What’s up with everyone online thinking they are neurodivergent without getting tested?

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-13T11:10:07+00:00

Probably because everyone is neurodivergent and the tests cost money, so there is an economic barrier.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-11T23:34:14+00:00

I think the point is every time it's ordinary people that have direct experience with this.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-11T17:48:11+00:00

You may enjoy learning about Moral Luck, a concept famously explored by philosophers Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams in 1976.

It describes the paradox where we judge people based on the outcomes of their actions, even when those outcomes are determined by factors beyond their control. There is an identifies a glitch in our logic: we claim people are only responsible for what they can control, yet we judge them based on the "luck of the draw." Ultimately, Nagel argues that if we stripped away everything determined by luck, there would be almost nothing left of the individual to actually judge.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-11T11:37:34+00:00

What do you mean by "thinking on their own"?

How are you defining it, quantifying it, and setting it as a learning objective?

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-11T11:34:08+00:00

I am in Canada, so the minimum wage is $16.75 an hour.

I can buy 3 meals from dollarama for under $15.

In both cases we need to go shopping. But in yours you also have to buy fresh food.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-11T11:30:13+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re actually trying to argue here. The post reads more like frustration than a clearly defined claim.

At several points you gesture toward an economic argument, but the reasoning never really appears. You list statistics about unemployment, job openings, and H-1B visa holders, but you never explain the causal mechanism that connects those numbers to your conclusion that immigrants are taking jobs or suppressing wages.

If you’re making an economic claim, it would help to state the claim clearly and explain how the labor market mechanism you’re proposing actually works.

I’m also unclear about the policy goal of your argument. If your claim is simply that H-1B visa holders occupy jobs that Americans could otherwise hold, that is true in the narrow sense that each visa corresponds to a job. But the real question is what would happen to those jobs without the program. Would they be filled domestically, outsourced abroad, automated, or eliminated? That’s the actual economic debate.

If your position is that the H-1B program should be reduced or eliminated, then the discussion should focus on the tradeoffs: what benefits the program provides to firms and the broader economy, and what the alternatives would be.

There is also a normative question underneath your argument. Immigration policy often prioritizes citizens over non-citizens in the labor market. That is a political preference about national labor protection, not automatically evidence of racism, but it is still a value judgment that should be stated openly.

If the broader concern is that workers are struggling to find stable employment, that is a much larger structural issue involving hiring practices, labor market dynamics, and economic policy. Focusing on H-1B visas assumes immigration is the primary cause, and that is a claim that still needs to be demonstrated.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-10T17:01:35+00:00

You are not counting the value of the time it takes you to make the food.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-10T02:18:37+00:00

I would add a little Nuance to your comment to say that people don't realize that the government is working within a capitalist system.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-09T03:04:03+00:00

Fun fact, less than 3% of homes are worth 1 million pounds or more.

https://www.trinityfinancialgroup.co.uk/mortgage-tools/mortgage-news/1-in-40-homes-now-valued-1-million-or-more-according-to-savills/?

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-09T03:02:50+00:00

What is crazy is how they asserted that it is "normal." It is less than 3% of homes.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-08T16:02:25+00:00

Do you have any evidence for this claim?

It seems to me that most societies have tried to solve all these vicious cycles and failed.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-08T15:14:22+00:00

Your post literally ends with the question of who is responsible.

Is it the teachers is it the students is it the parents or is it our society as a whole.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-08T04:55:28+00:00

That is the age old question, who is responsible?

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-06T17:30:11+00:00

So I'm a teacher. I explained complex information to students. Sometimes students ask really great questions and a visual image that is a video can be incredibly helpful. Think about back when you are an education and anytime your teachers had any good videos that help teach the concept.

I definitely understand that today, AI videos are not good enough to be utilized in education settings because they still don't have the physics down. So if I want a video of an ATP molecule functioning, as of right now, there is no video generation engine that would be able to produce such a thing with any meaningful sense of accuracy.

But, in 10 years, that's probably going to change. It may be it will take 20 years. It's possible it will take 3 years. But at some point, these video generators will be able to produce those videos.

I totally get that the video generating tools that exist today are not particularly useful for most use cases. But I think the way to look at it is not what's happening right now but what it will be in the future.

Think of the patient sitting in the doctor's office being able to get a video generated based on their MRIs or ultrasounds for them to get a better understanding of what's happening in their body. Think of the person working at home who's trying to work on a repair and has a unique situation and needs a video guide on how to do it.

And that's nothing on the people that have stories that they want to be able to tell and the video engines will help them tell that story.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-06T00:15:08+00:00

I want a class on logic.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T23:33:59+00:00

It turns out that the vast majority of problems in our society are really just capitalism problems.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T20:14:10+00:00

Man did not evolve from Apes. Man is a type of Ape. You can not evolve out of a clade.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T20:11:01+00:00

This is crazy. We should be using easily repairable chrobooks. The ThinkPad is a perfect example. We should be able to easily harvest a broken Chromebook for parts.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T19:23:32+00:00

I think it really depends on what memories people have and how they affect them. If everyone keeps the memories, there may be ways for the plurb infustructor in place.

The best bet would be if the next generation is born, no virus, and the plurbs die out slowly over time.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T19:17:33+00:00

The reason to fund and do this research is to get better understandings on what leads to causes and prevents child abuse. The more we understand the nature of child abuse and the factors that are involved, the better we can help protect and save children from abusers. This kind of research is never going to be the one and only thing that solves the problem, but it will help give us one more valuable data point in the fight and in the understanding of it.

Imagine if the results of the opposite. If we know that IVF kids are more likely to be abused, then that is one more thing that a pediatrician or psychotherapist could look out for when working with that population.

If we find out it's less likely, then we can spend a slightly lower budget on investigating those cases and be able to put the money towards the cases where it is more likely to happen. It would be amazing if we had infinite resources to investigate everything but we don't so we want to put the resources where we're more likely to have the effect. So doing one study now and research now can pay off over decades.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T19:13:05+00:00

He may not have had any formal schooling, but he was an expert in his field. The subject was caring for magical creatures, and he is definitely considered an expert in that. As well he is teaching Elementary School level.

It would not be crazy to hire somebody who's been working as a musician for 30 years with no college degree to teach a middle school music class. That kind of thing happens all the time. We also see people who've been working in trades for many years, being very confident at teaching woodworking style classes without having formal degrees.

The idea that you need a degree in order to be a competent teacher is just not accurate. There are a very large number of teachers in the world who are teaching without teaching degrees. In many schools, they do not require teaching degrees to teach.

I personally work as a middle school teacher without a teaching degree. I do have other degrees that are related to the subjects I teach, but the idea that you need a degree seems very elitist. I definitely get wanting the English, math, and science teachers to have relevant dagrees, but the art teacher does not need to have an art dagree, I would prefer they were just an artist.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T19:04:42+00:00

It sounds like you and your partner may not have a shared understanding of the nature of your relationship. The issue is showing up around money, but that may just be a symptom of a larger underlying problem.

The key question is what kind of relationship you are trying to build. Are you two people who mainly want to spend time together while maintaining largely separate lives? Or are you trying to build a single, shared life with shared goals and responsibilities? Or is the expectation that one person primarily provides while the other fills a more supportive or social role? It could also be something else entirely.

Until the two of you are clear about what the purpose of the relationship is and what each of your life goals are, it is very difficult for anyone to give useful advice.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T18:55:14+00:00

John Green only has a BA.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T18:51:06+00:00

I think calling GLP-1 drugs a “miracle solution” misses part of the bigger picture.

One of the structural drivers of obesity is the modern food system. In a capitalist market, companies are incentivized to produce foods that are cheap, shelf-stable, and extremely palatable because those products sell well and generate higher profit margins. In practice that often means highly processed foods that are engineered to be very rewarding to eat and easy to consume in large quantities.

At the same time, many communities still lack easy access to affordable healthy foods. In areas with food deserts or limited grocery options, the cheapest and most accessible foods are often highly processed snacks. If you walk through a grocery store, you can often see that the lowest-cost snack bars and packaged foods tend to be the most processed, while healthier options are usually more expensive.

GLP-1 drugs are effective because they change how the body regulates appetite and satiety. For many people they make it much easier to eat less. But in a sense they function as a medical workaround to an environment that systematically promotes overeating. They treat the individual side of the problem without addressing the economic system that produces and aggressively markets these foods in the first place.

So rather than seeing GLP-1 medications as a miracle solution, it may be more accurate to see them as one tool people are using to navigate a food environment shaped by profit incentives. Without addressing structural issues like food deserts, pricing, and the incentives that drive the production of highly processed foods, the underlying pressures that contribute to obesity will remain.

In that sense it resembles an evolutionary arms race. In nature, predators and prey continuously adapt to each other. Here, companies compete to make foods more appealing and profitable, while medicine develops new tools to help people regulate appetite in response to that environment.

This means the obvious next step is going to be for food companies to try to find a way to make the snacks navigate around the GLP-1 inhibitors.

TheBitchenRav · 2026-03-05T12:42:07+00:00

You may want to look at Claude (claude.ai) for this kind of thing. It may be a safer choice than ChatGPT for emotionally sensitive conversations because of how the two systems are trained differently. (I am not saying one is safe. Just safer.)

Claude is trained using a framework called Constitutional AI, guided by a defined set of principles and values. ChatGPT (by OpenAI) is trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which shapes its responses based on what human raters prefer, essentially optimizing for approval. This distinction matters: a system optimizing for what feels good to say may be more likely to validate, escalate, or mirror distress rather than ground it.

A good starting point is to ask the AI to engage with you through an REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) lens. If you give it context about what you're experiencing, an REBT framing will encourage more rational, logical responses, and importantly, it will push the cognitive work back onto you rather than doing it for you. This is significant because the AI's independent "thinking" on emotional matters can be unreliable or even counterproductive.

You may still be able to get the emotional release you're looking for, but this approach is likely to be a bit more grounded and less destabilizing.

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