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  • Crazy business idea mr. bank boss, listen up. Every person becomes a landlord of the property they live in! And if there's one that nobody lives in, then we ask someone who needs a place to move in and become a landlord. Problem solved!

  • Edit: total numbers are for 3.5 years 2020-2023

    In 2024 illegal immigrants in the USA were responsible for:

    • 29 instances of homicide/manslaughter [country total: 75,082]
    • 1,084 instances of assault/battery/domestic violence [country total: 8,893,553]
    • 697 instances of burglary/robbery/larceny/theft/fraud [country total: 12,949,644]
    • 221 sexual offences [country total: 730,713]

    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-noncitizen-statistics

    https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

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  • This is extremely reductive, but the gist is - creatine is good for brains. In part because it regulates glutamate. People with ADHD have significantly higher glutamate levels, which cause synaptic spillover - synapses triggering neighboring ones and essentially spamming the brain. Stimulants help with that by improving the metabolism of glutamate. And oral creatine supplementation just increases creatine levels to fight the high glutamate levels. Both result in ADHD brains being quieter.

    This is a pretty deep rabbit hole and a heavy read. But here are some interesting papers if you wanna dive in. I'm by no means an expert in any of this. I'm just interested in understanding my own ADHD, and at one point was curious how does creatine actually help, since I feel better taking it c:

    Glutamate/Creatine ratios and ADHD

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3222884/

    Effect of oral creatine supplementation on brain metabolism

    https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00046-5

    Effect of methylphenidate (ritalin) on metabolism of Glx in ADHD

    https://sci-hub.se/10.1089/cap.2006.0008

  • That's funny, I could write pretty much this exact post myself. And since getting out of my head and following my own advice feels impossible, here it is for you. Look up the address of the employment services office that's closest to you, don't bother researching beyond this point. Wake up tomorrow, do some pushups until you're bored, take a shower, eat a snack and go to that office. Either get a meeting then and there, or get one scheduled and repeat the steps on the day of. Tell them what you hate about working, and that you struggle getting your foot in the door, so you'll need some help with finding openings. You got it from there c:

    Also buy a jar of creatine, it's great for brains and ADHD brains especially (I can find the research I went through if you're curious). 20g a day for a week, then 5g a day. And energy drinks are great if they don't make you feel bad, you can buy powdered ones for cheap. Mix it with the creatine after breakfast, makes for a decent brain day. Good luck!

  • What an interesting gripe. Personally I'd say it's dst itself that is pointless and confusing, causing strokes and car crashes. Rather than the device that automatically handles it not notifying you to change the oven clock.

  • There's nothing wrong with taking a couple years to focus on yourself

    You said it. If you're not okay, your output is not gonna be the best either, be it political, creative, or otherwise. Self-actualization is important, so if activism doesn't cover it alone, it only makes sense to balance it out with other pursuits. And after all, revolutionary movies also need screenwriters.

  • This is a great idea! Especially if your cat mainly lives indoors. Then your place becomes the entire world, the entire source of experiences for the animal. So whenever you're not around, or can't spend time socializing together, there's nothing to generate new stimuli. And if there was a friend, then they could always provide something new for each other and live much more fulfilling lives together.

    It's also your responsibility to make sure that the relationship is healthy. Cats can be very jealous of the time and attention you spend on a new one, not used to interacting with other cats/animals/people, or just afraid of change in general. So I would recommend starting by fostering a cat of a similar age for a while. Then you could either keep the foster if they vibe together, or broaden your cat's horizons and probably have better luck with the next one.

    There's nothing silly in caring about the well-being of someone you're responsible for.

  • Here's something that helped me once (and continuously since). I was trying to get diagnosed in order to get a prescription, but the wait time for a free assessment was multiple years. After trying every avenue, I genuinely gave up on that, but I knew that there are recreational drugs that work similarly for me. So I just vented to my doctor and said exactly that - I know that you're not willing to prescribe the meds without the official diagnosis and that's okay, I understand. So I'll just have to buy another drug that helps off the street. And he was like "okay, I'm even more uncomfortable with you doing that. Fine then, let's start you on the prescription meds". It's crazy that it took this to get any help, and it still limits me in fully exploring the optimal combinations without the diagnosis, but I'm still super thankful to my doc for that. At least I won't od on a random batch with some extra fentanyl mixed in.

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