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Meditation has reams upon reams of scientific literature behind it. Equating it to a step above vagina crystals is spitting in the face of research going back at least half a century.

Meditation can and does help those with ADHD, especially in conjunction with correct medication.

Hey, person with ADHD here. It is not impossible and you are victimizing all of us by stating it is.

There are extreme methods you can take that legitimately solve for the "defective wiring", such as meditating 10 hours a day. It's not permanent once you go off it, but you, yes you, can read a novel straight through.

But you don't actually need to go that far to reap 80 percent of the benefits. Real, effective protocols lower the threshold for stimulation. Constant novelty (seeking escape in external stimuli such as phones and computers) exacerbate our symptoms.

This whole identifying as a person with ADHD thing has gone way too far, and I say this as someone who has struggled with it my entire life.

You can do something about it and that something about it isn't only restricted to medication.

Have the bigger battery, battery life is still bad.

It's just a bad laptop: has "hot bag" syndrome, speakers are terrible even with the upgraded kit, the hinge that turns the screen off is very temperamental.

Still no open BIOS, they've hired a “Linux guy” who is super condescending in their official forums and locks topics when he feels the heat.

Stay far away.

I'm happy you had a positive experience, but your experience is not the norm.

Having lived around the world and now residing in Denmark for a decade plus, I can confidently say PostNord is the worst postal service I've ever seen in my entire life.

If you Google r/copenhagen PostNord you will see countless horror stories, mostly focused around delivery drivers simply refusing to do their job by purposely not delivering packages. I doubt freeing them of their obligation to deliver letters is going to improve things.

We also have the full might of the state behind them who will happily charge you multiples of the value of your item coming in from out of country because they "inspected" it.

People in the US don't understand how good they've had it (well until very recently with tariffs), as you could get any item you wanted delivered to your doorstep with no additional fees and better customer service at a fraction of the price it costs us.

> And it's not like Europe isn't fighting back. European intelligence has been deep inside Russian networks since before the first invasion of Ukraine. From the European side, the invasion of Ukraine is a proxy war, with billions of euros spent on fighting Russia, while to Russia the war is a normal invasion with Russian (and now North Korean) troops on the ground.

This is flatly wrong and gives far too much credit to Europe. The US had to shake Europe and Ukraine awake to the impending invasion of Ukraine. And I say this as an EU citizen.

I wish, but Soon has been the mantra since the invasion started. We're literally buying more oil and gas from Russia than arming and funding Ukraine[1]. We're buying more this year than last year.

Europe's response has been and continues to be nothing less than shambolic and shameful.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...

You don't do anything for your argument by insulting people's intellect who don't share your opinion. Cut it out.

I've been a Plus user for a long time now. My opinion is there is very much a ChatGPT suite of products that come together to make for a mostly delightful experience.

Three things I use all the time:

- Canvas for proofing and editing my article drafts before publishing. This has replaced an actual human editor for me.

- Voice for all sorts of things, mostly for thinking out loud about problems or a quick question about pop culture, what something means in another language, etc. The Sol voice is so approachable for me.

- GPTs I can use for things like D&D adventure summaries I need in a certain style every time without any manual prompting.

I wanted to like MarkDownload, but unfortunately it doesn't auto-add provenance when copy-pasting selected text blocks, at least out of the box.

The burden isn't on us, it's on people making claims that LLMs do possess theory of mind. You're the one who has to prove it, not us.

I don't understand how abusive bullies like Ted are allowed the privilege of being a senior kernel developer. This feels, in the end, like the fault of Linus, for allowing abusive maintainers to maintain their grip.

I would never trust the company that acquired Omnivore only to sunset it with 2 weeks notice to retrieve data.

Companies won't stop pulling this garbage unless we stop supporting them.

I would say you don't know what "the left" means either, insofar as I don't believe the common use of the word today or then to describe "progressives" was as a loanword for socialism. I don't even think most Americans know what socialism really is, given they're often spotted fawning over the Nordic Model as a proud example, Bernie included, which has nothing to do with socialism. We also have a party called "the Left" here in Denmark, which has nothing to do with the American left in common use today.

It's all entirely relative and contextual. Your definition is the outlier. Not mine.

You've written a few colorful paragraphs that fail to attack my point that he was a terrible US president.

I don't really care (and you shouldn't either) whether Obama's foreign policy was defensive. It was bad foreign policy, period. And that's on him and the American people who voted him into power. Americans owe much of the US' poor foreign posture today to him and his administration.

One of the worst presidents the US has had in at least the last 50 years and he was held up as a champion by the left. Expanded the black sites programs, supported some of the worst foreign conflicts the US has been involved in, somehow was elected twice.

Also its Vim implementation is horrific

Most of the EC already proved themselves unworthy of leadership when they pushed to pass Chat Control repeatedly.

That's far closer to a dystopia than anything the US has proferred recently.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Other NATO partners being asked to increase defense spending to 5 percent is entirely reasonable. And that's with or without Trump asking for it.

I live in Europe, I am European: we've outsourced our own defense for far too long. It is absurd that a country presenting an existential threat to us has been met with more supplied resistance from a country across the earth than Europe.

It's long past time for Europe to wake up.

The substance can cause psychotic breaks in certain people and terrifying out of body experiences and paranoia in others (I'm in the second category). Long term use negatively affects emotional processing and sleep quality.

It's a harmful drug whose harms are simply on another order than tobacco (psychological wellbeing).

I don't really buy this or any other argument made for the virtues of an otherwise pretty terrible drug.

I have a hard time taking Chomsky seriously after he felt his need to make his uninformed opinions on Russia's aggression and AI public.

Was Chomsky ever an expert? Maybe, I wouldn't know because I haven't read what he built his legacy upon. But that he wrote so poorly on two topics he has little experience with does him no favors.

And Steamforged Games, which now owns all the Warmachine IP, is doing a terrible job stewarding its future. It's a shame, because Warmachine really had the depth of lore to compete, and was so close to providing a strong alternative.

I've gone back to paying a lot of money to play Necromunda, which is a truly fantastic gem of a game with lore so deep, there are multiple Necromunda podcasts and YouTube creators putting out multi-hour episodes on it. Nevermind that the model sculpts coming out of that team are the best in the industry. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.warhammer.com/en-DK/shop/hive-secundus-malstrain...

[2] https://www.instagram.com/wellywoodwargaming/p/DChkL6ThVbp/

Just curious, how do you keep up to date on these models? Is there a community out there that discusses them?

Yes to all perusers about to make some holy war comment or crack a long-dead joke about editors, please don't. Most of us out there are happy you've found peace or joy with your editor of choice.

Keep the holy war dead and let people decide for themselves what their editor should be. I use Emacs but I have many colleagues who use Neovim and we all are very supportive of each other.

I mean Llamafile is great and is built on fantastic tech, but no I definitely want my Mozilla money to go to Firefox, not what Thing is currently in vogue by Mozilla execs.

Thank you! Appreciate the transparency. It's helpful to know it originates elsewhere.

To Steve, who has answered.

I'd appreciate if you didn't consider Firefox Relay emails as disposable email. The Firefox folks specifically have tried to make Relay anti-abuse.

It's an unkind thing to do to your prospective users.

From Bleeping computer's coverage the last time someone tried to dump Relay in with a disposable email blocklist:

> Back in November 2021, Firefox Relay's team lead had requested the maintainer of a separate burner email list, "burner-email-providers" to exempt the particular domain form the blocklist:

> "We are operating Relay with a number of features that I think mitigate the risks that these aliases pose," Mozilla's privacy and security engineer Luke Crouch explained in November.

> Firstly, if a @mozmail.com alias is disabled by the user, any emails sent to the alias are not bounced back but instead discarded with a 404 error message returned by the service's HTTP webook, stated Crouch.

Secondly, he explained, the anti-abuse protections built into Relay limit free users to a total of five aliases, and further rate-limit premium customers so they cannot abuse the service by creating large-scale throw-away aliases for, say, automated signups to web services.

> With that reasoning, mozmail.com was swiftly removed from that blocklist. And it appears, the creators of "disposable-email-domains" have also honored the clause, for now.

Maybe, but it feels good to move the body. Too much rest and I guarantee anyone will feel like garbage. The body also starts to tell you, with chronic pain and tightness and lower energy that your total lack of fitness makes you feel terrible.

Some people exist in this state for so long they don't even know there's an alternative.

We have a body. It feels great to push it and use it to lift heavy stuff. Try it out, but don't go overboard at first. That's where most people go wrong, especially when they've energy-minimized themselves to a state approaching a dried prune.

You're getting downvoted mysteriously, as this is indeed true. All of Telegram's recent updates have been toward this purpose.

As someone who has lived pretty firmly in both parts of the West: no, not really.

Denmark, where I live now, has the luxury of commanding massive taxes from its citizens to finance its projects, all while putting a pittance of its share to its military. Denmark is also much, much, smaller than the US so the red tape that would be apparent at the size of the US is less apparent at the size of 6 million people.

We also overspend on grotesque, predatory contracting firms, just as the US does, to finance our public projects.