a fb account anymore xD
Yes, but e.g. I played Song of Farca (playable) and there the SD info was all green except for "this game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Steam Deck controller icons". In some games, this just means that the menu is somewhat clunky etc. But in this specific game you have to use the mouse (right track pad) the whole time and the UI is incredibly clunky. This was just very frustrating.
Oxygen not included is another example where you need to use the track pad like a mouse the whole time although in this case the game is even verified. Same goes for Stasis: Bone Totem and Mini Motorways, both very hard (for me at least) to play on SD although they are in fact officially verified.
Observation is a game that runs much better than the other examples although it is officially unsupported. (Stories Untold by the same studio doesn't work at all because of the weird UI.)
You see my frustration? Often you have to deduce from some gameplay footage or by how the game is presented, how well it will work on the SD.
I wish there would be a distinction in games running smoothly on SD in general and games that work great with the default screen/controller setup. There are many games that are designed for a desktop PC with mouse and keyboard that are just painful to play on the default SD setup. But as it is now, it is hard to distinguish between this and games not running because of performance limitations etc.
Why not convince people to use Signal as well? Even my family has a group chat on Signal. Of course, it's a slow move with most people sticking to non-open chats. But it's worth the effort I would say.
Well, I would love to talk about fundamental research. But the author of the article actually conflates research and economical growth. That's why I was discussing the problems that come up when you only focus on economic growth. Especially fundamental research is not expected to reliably generate economic benefits. That's the whole point of it.
I think that the author actually gave the answer, or at least a more compelling one, in the article itself: any research and especially fundamental research gets harder the more you already know. We already plucked all the low- and medium-hanging fruits. Now we need to wrestle more and more with much harder niche problems often on much smaller or bigger scale (transistors on atom level vs huge climate models).
The author may also have conflated research with its economic output out of a confusion. In my view, the opposite is the case. Research is more and more under capitalist pressure to produce output, to compete with other researchers and to publish whatever you can in record time. This is detrimental to research, as this competition leads to many more papers that are nonsensical or that only lead to tiny progressions. No one has time to actually research anything in depth because you have to publish right away and have to persuade investors that your research is the next breakthrough. Under heavy competition, researchers then begin to steal findings from each other or try to cheat in some other way. The supposed room-temperature superconducter finding last year was such a case where they tried to publish their findings before the rest of the team. Had they spend just more time researching, they may have found that it actually wasn't a superconducter. Weren't they under such a financial pressure, they wouldn't even had the incentive to publish this finding. And then there are all these predatory journals that thrive under capitalist pressure.
This system is rotten. Research does not do well under capitalism. Maybe that's what the author tried to say as well? I doubt it but I haven't read the last part.
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The open eyeballs scare me! Looks like hungry worms impersonating humans