I was under the impression that creative works were one of the areas Canada punches above its weight with the US. Music in particular.

I can’t imagine people who can’t afford moderately more expensive condoms can afford another child. I do suspect however that they can afford to spread venereal disease

In this case it was just a decent gen ed literature paper but yeah I once literally couldn’t stop reading the Wikipedia article about the evolution of plants when I was unmedicated.

I’m more likely to talk of hyperfocus when it’s things theoretically people would think are good to be unable to stop focusing on like school, work, or learning. This is largely because crashing on the couch doomscrolling instead of eating is something even neurotypicals do these days and because talking about all the nights I spent playing binding of Isaac or civilization with zero capacity to stop and do my damn homework or go to bed make it sound like a failing and like I’m blaming my mental illness.

But yeah, it’s inability to regulate attention and we live in a world in which sophisticated tools for catching and maintaining attention are extremely commonplace and should be more regulated.

Idk I feel like if it actually worked that way we’d get pretty firm negotiations that home and work get separate metalminds at least at decent jobs. And much like how zincminds don’t make you smarter, they just make you equally smart faster, these won’t make you good at your job, just make you solely focused on the stupid thing your boss told you to do.

Also I feel like given how hyperfocus is attention would be more like weight or senses than strength in that filling has benefits too by allowing you to task change and a sudden jolt from tunnel vision

Yeah also hyperfocua is thankfully often one of the earliest symptoms to be dealt with. The name “hyperfocus” sounds great, but when I tell the story of how in college I sat down to write a paper then several hours later was finished, couldn’t tell you anything about it and desperately needed food, water, and to use the restroom but was so exhausted I didn’t know how to prioritize these needs and spent several minutes deciding which to resolve first… Yeah then it sounds like a symptom of a disability rather than some magic power.

I swear I’m sick and tired of people thinking adhd is basically being an attention feruchemist

Or more cynically: privileged talent knows its worth, marginalized talent is undervalued and will thank you for only lightly screwing it

Oh I didn’t know Karp was going to get forcibly sterilized by the government if he succeeds at his goals. Sounds like he doesn’t know that either

Like, dude, the party is already moving against the neurodivergent and he’s playing a major part in their capacity to do so. Playing a fundamental role in his own forewarned tragedy, kind of reminds me of another motherfucker I’ve heard of…

Because if my operating system is going to break in stupid ways I want it to be my fault or at the very least something I could fix if I knew shit about fuck. Seeing as I don’t know that the main perk is Linux keeps getting better as windows keeps getting worse.

Yeah. After a period of unemployment and having used windows 10 at my previous job I came home after using 11 and told my wife “damn bitch you live like this?” about it

sigh I’m fucking sick of this stupid ass warmongering

CW: you will probably cry and be furious and haunted for this boy’s sake

Whelp that’s a casus belli…

Yeah I’m far more on board with specific information being available to everyone and nothing more. Possibly also a “high risk, low occurrence” list of things like BRACA for people who have a family history of a high consequence disease causing mutation.

And I think disabled voices need prioritized in the discussion of what genes are included. As someone with genetic health issues, I don’t trust those without them to make such decisions, especially after seeing how hearing parents of deaf children behave.

They think of it as just giving their kid the best chances in life. They really need to listen to people like Vivian Wilson talk about what it’s like to not live up to selected for traits in IVF.

3.2% on a gaming hardware survey is fucking insane stats for Linux though. Three years ago that wouldn’t have been believable.

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Wow he really did spend millions to design a robot that sucks his and only his dick

A private business keeps accusing you of operating a meth lab using city water, now they get to sue the city water provider for not cutting you off. That’s basically what this is

Yes, kings who couldn’t pay their debts lost the ability to finance the ability to project force. Sure you can discharge your debts, but eventually the money lenders stop lending. Money is a representation of value and must correlate to the price of labor and goods, otherwise the army starts asking why they don’t have the ability to buy food. A monarch or two can get away with it by kicking the can down the road, but lenders are in the business of making safe bets.

Oh I interpreted an tone of sarcasm/indignance