My response is more an accumulation of frustration with OPs frequent posts which are almost always negative and often against constructed straw-man “anarchists”

Thats the division i was talking about.

As for blatant racism, Im sure there are people on lemmy who are racist but i haven’t run into any that i could remember. (There were no racist comments on this post when i initially commented)

Now just because I can’t remember seeing any doesn’t mean its not a problem; since im not Russian, its likely i dont notice it as much as someone who is russian would.

On that note, I can say that ive seen plenty of posts that are “racist” towards “amerikkkans” calling US citizens less than human or monsters or that “nothing of value would be lost” if a state or city in America was destroyed etc. especially from .ml and hexbear users.

My point of course is not that this equality makes it all justified or that racism or any sort of discrimination based on nationality/race/etc. is okay, but rather that i dont think the racism is due to being liberals. Tribalism is just a widespread human condition and you’re on a platform with humans.

Anyway the main point of my comment was to state my frustration with constant negative posts like this which stereotype or exaggerate the actions of others.

These posts don’t help with building unity. They dont help educate anyone. And so they dont solve any problem or serve any productive purpose. Instead they actually further drive tribalistic urges by pushing an us-vs-them situation, and most of the people engaging with posts like this wont be doing so for friendly or productive reasons. So the entire point of these kinds of posts is to further disharmony

Theres enough bad shit going on all around us constantly already, we don’t need any more drama stirred up internally. (Again most of my frustrations are with the frequency of OPs negative/agitation-focused memes not specifically this one in particular)

If you are dealing with racism or harassment of any kind or notice someone else facing the same, you should report it to the moderators

Hey mate jsyk i think you replied to the wrong comment

From the context im guessing you meant to reply to kryptonianCodeMonkey since he’s the only comment mentioning “constructive criticism”

Why do you constantly make memes about fake scenarios that make you mad?

You’re like one of those MAGA raving lunatics making up stories about “liberals.” The only difference is that instead of also coming up with fake ragebait scenarios about trans and gay people you make up bullshit about other leftists like anarchists. Are you a fed? Are you purposefully trying to stir up division?

Step outside, take a breath, stop focusing on hatred and start focusing on building community with good people. It’ll make you happier and it’s much more effective praxis than whatever the hell this kind of posting is

Oh fuck i forgot about the spinach in my fridge too… thanks for the reminder lol

I’m male and definitely in the “I CANT TURN MY BRAIN OFF IT NEVER STOPS” category. I’ve also definitely met a few women who are able to just tune things out.

Perhaps you just have a thing for women with ADHD/Anxiety

I have never heard of that before. That’s an interesting condition.

To be fair it sounds like it’s not technically a difference in qualia that was noticed but a difference in the properties of qualia. Still the main point remains. You were able to notice a difference, doctors were able to measure the difference, and we made a word for the condition.

As always, I’d like to make the comment that if something cannot be described it is not relevant to be described.

It’s impossible to tell whether you see the same qualia I do when I see the color blue. However, it would only be relevant to know that if for some reason I had to know it. If there was an application for that knowledge then there would be a testable way to prove it right or wrong. In which case, there’d be a way for me to know it because either I get it right or get it wrong.

Secondly, if there is any measurable/testable property to be known, then it can be described.

The most fundamental form of “measurement” or description is simply difference. If you experience anything, if there exists some thing as part of existence, then it must in some way be different than something else which also exists. Otherwise they’d be the same thing.

Can you understand the term “difference” ? Can you create names/words/references to things? Congratulations you can describe everything that can possibly exist.

(You can construct the words/ideas of sameness, properties, classes, etc. from the idea of difference which makes language much easier and less verbose than using only the word “difference” over and over and over again lol)

While non locality is weird, it can’t actually be used to transmit information. Any attempt to force an entangled particle into another state breaks the entanglement. So you can’t really transmit any information between the two.

If you follow the comment chain you’ll see me and cowbee talk about how subjective the term “democracy” is.

However, we can illustrate my point using proof by counter example. It is entirely possible to imagine two countries with the same government structure (and hence “democracy”) but with different answers to this kind of survey.

Imagine two nearly identical countries each with corrupt governments having the exact same structure and culture etc. The only major difference between them is that in one of the countries, a recent scandal has occurred which was able to bring to light deep seated corruption and criminal activity of many public figures, whereas similar acts are being committed by the govt. of the other country, but none of it has been brought so fully to light yet.

The citizens of the former country are likely to rank their “democracy” lower than the citizens of the latter would rate their own, despite the fact both governments have equal amounts of corruption. Hence, surveys of popular opinion of democracy are not directly indicative of the “level of democracy” or level of corruption or fidelity etc. etc… QED.

Haha funnily enough that’s the graph I first had this argument with cowbee about lol

that’s why I put quotes around “level of democracy.” If everyone in a country had to vote directly for any and all government action, that is kind of the purest democracy possible, but it would not be a very effective method of government especially for large countries.

In order to rank democracy in a meaningful way, one would need to decide on what the desired outcomes of a “good”democracy are and which outcomes are most important etc. which would make the scale subjective.

Direct comparison of perception of democracy by people who have lived in both countries would be much clearer evidence of differences in democracy itself.

However, the raw perception of democracy without any other reference to other democracies does not allow for comparison/measurement of democracy itself but rather indicates how happy individuals feel within their current democracy.

The data is a good story and it does encode information, but that information is more significantly influenced by culture, current events, and overall happiness of the populace than it is by “level of democracy”

As always, I would like to point out that these kinds of surveys of public opinion are not really evidence of anything besides public opinion itself.

You cannot assert that a certain country has more or less of some quality simply because more people in that country said they think they do more frequently than people in a different country did.

For example if you asked Americans (particularly those in the south or rural areas) if they thought their country was more “free” than the rest of the world, you would probably get higher numbers than you would from most other regions of the world despite the fact that America is not that free relative to much of the world.

We had a really old tv in my basement when I was young. If you messed with the hue knob while on a non existent channel you could get a lot more colorful static

Actually the typical first line drug is methylphenidate (Ritalin).

Aderall is prescribed less because it has more “abuse potential” for neurotypical people. It’s a mix of levo and dextroamphetamine. The mix of chiralities is useful because your body has to convert the left handed version to right handed before it can cause any neurological effects. This means a significant part of the dose doesn’t even kick in immediately which reduces negative side effects and allows the therapeutic effects to last longer. The anions used are also typically varied to slow the uptake.

Methamphetamine may look similar to dextroemphetamine but that extra methyl group makes it significantly faster acting and much much stronger than dextroamphetamine. Both of which contribute to its use as a recreational drug and its potential for addiction and withdrawal. The use of HCl as the anion (crystal meth) rather than a sulfate or sugar also significantly reduces the uptake time which further increases the acting speed and strength of the effect. That’s why meth isn’t prescribed for ADHD, and why you would need to take a shit ton of Adderall to come even close to it.

It is fascinating how the word “amphetamines” conjures up images of junkies, when most people I know on adderall forget to take it or just don’t take it because they don’t like the side effects like having a dry mouth. People were always warning me “You can get addicted” bro I have to constantly remind myself to take it and if I stop taking doses I get the opposite of withdrawal where I know I should take it but also I don’t really want to.

It honestly weirds me out that adderall can be abused in the first place. Like I know my meds are wearing off because I’ll start laughing more easily. That’s like the complete opposite of what this is supposed to do…? Or sometimes I’ll take a dose and get sleepy which again tf? Brains are weird.

ah yes, that must be why I frequently forget to take it lol

Idk who my all time favorite is, but I just finished rewatching Clone Wars and man I had forgotten how much I liked Hondo Ohnaka

Maul: “Filth! You will pay for your insolence!”

Hondo: “Insolence?! We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means.”

Ah yeah I forgot brexit was a thing

100% of people in America own their houses because if they couldn’t afford it, it wouldn’t be their house. Checkmate commies

/s

Didn’t the NHS like just barely give palantir “unlimited access” to all data?