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I also have ADD. I'm untreated since it's kinda expensive and my job is easy enough to not need to be.

I'm glad that ADD/ADHD is more accepted now because I remember when the idea some people have problems focusing was immediately dismissed as laziness or a fault in character. I didn't even consider getting tested until far into adulthood because of the stigma.

Oh yeah I had family that did something similar. They did that whole thing where you bid on abandoned storage lockers. They actually did quite well considering how you can't rummage through everything prior to bidding. Made a small profit for a few years.

Then the TV shows came out and that put an end to that for them. Bids were too high that it wasn't feasible anymore.

Isn't it like a cultural thing over there where you're expected to work overtime and essentially kill yourself for your company? Might be dated info but I remember someone saying nobody even thinks about going home before the boss regardless of when they got in so the boss never has the chance to see them leave.

Huge problem in the creative fields.

Almost everyone is super hyped that someone finally likes their work enough that they actually want it, let alone actually want to pay for it. So they undervalue their work and sell it for peanuts. I sometimes see work priced so low that it barely covers the supplies. They might sell a few but don't want to raise their price as they get better. Get a few people doing this and it becomes hard for legitimate creatives to sell their work at higher realistic prices.

Then there's overseas creatives. Some can do phenomenal work but you just can't compete with their prices even if they're pricing realiatically for where they live.

Also kinda related is how cocktails were created to mask lousy liquor during prohibition.

It gives me a strong "solar freaking roadway" vibe. I feel like there has to be some details missing that makes a huge difference.

Stephen King also wrote the short scifi story The Jaunt which is similar.

Basically a scientist makes a stargate type of device. Nonliving things that go through end up fine but living things like mice would either immediately just die or go absolute insane after exiting.

Long story short, the trip is instantaneous. But because they're traveling outside of our normal space time is perceived differently by conciousnes minds. So what seems like a split second to us on the outside things seem almost endless on the inside. Like anywhere from millions of years to the age of the universe. Endless time with nothing but their own thoughts. No body and just white light. Humans they test it out on either also die or end up going all Event Horizon when they exit.

They figured out a work around by knocking people out before putting then through.

I also left. Productivity shot up and office supplies theft plummeted.

Give almost any local news website a shot. Those things are so bad I think long and hard before clicking.

My dad is/was a ham. My experience growing up with ham radio in the house was so negative that it's just kinda a turn off for me. Going back to the early 90s, for a lot of those old boomer types ham was mostly just a way to out-do eachother by showing off their rigs. It's kind of disappointing to me that they have this awesome technology they could have been taking to the next level but instead just spend hours whistling into the mic and bragging. In addition I got a sense that many of the old guys were actively working as gatekeepers as a way to stroke their own egos.

These guys were a big part of the hobby for years and because of that the hobby has been stagnate. But from what it looks like it seems that they're swiftly being replaced by the newer generation of tinkerers in recent years which is pretty awesome.

It's funny because I went back to school but worked as the printer guy within an IT dept for about 5 years before deciding to go back to school. Our dept kept going back and forth on what video conferencing we should use for our meetings for about 2 years, they just couldn't make up their minds. Not once was zoom ever mentioned. I was kinda shocked once schools (everyone almost actually) started universally using zoom because that's the first I've heard of it and I was aware of at least half dozen other options.

>He only joined in 2012, so that's an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days.

Hope that's not his real name because if it is his boss might think he needs more work to do.

I would have challenged them to a duel.

Did doordash for a few weeks and discovered that this is exactly how the dashers in the community that made "okay" money operated. They turn down deliveries that didn't pay a certain amount and would sit in their car doing nothing if they had to.

If you're suffering just get the single tube and look for a dual tube unit some time in the future. Singles aren't as great but they still do the job well enough that you're not dying from the heat.

I went years without any AC and my bedroom wall faces south. My room would get so hot in the summer I couldn't get any sleep. Tried an evaporative cooling unit because they're cheap which did absolutely nothing for me. Eventually broke down and got a portable AC which unfortunately was a single hose unit. You really need to look carefully at what you're buying because the whole single/dual tube thing doesn't seem to be something the sellers put out there. Even though it it was a single it still made a world of difference. On really hot days it doesn't get super cold but cool enough that I don't notice the heat.

Maybe he didn't know about that war?

what I hate are those tiny change nooks sewn into the right trouser pocket so it's like a pocket within a pocket.

In theory they're fine except I always put my keys into my right pocket because I'm right handed. My keys will fall into these mini pockets and get stuck.

These mini pockets should really be on the left side.

I've used a sticker from a banana for years on my work phone.

I'm weird though, I'm one of those people that needs to have their arm twisted to use their camera.

With all these clever people coming up with products to solve problems only to have it not sell well makes me think the best idea is to just open a bodega or dry cleaners or something.

I bet they used a micro usb cable. Sometimes those things can be so janky my phone won't charge unless you kinda fold them and rest the phone on it a certain way.

If I had the money I'd secretly get employed at startups I was interested in to see if they were just a bunch of jokers or not.

I'd do this is because if I were that rich then I probably won the lottery and stupidly quit my job without thinking and would probably be very bored.

So I might look silly here but what I do is take a snip of the displayed picture and save and use that. Was I doing it wrong?

All I was really concerned about was getting rid of metadata tied to my phone.

Having some sort of teacher also does a better job of holding you more accountable. So that you're a little more motivated to stick with it which is critical early on before the bug bites or before a habit/routine forms.

I've always loved polystyrene models.I'm curious how the chair was done.

Oh good, I made it look up itself and was worried I broke it for everyone.

Not limited to New York but I think it would be interesting to see if this experience showed companies how much of their staff can work from home. And if it creates a new work from home trend for a whole new class of workers that weren't able to before. It seems it would be cheaper for both employers and employees.

At a manufacturing plant I'm working at the temperature checks have been in place for awhile now. Seems weird it took Amazon this long since I'm sure they have everything they need to do it in their warehouses. Just buy it from the seller and rip them open and start taking temperatures.

How about fooling the APS into firing at duds until its munitions are depleted and then shooting a rocket? Like a series of high caliber, slower moving projectiles made out of something super radar reflective at reflective angles?

Yeah this is kinda how we got the Patriot Act.

Heh...yeah right there with ya bud. I've learned to just kinda internalize it. But on a bad day that can be difficult. Like when you hear someone saying how you just need to take a chance and mention something like dipping into savings or the possibility of living off your spouses income for awhile and it's simply not possible. And the sting of some of the responses you get...they're not wrong. They're 100% right. But still, it sorta feels like you've walked into a nice restaurant off the street and are shocked at the prices. And you notice others giving you a disappointing look and hear someone mumbling "Why are they even here if they can't afford it."

For some of us just getting to the point where you're able to take a chance is a goal. And if we're lucky enough to achieve that, it's not the lack of backbone that keeps them from taking that chance. It's that the equation for them is different. Failing for these people isn't falling on their face but falling on their face from 3 floors up. There's much more to lose and we're intimately familiar with what it's like at the bottom. It's more than living comfortably but the sense of pride in being able to support yourself and loved ones that you simply can not risk. Not being able to do those things truly makes you feel worthless and if you achieve that and have half a brain you wouldn't want to risk it in a million years.