adhd, autism, ocd, etc; you really think that's all glitches and bugs?
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@aeva @Farbs @lritter i think aeva's proposal regarding the leisure class over traditional employment can be viewed as a description of the drastic changes not just to the self but implicitly to society that would be required to meaningfully overcome and indeed avoid producing the mental failure modes which currently necessitate medication
@hipsterelectron @Farbs @lritter oh yeah like if society changed to have a real safety net, a culture of unconditional mutualism love and support, and space for everyone to be the master of their own lives, that would be fine too, but I think it's more likely that I'll get a blank check mcarthur genious grant in the mail despite not having an in with the harvard legacy old boy's club or having an advanced degree or any significant accomplishments
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@Farbs @lritter @hipsterelectron but yes, this is a life saving drug for me, and if it were cruelly taken away and I was told that instead I would be cured if I were to simply find a better environment (or simply applied myself more or any other absurd suggestion I've heard many times before in the past 30 or 40 years of my life), great hardship would follow for me and it would not be my fault
@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron yes. i get that. but this was not my thought experiment at all.
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@Farbs @lritter @hipsterelectron because I tried to make it work without it and I have a lot of experimental evidence to show it is very hard for me to hold traditional employment without my meds. It takes about a year for me to get fired when trying my absolute hardest to make it all work out. That's my entire career over and over again before I got proper treatment.
@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron see, we gotta get rid of employment and the concept of careers. this is what i'm after.
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@Farbs @lritter @hipsterelectron now I will readily admit there is one thing I have not tried that may also work wonders. If someone where to provide me enough unconditional funding that I could join the leisure class and have the privilege of not having to engage in traditional employment to provide for my family, and I were to be provided with an assistant to navigate the bureaucratic cruelty of the medical system,
@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron this, but for everyone.
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@Farbs @lritter @hipsterelectron then I suspect in that exact environment it is possible that I could experience good mental health for the first time in my adult life without the aid of any medication, however I would not place a great deal of confidence in my ability to be anything resembling productive in that situation.
At any rate, the opportunity has successfully eluded me entirely so far.
@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron considering what employers consider productive, it is not a great loss not to be. ;-)
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@hipsterelectron @aeva ok. so.. there is no way to be even more whole through mixed use. it's this drug or death?
@lritter @hipsterelectron @aeva
also just personal anecdata, not generalizing, everyone's different:
with an anxiety disorder plus adhd, the anxiety makes you perform too, in sprints, using your own adrenaline (it's kinda shit though and you burn out after a few decades because you're always running on dread ... I know from a good friend)
and expectations to perform consistently (instead of in bursts) still put you into a shame spiral
so meds are a good thing
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@lritter @hipsterelectron @aeva
also just personal anecdata, not generalizing, everyone's different:
with an anxiety disorder plus adhd, the anxiety makes you perform too, in sprints, using your own adrenaline (it's kinda shit though and you burn out after a few decades because you're always running on dread ... I know from a good friend)
and expectations to perform consistently (instead of in bursts) still put you into a shame spiral
so meds are a good thing
@mmby @lritter @hipsterelectron yeah and also stress is way worse for your health than stimulants ask me how i know
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@mmby @lritter @hipsterelectron yeah and also stress is way worse for your health than stimulants ask me how i know
@aeva @mmby @hipsterelectron i would be the last one to say drugs are bad. but i wonder about the greater picture.
for example, i know someone who's very anxious. they also have a heart insufficiency. it is obvious that the anxious tuning has co-developed to keep the heart pumping strong enough. it's a fix. you make this person relax, and you technically impact their vascular health negatively.
Crank irl
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@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron see, we gotta get rid of employment and the concept of careers. this is what i'm after.
@lritter @Farbs @hipsterelectron i'm down as long as i'm still allowed to have amphetamines
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@lritter @Farbs @hipsterelectron i'm down as long as i'm still allowed to have amphetamines
@aeva @Farbs @hipsterelectron amphetamines for everyone, in fact.
legalization of MDMA is in the works for years and long overdue. with this administration tho...
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Aggiornate WhatsApp e attivate le chat di terzi!
So che non rivoluzionerà il panorama della chat a livello globale, ma se molti di noi utilizzano questa funzione almeno diamo un segnale che la decentralizzazione é cosa gradita dal pubblico!
NB: Il simbolo ricorda vagamente l’asterismo ⁂
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@TomF @unormal one still remembers when they could comfortably fit in your crossed legs and now they're taller than you and WHERE TF DID ALL THAT MASS COME FROM.
Then you see them eating 250 grams of pasta per meal and «ah, yes.»
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E voi siete già pronti per la post-quantum cryptography?
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La Gomera, Jerduñe
Nell'isola de La Gomera capirà spesso di trovare paesaggi che, ai nostri occhi stranieri, sembrano contrastanti.
Come fanno a stare insieme le palme e la nebbia fitta?
Questa condizione invece è abbastanza frequente e tutt'altro che strana in quest'isola.
A Jerduñe, la nebbia la si vede scorrere e sa rivelarti una storia che il turista frettoloso potrebbe perdersi.
Al mio sguardo invece questa valle racconta di una comunità rurale, degli allevatori le cui capre belano ancora tra la nebbia, di giorni faticosi in cui occorreva risalire la pendenza fortissima fino alla statale, dove ferma l'autobus.
E poi c'è il verricello. C'è quello ancora funzionante e ci sono i suoi antenati, i cui cavi ormai penzolano nella loro immobilità.
Evidentemente la necessità aguzza l'ingegno e qualcuno era stanco di caricarsi il peso delle cose lungo questi sentieri irti.
La Gomera è anche questo: è Storia, è Comunità, è ambiente e suggestione.
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@phabrizio ottime per lavarsi le coscienze
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@ahi e nel resto delle stagioni no?
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@unknow o forse meglio una Olivetti Modello Portatile 1?
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