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  1. Comment on If you could send someone to any historic moment, who and when? in ~talk

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    Send Hitler to Hitler's birth and tell him the prophecy is that that child will be the one to end him. And that he only has this one small chance to act and save himself. Whatever that may be.

    Send Hitler to Hitler's birth and tell him the prophecy is that that child will be the one to end him.

    And that he only has this one small chance to act and save himself. Whatever that may be.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on Game Changer - The Opening Song from "Welcome to Mountport" (2022) in ~music

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    That's interesting. But I wonder where Sam is from.

    That's interesting. But I wonder where Sam is from.

    12 votes

  3. Comment on Why 'Star Trek: Enterprise' had that terrible theme song in ~tv

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    I don't hate the song. It's quite enjoyable. But maybe it's because I knew Enterprise existed as a child. I avoided Star Trek as a kid because Enterprise was so boring. I then watched TNG as an...

    I don't hate the song. It's quite enjoyable. But maybe it's because I knew Enterprise existed as a child. I avoided Star Trek as a kid because Enterprise was so boring.

    I then watched TNG as an adult and loved it. I (jokingly) kind of blame Enterprise for making me take so long to get to Trek.

    But the theme song though? I love singing along badly to it when I'm alone.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Has sexual content invaded too much of the internet? in ~tech

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    My feed is incredibly clean too. It's just lots of art and animals. The ads I get aren't sexual either. It's a lot of "buy this very niche thing from our shop or we'll die soon."

    My feed is incredibly clean too. It's just lots of art and animals. The ads I get aren't sexual either. It's a lot of "buy this very niche thing from our shop or we'll die soon."

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Has sexual content invaded too much of the internet? in ~tech

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    As a kid using the internet in the 90s, I didn't have to actively search out sexual content. You just go online and it's just there. You try to go to a regular website and you get pop ups of giant...

    As a kid using the internet in the 90s, I didn't have to actively search out sexual content.

    You just go online and it's just there. You try to go to a regular website and you get pop ups of giant dicks.
    Really, then there was Newgrounds at some point for free games, but so many of them were violent or sexual maybe? I didn't go there for violent content at first. I stumbled into it and then thought it was funny and played more.

    I remember a game where you were the school shooter or something.

    I learned so many things from clicking misleading links. Like people sending others to lemon party or things like that. Even then, I think lemon party wasn't that old. Was it in the early 2000s?

    There's a reason the internet is for porn song is a thing. But that was also quite late.

    I really developed quite a twisted sense of humor from learning all these ridiculous things online without searching for them. They happened to me.

    I didn't mind it though. As a juvenile, I just thought it was hilarious. I couldn't expose that to my offline classmates in school who didn't have access to a computer.

    Imagine my dismay when I went "Hehehe. Search for blue waffle." Only to find actual waffles coloured blue.

    As an adult, I still don't mind it. I think of those times fondly. It was ridiculous. But because of it, I learned a lot about how to manually remove viruses and things like that.

    I'm very wholesome now though.

    However, I would still be for a less sexual internet. The internet before was not at all like the internet now. It's far more dangerous with people sharing their actual information and life online. It's so prevalent in everything we do.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on What is a non-professional situation, area or activity in which you are uniquely experienced or skilled? in ~talk

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    Cats! I know that's really common but that's what I've got. I grew up not understanding people and therefore made very little friends. I then spent a lot of time as a kid making friends with...

    Cats!

    I know that's really common but that's what I've got.

    I grew up not understanding people and therefore made very little friends. I then spent a lot of time as a kid making friends with street cats around my area. I didn't have money so I didn't think to bribe them with food. A lot of it consisted of just sitting there persistently until we became friends.

    My parents did eventually let me adopt cats and I had a few with various background circumstances.

    But anyway, I got much older, have dealt with many cats that came into my life by then, have my own income and more space.

    My friend who works with animals one day asked me if I could help foster a cat. He was a problematic cat with ptsd and wasn't getting any better around other cats so they couldn't send him to their regular fosterers. And anyone who can handle cats would have their own at home.

    This happened during a time in my life where I didn't have a cat of my own so it was a good fit.

    So I took him in and read many books on how to handle difficult and traumatised cats and tried hard to gain his trust and make him comfortable.

    It worked out in the end, he got comfortable enough and was adopted. He now lies belly up in the sun a lot.

    Since then, my friend would ask me to help foster difficult cats other people can't handle since I only take in one cat at a time.

    So I say I'm quite good with cats. I'm no cat whisperer but I can handle them well enough.

    30 votes

  7. Comment on IT professionals and therapists in ~health.mental

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    There's always going to be a difference in experience as people because a therapist will come from a different socio economic background. I also have quite a niche job and am also a minority at...

    There's always going to be a difference in experience as people because a therapist will come from a different socio economic background.

    I also have quite a niche job and am also a minority at where I live. I expect nearly all therapists to not be able to relate to me fully.

    But what I look for is common ideals. Same idea of what therapy should consist of. Their ability to listen and understand as much as they can. A person who is safe and not judgemental.

    I went through three therapists before I got to my current one. The first therapist was great and I'm very happy with my current one too.

    The ones in between though. The therapist I had before this didn't seem to understand what I was trying to say even though I explained a lot about how my culture worked. She was also dismissive and had a certain idea of what my issue was and tried to steer me towards it.

    But it was often wrong.

    My current therapist is from an entirely different culture bubble but we get along very well. And she gets things very quickly when I explain how things work and can empathise. As much as she's able to at least.

    I guess it's more about finding a therapist you can get along with who can also understand the way you explain things rather than having to find a therapist who knows IT.

    8 votes

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  9. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (July 2024) in ~health.mental

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    Hey. I'm also in my 30s, living with my parents, and haven't had a full time job for about a year and a half? Maybe. I'm working on getting myself of out this mess. I don't know how to help. Just...

    Hey. I'm also in my 30s, living with my parents, and haven't had a full time job for about a year and a half? Maybe. I'm working on getting myself of out this mess.

    I don't know how to help. Just wanted to say you're not alone. And hey, if something exists often enough to be a stereotype, then it just means it's a common struggle many people know and can relate to. So it doesn't have to say anything about you or your value as a person.

    Life sucks sometimes.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (July 2024) in ~health.mental

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    I think I'm getting better? I'm not sure. My anxiety does still get very high and interfere with work. My new psychiatrist is treating me with mood stabilisers together with my depression/anxiety...

    I think I'm getting better? I'm not sure. My anxiety does still get very high and interfere with work.

    My new psychiatrist is treating me with mood stabilisers together with my depression/anxiety meds. She can't give me stimulants because my anxiety is too high.

    The psychiatrist was nice and understanding and is treating me with ADHD in mind. She says that might be why I wasn't improving with just depression meds.

    I've been getting out of bed these days at least. So that's good.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Do you get bored? in ~talk

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    I do definitely get bored. But not because of the lack of things to do. I have a lot of things that I have to do and things I want to do. Just in the middle of work (that I enjoy) today, I...

    I do definitely get bored. But not because of the lack of things to do. I have a lot of things that I have to do and things I want to do.

    Just in the middle of work (that I enjoy) today, I suddenly stopped and said "I'm bored". And then looked for some music to play in the background while I keep working.

    Thing is, I don't think boredom is bad or good. I've always thought of it as a neutral thing that humans experience from time to time. I can't imagine being switched on all the time. I also require downtime.

    The reason I think boredom is neutral is because I also often can go for long stretches of time without feeling bored. Again, there's just too many things I want to do and no time to do them.

    I think you can both be bored while having a lot to keep you occupied. It's like opening a fridge full of food and saying "There's nothing to eat".

    I adopted the internet pretty early. Earlier than a lot of my peers and was very into technology. But for most of my childhood, other people didn't have computers or the internet.

    I just wanted to say that I simultaneously had both a no internet and with internet childhood.

    But I'm still not addicted to the internet. I'm addicted to being connected and being able to communicate easily. But I'm rarely on social media and I don't enjoy playing mobile or social games. I like being left alone when I'm home.

    And I honestly don't think having access to entertainment and information at my fingertips have reduced my creative output. Instead, it has increased it.

    I've recently been trying to build a diorama and a lot of googling was done because I didn't know what I was doing. It would have been hell to figure out these things on my own.

    And I often enjoy staring at things and observing them. I like looking out the window when I'm in a vehicle. I was at the doctor's recently and stared at their certificates and ceiling. Random things are intetesting to look at. My phone tends to get forgotten by this time.

    So yeah. I have no issues with being able to find something interesting to do and look at while keeping boredom at bay.

    This does not have anything to do with the internet or using my phone. I have many distractions regardless of technology available.

    But I also do experience boredom from time to time but It's not due to lack of stimuli. Just a regular human emotion thing.

    Not sure if that made sense at all. It's really late for me and I'm half asleep. I apologize for the terrible writing in advance. Good night/day/afternoon.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on What's a life lesson you've applied that has changed your life? in ~life

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    This is very specific to me and I don't know if it'll apply or help anyone else. Growing up, I didn't understand people or society or how anything functioned. A lot didn't make sense. I watched...

    This is very specific to me and I don't know if it'll apply or help anyone else.

    Growing up, I didn't understand people or society or how anything functioned. A lot didn't make sense. I watched people a lot, studied them, learned to communicate through fictional books and television (not the best idea, but I had nothing else) and came up with scripts and things like that.

    The one thing that helped me make a slight leap forwards was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I knew it was satire and all that, but at some point the book said something about how humans like pointing out the obvious or something similar. That's when I noticed it happening in person, and I joined in and would be like "Hey, The sky is bright today."

    In my late teens, while still in school, I kept throwing myself into social situations, joining the debate club (that didn't debate even once) and other groups in school and refined my scripts and understood social interaction a lot more.

    I got a lot better at it, but still struggled here and there. I then asked my very social brother how he comes up with things to ask or say. Then he said that he genuinely wanted to know more about the people he converses with. He likes people and getting to know them.

    That kind of flipped a switch for me. I knew this wouldn't work if I wasn't already better at communicating, but I guess I happened to be at the right skill level. From then on, I took an interest in people.

    I don't know. I just somehow talked myself into finding humans interesting.

    I'd always look for something interesting in them. Even if it might seem quite boring at first. I'd be curious and relate to them in ways I understand. And somehow that worked? Rather than focus on what script to engage, I focused on getting to know them.

    I'm not saying I abandoned scripts. I did not. I just have a more versatile one now.

    I'm not saying I'm great with people now. Not really. But I can socialise if I need to and it comes off as relatively natural. I hope. At least based on what people have told me.

    I tried telling this to a friend who was asking me how I learned to socialise. I told him this. And he said, "But I hate people." He also said that to find people interesting would mean to change who he is as a person.

    So. Yeah. It's not going to work for everyone. I think it wouldn't have worked for me if I wasn't at the stage where I was ready for it too.

    9 votes

  13. Comment on Has anyone stopped caring about politics? in ~humanities

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    It kind of depends though. There are many people who are not privileged at all, and may even be struggling day to day who do not deal with politics. They cannot. They've spent most of the day...

    It kind of depends though. There are many people who are not privileged at all, and may even be struggling day to day who do not deal with politics.

    They cannot. They've spent most of the day working hard and earning very little. Maybe they have a lot of dependents or any other situation that can exhaust someone from just trying to live.

    It's very easy to feel like you have no power and nothing you do will matter. You will remain this way no matter how hard you try. You don't even have the emotional or physical energy to spend on politics.

    If everyone was like this, would that mean things would never change? Possibly. But you're too tired to think that far. You've got bills to pay tomorrow.

    10 votes

  14. Comment on Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played in ~games

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    I too am guilty of this. I keep buying thinking I really want to play. But I get busy or tired and end up not playing it. What's worse is that sometimes when I do feel like playing for a bit, I...

    I too am guilty of this. I keep buying thinking I really want to play. But I get busy or tired and end up not playing it.

    What's worse is that sometimes when I do feel like playing for a bit, I default to playing games I've already played. Sometimes you're too tired to think too hard and want some entertainment.

    But, I see it as giving support to the developers anyway. I buy a fair bit of random indie games. I guess it's like a donation at this point.

    Also, sometimes I buy a game and then end up watching someone else play it online. I guess that's relatively fair.

    Another justification for it is that the only reason I got into games was because I pirated a lot of games as a kid. My parents couldn't afford games and the pc we had was built with spare parts and given to us by a relative.

    As an adult who now has to time to play, I see it as payback for all the games I didn't pay for as a kid.

    I know it's dumb because the money doesn't go to the developers who made the games I played in the past. But yea, I like thinking of it that way.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on Adobe TOS: I'm an artist. I have never used Adobe Cloud software. What happens if someone else uploads my content? in ~tech

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    Not sure if it'll make things any better. But I'm a commercial artist and I've never worked with any company or an individual client that used the Adobe creative cloud to upload work. They use...

    Not sure if it'll make things any better.

    But I'm a commercial artist and I've never worked with any company or an individual client that used the Adobe creative cloud to upload work.

    They use various other services. That aren't really any better I guess. Some smaller studios use Google drive.

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    Nevermind. It's still not that great.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (June 2024) in ~health.mental

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    Not great. My pain is a lot better and isn't debilitating. I changed to a new psychiatrist and I'm finally getting help for fibromyalgia. I'm still in pain from time to time though. I'm randomly...

    Not great. My pain is a lot better and isn't debilitating. I changed to a new psychiatrist and I'm finally getting help for fibromyalgia. I'm still in pain from time to time though.

    I'm randomly sad and breaking down and my anxiety is terrible without Xanax. But I know not to take it too often. I've only taken it twice this week so far.

    I know feeling normal is possible. I get a glimpse of it from time to time when I'm on Xanax.

    I think I'm actually finally getting better, but because I'm better, I finally have the space to be sad about my situation. I was too busy being bothered by debilitating pain before this.

    I want to work on my resume and get back to a full time job but I still feel too terrible to handle anything.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory in ~humanities.languages

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    I do both or all of them. I've always thought that that was the norm. I have an inner voice but I also often have thoughts in concepts without voice. I can see images in my brain but sometimes it...

    I do both or all of them. I've always thought that that was the norm.

    I have an inner voice but I also often have thoughts in concepts without voice. I can see images in my brain but sometimes it doesn't happen.

    I do think that thinking in concepts is a lot faster. What sometimes happens when I'm talking to myself in my head is that the voice would give up and say "you know". And I do know. Because I'm thinking in concepts and the verbal portion couldn't catch up and gave up speaking.

    So I've always kind of thought that kind of a messy mix of brain processing was the norm. Rather than whether you hear voices or you don't. Whether you think in concepts or you don't.

    Which is hard for me to truly understand. But that's the whole point isn't it. We find it hard to understand how others process thoughts differently unless we're them.

    The article does make it same like there's a gradient. Rather than with or without though.

    But I'm still terrible at remembering words.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on What are three things you're feeling positively about today? in ~talk

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    Animal Crossing honestly isn't all that fun. It is relatively boring at times. But it's a good game for when you just want to do something while trying to get your brain to relax. At least it is...

    Animal Crossing honestly isn't all that fun. It is relatively boring at times. But it's a good game for when you just want to do something while trying to get your brain to relax.

    At least it is for me. I've been pretty stressed and overwhelmed, so I take breaks from time to time to lie down and play Animal Crossing and breathe. It keeps the brain occupied enough that it doesn't run off thinking about other stressful things, but mindless enough that you don't really have to tire your brain out while resting.

    And it's also entertaining enough to keep me playing while resting, but boring enough that I can put it aside easily and go back to work once my self imposed break is over.

    There's also basically a lot of different things you can do depending on your mood or energy level. Renovating your island takes more brainpower while fishing is a nice calming one where.. Well. You fish.

    I don't ever dive in the game. Because to get the sea creatures from diving, it requires you to actively chase it and grab it before it swims away. That's too much tension! I just was to sit and wait for a fish to grab my bait.

    So erm, this is both an endorsement and not an endorsement for the game. Because as a game, it's pretty boring. As a calm distraction from stress, it's great.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What are three things you're feeling positively about today? in ~talk

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    CJ came to my island and I sold him all my fish. I'm nearly a millionaire again in Animal Crossing after spending my millions of bells on upgrades. The last time I played was during the lockdown....

    1. CJ came to my island and I sold him all my fish. I'm nearly a millionaire again in Animal Crossing after spending my millions of bells on upgrades. The last time I played was during the lockdown. There's a lot of new stuff now.

    2. My cat likes me.

    3. My cat came to cuddle this morning.

    13 votes

  20. Comment on What is it like to have both ADHD and autism? in ~health.mental

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    Thank you. I appreciate the reply. I am sorry for the misunderstanding and uncharitable reading of the tone of your post. I should have given you the benefit of the doubt rather than have a knee...

    Thank you. I appreciate the reply.

    I am sorry for the misunderstanding and uncharitable reading of the tone of your post. I should have given you the benefit of the doubt rather than have a knee jerk reaction.

    I do tend to react terribly to this topic and am working with my therapist on why I get very worked up when we discuss it. So I think that happened again here.

    I do aim to figure out how to do better in life in a way that isn't antagonistic to my body. So I am glad to know that you have made it work out for you.

    4 votes