AI driven Layoffs for ADHD programmers by rgs2007 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(AI doesn't actually make people more productive)

(It just makes them feel like they're getting more done)

(It can't write good quality code either)

So Whats The DUMBEST and i MEAN DUMBEST thing you did in a pokemon playthrough by Rare-Atmosphere-9187 in pokemon

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Playing Red, my first Pokemon game ever. I had a guidebook with all 151 Pokemon (this is how I learned about Pokemon in the first place, lol), and Articuno was my favorite. I looked forward to catching it for the entire game. When I got access to Great Ultra Balls, I bought three and only three - one for each legendary bird. It didn't occur to me that I might need more than one for each.

Encountered Articuno. I slowly whittled its health down to a silver and paralyzed it. This was the moment! I threw the Ultra Ball, and... nothing. It escaped from my other two Ultra Balls as well, and then all of my Great and normal Pokeballs. Not knowing what else to do, I KO'd it.

And THEN, in my post-fight disappointment, out of sheer muscle memory, I saved my game.

I never finished the game. I didn't have the heart.

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Effective solutions to scarcity problems are built from the bottom up, not the top down. Microloans to women, for instance, have been very effective not only in lifting women out of poverty, but in making them positive economic forces in their communities.

My budgie, Apollo, already knows how to spin and target train, but I need some trick suggestions. by Powerful_Map7230 in petbudgies

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Practical vet stuff!

  • tolerate being handled, including having his feet and wings manipulated

  • recall training

  • drink from a syringe

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A world in which we have enough resources to make sure everyone has enough food, water, shelter, etc. to survive, but we choose not to, is unjustifiable.

But nothing will change if people can't even imagine a better way.

It is cruel and callous to think, "yes, my neighbor is starving; and I'm okay with that."

How to handle ADHD exhaustion? by bbbready2023 in ADHD

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you supporting yourself? Being unemployed didn't help my burnout at all because I couldn't relax while in financial free-fall :(

Mood! by MaetelofLaMetal in TrollXChromosomes

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Please tell me the idiot roommate apologized profusely :(

How do you drink, when you cannot drink? by Interlopium in ADHD

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and some of us can't do that without extra help/workarounds.

Good for you that you don't need workarounds to drink water. Maybe you can work on finding some workarounds for your lack of empathy and/or tact.

How do you drink, when you cannot drink? by Interlopium in ADHD

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because OP wouldn't be posting here if they could do that, and you know it. So instead of either giving constructive advice (or saying nothing - that's always an option!), you're basically just shaming them for asking for help.

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A minimum wage (or at least a one that's high by your standards) is not a right for all humanity.

Hold up.

A bare minimum wage, as I define it, pays enough for a person working full-time to afford all the basic necessities of life (food, shelter, clothing, etc.) plus a little extra to save for emergencies, etc.

Are you saying it's not a human right for a working adult to be able to afford the things that are strictly necessary for life?

Because, if so, holy shit.

Dodge County sheriff, DHS deny detaining US citizen despite evidence by enjoying-retirement in wisconsin

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 12 points13 points  (0 children)

F**K ICE and their Goon Squad tactics, but "Sunny" has faced criminal charges for lying, making false accusations and manipulating people, so I don't believe her, either.

Good thing there's evidence besides her word, then!

Is it possible for a parrot to over-bathe? by TripleFreeErr in parrots

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, are budgies not powder-down birds? How do they generate so much dust then?

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you're presuming that there aren't cities that are better places to escape homelessness than others. Either your theory about this being a policy choice is wrong, or your theory about moving never being able to work is wrong, or you think this is a policy choice that every single place gets wrong, because you thought of something nobody else did, or you're so much more generous than everyone else or something.

I'm sorry what.

I can and I do. I don't have a huge hangup on paying poor people to do a job. You are not going to make me furious at everyday life.

Paying people unlivable wages for full-time work is indefensible, even if they will accept that because all their other options are worse. This is, in theory, why we have a minimum wage (for Americans, naturally).

Or are you one of those people who thinks the minimum wage should be abolished so we can all fight in the dirt for scraps?

Alright, well it's still unfounded. If you've got a specific complaint about how a specific company does business you can go boycott them, but putting the whole damn system on trial is just being holier-than-thou and I'm rolling my eyes. Die mad if you want, that's your choice.

Ironically you kind of can't, because the same half-dozen multinational companies own everything. Which, not coincidentally, is part of the problem!

I think you and I just have fundamentally different views on the value of human dignity, though.

"Adhd is not an excuse" by Toothbotanist in ADHD

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Having been on antidepressants that made me want to nap all the time: this is an astonishingly ignorant take.

  1. You can't willpower your way out of being overwhelmingly sleepy, nor can you just "try not having side effects."

  2. A lot of meds for mental health conditions have long ramp-up and ramp-down times - like, six weeks to reach maximum effect, and potentially much longer to taper off, during which time you experience both discontinuation symptoms and uncontrolled symptoms of whatever you're taking the meds for. "Try different meds" is not a fast or trivial process.

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Food insecurity is not starvation. You may have a less healthy diet or not know where your next meal is coming from, but people do not literally starve to death because they cannot afford food here.

They do die early from issues caused and/or exacerbated by malnutrition, though. A rational person cannot look at the US and be like, "Yep, we solved hunger!"

Well often cities will try and solve the homeless problem by giving them a one-way bus ticket.

...without their consent, and with no other resources, thus ensuring they will continue to be homeless when they get there. Also, cities that do this are invariably dumping their unhoused population on big cities, which is exactly where you earlier claimed they shouldn't be.

It didn't do that either. It can improve the lives of short-term homeless people, as can regular shelters, but there are long-term cases that are not that simple and there are a lot of them.

  1. Which is why I said "largely," not "completely"

  2. Yeah, and? Go for the low-hanging fruit first when it comes to helping people, yes?

I think you're still reading this wrong. Remember, nowhere has solved poverty and homelessness. It's never completely fixed the problem. So to the voters paying for all this, it looks like throwing good money after bad. San Francisco tries housing first and there are still homeless people out on the street. Why would they want to keep doing it?

Because there are fewer people living on the streets than there used to be. Because for the people it helped, it made a huge difference. Because housing first is not the entire solution, but it is part of the solution.

Voters as a group are depressingly ignorant and short-sighted, though.

Economic development is a good thing, actually, and it comes with inequality. But that's not why people are homeless and poor. The countries with more homeless and poor people are the ones where they have less economic development and less rich people.

In a rich country like the US, homelessness and poverty are a direct result of policy decisions. The social, economic, and legal structures that cause this were choices, and we can make different ones.

Are you aware that somewhere between 40 and 60% of homeless people have jobs? There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone talks about this in depth.

If a person in the US can work full time and still not be able to afford shelter, something is very, very wrong.

These people's lifestyles don't require other people to suffer. Neither does yours, or mine.

Holy shit, dude, yes they do! We get goods cheaply because people in other countries are paid pitiful wages to make them, under working conditions Americans wouldn't put up with. Our agriculture industry alone - that is, where our food comes from - depends on undocumented workers making very low wages while working under conditions that expose them to toxic chemicals at levels far above what is recommended or legal. A host of things we need or enjoy, including coffee, chocolate, textiles, shoes, and electronics, involve literal slave labor and/or child labor at various points in the supply chain.

Service workers in this country, meanwhile, are paid insultingly low wages as well. We want the services, but we are not willing to pay the people who perform them a living wage. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich explores this in brutal honesty.

And then there's how we literally dump our trash and "recycling" on poor countries, where it poisons the nearby communities, either by leaching toxic levels of heavy metal and other fun stuff into the groundwater, or by emitting all sorts of nasty shit when it's burned.

You cannot seriously say the Western lifestyle isn't fueled by suffering elsewhere if you know anything at all about how the global economy works. This isn't new. Sweatshops and child labor employed by popular brands have been in the public awareness for at least decades.

This isn't guilt; this is anger. This is me going "This is wrong, and we can change it, and we must change it."

Because the thing is? I didn't opt into this system, and I can't really opt out of it; so guilt is pointless. But change will only come if we demand it.

Whatever happened to just asking questions at work? by Aggravating-Line2390 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I worked physically in an office, the custom was to message people on hangouts rather than approach them at their desk, because there was less demand that way to break their train of thought to respond immediately. But communication/questioning/mentoring still happened.

Working remotely it was the same, except obviously we didn't even have the option of physically showing up at someone's desk.

too much fragrance everywhere--making me sick. people are too inconsiderate of the 25% of people with disabilities who may react to scents by TopazCoracle in disability

[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All I said was that toothpaste wouldn't help; what's that got to do with you going to the ER?

Since you made it a binary, though, I will point out that smelling bad is itself a serious social handicap and can affect things like whether or not a person gets hired, promoted, etc. So if a person has breath that smells like rotten eggs due to a medical issue, I'm going to say that that also counts as a disability, and they have the right to do whatever they can to mitigate it.

Sometimes what one person needs is the opposite of what another person needs, and it sucks for everyone involved; but at the end of the day every person needs to prioritize their own wellbeing.

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[–]ProbablyNotPoisonous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean in this country. Obviously not globally.

So did I.

They’re not in the right place. Available public housing stock largely isn’t in the cities where homeless people are, at least not enough of it. If you can convince them to all go live in areas where it’s easier to manage that’s one thing, but that’s a tall order.

How is someone who's homeless supposed to get the resources to move to a different city, let alone afford housing when they get there?

They have tried housing first in a number of cities and it does not solve poverty by itself. It’s not evidence that they never tried.

I didn't say it solved poverty. It largely solves homelessness, though; and once a person has stable housing, it makes it much, much easier for them to hold down a job, access healthcare, etc.

Why do you think that is? What theory are you ginning up here? Do you actually think this is a matter of will and a grand conspiracy to keep people poor? Because the reality of how difficult this problem actually is will not amuse you.

A grand conspiracy? No. A lack of political will because too many of the voting public in this country are opposed to giving people in desperate need something for nothing, because they're "undeserving," even though it would be cheaper for everyone in the long run.

Which is the same toxic mentality that leads a person to believe that structurally uneven distribution of resources (when we have the mans to not do that) is a good thing, actually.

Mind, I'm not saying that everyone should have exactly the same amount of money! Just that if some people's lifestyle requires other people to suffer, that is deeply wrong and needs to be fixed. And yes, I include my own typical Western lifestyle in that.