I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and then pursued a psychiatrist to oversee my treatment, who determined I didn't have ADHD.

The way he described my situation made the "ADHD superpower" meme make more sense than anything I've ever read. I'm gonna butcher it but I'll do my best to share:

There are structural differences in the brain that contribute to a person having ADHD, but the structural differences themselves ARE NOT ADHD. The last D in ADHD is "disorder", and there are a whole bunch of external circumstances that mental health professionals use to determine whether or not you count as "disordered".

You can have an addictive, impulsive, obsessive, stim-hungry brain and not have ADHD.

Many children develop habits, coping strategies, or other accommodations that allow them to "overcome" the weaknesses that come along with these brain structure differences.

This is the situation where ADHD looks like a superpower.

In my case I have a very, very easy time slipping into flow state. When I'm intensely focused on a task I am time blind, I often don't respond to questions or acknowledgements, and I have an intense temper if I'm interrupted. So I've used timers and meditation/CBT to manage those drawbacks.

By comparison most people I know have a difficult time motivating themselves and accessing flow state. So to those people, especially when they DON'T see the extra work I do, it could look like I have a sort of super power.

It's not a super power, my brain just works differently and I've come up with ways to manage the problems and use it to my advantage.

Nothing is nonstick like Teflon … But the VAST majority of cooking doesn't require that level of nonstick, either.

Unless you have a French omelette addiction, you probably don't need Teflon.

Hamas literally ran politically as MODERATES. They've gone full jihadist. Without democratic process to keep the structure honest no party can be trusted.

Hamas rips up pipe to make rockets, and steals construction supplies to make tunnels.

The pipe and supplies that are supposed to help Palestinians live and survive without disease.

So that Hamas can apply pressure to ISRAEL for the Palestinian conditions?

Myself and literally everyone I know want to support the Palestinians. And it's impossible to support them while Hamas (or another jihadist organization) is there.

It's a circle, not a line. Far left and far right end up meeting in the middle.

Lemmy only has the information that I give it.

And it demands fairly little information.

I'll take that in exchange for nobody privately owning as much of my shit as they can get their filthy hands on.

OBNOXIOUS AND PROUD, BABY! 🌈

There's a pretty big difference between stupid declarations about things that simply aren't true, and trying to start a conversation. I just assumed with an axiom like that there was no conversation to be had.

Pride as a reaction to shame is pretty unhealthy, from a mental health perspective. There are people trying to shame everyone for everything. Don't be fat, don't be thin, don't be pretty, don't be ugly. If everyone was distractingly screaming about their pride for everything they feel ashamed of the world would be obnoxious.

I think pride as a movement made sense when everything queer was a hidden subculture.

I feel like that's past us. There are LGBT pro-hamas groups now. I think we've hit peak queer when there are queer activists for groups that would hang them.

Overtly stating anything about your identity is one of the dumbest and most boring things.

I don't care how you identify. It doesn't tell me anything about you, and it doesn't tell me anything about the thing. And generally, it's considered rude to talk about a person's identity.

You'd be better off telling me something you're interested in.

John Doe (likes trains)

There are two kinds of people… No wait, three kinds of people that care.

1. people who are emotionally fragile, mentally ill, or otherwise can't handle literally any friction of any kind in any of their interactions.

2. people who are excessively polite, virtue signaling, it SJWs. These people don't care for themselves but they care SO MUCH because they think it makes to OTHER people.

3. people who are afraid of complaints or legal action (business, public figures, etc)

I can count on one hand the number of times identity has mattered in a human interaction I've had.

The amount of energy we waste of identity is fucking absurd considering the literal zero value or brings to the world.

Hamas is a jihadist organization though…

If they don't represent the majority maybe they should hold elections and let a party that represents the majority take the lead?

There's no extermination. Quit getting your talking points from Tiktok and Twitter.

As usual, the onion nails the satire.

It's technically our second place and it's bigger, newer, but needs a bit of updating.

It's not everything we wanted and between closing costs, moving costs, the exhaustion of moving and adjusting to the move I don't think we're going to do it again before we're priced out of the thing we want.

We were hedging against either a bigger market correction or a bigger price explosion. Instead we just got weird global stress and fatigue.

Arguing from empathy with no regard for facts is hopeless.

Arguing from facts with no regard for empathy is dangerous.

We need both.

His victory last time was entirely due to Hillary being a weak candidate and exploiting Cambridge Analytica's illegal/immoral data scraping to tailor his message in swing regions.

While his base is more riled up this time, I'm pretty sure they are smaller, and many moderates that took a chance on him would never make that mistake again.

At least IMO. I guess we'll see.

I think you mean it's old.

Before audiences had all the tropes figured out simple stories were amazing. All the contrivances we add today we only add to make bad movies seem more interesting or complicated.

It's why perfectly executed, simple stories are still compelling. But Oklahoma! certainly isn't one of them.

Edit: oh, and some people love the music

I was agreeing with you, sorry, should have been more specific!

Activists aren't given carte blanche to break the law. That's called vigilantism. And it's illegal.

What? What are you even talking about?

Nobody wants racial segregation except the ignorant racists, who deserve the economic damage caused by being ignorant racists.

Forcing an ignorant racist to serve people they hate will accomplish nothing, and certainly won't help their ignorance or racism.

Daryl Davis is pretty vocal about the way he deradicalized KKK members, I recommend looking into him. Spoiler: the secret is shared interests (music) and normal conversation, just getting to know each other.