jandar_fett @ jandar_fett @lemmy.fmhy.ml

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Photography helped me with this, and I know not everyone is creative, but editing photos personally helped me find some wonder. You can do so much with perspective and change an image into something completely different with just the right modifications.. Anyway. The world is shifty and we have all been in it too long and are Hella jaded. You just have to find novel things, even if it is harder for our brains to view that way, we can even trick our brains by doing mundane things in a new way. Like for instance instead of shaving in the shower or bathroom, go outside into nature, bring a mirror and shave there. I remember Michio Kaku saying something like this and the added bonus is it will make your life feel longer too, since it is adding novelty, your brain doesn't just go into autopilot.

My therapist said to me the other day that anxiety is the brain's survival mechanism and depression is "Safe mode." It's so hard in the modern world for most people to find the in between because there is so much to give us anxiety and make us feel like we are in danger and so of course since the body always seeks homeostasis, depression is sure to follow. It's like an up and down Rollercoaster with no end.

I used to think it was foolish to be disconnected from the news and current events, but now I think the opposite is true.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I am trying to link it to survival and evolution, but can't pin anything down off the top of my head. I'm going to continue mulling it over though.

Good bot

Thank you for posting this OP, and thank you for your reply to OP!

I literally just got back from my therapist (3rd visit) and he basically said the same stuff you're saying about neurodivergence of this kind only becoming a problem when we're forced to follow the rules of an artificial construct we call "modern civilization." Thanks for your post. I've long suspected I could have ADHD (was diagnosed with ADD as a child) , but of course, ADD doesn't really exist, and I suppose the research on things like this was more or less in its infancy, so I took prescrived children's speed for a while, it made me worse. Yes, Ritalin is methamphetamine, and anyway. I started therapy to work on identifying my problems and I never mentioned ADHD, but he said all my complaints about my own behavior points towards it. My job is in the food service industry and it has been for many years, so the chaos of that could have masked some of the stronger "symptoms", and I imagine if I had an open ended career I would be in trouble with my lack of focus and constant procrastination.

Do you mind giving me more details on how you do your to-do list and the table? I would like to try something like it because I think it might help.

Thanks again for your reply to OP. and thanks again to OP for the post and hang in there. Adaptability is humanities greatest strength..

I'm going to subscribe to your instance since you seem to have such cool ideas to help the fediverse and care about privacy.

Cool way to show to explain it by showing it in action thanks a pot, you MVP you.

Maybe this makes me a dummy, but I don't understand the point of the bot? Like is it supposed to replace links that people post here from YouTube, with Piped instead?

You got downvotes and I don't know if you also got a rebutall,, but here is a simple one: This seems to be an extremely naive take on the situation and all over the fediverse you can find detailed write ups of why taking a "wait and see" approach could prove disastrous for the entire experiment, but I'm not going to do your homework for you. I just wanted to give you some idea of why your take isn't very popular.

Takes like the one you are responding to me, and other common stances shared since the news of Threads hit the fediverse, can't help but remind me of the cautionary tale of the turtle and the scorpion (I think it was). The corporation is going to attack and kill the smaller entity, because that is its nature, just like the Scorpion riding on the turtle's back did. Let's not be the turtle.

You nailed it. One of the saddest things ever to me is that capitalism and those who are Lord's within the system have even managed to commodity socialization, which is a core aspect of the human condition. Through all of their fuckery over the years, they've convinced us all that financial incentive and "internet clout" are the sole motivators for socializing and like you said, creating things. Any artist of any medium knows that is bunk, but we forget anyway.

This post had made me choose this instance as my home.

I concur. It's quite the pun.

Ad hominem has no place here man. Attack the argument not the person.

That is all well and good except for the whole EEE inevitability. If instances don't defederate and Meta gets it's hooks in it might be too late.

I've had almost zero issues with Liftoff other than switching the global sorting in the general settings causing duplicate posts from communities in the current instance I was in, but other than that it is fast, not bad looking and straightforward.