TimewornTraveler

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TimewornTraveler ,

shame served an evolutionary function that has become less useful when you can so easily find a new tribe and security in modern life

TimewornTraveler ,

smoking rooms are still common in Korea. they're quite nice. they are walled off so you don't have to smell it

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    Desire for routine or at least control over the routine can show up in ADHD, esp as a means of controlling one's own condition. the routine may not look like a routine to others lol

    TimewornTraveler ,

    hey good on you being skeptical of MH info on social media. In this case, the hyper interests are the kind of thing that once you've been on the receiving end of it, you know what it is.

    It's definitely a thing.

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    yeah routine helps treat some symptoms/effects of ADHD, it's just gotta be a flexible routine that has room for novelty.

    perhaps a better way to understand it is not in what is craved but where one thrives?

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    Holy shit I'm so glad I don't have your brain OP

    try just doing whatever you want

    What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison?

    For some reason began going down a rabbit hole thinking about this. Let's say you are blind, and reliant on a guide dog, but end up in prison for a non-violent crime like possession of illegal drugs. Are you allowed to keep the dog? No, right? But if you are entirely reliant on the guide dog to perform daily tasks, how do you...

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Serious mental disabilities often end up in mental institutions instead of prisons, they're often found not criminally responsible for their actions.

    do you have a source for this one

    TimewornTraveler ,

    I'm not confident anyone in this thread really knows what they're talking about

    TimewornTraveler ,

    But showing that it happens to one dude does not mean it happens "often". That's really anecdotal.

    There's also a fair argument that a significant number of people in prison have undiagnosed mental disorders.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    the griffins in LOTR. "Oh it's mating season right now" or whatever, some excuse why they're too busy to just take them up from the get go

    TimewornTraveler ,

    wtf did you link to

    TimewornTraveler ,

    I understand why they're insulted, but an explanation doesn't really make it any more rational

    TimewornTraveler ,

    That's literally what I said

    TimewornTraveler ,

    addiction is far more complicated than just biological mechanisms unfortunately. the fact that it's already appealing to you should be a warning sign!

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    Sex.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    except... it's not. we can let it go because it is a light hearted question, but as someone who provides treatment to this population I just wanted to give a shout out to the fact that addiction goes beyond biochemical dependence and usually stems from shit being fucked up in your own life that causes you to be interested in using substances to begin with

    TimewornTraveler ,

    is there even any reason to compare them? i genuinely dont know what connection they have. kendrick's music is so different and so much better. are they friends IRL or something? is there something in the "news?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    can you add a button that will save my marriage?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    the title confuses me. umm... don't you think Elon would find most of us insufferable?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    hence the keyword "would"

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    oh 100% i avoid it completely. i advocate for things in my own space and my own community. I'm not wasting my time talking about this shit online with any of you. i already know what im doing in november and i know what i gotta do in my local community and i dont give a flying fuck what anyone on here has to say about any of it. aint trying to change a bunch of random stranger's minds (especially when i know we already pretty much agree on all the shit im already going to be doing)

    and instead of policing my communities to attempt to help create a politically tasteful environment for myself, id rather just ... fucking avoid completely any political environment. problem solved, life easy

    PS if you block ads, you should block most news

    TimewornTraveler ,

    what does that have to do with Lemmy though?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    choosing ignorance means choosing to ignore something that directly affects you.

    what does lemmy have to do with any of this

    TimewornTraveler ,

    if a dozen people independently decide that your ideas are indefensible, to you that looks like a group, but really it's just a bunch of people reading something shitty. to dismiss that as "group think" sort of highlights something about you more than the platform, doesn't it?

    no one told me to say this

    TimewornTraveler ,

    people 1) obsess over gathering intel as if they need to figure out what to do and then 2) stress over not doing enough and then 3) post shit online to feel like they're doing stuff and 4) continue the cycle so that they never have to look inward and work on themselves. focusing on systems is the ultimate distraction. but i guess folks caught in the cycle would say that focusing on the self is a distraction from systems... what a sad, miserable life it must be. i hope one day they see that systems are just made of people are try to help those around them first and foremost.... but it's always people with the most fucked up personal lives that dive deep into politics

    TimewornTraveler ,

    what do you mean by narrative rules?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    so you believe you are going to contribute to positive change for LGBTQ+ community by responding to propaganda on social media?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    I think you overstate how significantly social media impacts your local community and livelihood. like, it does, but not nearly as much as what you could do out in the world

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Don't know any, don't want to know any. Not a good field for my brain or soul.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Yeah this question seems weird. Isn't programming less about knowing and more about solving?

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Well, you see in June last year, Reddit decided to make some greedy corporate changes. So in response, tons of principled leftists departed the site. What did yall expect? Same thing happened to Twitter.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Duo is at best a supplementary tool. If you're doing nothing except Duo, of course you can't speak the language. Fucking owl.

    Being 'to negative'

    So I'm a shut-in with a ton of problems and no money. My life revolves around World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 which is sad in its own right I'm sure. Anyway every single time I try to find a community (guild or clan) it goes to hell within a month or so. They always say I'm too negative about the game or my performance. No...

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Hey, there's a lot going on in this post. This might be a bit beyond our scope. I recommend seeking professional help. It sounds like there's a number of things that you'd wanna talk about in therapy: depression, gaming addiction, boundaries, self criticism, emotional regulation, etc.

    I know you call yourself a shut in with no money. See if you can find something virtual and through insurance. Or request financial hardship rates. You gotta do something. The only wrong answer is to keep doing nothing.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    It doesn't seem like it's bringing you joy. You aren't happy where you are, are you? Sometimes when an immediate pleasure keeps us afloat in a bad situation, it tends to make it easier to stay in that bad situation. And the more you seek satisfaction from gaming, the harder it is to get that satisfaction, right? Hence the negativity.

    If nothing else, try watching some Healthy Gamer videos. He has a great YouTube channel with a lot of topics that will be relevant to you.

    TimewornTraveler ,

    Very interesting sentiments, very agreeable, but if this were one of my patients I would be quick to redirect the conversation away from "society is wrong" into "You're realizing that you believe this is your path". Generalizations like that do us no good. If it's about YOU, then make it about YOU. If someone is dismissing YOU based on this stuff, talk about how that person's words affect YOU.

    I bet $100 that this person recently had a conversation with someone where this kind of language was used. Or, maybe more likely, they saw some random irrelevant bullshit on the internet from a stranger and extrapolated messages about an entire culture from it. The culture is YOU TOO, buddy!

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    funny I don't remember reading that in any Hobbes or Locke. I guess I need to review classical liberal philosophy

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    I dunno I never really fit in that sub because I am not only a patient gamer but I also don't care to play every game under the sun. I'm patient because I don't spend money on upgrading my rig and because I enjoy playing 1 game for 1000 hours rather than 100 games for 10 hours. I just beat MHW: Iceborne recently and like, that's pretty cool. I might buy the new Diablo 2 update some day maybe. What else do I gotta say?

    I need to find an appropriate community to vent about microtransactions in mobile games. I just dipped into that world since I have more downtime out of the house, but I'm pretty disgusted with the quality of mobile gaming right now. What happened?!

    TimewornTraveler ,

    that sounds way too bizarre to believe without seeing a source. and i know there's gonna be people replying saying it's not that bizarre, because China, but really....?

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