They gave all they had. And then some, Jesus.

Most animals have better births than humans but I, a human woman, would not want to be a kiwi bird (avian variety, IDK what words mean over there).

Hey nuh uh, I did all that having been diagnosed at 5, thank you.

Depends on the class.

I had a statistics course that allowed us one single sided page, but as long as your printer could handle infinitely small print, she didn’t care if you had magnification. You could hypothetically have keychain bible print for your entire book as a cheat sheet, it just wouldn’t help you in the allotted time.

My cheat sheet for R was nothing but codes because I’m not a coder at all (R and basic Linux are my entire coding experience, and it was fucking miserable) and that helped if I remembered to label the fucking codes. And LOL nope.

But I cheated in other classes by doing such nonsense as writing vocab on my shoes… in college language courses, which I paid for myself… so dumb and counter productive.

I was never smart enough to cheat in regular school… I just brute forced the work… ironyyyyyyyyy

Thanks!

This isn’t depression… I mean that’s probably some of it, but not the bulk of it. I’m actually in a much better headspace now than I’ve been for the last 15 years or so. It turns out my baseline happiness is that of a relentless optimist. Everything is going to be good, even though it really isn’t right now sort of thing. I have zero basis for that assertion, because my life is a complete shitshow, but I won part of the gene lottery on that one.

I was dx adhd at 5 (35 years ago) and pretty sure there’s a heavy dose of autism in there that wasn’t picked up because I’m AFAB and old, and getting screened for that now serves no purpose unless I want to be in a “work camp”… (American)

The problem is object permanence. Most of the time I don’t even remember I have a treadmill, and when I do, like when I see the box, I never want to set the damned thing up. It’s not pressing or important, nor is it something I want to do, so it doesn’t get done.

I just built a chicken coop tho, so I’m capable of doing things I need to do, just not things I should, but would rather not tbh, do.

I bought a treadmill and stationary bike a few years ago… weight training is less of a concern for me than cardio and getting in shape to use a bike as transport… also the treadmill is meant to make VR less nauseating for me, and I haven’t wanted to play VR since getting it because it’s so nauseating…?

I’ve used the stationary bike a few dozen times, but the treadmill is still in the box.

I want to use them… well no, I want to want to use them…. Which means I don’t.

Same. I worked as a project coordinator for a few months for a sign company (temp job). It was supposed to turn into a real job but then they asked how I felt about project management and I was like… umm… so literally all the stuff I do now because the PMs here don’t do shit, but nobody to handle it for me when it fails? Meh. I’d rather stay as a coordinator without all the people management.

Needless to say they ran out my contract and reneged the offer. I’m not upset, tho it hurt at the time.

I use the great fairy fountain from old school Zelda (ocarina of time specifically) as my wake up alarm, as it’s very peaceful to wake to. But still nerdy. It went with Navi going “hey listen!” Every time I got a text ;)

Mostly I use my watch alarm tho, which is vibration that starts gentle and gets stronger, and that’s plenty.

If I get shocked awake I have a panic attack. I try to avoid that.

Just curious, have you watched the show with the same name as your account?

I guess it’s for kids to help them deal with trauma. I downloaded it due to super high ratings, but I haven’t watched it yet (and might not; I don’t have or want kids, but I like having good stuff for friends with them)

I have a strategy for getting rid of stuff without that “oh I could use that thing I just threw out last week” devastation. It’s not super handy for organizing, but it does make organizing easier when you have less stuff. Maybe it’ll help you or someone else :)

What I do is go through stuff in rooms I rarely use. That’s where the junk tends to accumulate because when I clean the rest of the house the junk without a home goes into a spare room.

When I go through that junk, I put anything I think I want to throw out (assuming it’s not just straight garbage; that gets tossed) into one box, and anything I think I want to donate in another box. Everything else either gets put away somewhere (I have a lot of dressers/shelves for junk) or goes into a box of stuff to keep, like mementos and stuff.

When full, even if it takes months to fill it, I write the date and target action (donate/toss) on the boxes. And then I let them sit for 6 months. Unopened.

The 6 months is important because it erases all that junk from your mind. If you just toss it, that stuff is front and center in your mind so anything you do will naturally use that thing as a solution. If you let that memory fade, and don’t renew it, you don’t have that problem. If you decide you want something in the box, open it, take the thing, and put the new date on the box, to restart the 6 months. Never add anything to an existing full box; this breaks the workflow. Start a new one for new junk.

After 6 months has passed without the boxes being opened, do the thing with them you meant to (donate it or throw it out) without opening it. You no longer really know what’s in it, only that you haven’t needed any of it for a long time and it’s ok to get rid of it.

Bam, ability to clean and downsize without the crippling obsession with not throwing out something you’ll need a week later.

I had my uterus inflated with saline for an ultrasound screening before an ablation. It wasn’t a lot of liquid, but it was an absolute screaming amount of pain, and they said it wouldn’t hurt… I knew it would because I’ve had several iud insertions but they refused when I requested something, anything at all, for the pain…

I feel like if it was easy for him to get rid of the existing ones, he probably would…

Tho he got his kids vaxed and refused to answer if he’d do it again so there’s some chance he’s just being a disingenuous prick and fucking over millions for personal gain… wouldn’t put that past a single “conservative”

(Wild how in the wider world conservation means protecting things that exist, while American conservatism actively seeks to destroy everything that has existed for decades… wild…)

My understanding is that while they can make a new queen under the radar, hypothetically, the slightly different scent of her eggs/haploid larva is seen as a hostile invasion and it’s quickly dispatched by loyalists, which is why non-main-queen offspring rarely happens.

Something like because they are all essentially genetically identical, they all have the same pheromones, but the next generation won’t.

Honestly all the shit that’s been happening with defunding of education and school shootings and stuff, their education has already been impacted.

At this point we need mass movements across generations to block the tidal wave of shit. Because all of this stuff impacts people we all know, and the youth are super aware of this, and a lot of us are aware of this…

But society as a whole? Ehhhhh… idk… but they will be!

I live there and I had no idea 😅

I mean sure, but 20-something’s are dumb, as a rule. I was, you were, everyone is. That’s why the lower threshold for president is 35. When you are old enough to hopefully know better.

We should really have had at least one other metric, but apparently we didn’t.

Whenever I click an MSN link it takes me to the home page list of recent articles or whatever. Doesn’t bring up the article at all.

Different browser but all the same. Fuck msn.

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I also recently got a tcl with google, and haven’t hooked it to the internet.

The OS on it isn’t very good (seriously too many menus in too many places), it sets full brightness and then reduces to setpoint when you change inputs, and I haven’t figured out why it boots up my ps4 every time I turn on the tv, but beyond that I’ve been pretty happy with it.

It’s a very decent dumb tv.

Is that why potassium is K on the periodic table?

And now that I think about it, sodium is Na…

Damnit, our educational system has been telling us we are wrong the whole time! Sneaky bullshit!

The only stickers I buy are for my kegerator and my 2-gallon ukeg growler from the breweries I visit in my travels… so those go on pretty much right away, unless I forget them.

Sure, if they aren’t just round I have to think about where to put them, to fill as many gaps as possible, but that’s about it.

What sort of places is everyone else throwing stickers?