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why life is very unfair? And why is it only some people and others they have the best life since born but some are struggling like crazy. is this a luck ?

What is the simplest physical system capable of open-endedly creating new knowledge?

Hello, world

When I stopped having a job I completely lost interest of huge portion of things I used to have interest before. I could connect all of that to consumerism. And I haven't gained any of that interest back.

Is it because you could no longer afford these things and had to budget?

I quit knowing I am financially ok. (I was likely burnt out, had to leave a place I greatly loved but I still left). I still can't exactly explain this.

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Sounds like it was a gut feeling, I hope it works out for you, and in the meantime, you discover new passions. But I understand, unemployment leads to feelings of apathy.

SCP-9871 (Omnidirectional Chicken): Foundation staff dispatched to Civilian ███'s home in the guise of Animal Control, on reports of "I get woken up by this rooster but none of my neighbors have chickens and it's like it's coming from everywhere and nowhere". Staff confirmed report but were unable to locate source. Case designated as of potential interest but low-priority given current critical personnel shortage. Channel further communications from Civilian ███ into Automated Dialogue Tree 318.

i thought german state bureacracy was bad, until i had to go jump through the hoops of (an online retailers) coorporate hellhole of a dev program.

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my naive vibecoding ass thought everything that can be built can be shipped. compliance is a b*tch

Anyone here using NixOS? How long did it take for you to learn it and completely set it up? My current distro is Arch (btw)

almost done beating fear and hunger.... so hard!!!

hey peeps.

Another little corner of the internet. Anything using fixed-width fonts and without pictures has surely got to be promising in this day and age, surely...

I've linked up my blog (jeff-mitchell.dev) to textlog. I hope to use the two things together now to build a bit more of a writing habit. The 500 character increase is nice, room to breath but not an essay. Gotta build the muscles slowly :)

Haiiii

holaaa

Any runners on here? I mostly consider myself a trail runner, but of course train on roads, too. Good for 1–2 races/year, more into running as a practice, a way to manage stress and stay fit.

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5 min/km is pretty quick, as far as I'm concerned! My easy/forever pace is more like 8:30–9 min/mile right now.

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Better for your knees, too :)

Q: What’s a dog’s favorite part of the opera? A: The ARRRRRRRRR-ia!

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This joke also works with pirates.

^\ / //o__o /\ / __/ \ \______\ / -ARF! \ / \ \----\ \ \_\_ \_\_

howdy

halo :) welcome

I sit in meetings all day long, I roll my eyes and die a bit and synergize and circle back inner life sacrosanct outer face smiling stone no need to rush: executives don't need to work just synergize and circle back

why life is hard?

Sorry difficulty slider broke and we're now in a "beat 3 Dark Souls games with the same inputs" level of difficulty

what

makes sense

It's life

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There were no accessibility settings :(

What is a Textlog?

Anyone in the room recently diagnosed as being in the spectrum and older than 40?

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I'm 55 and recently self-diagnosed as "fairly ASD with some ADHD" after watching a lot of youtube videos. It's been immensely helpful (to the point of bringing me to tears sometimes) in understanding the struggles I had when I was younger. It's also been very helpful in understanding what I can do currently to support myself and work with my brain instead of against it.

I'm glad it was useful to you. This process of becoming aware of our autism is not easy. It is liberating, but it is also difficult, at the same time. I watched a lot of videos too, but then I visited a couple psiquiatrists and a psycologist (I had other problems too), just to be sure. What is your opinion about the ASD youtube landscape? I think that there are a few very good channels, but there is lot of noise too. I see some danger there.

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Those "10 signs you may be [or not be] autistic" seem quite dangerous to me. Neurodivergence can be tricky.

Yeah. I do like them sometimes, but the good authors are careful to start the video with looots of caveats (e.g. "this is not how to diagnose, just something that's maybe helpful").

Yeah I agree that there are many ASD channels on YT of varying qualities. I only follow a few. Some of my favorites (very roughly in order):

@MomontheSpectrum
@imautisticnowwhat
@elenacarr0ll -- kinda more emotive, but I find that helpful sometimes
@autismfromtheInside -- no longer posts (burned out)

I think for now being self diagnosed is enough for me. Just knowing that I'm neurodivergent has been helpful for me to be kind to my own mind.

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