Izzy
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- Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up? 1 year ago:
No reason in particular. I can’t get interested in video games anymore. So I have unintentionally replaced my free time playing video games with reading. If I could manage to get interested in a video game then I would still play it.
- Comment on What's special about Misskey that Mastodon doesn't have? 1 year ago:
It seems to be primarily for a Japanese audience.
- Comment on How is it that we hate the taste of coffe and still drink it? 1 year ago:
It seems taste buds vary a lot too. 😅
- Comment on How is it that we hate the taste of coffe and still drink it? 1 year ago:
The taste of coffee varies a lot. Instant coffee takes bad to me, but grinding my own coffee beans and making it fresh with a little bit of cream is amazing.
- Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up? 1 year ago:
I started reading regularly. Been doing it for a few years now. I think it was exactly what I needed in my life. I pretty much cut off playing video games and replaced it with books. 👍
- Comment on Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy 1 year ago:
What kind of moderation tools could help with this?
- Comment on [Question] ActivityPub Blogging Platform 1 year ago:
Everyone seems to be micro blogging there own stuff. There are probably people reading various things, but nobody cares enough to respond. I think Twitter fed on drama which got people upset enough to respond. I think Mastodon is still sorting itself out. People will catch on eventually to how it all works.
- Comment on Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive 1 year ago:
- Comment on How can I be less competitive about social media engagement? 1 year ago:
- Comment on [Question] ActivityPub Blogging Platform 1 year ago:
It’s a toss up. There are a lot of people on Mastodon and I wouldn’t want to somehow get drama on my personal blog that is not really meant to be seen by the wider world. It’s harmless content to be sure, but the internet is a weird place. It’s potentially want to keep it isolated and just use Mastodon when I want to.
- Comment on [Question] ActivityPub Blogging Platform 1 year ago:
Fascinating. I actually just started a wordpress and might try this. Maybe… Getting mastodon people in the comments might not be a positive thing. 🤔
- Comment on [Question] ActivityPub Blogging Platform 1 year ago:
You can make a community on a Lemmy instance and set it only allow moderators to post.
- Comment on The four stages of fediverse-services - at which stage is Lemmy now? 1 year ago:
Infancy. There is no guarantee it will catch on.
- Comment on [Hypothetical] What would have happened if the US Supreme Court had arbitrarily declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election? Constitutional Crisis? 1 year ago:
Your link doesn’t lead to anything, but if you are trying to suggest the supreme arbitrarily decided Bush won the presidency then that is factually incorrect. There was a court case about Florida’s ballots in particular that happened to be enough to decide the outcome of the presidential election.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
I’m not doing any such thing. Everyone has just had some weird misunderstanding. The topic of the thread is about putting a positive spin on the term and I am agreeing to that as it is something I personally deal with. I find that the term “disorder” has an unfair negative connotation and could possibly be called something else. Preferably with a more positive connotation that doesn’t imply there is something wrong being born this way. If that isn’t possible then people should at least understand the medical definition of what a disorder is to help remove the negative connotation.
- Comment on [Hypothetical] What would have happened if the US Supreme Court had arbitrarily declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election? Constitutional Crisis? 1 year ago:
The supreme court doesn’t decide the president of the unite states so probably nothing would happen.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
I have to assume you are trolling at this point. Please go away if you are going to be an asshole.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
I have dealt with ADD and a problem called misophonia my entire life. I’ll stick with misophonia for now since it is easier to summarize. This is a very real difference with my mind that can be thought of as “not normal” among the majority. Specific sounds cause what can be described as an anxiety attack for me. This is completely out of my control and no amount of logical reasoning can make my body stop behaving this way. Even when I know for certain there is nothing wrong with that sound and I shouldn’t be so annoyed with it. Regardless, it has caused me a lot of trouble being able to function in modern society where I can’t avoid being around these specific sounds. When something different with your mind starts to cause significant problems functioning in society is when we label something as a mental disorder. This is literally the definition of a mental disorder. Now imagine for a moment there was an environment that didn’t have any of these sounds that cause me problems. Or how about an environment with no sounds at all? The difference with my mind would never even have an opportunity to present itself and thus would never even be known. Therefore it can be said that I don’t have a mental disorder in this environment.
The crux of the problem I am getting at is that the way people think of mental disorders is from an ableist perspective. That there is something wrong with the person themselves for the way they were born. This is merely a problem of semantics and definitions as I have said many times.
In the future please stop being so rude and intentionally misinterpreting intent. You give off the impression of a very rude person with ableist points of view which is rather uncool.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
Where in this sentence is it implied that it is possible let alone easily doable to change the environment? Using an “if” conditional implies a hypothetical and nothing more. You people are being nonsensical and looking to be angry for reason beyond comprehension at this point.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
That might the gist of it, but it definitely has everything to do with how the environment is structured. There might be no other feasible way to structure the environment though.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
I suggested no such thing. You are coming to wild conclusions on your own. Please read it again more carefully. I have in no way suggested that it is possible to change the environment.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
Environmental factors? Cause? You have completely misunderstood. This is just a discussion of semantics.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
You have misunderstood what has been said. It’s more challenging because society has built an environment that is not suitable for you and many others. This is just a matter of semantics and how to attribute fault with definitions. It’s not your fault who you are is not suitable for the way things are. It’s the way things are that are not suitable for you.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
You don’t understand. It’s only a mental disorder because we have built environments for people that are not suitable for everybody. It’s possible that there may not exist an environment that makes any mental disorder not be a problem, but ADD and ADHD in my opinion is not one of them. Many countries don’t recognize these as a mental disorders because they haven’t built a society that causes problems for people with ADD or ADHD.
As someone with ADD I find it a bit ridiculous that because I can’t pay absolute attention on something I’m uninterested in while stuck in a room unable to leave that I have a mental disorder. The problem doesn’t lie with me, but with the environment I am in.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
This is how a mental order is defined. What are you suggesting?
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 1 year ago:
I don’t even think it should be labeled as a disorder. Or at least people should be more aware of what a disorder means. It doesn’t necessarily mean there is anything wrong with the person. The behavior just happens to not be suitable for the particular environment they are in and causes difficulties. If you change environments to one that allows that behavior to no longer be a problem then they no longer have a disorder.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Traps are technically illegal.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
If there is no keyhole to pick then it is probably marginally more secure, but if a burglar wants to get into your home then no door lock is going to stop them. They could just break it or break your windows.
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 1 year ago:
I don’t like it any more than anyone else. I believe social media has a negative impact on children and likely all people who use it.
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 1 year ago:
I don’t have any expectations. I’m not making a judgement. Just an observation.
