It can be other things. Some of why I didn’t get stuff done when younger was actually a symptom of PTSD from unrelated trauma. Basically my stress response is messed up and so anything I could link to stress or shame can make me avoidant, which snowballs into not doing the thing and more stress.

When I unlinked daily tasks from shame and stress I could suddenly do them, as I actually have ok executive functioning when PTSD isn’t messing with me to cause avoidance which as I understand would not really be the case for ADHD. Although PTSD and the like can also pop up in ADHD people who were bullied for their symptoms.

Not from a video game exactly, but in the early days of the internet, I had urges to delete things instead of putting them into the trash.

Dungeons and (bad) Dragons

As far as I know, everyone dreams every night…it’s part of the sleeping process…but you usually forget it ASAP so it seems like you didn’t dream.

As for dreams I remember…less often as I get older, I find. Although I do get a few vivid dreams when using magnesium supplements, but I also acclimate to those quickly. And if I’m woken prematurely, sometimes a dream sticks around a bit more than it otherwise would.

Because it’s very difficult to get things you need to live solely through barter. Many trades are very niche, and an economy that uses money allows those trades to continue being viable parts of society.

Like, think of plumbing. If everything goes well, you don’t need a plumber. But when you do…you really need it. Now imagine being the plumber who wants some bread and eggs but the farmer has no problems currently that needs the plumber’s skills. Plumber can’t eat, leaves profession, there’s now no plumber when the pipes do break.

Obviously, the next thought here might be, “Well, why doesn’t the plumber say if they get eggs and bread now, they’ll come and fix your toilet later if needed?” But that sort of re-invents credit, right? “I’ll trade 3 future plumbing problems for 3 boxes of eggs now.” If you have that, why not money?

So basically, money is very useful. It can be traded for many things you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get if you were only able to offer as barter a specific item that might be rejected by the other person you want to barter with. Money is a “universal” trade good, and it’s also easy to store (you don’t have to have lots of physical room to store your Universal Trade Good).

The BEHAVIOR of people surrounding this very useful thing can absolutely be suspect, depending on the person (greedy sociopaths hoarding wealth)–but that’s a human thing, not because money is innately a bad thing. It’s a social problem, not a technology problem. You could totally have a greedy hoarder storing up a non-money trade item too…see people and toilet paper/sanitizer during Covid.

The Big 5 is the only “personality” test used in actual scientific studies, if I recall correctly.

I began using Freetube exclusively to watch YouTube when YouTube complained about my ad blocker.

I really don’t like this article because it reminds me of the crazy health nut parents who get disgusted by fat babies and try to make them diet for “health” and instead starve them. Babies are supposed to be fat.

Is the writer here applying guidelines for adults to babies? Babies are supposed to take in foods that are high calorie. I think Nestle is a shit company, but I am extremely suspicious of the article.

Fred’s absolutely a setup to have Brent Spiner appear as SOMEONE in some episode.

And given Season 3 of Picard, it might even be Data, with his new hybrid with-bits-of-Lore personality.

But it could be a human Soong too, or another Soong-type android (I absolutely hate they call them “synths”, all I hear is Fallout references.)

Edit: It just really stood out to me there was a line referencing that Fred might have “a family”.

I was raised Catholic in a deeply Evengelical town. The little girls were saying out of the blue that I wasn’t Christian. I was like 8, they were like 6. They were absolutely parroting what their parents said, there’s no way the little girls I played with daily came up with that shit on their own, and since then I’ve noticed that’s one of the “protestant culture” things that gets passed around in those circles and occasionally escapes. That Catholics aren’t Christian because saints or whatever.

They get all wound up about the “pagan” elements of Catholicism then turn around and worship their dollar bill golden idols. Hypocrites!

But basically, Catholics get crapped on when there’s no other minority around and they are tired of talking about Jewish folks.

I don’t practice, I’m atheist, but in the USA from a culture perspective Catholics aren’t in the WASP good old boy group, even if you are otherwise white. And WASP types are happy to let you know it, although its less common than it was a few decades back.

Biden being Catholic, and JFK before him, is basically a dog whistle to certain rightwing groups to make them lose their shit, it’s just less obvious than, say, Obama being black esp if you don’t have a family background that would expose you to that stuff.

Well, when a mommy and daddy hat bobble love each other very much…

Personally I feel it’s closer to a non-carbonated soft drink. Probably because of the amounts of sugar, hah. It seems formulated more like a lemonade almost, just with tea as the flavor instead of lemons?

Chicago’s Rare Tea Cellar

Whut? Is it actually in Chicago? I used to live there, but usually visited TeaGschwendner, although I think they might have closed their store since then…

I’ve done that a few times, but the ones I’ve encountered have tended towards black breakfast assam tea types, and I like the lighter blacks and oolongs better. I’m sensitive to bitter tastes.

Any favorite types, or brands, or vendors?

I’m a fan of What-Cha.com, but they’re in the UK so I have to wait until it makes sense to do that international shipping. kuchata.com is in Denver and closer, but I also like Harney and Sons and Adagio Teas.

Oh! You reminded me. So, I learned that vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is basically a tart flavor. I already got a big tub of powdered vitamin c since I tend to struggle to keep it in my diet in other ways–but that kind of evolved to using it to flavor other drinks to “brighten” them a bit, because it’s just as much flavor as it is a vitamin. It basically turns drinks into almost-lemonade, without the lemon flavoring, and just the bright somewhat tart flavor.

What’s your favorite mio flavor?

An individual bulb is somewhat more expensive, yes, but I’ve noticed I no longer half-expect the typical popping sound of an incandescent bulb going dead randomly when I turn on a light because it’s been so long since I’ve had a bulb truly burn out on me. Used to be a few-times-a-year thing, now it’s more like once every 5+ years.

4TB SSDs are simply out of my budget

They’re $200-$300 on Amazon atm.

You can get 512gb for $30 though, which boggles me.

When SSDs were new, I paid about $350 for a mere 250gb SSD.

FYI, Newegg got sold to some company a few years back and is no longer the geek nirvana it once was. So YMMV if you use it. It can still be good, it’s just not as central as it used to be to computer geekdom.

House phones were a great source of entertainment in the 80s.

I never experienced this myself, but your comment here reminded me that in rural areas, some people’s homes would be on a “party line”. Meaning, one phone number for several houses, and I guess all the phones in all the houses on the party line would ring if it was called? And neighbors could just pick up their handset quietly and listen into calls and snoop and get gossip that way if the people talking didn’t watch what they said over the phone?

And even in homes that had their own dedicated number, you could quietly lift any phone handset in the house and listen in. If you were careful the other people talking would never know someone else was listening in.