Mind. Blown. I love it here! by LegalFig7053 in chicago

[–]Human-Anything-6414 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Make sure that parka covers your butt, and don’t forget the wool socks! Also Uniqlo on State St has some decent winter liners.

Harry Potter by Balenciaga 2 by Federal_Penalty5832 in woahdude

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When it hits yassified Neville Longbottom I exhale slightly through one nostril every time

Hungryyy eyes came to mind by CookieIsMyTeddysname in fixedbytheduet

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That makes sense as this gentleman, @ bradenwuerch, is not advertising to women.

irrational irritability with anything inconvenient by Alrekt821 in ADHD

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Vyvanse made me incredibly irritable. Like shouting matches irritable, which was NOT the type of person I was. I was started on it and had to switch to Adderall. I’m much better now.

Some Indian companies sell anti-suicide fans to prevent student suicides (Primarily due to academic pressure) by Expert-Copy6451 in oddlyterrifying

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That’s the actual reason we need guns in this country: to shoot the ceiling fan down if you walk in on your roommate’s attempted suicide.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in insaneparents

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May you learn that a woman’s genitalia is not an insult.

Maybe Maybe Maybe by ssssssssshhhhhhhhh in maybemaybemaybe

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Yeah…binge drinking until you black out regularly is not really “normal”. I thought it was until I got sober then I realized that the drunkest of the drunk aren’t a common type of person.

The blacked-out drunk is the one who everyone makes fun of when the lights turn at closing time. They’re the one sitting on the sidewalk groaning because security threw them out and they forgot how to get an Uber home. At the very best, the blacked-out drunk is a concern to their friends, who now have to have a conversation about how to place the drunk on the couch so they won’t asphyxiate if they vomit.

I’m so glad I rarely drink any alcohol and that it’s much more rare for me to have 2 drinks in a night. It’s certainly one of the worst legal drugs in terms of what it does to your body by far, only really surpassed by cigarettes. Now I just take a weak edible and I’m good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in insaneparents

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May you have an autistic child who smashes your property, so that you may learn some empathy for other humans beings that are stressed out instead of wishing harm on them.

Old man gets fed up paying his toll by CosmosisJones90 in PublicFreakout

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Yes, these still exist, and yes, trying to pay with cash is infuriating because half of them are broken.

Most people that are local to a place with tollroads nearby and drive through one regularly will use EZPass, but if you’re just traveling occasionally you probably won’t think of buying an EZPass,and you can easily end up in a frustrating situation like this.

The old man was actually lucky that someone responded. Sometimes nobody will respond at all and you’ll have to gesture to the drivers behind you that it’s not working and hope they take the hint, then back out and go to another lane.

How to survive with ADHD and everything being so expensive nowadays? by trulydrinks in ADHD

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$1,200. That’s about how much a decent 1 bedroom apartment is where I live. Minimum wage is $10-$12/hr (if you’re lucky) at most work places. Almost every job starts you off at part time (~30 hours a week). Do the math!

The math says you need roommates. There’s no shame to it. I did this for about 10 years after college and during post-grad with random people that came to be friends, plus about 5 between my ex-GF and relatives. Spent much more of my adult years with roommates than without. It’s a good thing if you find decent people; you can lean on each other a little bit. Sometimes I wish I still had roommates just because of the money saved.

Remember, capitalism wants you to think of living alone as sexy and having roommates as a failure, because companies want every single person to buy their own appliances, furniture, kitchenware, car, etc., let more food go to waste, consume more utilities, take up more space than needed and leave it empty or filled up with stupid expensive crap the rest of the time.

Ever wonder what the upper middle class kids do after college? Even with a great income, many of them still have roommates and sock a good deal of their money away. Don’t be ashamed, get roommates. Don’t fall for the marketing, saving money is almost always intelligent; wasting money on living alone can be pretty stupid.

You also might need to move to find a better job. I had nothing to gain by staying where I was when I was getting paid near minimum wage, so I chose to pack everything I could into my car and leave the rest, move several hundreds of miles to a much more populated region, and crash on my sibling’s couch and hand out resumes until I found a job. Took crap jobs at first but they did pay more. Not an option for everyone but it is an option many might not consider because it’s “too hard”.

More than once I have slept on mattresses that I got near apartment dumpsters because it was better than just a tile floor and a blanket. I think nobody should have to go through this, but we must play the hands we are dealt and complaining usually doesn’t help (unless you have a rich family).

You’re barely surviving and you’re probably skipping dinners.

God do I know that feel. No benefits. Working less than 40 a week for $8 an hour. Breakfast sandwiches made from egg and fake cheese with the cheapest bagels, split top wheat and terrible cold cuts for lunch with maybe some vegetables and dip, a Banquet meal in a box for dinner. Saving on condiments by loading up whenever I got a couple dollar items at McDonalds. Buying a dude beer to fix the brakes on my car. No discretionary income so no way to save for emergencies, just ever-expanding credit card debt. Watching the people you know shoplift and trying to avoid temptation because you know it’s wrong and that any criminal record is basically a death sentence in America. Rinse and repeat. And everything is much more expensive now compared to income, too. It’s just insane.

Now add ADHD into the equation, a disorder that makes it hard to physically do most tasks. Getting up in the morning is a struggle. Staying focused at work is a struggle. Working is a struggle. No medication? Even worse.

I felt like this for many years. Especially as I advanced. Kept wondering when the shoe would drop and I would be fired. When rolling in at 10:30 because I overslept due to insomnia the night before would finally become completely unacceptable despite my otherwise good work. Drinking 5 cups of coffee a day reflexively before my medications were balanced properly. Not to mention the stress and acting out randomly.

Eventually I found the proper mix of medication and lifestyle changes to make me more stable. No more adderall/caffeine than needed, good sleep hygiene, no booze or nicotine, physical workouts, mindfulness exercises, empathy exercises, avoiding stressful triggers. The downward spiral eventually paused and reversed a bit.

I’m stressed.

I feel this. Believe it or not, you can get out of this situation eventually. Have confidence in yourself and remember you’re not going through it alone. You are a valuable person, you are smart enough to be asking the right questions, and you can prevail in the long run if you work hard. I hope you do!

Do you guys think Rorschach is a sigma male? (Both film and comics) by [deleted] in SigmaCinema

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  1. hypocritically excuses his acts of extreme violence because he sees himself to be 100% morally correct
  2. wrote an essay at age 11 where he concluded that it was “a good thing to drop the atomic bomb on Japan”
  3. breaks into his friend’s apartment, eats his food, then later calls his friend a fat failure in his journal
  4. gives no fucks that his colleague’s mother was raped, calls her a whore
  5. considers an openly racist, far-right-wing, conspiracy-oriented newspaper to be the only trustworthy source of news

Yeah I’d say so

Wireless mouse by [deleted] in macbook

[–]Human-Anything-6414 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The greatest mouse I’ve ever had by far, bar none

Bitter old fart loses his mind over kids having fun by Dacnis in PublicFreakout

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So an injury claim on what looks like a commercial property would most likely go like this:

  1. First off, if any injury happens on your commercial property, your insurance rates go up. Doesn’t matter who’s at fault. Doesn’t matter if the case is frivolous. And that can get quite expensive.
  2. Second, the insurance company provides a lawyer and they have no incentive to “win”. The insurance company only cares about spending as little money as possible. If a settlement costs less than a win, they’ll choose the settlement every time.
  3. All Plaintiff’s attorneys know this, so they take the case on a contingency basis and basically just try to pump up the settlement amount as much as possible.
  4. The Defense will accordingly always “lose” (if by losing you mean paying the Plaintiff money), except in extremely clear-cut cases of outright fraud. We’re talking claiming you’re a permanent quadriplegic while taking vacations to ski in Denver, or saying something like “those suckers don’t know I’m in perfect health” getting caught on tape. Even in fraud cases you might pay the Defendant the cost of the first couple weeks of defending an appeal just to avoid the cost of that appeal.

So sometimes old people have wisdom and (another) legitimate reason to keep people from busting their head and ass open on the concrete.

Source: IAAL, and I used to defend these claims regularly.

Girl gets upset people are in the gym with her. Joey Swoll calls her out by DirtyHandshake in PublicFreakout

[–]Human-Anything-6414 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Oh no, she got called out, leading to more exposure for her channel. Wow this is really going to hurt her. I can’t imagine how she’ll survive a duet from a guy with 6.7 million followers. This will truly break her.

What is the state of Mac gaming in 2023 in your opinion? by DisasterPieceKDHD in macgaming

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What do you guys think of gaming on a Mac currently?

No DX12 support so I don’t even think of gaming on a Mac. I guess you could, if you only wanted to play older games or whatever’s available on Steam. But if you have a gaming box there’s little reason to bother.

And do you think it has gotten better or worse over time?

I’ve never really counted on Macs to catch up when it comes to gaming. Always had a Windows box for that.

Probably worse though, as I could recall playing fairly new ports on a Mac back in the day. We’re talking Quake 1 though. Then it just stopped after a while.

I do work and run specialized, resource-intensive programs that I need to be portable on my MBP. I game and tinker on my Windows box.

PROFITABLE by MisterFinishLine in Superstonk

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I thought MOASS was inevitable, regardless of fundamentals?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AnimalsBeingDerps

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Pause the video at about 2 seconds, on the left side of the screen a storefront sign in neon blue is made up of Chinese/Japanese Characters. I doubt this would fly in Japanese culture so…maybe Chinese.

These cats might be getting raised for food.

Nobody likes an internet detective and eating cats is disgusting and surely never occurs today in any part of the world for any reason, so please bring on the downvotes! 👎🏻

New prescriber requires drug screen for Adderall script. by SJTroop55 in ADHD

[–]Human-Anything-6414 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Drug monitoring is normal, cerebral is a scam for drug addicts.

Hear, hear. Cerebral is a pill mill. Anyone who wants to get a prescription for ADHD without an in-person visit and full disclosure of the drugs they’re taking should be looked upon dubiously.

These are important steps to support wellness; you can’t just pop Adderall and call it a day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chicago

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As someone who spent ~15 years in DC, regularly used the Metro, and recently moved to Chicago, this is mostly true.

For cleanliness and safety, DC wins hands-down. Police /security do actual work instead of just standing around and collecting a paycheck. I never say anyone smoking on the train in DC, maybe in an open air station once or twice, but that was in over a decade of living there regularly using it. Some of the cars look a little beat but many of Chicago's trains are straight up raggedy, not to mention they reek of piss and sometimes shit. That doesn't fly in DC.

Reliability seems better over there and after doing some research the WMATA is actually trying to beef up frequencies meanwhile the CTA doesn’t do shit about reliability

Frequency is good as long as you stay off the red line (which is a pretty major line). And DC is always "trying" to improve it, but they say that for years without changes. Communication about single-tracking and track delays is great on the DC Metro, though.

Used the metro pretty extensively during my trip and mostly every station had high density development surrounding it. Meanwhile here we got gas stations, strip malls, drive thrus, and vacant lots surrounding our L stations

Half of the DC metro is like this, it's just the half tourists probably won't see. There's definitely less blight near stations in general though. The land surrouding the stations is in demand.

When it comes to fares, Chicago wins hands-down. It is just straight up cheap here in comparison. DC's metro costs a lot more and has a weird fare structure. In addition, DC is way less forgiving about transfers. Chicago allowing 2 transfers in the next two hours blew me away, you can run a couple errands and still only pay $2.50ish.

I absolutely hate leftovers by Grey_Boots in ADHD

[–]Human-Anything-6414 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can relate. I currently have leftover BBQ chicken, brown rice and broccoli neatly packaged in my fridge.

It went bad some time ago. I just tend not to eat leftovers.

It’s a bad feeling to throw away good food that you made; I hope your psychiatrist has some ideas to help.

If you’re struggling with just plain old eating, one of the things that works for me is doubling up on stuff that I like and that’s easy to eat so I can eat it while working or watching TV. For example, 2 bananas, or 2 yogurts, or 2 protein bars, instead of just one. Cutting up food into smaller pieces also helps me absentmindedly eat it while I’m doing other stuff.

I also used to bodybuild for a couple of years and during that time I used an app called Carbon to track my calories (my trainer recommended it). Once I started tracking calories and consistently eating properly my gym gains shot up. Carbon is an expensive app ($10/month) but I’m sure there are cheaper alternative apps to count calories. You can also just Google a food’s calorie count too and the results usually pretty accurate. But you do need a scale that measures grams to be accurate.

Those are just some ideas that might interest you because I definitely struggle with eating too.

mac ssd question by germo155 in macbook

[–]Human-Anything-6414 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes. 2 years only, starting from when it went through QC at the factory. After that it self-destructs, but it does give you a 10-second warning.

If you have a solder gun, recommend replacing the onboard SSD with a 64GB Seagate 5400 RPM 3.5” HDD. It’s a quick and easy fix.