ADHD. A lot of people might say depression, and ADHD gets misdiagnosed this way too, especially because people are much more familiar with the way depression manifests rather than how ADHD actually manifests beyond stereotypical hyperactivity and difficulty focusing.

What you’re describing is executive dysfunction and energy regulation problems. The reason you can’t stop scrolling is because your brain doesn’t produce dopamine enough, and it’s only used to the short bursts it can produce. This creates a feedback loop where you’re stuck stimulating yourself with quick, easy dopamine hits, and that’s why anything that seems like a prolonged task feels like an impossible endeavor. It’s also why you’ll get tunnel vision if you ever do start playing that game.

My brain can’t make sense of the thumbnail.

Thank you.

What does PCB stand for?

Can somebody explain what this Raspberry Pi is that I see talked about all over Lemmy? Certainly, it is no pie, but I can’t seem to grasp what it actually is.

So specific.

Serious question: How is this different than all the other sensationalized headlines about some technology that’s gonna change everything, and then you later hear nothing about it?

I’m sorry, but my only takeaway is that there’s a lawmaker named “Hardy Billington” just existing out there. A moronic existence, sure, but he’s out there. Mr. Billington, doing bill stuff.

Republicans hate this one trick!

They knew what they were doing… They had to. Lol

This just means “to insult”. Not exactly interchangeable with “overcome with a negative emotion”.

But yes, I fucking hate this kind of hyperbole in news headlines. The other one I see is blasts like somebody legit fired a Kamehameha wave at somebody else.

A lot of Austin, Texas too.

“Euphemism Treadmill” on Wikipedia. Very interesting subject!

Not with that attitude!

I can’t find the original, so this is a link to a repost on Twitter. Hope it makes you smile like it always does for me.

https://twitter.com/The_YUNiversity/status/1381262764178604032

Bonus: https://imgur.com/oSiajTF

Don’t be a reductionist. If that’s all your cat was and that’s all your relationship was, then fine. If it wasn’t, you owe it to that cat to remember all the good times you two had between when it came to life and when it lost its life. Do it for the cat.

Then, when you’ve finally moved past this point, realize how much joy you gave that cat. Know that you did something beautiful in letting that cat know it was loved from beginning to end. Think about the cat’s perspective. Its death may have sucked; they rarely don’t. Now think about every moment that cat experienced growing up and being with you. Every sense of relief that cat felt when you came home. Every wave of comfort when you gave it pets. Every moment of safety it felt when you cared for it.

I know how sad you are, and I know this is tough love here, but that’s what carried me through losing my dog on Christmas 2022 and her sister December 16th 2023. We did our best. They couldn’t have had happier lives. I’m glad we could do that for them. It was worth the weeks of agonizing grief for the 14 and 16 years of happiness they experienced.

Shitty roommates. :(

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but Gilgamesh predates Old English by like 2,500 years.

Could you outline an example? I understand your perspective and feelings on the matter, but maybe if we could see a transcript, we could see exactly how this trait is manifesting, and we could analyze better what was happening here.

When I started using Lightroom, I was the same. Lots of things looked so cool to me, largely due to the novelty, and I cranked up a lot of settings much higher than they needed to be. Eventually, that novelty of fake grain and various filters wears off, and you start feeling like your pictures don’t need “so much of this” or deciding that just cause something looks cool doesn’t mean you think it looks good after all. After just a few months, I was already looking back on previous edits and thinking, “Yikes.” It’s just part of the journey.