I was not upset, I was just trying to clarify my position, and get clarity on yours. Normal discussion stuff. I understand if you don’t have the energy/interest to continue though, since I still don’t understand your position nor do you understand mine.

Ultimately yes, but I know that this isn’t always possible. I’ve left reddit completely for here (and yes, there is a lot of fun content that I really miss), but occasionally if I am looking for information and my search turns up little except for a link to reddit, then I’ll go look. You have to judge for yourself how much you can “invest”, just don’t do it because it’s less fun or whatever. And while reading is less of a problem than contributing, the more of that you do there, the less of it you are likely doing here, which diminishes the investment in this platform.

Think of it like an investment. Right now a person goes to reddit/fb/twitter/etc. because they get a quick payoff. By switching to fedi, you get less of a payoff now, but by helping to build it you get an even bigger payoff later. Anything worth doing involves some kind of “payment” or sacrifice this way. And like other investments, the more you put into it now (with content and getting others to switch), the sooner and bigger will be your payoff.

But as a bonus, there are immediate benefits to using fedi, so you get to enjoy those right away while you wait.

Well, automation under our current system, yes.

“Categorize experience”? That kinda sounds like that generalization I was talking about, which is not what this is here. It’s a simple matter of “people in this group have a higher likelihood of exhibiting this behavior than people of other groups”. Simple observation. It’s not saying that only people in this group exhibit it, or even that all people in this group exhibit it. Just that more do. It’s not even necessarily claiming direct causation. Maybe people in that group have experiences that make them more likely to exhibit that behavior, so that would make it environmental. But the cause is another discussion.

As for “look for problems at an individual rather than systemic level”, I’m afraid that I don’t know what you mean here. I wasn’t talking about any problems. Are you referring to the injustices themselves maybe? Because that’s a whole other discussion too. I’m talking about psychology, not politics or economics. (And while it’s not relevant, yes, I am acting on it, and far more systemically than most people.)

I wasn’t trying to dismiss anything. Just pointing out that it’s a commonly observed trait in ADHD people. It’s a scientific perspective to notice that people with certain neurologies tend to exhibit certain behaviors more often than people with other neurologies. It’s not stigmatizing unless you are both generalizing and value judging.

The inspiration for Rampage perhaps? 🤔

That’s me too, an effect of Justice Sensitivity, a common trait among both ADHD and autistic people. Before I knew that I was both, I used to tell people that I was allergic to advertising, to convey my feelings about it.

My suspicion is that it’s not so much age as the cumulative effects of cptsd. Life in this world just keeps grinding most of us down.

That only works if it was 150 people per year for each of those 7 years. I read it as 150 people total, making the time irrelevant. Unless you are talking about how much was paid out of a budget each year. Was your “each” per person or per year?

Sure I may have used Windows in the past, but now I wash my hands of it.

I tried, but their website wouldn’t accept my information for some reason. Tried a couple times, tried different browsers, even tried the provincial site, nothing.

Looks good, but missing Friendica.

I wonder if this counts: I don’t like the look of some things because my mind instantly imagines how it would feel, so if I wouldn’t like the texture, I don’t like looking at it because it gives me the same unpleasant feeling. Sounds like a synesthesia.

Ugh. I’m not even supposed to be here today.

Me too. I didn’t know that skin cremes could make dragons. 😲

😛

Going to see a doctor in an hour to see if they will be my regular/“family” doctor. Here’s hoping that they are neuro-affirming because getting diagnosed is an important conversation I need to have right now. 🤞

(And of course it’s the coldest day of the week (-20/-25 c) and I have to walk there. 🥶)

I learned to embrace my weird in my teens. Of course, it’s a lot easier when you have others to be weird with, and I was very lucky with that back then. Lately, I haven’t been as lucky.

I wouldn’t know how to get this going, but I very much enjoyed reading it and your comments and think that it looks like a great project. 👍

(I mean, as a fellow autist I might be able to hyperfocus on it for a while, but I’m sure that the ADHD would keep me from finishing to go work on something else. 🙃)