Mine was 45mg methylphenidate (as ritilin) time release in the morning and 15mg after school. For a total daily dose of 55mg, (which is more than the 35mg max daily dose they’d give me now as an adult, and way more than the 18mg I actually take occasionally). I was 90lbs until I started cheeking it at 11-12, and got punished both for not eating dinner AND for “stealing” food from the fridge at 11pm when it all finally wore off and I got desperately hungry (also for cheeking the pills but that’s its own problem). Thanks for the food issues, fam. They work so well that living with people makes me feel guilty in my own house!

Sorry we both dealt with shit.

My test administrator genuinely laughed while I was doing the test because I couldn’t stop asking questions/making comments about it.

Apparently that specific test is administered with a human present for exactly that reason. Clear as day indicator of Overactive Brain Disorder.

I was diagnosed at 5 originally but didn’t have any records of it because I stopped medication at 13, the earliest age my parents would listen to me about how bad I felt on medication (was on a super high dose they wouldn’t even give me as an adult, no wonder I hated it) and then raw-dogged the next 20 years, so they skipped a lot of the truly basic stuff and went right for a confirmation test of impulse control. Of which I have absolutely none.

I have a 2023 chevy bolt and I just pulled the fuse for all that stuff. It doesn’t really disable anything important. If you still want navigation or location-based charging, you can remove the onstar module behind the screen without issue, and the video tutorial made it look pretty damned easy to DIY. That disables all the spyware/internet stuff but leaves everything else working. I’ll probably do it eventually, for location-based charging and nothing else, but its very low priority at the moment, cuz I hardly ever go anywhere that can use the full level 1 12amp pull (my friends and family aren’t confident their wiring can handle it, which is totally fair, I don’t use 12amp at home for the same reason, and I’m getting a new outlet installed that will make it a level 2 charger anyway)

It also has physical buttons for all the important stuff. That and being able to disable the spyware were my two main criteria, with cargo space as a close third (used to have a civic coupe, loved the size, but useless for moving stuff)

When I got my first consoles around 8, it was from my neighbor who wanted to get a ps1, so he sold me his snes and genesis and about a dozen games for each. After that I got every major console (used ofc) though I stopped xbox at the 360 because I always buy used at least a generation behind, and the whatever came after one was already out, and almost entirely backward compatible. Why get xbox one when I could get the whatever came after and get two consoles for the price of the one?

I might get the xbox whatever’s current at some point, but the big companies basically destroyed the used game market with their shenanigans, discless consoles, pushing digital games over everything else and barely even releasing games on disc in the newest generation, and then fucking up the used market further by making everything online, shutting down servers, and revoking licenses for stuff making people realize if they don’t have it physically they don’t own it.

At at this point I’m just not really into collecting games anymore. It’s no longer a fun cheap way to get occasional gems among lots of average games (I have like 500 discs, a lot of those games are very meh).

I still game, but I’d never pay for a digital copy that I can’t sell/give away when I don’t want it anymore, because that’s not what gaming is to me. So my current method of aqusition gives exactly the same amount of money to devs and studios as my former method of buying used games, and I feel zero guilt as a result. They weren’t getting my money anyway, the difference is that now nobody does. I do throw indie devs money a lot more often than I would if buying the used disc, but I’m still broke (more broke, in fact) so I can’t afford to do it all the time, much less buy all these games at whatever price they decide they want to get for it.

It could be more like pens and marker on the surface, rather than needled tattoos. That might work, and still ‘count’ as tattoo for narrative purposes. But really the same problem applies with the chair situation, which is arguably harder to explain away, since he falls to the floor without the chair. Really, if his time is fully stopped, he should be hovering when chair-less.

Perhaps time isn’t really fully stopped, so he can be aware of whats going on (as it sounds like he might be). That sounds very much like a djinn thing to do.

I usually use one of these, but there are a lot of others out there as well that are equally good because there are just so so so many games out there.

https://www.miniplay.com/mobile-games

https://poki.com/en/mobile

https://www.crazygames.com/t/mobile

There are so many websites for mobile games that I don’t install apps anymore. Most of them soak up data they don’t need, and nuts to that. Games in a browser work fine and you can very easily block ads regardless of OS.

Rodeo skills gunna be back in fashion lol

Haha that’s wild, I mean I didn’t realize there was a problem, either, but thats mostly because my eyes weren’t really that bad when I got glasses, and I only got them to see if they’d help the headaches, so on and off for years I’d get new glasses made, wear them for several months, then stop.

I don’t really have stereoscopic (3D) vision, though, as far as I can tell. Like I have depth perception, but it’s exactly the same with one eye or two, so I think I use non-stereoscopic cues. Probably related. Do you know if your grandma has any problems with depth, and if it changes using one eye vs two?

I could never get those magic eye things to work either, I wonder if its related…

I’m glad you get your vision corrected! Was your fix exercises or surgery, or something else entirely?

Honestly just having the bed be dinged and/or dirty is plenty to me.

It’s absurd the number of trucks I’ve seen where the bed liner looks brand new, never used, on a 5-10 YO vehicle. No body damage, not even a scuff on the tailgate.

Sure it IS possible to regularly use a truck as a truck and be so careful as to not cause any damage, but it’s incredibly unlikely.

Haha thats actually kind of what I do now, when I’m out in the bright sun walking around my right eye is usually closed (my sunglasses aren’t prescription and I’m sensitive to light, so that limits the input). I don’t do the opposite when I’m indoors or reading, because my right eye is my non-dominant and it just doesn’t work that well with my brain, but maybe I’ll work on that, now that I know. Lean into it and make it stronger, biohacker-style!

Love the idea of slowly mutating into an inconsistent pirate! “Didn’t you have the patch on the other eye? What the hell?”

Yeah this whole things needs to be shifted toward the unanticipated because IME, the things i worry about have zero to do with the bad things I experience.

You cant really prepare for the actual things that matter. Might as well not worry. Life is chaotic.

Optimism sounds hard when life gets difficult, but really its just recognizing that in the grand scheme of things, nothing matters but what you experience, so everything thats good is really good. The bad stuff still sucks, but we’ve always had bad, and we’ve always had good, and its all just what its going to be, in our deterministic universe. And thats OK. If you want to see the good, you can, even if it takes some effort, and thats great.

I used to think i was a pessimist, but that was wrong, because i always expect the best of any situation. These days they call that hope or copium, but its optimism. I never actually expect things to suck, i hope for the best and let myself be disappointed by people, because to me, thats emotionally easier than expecting the worst all the time. People aren’t bad, they have bad motivations as a result of our broken antisocial systems. And it helps to remember that we survived thousands of years without the present level of conflict, because the vast majority of us, historically and presently, don’t want this shit.

Twice my salary is zero because I’ve been unemployed for four years now, but I’m also 39, so life goal achieved! Woohoo?

The halo effect is a real problem, Disney notwithstanding.

Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.

I want to do a new job every 6 month or so. Thats long enough to get really really good at it, but not long enough to get bored or develop anxiety about doing it.

That’s technically what temp agency contracts are, but I don’t like when someone takes part of my paycheck for doing absolutely fuck-all and the jobs on offer fucking suck. But finding your own contracts is honestly a full-time job by itself. I know because I’ve done that for years.

Life is unfair, just give me a job and I’ll at least temporarily be the best employee you’ve ever had!

since all vehicles require yearly registration with mileage anyway.

I am 100% certain my state doesn’t keep track of mileage, even superficially, because I have never looked at my odometer for any paperwork reasons.

Registration yes, mileage no, and even emission testing varies by county/city.

You should see the damage farm equipment causes.

I pay my EV fee ($175 every year) even tho I barely drive, which is why I got an EV (old car needed to be replaced anyway). In the last year prior to getting an EV, I filled up my 10-gallon tank maybe four times. At 18 cents per gallon I probably paid $8 toward road repair via gas taxes, so I’m paying way way way more now. Farm equipment doesn’t pay shit to fix the copious damages they cause going between their fields, since most of their gas use isn’t on the roads and many large farms have their own fuel pumps and buy bulk.

I like your proposal, but I’d add a HUGE flat fee to large farm equipment, or just entirely ban it from paved roads, where it very specifically is not meant to be.

Cats are crepuscular, which means they are most active at dawn and dusk. They aren’t doing a whole lot of hunting in the middle of the day regardless of their pupil size.

As long as they can find some “cause”, then you’re fired and ineligible for unemployment benefits.

This is a common misconception, and everyone should apply for unemployment if they lose their job for any reason, including if they quit because they felt pressured to leave (constructive dismissal).

They need an actual good cause, like actual damages to the company or something, and they need to be willing and able to back up their claim that you are ineligible, or the unemployment offices will side with you and award it anyway. They generally favor employees over employers in decisions, because they know the bullshit companies do to not pay out.

Lose your job? Apply. You have literally nothing to lose.