I love ternary for assigning to constants.

Great post

I’d see it as a seal of quality if the developer is a crank.

Cheap ramen and splitscreen minecraft bro

And if you had a dangerous person in your tribe, you better also paid very close attention to their behavior.

The well-documented symptoms of various mental illnesses are a clear sign for needing help. Believing that psychologists, or at least those psychologists one has access to, don’t have the competence to help is no such symptom.

I actually agree that they have similar effects if consumed similarly. Avoiding the mass consumption of short-form, attention-grabbing content is a great choice when you notice a decline in your ability to focus. I’ve occasionally done the same thing in my life, sometimes even cutting internet usage more radically than that, and it always created strongly noticeable improvements (or rather noticeable returns to my more natural state of mind).

That being said, I still browse lemmy memes and think it’s somewhat different from similar media for several reasons (these are broad generalizations, of course there are exceptions):

• Memes are more honest as they’re mainly aimed at making you laugh, and you can easily verify yourself whether you found them funny or not. Short-form videos will often contain stories, advice, or information, the value or danger of which you cannot verify so easily.
• At least if you’re looking in the right communities, memes are from the community members itself, not some slop by some influencer trying to get clicks at any price.
• I can browse through top of the day of my lemmy meme communities in a relatively short amount of time, get some enjoyment out of it, and then just move on with my life. I don’t think there is an equivalent platform for short videos. They want to keep you scrolling endlessly.

Not sure if this is relevant for your case, but make sure you’re also blocking subdomains of the specified domains. Adguard for example allows doing that easily via regex-like rules.

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I disagree.

You will ultimately have to answer this yourself, but here are some personal thoughts that might help you:

• hobbies are nice, but I wouldn’t force one just for the sake of having one
• cooking, diet and exercise are always good picks to spend time and energy on
• you’ll probably have at least four decades of working full time in your life, so I wouldn’t rush getting into a job if you’re not financially dependent on it. There’s also part time jobs and internships.
• if you’re in a country with cheap or free college, there’s a lot to gain and little to lose by just trying it out
• depending on how good your social skills are, having an autism-friendly environment can be a massive improvement to your life quality. Some choices will be more effective for finding this environment than others. For example, you might have an easier time making friends if you’re studying CS and getting into DnD than if you’re working in sales and getting into football. That’s of course a broad generalization and again something you have to figure out yourself, but it’s helpful to be aware of this as a factor for your life quality.
• most importantly, what interests you? Maybe you even have an interest where grinding the basics comes naturally to you, not just the superficial fun parts? Which fields interest you can also be a factor when deciding whether you want to go to college.

Some Audi, it was quite nice and new and the instructor would pet it and whisper to it every time I stalled the engine during lessons.

For me there is often a problem that causes to not be able to sleep, and I’ll try to solve that. Like being hungry, thirsty, radiator too warm, radiator not warm enough, I have some energy I need to get out, need to close the window, need to open the window. If nothing helps I get out of bed for a while and this makes me more tired after some time. I try to avoid scrolling because it just makes the time fly by without changing the circumstances or making me sleepy.

It’s really hard to make predictions, but one thing I am certain about is that the pervasiveness of endless entertainment and distractions, in combination with the ease of outsourcing any mental effort to LLMs, will have significant effects on people’s cognitive performance. Especially for young people who have the misfortune of never knowing a world without these things.

Another thing is climate change. At least for those of us living in the west, climate change is still limited to concerning news you read, a bit more heat in the summer, and a few more natural disasters than usual. There are effects, but we’re not really affected yet. In 10 years, our lives will be significantly affected by the increasing heat and even more natural disasters. In other parts of the world, these things are already happening and they will be significantly worse in 10 years.

True. Yesterday I saw a gen alpha kid watching YT on his phone on one hand while he was walking his dog with the other. In an urban area with some traffic and occasional cyclists.

I read it in this song’s rhythm lol

I agree that reddit sucks but why do you think it’s not anime friendly?

There’s this Norwegian metal band called Kvelertak and I absolutely love their sound, but have no idea what the lyrics are about as I don’t speak the language.

I think your fundamental misunderstanding is how many people just scroll, lurk and at most comment. Let’s call those passive users. They are many and therefore worth catering to. Reddit, especially the big subreddits, are engagement generators. Their point is not to answer the questions that you as an individual might have. Their point is to maximize engagement. Providing the kind of content that keeps thousands of passive users engaged in the app has more monetary value than letting you as an individual post your personal question. So it’s geared towards letting users with a solid track record of creating engagement post easily, while being careful with users who don’t have that track record.

You can see this in supermarkets too. Hundred different types of sweets but if I simply want nuts roasted without oil, I’m out of luck? Why? Because there’s orders of magnitude more people who will buy stuff without reading the ingredients. The people who care about not having oil added to their nuts are so relatively few that they’re not worth catering to by a mass-appealing supermarket.

At least those are my theories, not that I have any inside knowledge.