Let’s just skip the prison, take him to Antarctica, drop him off on the shore, and leave.

but my doctor said I just wasn’t trying hard enough. Broke my spirit.

That’s how you know you’re talking to the wrong doctor. “Just try harder” is not a solution to executive function disorders. If it were, I would have been a “straight A” student instead of a barely passing one. Stimulants revealed, among numerous other things, that I actually can do math and I’m not a complete and utter moron. My brain just has a physical defect whereby some parts of it are unable to sufficiently absorb neurotransmitters.

Through my extensive experience with doctors, I have learned that generally speaking – not always, mind you – doctors are familiar with their own narrow field and nothing outside of it. They also often have as much hubris than the average person and, much like the rest of us, tend to feel threatened by the unknown.

You need to find a doctor that that is either familiar with ADHD and how to effectively treat it, or one who is at least willing to work towards improving your quality of life and is willing to do some serious trial and error to that end.

TIL PhotoBucket is still around.

You can’t explain that!

I have to use Outlook for work. It’s difficult or impossible to find the features that were actually useful in the new Outlook.

I still use old Outlook because at least it actually works.

“Experts say power plants ‘burn coal to convert water into steam.’”

I mean, does anyone really know how these things operate?

“Art of the Deal”

I once cut down a dead tree, not knowing that it contained a bees nest. They chased me until I jumped into a nearby creek. That was not fun.

I’m running Shareaza in Crossover Linux on Mint. It actually runs pretty well.

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, “we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it’s a positive impact as much as possible.” tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

After reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt sent government agents to inspect the Chicago slaughterhouses. They conditions they found were worse than the book described and that was after the slaughterhouse owners found out government agents were coming and had their factories cleaned from top to bottom.

Some of the stuff described in the book was just plain nasty so how it could have been worse is beyond me.

No, no, no. What actually happened was, Noah rounded up two of every creature to put on the ark in preparation for the great flood. But the dinosaurs – who were totes alive at the same time as humans – didn’t get the memo. So, Noah shrugged and was like, “Oh well. You guys aren’t going to fit anyways. Sayonara.”

Some of the users definitely like to pontificate a bit much and there’s still gaps in reliable clients for some platforms (e.g. Apple TV). That said, Jellyfin, as a service, is solid.

I feel bad for kids who have to suffer and/or die from easily preventable diseases because their parents are morons.

More like 12 years ago.

What are you talking about? This is all <brown-persons> fault. They’re stealing all of our <job-I-was-never-going-to-do-in-a-million-years>! We need reverse taxes for billionaires, where the government gives them money instead of them paying taxes, so some of it will finally trickle down to us. And, we need to deport all the <brown-people-whos-country-I-cant-find-on-a-map>. Make America Magic Again!!

They now have 1000% less missiles.

If you willingly gave money to a two-bit con-artist who is widely known for robbing or defrauding nearly everyone he has ever done business with, then you got what you had coming.

“AI” coding tools can offer some value. The problem is that they often generate tech debt with pay day loan level interest rates. What’s made the interest rate so high is that now, not only do you have the actual code base tech debt. You also have a bunch of code that no one understands and the barrier to entry for software engineering has become so high that fewer younger people are actually learning how to be good programmers. Lots of organizations don’t give a shit about their rapidly growing mountain of tech debt today but they’re sure going to at the end of the week when the payment comes due.

What their “leadership” fails to understand is that any idiot can shell out code. I’ve seen lots of terrible programmers generate millions of lines of really shitty code that somehow, by the power of the dark Lord himself, manages to compile. That’s not what a software engineer actually does though. Software engineers design operational systems with software. Writing code is a secondary function of that. There are currently no AI agents that can successfully design a software system with any degree of complexity because LLM’s don’t actually understand anything.

Land of the fee. Home of the [wage] slave.