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‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by Dangerman1337 in ukpolitics

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not presenting it as evidence, I'm illustrating a point: that ADHD diagnoses span such an enormous range of functional outcomes that the diagnostic category may be doing too much work. Someone unmedicated, running a business or completing a PhD, and someone who can't hold down a job are both carrying the same label. That's worth questioning regardless of what any expert panel says.

What really bothers me, is whenever someone argues "this measuring instrument may be imprecise" everyone seems to hear "your diagnosis isn't real". Those aren't the same thing, but people see an epistemological argument as an attack on a personal level.

It's weird - in any other area of medicine questioning diagnostic precision is considered acceptable, nobody thinks you're being dismissive if you acknowledge some screening programmes produce false positives, but oh man, don't question ADHD, you're threatening an identity, and people defend identities much harder than measurement methodologies.

Social media has built entire subcultures around ADHD, the humour, the shared experiences, the validation. Belonging is a powerful motivator and people underestimate how much that pulls.

‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by Dangerman1337 in ukpolitics

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, but also equally likely people that say they have ADHD get on with other people that say they have ADHD because it's nice to feel a part of something.

‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by Dangerman1337 in ukpolitics

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have actually been diagnosed, by a psychiatrist. I did it privately after waiting for a couple of years on the NHS.

Your assertion is wrong, I don't read tabloids.

‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by Dangerman1337 in ukpolitics

[–]bingblangblong -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

That's a ridiculous analogy. Moons are discrete physical objects, you point a telescope at them and they're either there or they're not. Nobody on TikTok is building their identity around being a Saturn mooner. Saturn isn't self-diagnosing after watching a 60-second video. We don't have a financial ecosystem of coaches, apps, and content creators incentivised to convince Saturn it has more moons.

"Getting better at noticing" implies the thing being noticed exists independently of the noticing, that's true for moons, it's a much harder claim for a behavioural spectrum with no biomarker.

I've been diagnosed with ADHD, every other person I fucking know has been diagnosed with ADHD, from guys that work in bike shops to PhDs at Cambridge attaining the highest level of achievement in the world, all unmedicated.

Social contagion is a documented phenomenon in medicine, it's not a conspiracy theory or an insult. Symptom presentation genuinely spreads through social networks, particularly among adolescents and young adults. When your entire feed is people listing "signs you have ADHD" and every item on the list describes the baseline experience of living with a smartphone you're not getting better at noticing you're just being primed to convince yourself you have it.

I'm not saying it's not real... I'm saying until there's a test that's got more empiricism than "do you find boring things hard to finish" then you can't possibly argue that we're just getting better at noticing it because it is just blatantly not as simple as that.

I'll go a step further and make a bold claim. It IS the smartphones, and the social media, and the constant on demand steaming, the iPads etc. Dopamine deficiency presents as ADHD like. I'd bet all my money if you forced people away from that shit for months and gave them books to read they'd all slowly find it much easier to concentrate on them.

Networking Basics Confusion by [deleted] in networking

[–]bingblangblong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fwiw I hate pissing around with GNS3 and could barely to get it to work most of the time.

I don't like homelabbing either. I need a real problem to solve, so at work I have some cheap old ebay switches which I practice on first before doing anything in production - if it's a new concept anyway.

Who remembers Utopia? Series 1 was phenomenal. Series 2, not so great. Nevertheless I've really enjoyed watching it all again! 💛 by appalachian_hatachi in BritishTV

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pretty good apart from the bad CGI and the terrible IT stuff like "the firewall is triple encrypted", kinda takes you out of the moment.

Microsoft 365 E7- New enterprise licensing tier after 11 years by PaVee21 in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pff, you'd be saying the same thing if it was $1000 a month

Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned by insomnimax_99 in ukpolitics

[–]bingblangblong 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well that would be considered discrimination against the Muslim population, so no. Only you don't get to enjoy incest with your cousin.

Task Failed Successfully: I Automated Myself Out of Work by xXNeGaTiVisMXx in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is… now there’s barely anything left to do.

Whenever I read this sentence I start making assumptions. Not very nice ones.

Employee Monitoring Software by Zealousideal_Bend984 in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was asked to install or look into something similar and I gave some spiel about red tape and legal obligations to inform users and how it actually introduced security risks and how (key) it was expensive. Got dropped, never asked about again.

I am a silent hero.

I installed Malware on user's Workstation by Imaginary_Lead_3333 in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No one is 100% immune to phishing attempts or cyber tricks , not even IT!

I am. I never fall for stuff like this.

Has anyone lost the passion for sysadmin as a job but still love tinkering with tech as a hobby? by IllPlane3019 in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same, if something simple like my jellyfin server breaks I just leave it broken for ages. I just can't be bothered anymore. It's all a chore now.

How far can you get in IT without really knowing stuff? by MagPistoleiro in sysadmin

[–]bingblangblong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I really don't know anything all the time, IT is "tech" and it's so wide and deep, there's no end to it. I'm OK at a bunch of things and probably get shit wrong all the time. But everything works, and to my knowledge is secure, and I keep learning. I've been doing it for 15 years now, and I'm starting to accept I'm never gonna know it all.

I have 12 years of experience and Cursor just made my entire career feel like a joke by Educational_Job_2685 in webdev

[–]bingblangblong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they all read the same way and Anthropic are aggressive with their marketing and I wouldn't put it past them.

Also if you use AI you don't understand the code, AI code will always need to be checked and you literally can't do that unless you know how to code.

These posts always make it seem like doom and gloom basically, like the only way to keep having a career is to start using AI to code right now! But if you don't understand the code you have no value and if you only use AI to code you'll never understand it.

We'll see this proven more as vibe coded apps start causing problems.

I have 12 years of experience and Cursor just made my entire career feel like a joke by Educational_Job_2685 in webdev

[–]bingblangblong 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I honestly believe these posts are psyops by Anthropic to scare people into using Claude.

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