If someone I just met uses my name regularly I feel like they’re trying to sell me something.

I’ve heard cannabis described as a multiplier and I’ve found that to be true. For me it makes allows me to notice what I’m feeling more (physically and emotionally), food tastes better, I write more, my mood seems elevated, but it has it’s downsides. Around people and in public my anxiety is much higher and like others, my executive functioning and memory gets worse.

I also find my thoughts feel more “linear,” in a way: slower and easier to trace how one thought led to the next (if I’m able to hang onto that thread). It’s easier to observe my thoughts. If I have one thing to sit down and focus on, it’s fantastic. If I’m interacting with a lot of people and having to task switch a lot, it’s a nightmare. Again, that multiplier effect, as I’m quite introverted.

I also don’t get tired from cannabis. I can’t do sativa. Too much anxiety. I go for heavy indicas and even that can light up my brain. If I’m in a space (physical and mental) where I can relax, it can occasionally help. I go for edibles, usually 1:1 THC:CBD; 5mg of THC. I use about once a week in the evening when I have a project I’d like to spend time with and I won’t be bothered.

I was doing that 3 days a week at times. I took a 4 month break while I started my medication for ADHD. Started back up recently. Honestly, I think the cannabis might have a better overall impact. Correcting more data, but I might need to change my meds.

“This isn’t a business. I’ve always thought of it more of a source of cheap labour, like a family.”

I also feel much slower than the average person. While there’s a lot of people who seem to be able to navigate problems faster than me, there’s also a lot of people who can generate a lot of problems quicker than me, too. Slow people have that going on: when things are getting bad fast, it’s nice to have slow and steady people around.

Consider what you might tell someone who was slower than you. I know I’d be nicer to them than I tend to treat myself. I’d tell them that everyone matters. And I mean it. They see and experience the world in a unique way that matters.

For example, maybe they can see the bottlenecks and roadblocks in a system better than anyone else, because they are more impacted by / sensitive to it. That seems very valuable.

It may require a change in environment to be realized. To expand on your car race metaphor, maybe the problem is thinking it’s all a car race when somewhere out there, there’s something that needs to be steamrolled and a Lamborghini just won’t do.

All easier said than done, I know. The world now seems to love speed, but we’ll never know if we could have experienced being a fully self-actualized steamroller if we don’t try. Writing this for myself, too.

December vibes. More places should just take the month off. Surely the data shows how unproductive most are. Now’s the time to get cozy and rest.

This is a great idea and I was excited until I remembered how hard it is to think deeply while my anxious mind tries to register everything around it.

Even in death they’d be causing sea levels to rise.

Now that we’re in a wrestle mania timeline… how long before Trump turns on Musk over Tesla EVs, kicks him in the gut and gives him a stone-cold stunner?

They define them in 43.21(7), albeit, still quite loosely:

(7) “Obscene device” means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.

So maybe a devices like the magic wand is in the clear since it’s marketed as a massager. I wonder if a vibrator could simply be repackaged and marketed as a massager, as well.

For those curious to read the penile penal code see 43.23(f): https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm#43.23

I think about this often-- followed by Homer Simpson’s voice saying, “Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.”

right? holy jpeg artifacts! Is this the record holder for “longest chain of screenshots-of-a-screenshot”?

I’m with you. Another perk is a sense of where you are on the planet. If I get up with the sunrise at 22:00 somewhere, then travel somewhere the sun rises around 18:00, it’s obvious the sun is hitting this part of the planet sooner.

If UTC were widely adopted, it’d be interesting to see what employers near time zones would do. EG start work at 19:00 or 20:00? 19:30? Flex-time with mandatory core hours from 22:00 to 02:00? Maybe I’m over optimistic, but it seems like it would encourage more flexible work hours.

Gives your last sentence new meaning, too.

Also, I know that feeling. However you meant it…

For the curious, this is called the windshield phenomenon.

Dang, that’s rough. I’m glad things turned around. Speaking to my own psychology: It’s easy to internalize a string of bad luck. Then when other people go through it-- whether in group therapy, a global pandemic, or a massive recession-- it shows how random or circumstantial life and luck can be. It helped me internalize it less and get out of my own way.

I was unemployed, isolated, and anosmic-- then covid hit and I was like, “hey everyone, welcome to the club! Yes, it does suck but at least now there’s people to empathize with.”

It’s available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you’re in the EU, it’s legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn’t specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I’m leaning towards a distrust of big tech and “readily available for anyone” being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

Data brokers getting a kick out of this one.

requires terminal skills to deal with most things

Have you actually used linux? Terminal is optional. Most linux users use it because it’s rad, not because it’s necessary.

Digging through the registry or searching ad laden websites to find where a new setting or old menu is buried is more time consuming than typing man <command> or tldr <command>. The latter is to improve my system and the former to prevent a private company from making it worse.