Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.


Yeah this is a really good post and touches on a lot of things I've thought about before.

The "annoyed at working within an inefficient system but without the power to change it" hits home. I was actually even in a job where my entire job was basically to make things more efficient... but my boss never wanted to spend money on stuff so I always ended up having to half-arse solutions even though half-arsing it would cost money in the long run and it drove me loving crazy.

E: Kitty snipe:

https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1354582810896588802?s=20

WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jan 28, 2021

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Jose posted:

Lmao how did I not know he voted for Boris. I just assumed it would be the lib Dems

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1354456298482524162?s=19

btw this was him voting johnson for london mayor, because back then he was a right-wing paper journo with reactionary views who shifted towards being a Labour-leaner who just needed to criticise the left whenever they tried to be in power

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

that's not defending him, just pointing out that he's been a prick for a good 16+ years

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Niric posted:

UKMT kept recommending Disco Elysium but as far as I can tell you can't set your detectives up in an asymmetric 4-3-1-2, so can you even call it a game?

Weirdly I was thinking about my favourite Championshiped Manager tactic earlier on. It was one I download called Acky's World Beater and it was this ridiculous narrow 2-3-2-1-2 and it won everything.

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"
Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I've had some whiskey and I'm pleased about this.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society?

If you have any expertise in any particular areas I can highly recommend getting into wikipedia editing

I did that years ago and it was weirdly addictive

e: or (and again this might rely on expertise on certain areas) answering people's questions on quora or reddit

willie_dee
Jun 21, 2010
I obtain sexual gratification from observing people being inflicted with violent head injuries

HopperUK posted:

I got my ADHD diagnosis just before Christmas and it's made a big difference to me. Took about eight months from the first time I called my GP.

What differences in your life has it made? My partners been urging me to get diagnosed as she’s in the field and says I clearly have it, and I’m willing to, but don’t see what it will achieve.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Sad Panda posted:

The official assignment just has them working on a single csv with 1000 rows and 12? columns. Fake holiday data with things like email, price, holiday type, date booked, rating of booking/accommodation/transport, transport type, loyalty card member, sex, holiday length. They're supposed to open it up, play around with it and see what trends they can find (and so what recommendations they can give based on it). The data provided by the exam board seemed very randomised so had no real trends and just lots of garbage. I thought that was unfair on the students so put together a Python script to randomly generate the data but with some rules behind it (camping holidays cheaper, more common in summer, those with a loyalty card more likely to make recommendations, prices based on month so taking into account peak seasons) so there are some trends to spot.

They 'import the csv' (open it and then re-save it as an xlsx, click 'format as table', make the table pretty, and then insert -> pivot table -> pivot chart a few times basically. Then need to drop those pivot charts onto a single sheet to call it a dashboard. They're meant to use some 'automation tools' but that can just be 'add a button with Excel macro to switch to another sheet'. They also need to include lookups and 'string operations'. Though string operations feels incredibly forced. Because it's not like there's much to extract.



Probably massive overkill then. Their dashboard doesn't have to be particularly good. It just needs to be 'fully efficient and comprehensive' whatever you decide that means when done by a 14-16 year old.

So one thing that might be worth investigating (and functionally useful for them in later life), is opening a blank XSLX workbook, navigating to the data tab, and importing your CSV as a query into the workbook itself. From there you can discuss and investigate relational tables and schemas. If you’ve got your holiday file with 12 columns, maybe a locations table to join on a 1:* basis from to visualise on for example. Also helps in the age old question of ‘can we join these three separate excel files together automatically’.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-external-data-sources-power-query-be4330b3-5356-486c-a168-b68e9e616f5a

https://youtu.be/ZQoUpMiPDMA

From there, you can pivot across multiple tables and build hierarchy’s etc. Also some interesting things with bring in geographic data for filled maps but tbh that might be too much.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?
Have you considered developing an expensive Japanese wrestling habit? It could eat up all your free time AND cost you loads with subscriptions to every company's streaming service. Donate money to Big Japan so they can afford to buy light tubes and wooden boards covered in razor blades for their death matches.

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"
I can combine these two suggestions and just update Wikipedia articles and answer reddit questions about Japanese wrestling. My life will have meaning once more.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?

Are you locked in for actual medical reasons or just no work? Either way you can do NHS Volunteers work - https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/ - either wellness checks and general chatting on the phone, or if you're physically capable of leaving the house (and either have some form of transport or live somewhere dense enough to do it on foot) picking up prescriptions, shopping etc and delivering it to people isolating, and/or stewarding and signposting at vaccination centres. You can pick and choose the hours you want to do it (apart from the stewarding, which is six hour shifts, but you do get a high-vis and a poncho!).

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Make pivot tables about wrestling. Or learn to wrestle and pivot somebody through a table

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Failed Imagineer posted:

Make pivot tables about wrestling. Or learn to wrestle and pivot somebody through a table

we call it a powerbomb

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

willie_dee posted:

What differences in your life has it made? My partners been urging me to get diagnosed as she’s in the field and says I clearly have it, and I’m willing to, but don’t see what it will achieve.

I've started medication and it has already started to have an effect. I'm calmer - things seem less overwhelming and impossible to deal with. I find it much easier to shift my attention from one task to another when necessary, and because I'm not so frustrated, I'm more pleasant to be around for family and co-workers. I don't seem to misplace things quite as often, either, like I actually remember things exist after they leave my line of sight.

The diagnosis itself has made a difference in how I think about myself. I'm not lazy, I'm not unmotivated, I'm not failing because of some personality defect or just because I can't be bothered. I have a disability that I've been battling my whole life. It lets you reframe certain things for yourself.

Mebh
May 10, 2010


willie_dee posted:

What differences in your life has it made? My partners been urging me to get diagnosed as she’s in the field and says I clearly have it, and I’m willing to, but don’t see what it will achieve.

I too would also like more info. My partner is convinced about me too. Though mostly from her reading Elise the greats posts on it in the healthcare stories thread and saying it basically maps 1:1 with me.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Mebh posted:

I too would also like more info. My partner is convinced about me too. Though mostly from her reading Elise the greats posts on it in the healthcare stories thread and saying it basically maps 1:1 with me.

See post above - so far the differences due to the meds have been subtle but noticeable, but I'm still on a fairly slow ramp up, taking quite low doses so they can make sure my blood pressure won't spike. Basically it's like unmedicated, my head is full of lightning and sparky thoughts that race but get nowhere fast. With medication, it's just quieter. Not slower, not at all. If anything I think I'm slightly quicker. But I'm less chaotic now, internally. It's hard to describe, hopefully you know what I mean.

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Are you locked in for actual medical reasons or just no work? Either way you can do NHS Volunteers work - https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/ - either wellness checks and general chatting on the phone, or if you're physically capable of leaving the house (and either have some form of transport or live somewhere dense enough to do it on foot) picking up prescriptions, shopping etc and delivering it to people isolating, and/or stewarding and signposting at vaccination centres. You can pick and choose the hours you want to do it (apart from the stewarding, which is six hour shifts, but you do get a high-vis and a poncho!).

Thanks. I have signed up to everything which doesn't require an existing dbs and submitted photo ID, so hopefully something comes out of this :)

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?

Most food banks in London, I assume it's the same everywhere, are operating as remotely as possible and if you're willing to drive food parcels to people just google "your-postcode foodbank volunteering' and ring whichever phone number appears. It's been keeping me sane tbh.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?

learned how to and built a PC and play too much apex. it's super trite but learning a new skill like that is fun, and if you go in with a frugal mindset not necessarily too expensive.

e: oh i missed the benefit to soceity bit - it's a nice skill to have to help your friends and such with. i've helped tech support a few times and it always feels great!

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

willie_dee posted:

What differences in your life has it made? My partners been urging me to get diagnosed as she’s in the field and says I clearly have it, and I’m willing to, but don’t see what it will achieve.
For me, answers about what went wrong. Peace of mind. I was bullied heavily through school, and spent years afterwards trying to work out what it was I did that made them target me.

Or why it was that I would get into a job, last about a year before becoming totally frustrated and stressed out of my mind, and start looking for a way to escape.

Also it's a definite answer. I had suspected since I was about 20, but thought it had to be more severe and at the time I thought I was doing ok, i.e. I thought it was normal to be stressed all the time and not be able to initiate conversations with people. Or at least I thought it was my fault.

So I didn't pursue it until I failed uni, then got diagnosed with dyspraxia which at the time was very ill-defined and had a lot of overlap with ASD.

I continued to wonder if it might be more though, until as I said, numerous failed depression cures later I basically stormed into my GP and said I wanted to be tested for ASD and handed over a bunch of tests, symptoms and evidence.

Now I have the report, it informs a lot of my life and my past choices. It also gives me an occams razor to cut off a lot of self doubt, and highlights the areas where I need to expend extra effort or care if I want to succeed.

In terms of practical help I basically got the diagnosis and then the charity said to contact them if I needed any help with anything. I've contacted them a few times and they've basically said "We can't help with that" (advice on welfare / work from home careers / help with PiP), so pretty useless in terms of ongoing support. But the diagnosis and report were immensely helpful.


Failed Imagineer posted:

Make pivot tables about wrestling. Or learn to wrestle and pivot somebody through a table
I really want to make one of those big resin tables facebook keeps showing me. Can't afford any of the tools involved, but still, it looks cool and I love watching them put the varnish on at the end, it's very satisfying to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plA_JFCU3eI

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

HopperUK posted:

I've started medication and it has already started to have an effect. I'm calmer - things seem less overwhelming and impossible to deal with. I find it much easier to shift my attention from one task to another when necessary, and because I'm not so frustrated, I'm more pleasant to be around for family and co-workers. I don't seem to misplace things quite as often, either, like I actually remember things exist after they leave my line of sight.

The diagnosis itself has made a difference in how I think about myself. I'm not lazy, I'm not unmotivated, I'm not failing because of some personality defect or just because I can't be bothered. I have a disability that I've been battling my whole life. It lets you reframe certain things for yourself.

I restarted medication in 2017 and this is roughly my experience, my entire social circle was confused and a little nervous at how fast I snapped into being capable, motivated and sober. I made the incredible mistake of asking to stay on my initial dose a bit longer before titration (as it was working so well) which led to bedlam accidentally discharging me, since then I've not seen a specialist and multiple providers have collapsed with me in the queue. The efficacy of the initial dose took a massive nosedive around mid 2019 and it was equally noticeable that I was mentally limping on until Covid hit and I got to regressing hard, tho still sober.

I'd prioritise moving towards the original treatment plan over any other medical intervention I might need, tbh. After I was (re)diagnosed I advised a serial-dropout stoner nephew to make a self-referral, and since he started treatment he's set himself up to finish his first degree this year, on pace for a first. If anyone is being strongly advised to refer I'd absolutely recommend it, experiencing normal levels of stress and concentration after a lifetime without those things is a potentially life-altering thing, and to get there only costs a few days over the next ~x months/years for diagnostic appointments. and paperwork.

Just wish the services weren't busted to poo poo

Scikar
Nov 20, 2005

5? Seriously?

Another recently diagnosed ADHDer here, at 34. I was diagnosed with depression when I when everything fell apart at uni, but I had no idea that I might have ADHD until about two years ago when I stumbled across a Twitter thread where almost everything resonated: https://twitter.com/ADHD_Alien/status/1182670794633207813?s=20

I assumed I had the inattentive type but the psychiatrist pointed out that I have a lot of hyperactivity symptoms as well, they just manifest as less obvious things like fidgeting and acting on impulse, rather than bouncing off the walls. Scottish NHS fortunately isn't quite as long waiting times, but it was still over a year between first seeing my GP to talk about it and seeing the psychiatrist for the first time, and I started medication just before Christmas. More than anything else it's just a huge relief to know that what I'm dealing with is a recognised problem and I'm not just lazy or childish. With the dose ramped up a bit now I can actually focus on less interesting things for more than five minutes, and I can listen to someone talking in a conversation without randomly spacing out. I'm a lot less stressed in general now that I don't have to make excuses for times when I'm not being productive at work. It does help that I've told work all about it and they are completely understanding.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Scikar posted:

Another recently diagnosed ADHDer here, at 34. I was diagnosed with depression when I when everything fell apart at uni, but I had no idea that I might have ADHD until about two years ago when I stumbled across a Twitter thread where almost everything resonated: https://twitter.com/ADHD_Alien/status/1182670794633207813?s=20

I assumed I had the inattentive type but the psychiatrist pointed out that I have a lot of hyperactivity symptoms as well,
Big same. At one point the doctor asked me if I fidget, and I was like, I dunno, I don't know how much other people do, and then I realised he was watching me tapping my fingers against my leg and I was like, oh. I suppose so?

Did you know that you can just watch a video and that's the only thing you're doing, and you can just watch it and pay attention to it and not do other things?? This has been my main revelation.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

forkboy84 posted:

Have you considered developing an expensive Japanese wrestling habit? It could eat up all your free time AND cost you loads with subscriptions to every company's streaming service. Donate money to Big Japan so they can afford to buy light tubes and wooden boards covered in razor blades for their death matches.

A sombre ad pointing out for just a few pounds a month, you too could fund those shards of glass embedded in Jun Kasai's scalp.

But seriously, watching wrestling is a fun hobby because there's so much of it constantly. WWE alone (and let me be clear, WWE is a puddle in comparison to how deep wrestling as an industry goes) put out something like 12 hours of new content every week.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

The Perfect Element posted:

Can anyone recommend something for me to do during lockdown, from home obvs, which is constructive and/or beneficial to society? I've been getting really into poker and no risk matched betting recently, and it's got a bit unhealthy, and after a bad night tonight I've realised I'm just trying to fill a void. I think it's purely because my job, while well remunerated, is boring as gently caress and obviously I have no social life cos of lockdown.

Basically, I have loads of downtime, but nothing to do, five days per week. Any ideas?

Depends what your skills are. Do you have any IT skills that a local charity or small business might be able to use?

I've been working (from home) with a small local charity for the last 4 months overhauling (voluntarily) their website and mailchimp newsletter, plus sorting out random problems eg sorting out chaos tonight when someone making a post for the first time instead of going into the post menu went into the pages menu and created the post directly in the post-page overwriting a bunch of stuff.

I may also be called upon to do a data transfer from Access and various other systems into a CRM they want to implement (they're looking into how to manage this within the rules of GDPR etc as copying it onto a flash drive and letting me do it on my own computer is probably NOT on! - I flagged this up to them as something they need to check out as they were thinking of a volunteer who lives about 40 miles away and who wants to do it as a learning experience - she's on a data course of some sort. I live in walking distance of the office so could go in and do it on their computer that has the Access on it.)

Re small businesses - I was thinking that there are quite a few local independent small businesses who don't have any sort of online presence (other than a facebook page not all of them , and mostly defunct) and it could be useful to set up simple page to sell their stuff online and do 'click and collect' or whatever. I was even thinking maybe a Our Town Independents website where each shop say gets a page with pictures of their stuff, price and contact - not necessarily the full 'buy online' experience but customers could email the shop and sort things out that way with bank transfers or whathaveyou.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jan 28, 2021

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Seems like good news: U turn on review of UK workers rights axed.


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/27/review-of-uk-workers-rights-post-brexit-is-axed-in-sudden-u-turn

quote:

A controversial review into how EU employment rights protections could be changed after Brexit is no longer going ahead, the business secretary has announced.

In an interview with ITV’s Peston, Kwasi Kwarteng said: “So the review is no longer happening within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). I made it very very clear to officials in the department that we’re not interested in watering down workers’ rights.”

etc

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-jeremy-corbyn-suspension-court-b1793627.html

quote:

Corbyn Blah blah


I fkin HATE and LOATHE what the Labour Party has become.

I am so torn about the May Senedd elections. I will vote for the Labour candidate because she is excellent, will do her best for the people, and I know her. But I do not want Labour to take this as an endorsement of their utter poo poo leadership.
(This dilemma happened to me in 2005 when I just could not bring myself to vote Labour in the General Election despite our local Labour MP being excellent.)

And I shouldn't have gone on twitter tonight, my blood pressure has shot up and now it's nearly 4am and I'm having to find some food to calm me down.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
things are kind of bad right now, yeah. honestly, and i hope this doesn't come across as patronizing as it's something i've personally had to do, i would limit your twitter intake or similar? like, ugh it's awful and i personally feel guilt like, "am i sticking my head in the sand here?" but you kind of have to sometimes.

i think with lockdown in particular we're starved for socialization and as such social media becomes both helpful and harmful to us as a substitute - but social media is designed to manage your dopamine, and they're really good at it. it's okay if you need to back off a bit.

i can remember before i took my most recent break, i was doomscrolling endlessly as one does and when asked about it i replied, flippantly, well if i don't stare unblinking into the void i might miss something. and i was joking, but when i thought about it i realized i wasn't joking at all, that was really my logic. kind of made me examine my relationship with this technology, at least for a little while.

i think we should both call it a night.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

CoolCab posted:

things are kind of bad right now, yeah. honestly, and i hope this doesn't come across as patronizing as it's something i've personally had to do, i would limit your twitter intake or similar? like, ugh it's awful and i personally feel guilt like, "am i sticking my head in the sand here?" but you kind of have to sometimes.

i think with lockdown in particular we're starved for socialization and as such social media becomes both helpful and harmful to us as a substitute - but social media is designed to manage your dopamine, and they're really good at it. it's okay if you need to back off a bit.

i can remember before i took my most recent break, i was doomscrolling endlessly as one does and when asked about it i replied, flippantly, well if i don't stare unblinking into the void i might miss something. and i was joking, but when i thought about it i realized i wasn't joking at all, that was really my logic. kind of made me examine my relationship with this technology, at least for a little while.

i think we should both call it a night.

I know you're right. I managed to stay off twitter for a few weeks but strayed back a couple of weeks ago.

The whole pileon on MIchael Rosen seriously pissed me off a couple of days ago so I was trying to take the whole of today off but I was lured back this evening.
I need another complete 60 hour break from the 'puter (as in close down early hours of Saturday morning and not go back on til Monday afternoon) but unfortunately I need access to my emails etc for the next few days including Saturday - expecting a delivery. I'll have to arrange it after that.

I've been pretty good at taking a long weekend break most weekends for the past few months.

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






ItohRespectArmy posted:

weird how hong kong which is an international travel hub and also literally bordering china seems to be doing fine.

All the gyms being closed sucks though, and the mountain walk I used to do in the mornings is now closed off by police because it passes by a plague village. I’m soon going to be the Perfectly Spherical Goon at this rate.

OwlFancier posted:

It is interesting that the refrain of "you're smart therefore you must do well in life" is such a perfect internalization of meritocratic propaganda. Like, no, smart people do not necessarily do well in life, there is nothing that selects for that, smartness counts for nothing unless it makes someone else money.

Friend of mine got the top score nationwide in China’s Gao Kao (university entrance exam and the one thing everyone here spends their life preparing for) a few years ago. She was for a long time a minor celebrity for it. Never had a real job and now, in her late mid-20s, is by some distance the least successful of her cohort. As in, everyone else has either got a high powered job or done something amazing in arts or culture or engineered some plastic eating microbe or whatever. Whereas she tried and failed to break into entertainment, did some crappy analyst stuff that never went anywhere, had an abortive try at setting up a mask export company that didn’t go anywhere either and spent a lot of time loving around with hot Scandinavian dudes on Tinder. Sometimes being smart helps you and sometimes it doesn’t.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Scikar posted:

Another recently diagnosed ADHDer here, at 34. I was diagnosed with depression when I when everything fell apart at uni, but I had no idea that I might have ADHD until about two years ago when I stumbled across a Twitter thread where almost everything resonated: https://twitter.com/ADHD_Alien/status/1182670794633207813?s=20
It's probably resonating completely wrongly with me, because I see a lot of stuff like this
https://twitter.com/ADHD_Alien/status/1139177696385273857
and just think "surely this is what we get for doing things in a hyperindividualistic manner, doing tasks collectively would be a lot more organic and would fit the "helping people with ADHD" mold before/without even knowing it.

None of which is intended as a slight against people who are trying to navigate FYGMworld with ADHD or similar, but maybe it is everyone else that has been doing it wrong all along.

knox_harrington
Feb 18, 2011

Running no point.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I know you're right. I managed to stay off twitter for a few weeks but strayed back a couple of weeks ago.

The whole pileon on MIchael Rosen seriously pissed me off a couple of days ago so I was trying to take the whole of today off but I was lured back this evening.
I need another complete 60 hour break from the 'puter (as in close down early hours of Saturday morning and not go back on til Monday afternoon) but unfortunately I need access to my emails etc for the next few days including Saturday - expecting a delivery. I'll have to arrange it after that.

I've been pretty good at taking a long weekend break most weekends for the past few months.

Twitter really is both a cesspool and highly addictive, and my life is definitely better not having an account. I quite like seeing in-line tweets in here or USPol or wherever, but actively on the site u can lose many hours. It makes me feel bad and is pointless.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
It's like some kind of hosed up pathosocial mandelbrot set where no matter where you pick as a worthwhile starting point it goes into the most smoothbrained nonsense imaginable full of bollocks number usernames 2-3 layers down.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Honesty there are two Twitters - the political one where the conservatives go mask off, the liberals post exceedingly hot takes, and the left shitposts; and the Twitter for whatever fandom you're in, which could be anything from a specific video games from 1996 to trains to lady's feet to Magical Girl anime.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Tried looking for some harmless specific mid-90s videos game takes on twitter...
:nws: https://twitter.com/ItsGhostly_/status/1352467065962000384

Time for more coffee I think. Cursed web platform.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Ms Adequate posted:

Honesty there are two Twitters - the political one where the conservatives go mask off, the liberals post exceedingly hot takes, and the left shitposts; and the Twitter for whatever fandom you're in, which could be anything from a specific video games from 1996 to trains to lady's feet to Magical Girl anime.

Yeah, I follow only scientists in my field and block words like "Trump" where I know I'm mainly going to see arguments and poo poo flinging. I don't want to talk about politics on Twitter, I don't think it's a very useful platform for that kind of discussion. That means I don't exactly do big numbers, but also my feed is mainly videos of cool fish. If there's a world-alteringly spicy take I'm pretty sure I'll hear about it here and on three different podcasts.

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum

Ms Adequate posted:

Honesty there are two Twitters - the political one where the conservatives go mask off, the liberals post exceedingly hot takes, and the left shitposts; and the Twitter for whatever fandom you're in, which could be anything from a specific video games from 1996 to trains to lady's feet to Magical Girl anime.

There's also 'work twitter' which is irredeemably poo poo, and typically contains a selection of the most awful and unsolicited opinions rt'd from political twitter by your colleagues. e: what big scary monsters said

Goldskull
Feb 20, 2011

Ms Adequate posted:

Honesty there are two Twitters - the political one where the conservatives go mask off, the liberals post exceedingly hot takes, and the left shitposts; and the Twitter for whatever fandom you're in, which could be anything from a specific video games from 1996 to trains to lady's feet to Magical Girl anime.

Very true. Most of mine is art twitter, which while being good for getting recognition/commissions, is incredibly twee with not enough critique or discourse & 90% of people want to be MtG artists. I find it fascinating all the subjects I grew out of/moved away from ~25yrs ago are whats incredibly popular now.
Rest of it is my spicey takes/reporting horrible racism. It gets a bit disheartening when I'll struggle to get 30 likes on some of my best art, yet easy hit 3 figures on some throwaway sarcasm.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
I partially retract, not all twitter is bad

https://twitter.com/Hacksterio/status/1354619791407984644

https://twitter.com/dannydyerbot/status/1354692925255516161

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply