You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.

But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.

It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.

Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.

If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).

I’m still waiting for my strattera to hit and my brain just went “oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my daaarling, tangeriiine……wait”

My favorite comment was that he’s the only Greek god that’s faithful to his wife and doesn’t fuck with random mortals for no reason.

I have a study Notebook on esoteric spirituality that includes choice quotes. This is the quote for the reversed Knight of swords.

Oooooh that’s why they tested me for that. They told me I was faking for drugs because I got a 140 something but I panicked and failed the left right thingy really badly and my MSE results suggested dementia (and I was like, 20). I did finally find a doctor who listened and I’ve been very functional on Strattera for many years now (which is ironic because it’s not even a stimulant / it’s functionally useless recreationally). I can’t even take simulants because I have too much anxiety.

I’m loving my perfectly resonant dumpster fire he’s curled up next to me right now!

🤣 👍

Time to start a social media controversy where we argue about whether it’s mac. or m.a.c… It’ll be lemmy’s written version of the gif controversy. I’ll make a masto poll when I get home. done.

fr though this is legitimately a significant factor in my suicidal ideation (it’s chronic, I’m fine, etc). People need to learn to stfu and stop shitting on everyone else’s mental health with their own insufferable need to publicly prove that they’re personally flexible enough to gag on their own justice boner.

Haven’t figured out the best plan. After a quick therapy sesh with the hobos at the bus stop I’m thinking I’m just gonna study the subject matter and see if I can test out of the relevant courses at a testing center (instead of a course with multiple smaller tests).

a featherless biped

I can’t take AI proctored exams because I have a lazy eye and it tracks whether or not you’re looking at the screen. It’s the main thing keeping me from getting a bachelor’s because most associates to bachelor’s RN programs are entirely online.

Well if it’s a prompt injection to fuck with llms you don’t want any users having to read it anyway, vision impaired or no.

Not because we wanted to a lot of the time. Maybe because their kids wanted us to I guess. I’m a 30 year old DNR