This has been the classic answer since free demo CDs back ik the 90s.

I guess it qualifies as retro now, so they are not nerdy but stylish.

Me: Is that Cthulhu in a house?

Looks closer

Oh, it’s just two people hugging.

Now I’m disappointed there is no Cthulhu.

Thanks!

Yeah, my wife was initially diagnosed with depression instead of ADHD so I’ve seen that up close. Over a year of antidepressants that in the end just gave her non-stop panic attacks. Proper diagnosis and medication really helped her, as well as a group therapy thing.

I’ve got my eye on a clinical psychology center that focuses on giftedness, and has experts in various fields, like ADHD and ASD on staff. I figure that’s a solid start compared to random psychologists.

The screenshots look like it now takes more clicks to get to groups/conversations than before. That appears like it will make me less productive instead of more.

I hope I’m wrong about this.

My wife was diagnosed with ADHD last year, so I’ve read up on the topic and recognized a bunch of things in myself, but also found things that did not resonate as much. Then I encountered the concept of auDHD and that resonated more.

Parallel to this I’ve been stuck in a low energy state for too long, so I’m looking to address that. The question is how. Digging deeper into neurodivergence is how I’m doing research on likely causes before picking a specialist to help me diagnose/rule things out. I’ve seen too many folks go down wrong rabbit holes based on not getting the right help.

It’s an interesting puzzle to see which things/symptoms you have vs which you have learned to cope/mask for, or which cancel each other outwardly but exist as internal contradictions.

Most of the pure gifted and overlapping segments resonate, but the more isolated ones for ADHD and autism resonate much less. Makes sense, giftedness is a given for me, and allows me to compensate for a lot of other things (even if it costs me more energy than regular folks). It’s why I’m only now really considering the other aspects at age 37.

My (computer) analogy is that it feels like my brain CPU has many cores and is overclocked, so much more powerful than a regular single core CPU regular folks have, but social interactions are something other folks have the equivalent of a dedicated graphics card for while I must simulate them on that overclocked CPU. It sort of approximates getting the job done, but it takes a lot of energy for a worse result.

How many nested layers of parentheses and separators can we get to?

When I do a re-read (or a re-re-read, because communicating precisely to larger groups takes more preparation) I try to split convoluted braindumps with too many complications into separate sentences or even paragraphs. When I don’t… it’s sometimes a wild ride to reconstruct the brain tangents that led to the written sentence.

Discord is easy to setup and use. It’s basically a chatroom with history. It can help build a community. It’s also a horrible way to store/archive information because it focuses on real-time communication. At larger scale it also tends to get too noisy.

Wait, that sounds like a leveraged buyout. I overlooked that detail in the news. It changes everything.

I know that some investment firms use leveraged buyouts to drain every bit of money from a company before they chop it up, sell the good bits and let the rest go bankrupt due to the massive debts left in the carcass of the old company. It's so scummy I wonder why it's not illegal.

I strongly dislike ads, but want to support good platforms and content creators. I eagerly waited for it to become available in the Netherlands back when it was still called YouTube Red. I subscribed the day it became available.

Ethical ad free YouTube: you support creators and the platform that hosts them, much better than through ads.

Too bad most videos now feature sponsored segments so creators are effectively double dipping in my premium support and advertiser money. That is honestly more annoying. I have more respect for creators who have Patreon and don’t feature sponsored content.

If it’s a small amount, I don’t think it will matter much.

If it’s a huge amount, it will become part of the water cycle systems. Oceans/seas/lakes evaporate surface water, which become clouds, which move around, then hit mountains and other things, get squeezed, release rain, which generally flows back to oceans via rivers. It may get stuck in lakes, or as snow on mountains, but in the big picture that is temporary.

Adding more water will likely put more in the oceans, as that is what holds most water right now.

Based on what I read about melting icebergs, If you add enough sweet water to oceans, it might mess with how water flows between oceans, which upsets how air flows across the planet, and thus it messes with large scale weather patterns. For example, Europe benefits massively from patterns that feed it warmer air.

Imagine Europe getting the same low amount of rain as the Sahara, or the Sahara suddenly getting the rain Europe gets right now. It’ll be a catastrophe if that persists for decades or longer.

We’re getting closer to “you wouldn’t download a car” being outdated, if more cars start pushing most of their functionality from behind a paywall.

It’s not something I’m happy to see.

It’s a decent app, especially when you pay for Reddit premium and don’t see ads. Other apps may be better, but to me it was fine to use for years.

It’s just that the company running the platform seems to try to ruin the platform.

Last month I cancelled my subscription and left a 1 star review to protest the company’s actions, and I’m here now.

Maybe a lot of folks who left Reddit did not think to leave a review?