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jstrodd··on Hospitals, Administrative buildings and Army buildings marked as “Funeral homes”
Seems like a bad idea to put army buildings and hospitals in the same category
jstrodd··on Ask HN: Neurodiversity/ADHD Friendly Companies
This is common for people with ADHD. For me, tapering off of a substance gradually is impossible.
jstrodd··on Ask HN: Neurodiversity/ADHD Friendly Companies
Reading your comment makes me so nervous. I could have written it myself when I was in college. Back then, ADHD meds transformed my life for the better, at least during the first couple years. It was great! A pill solved all of my problems. But then, very slowly, over the course of years, I developed a much worse set of problems. Now, ten years later, I'm struggling with an addiction that affects every aspect of my life. I'm less productive than I was before I ever took meds. I've lost friends and become socially isolated. I fear that my executive function is permanently damaged.

Meds don't even make me productive anymore, they just keep the withdrawal at bay. And the withdrawal is so bad that I can't even function enough to do a time sheet right for at least a week. I can't quit my meds without great difficulty because there is simply no way for me to do that while maintaining employment. I have a family to support, so I'm trapped using this drug that has been devastating to my life in a lot of ways I'd rather not share.

Before I took meds, I was a little bit of an under-achiever and just a typical ADHD sufferer. But I was able to function and get by. Now, I'm barely able to function, and my life feels like it's constantly on the edge of falling apart due to what has become total dependency on the drug. The person I was back then is gone.

Very little research has been done on the long-term effects of prescription stimulant use. I can't say you'll end up like me, but just know that there is a large and growing community of people like me who desperately wish they never took this drug.

jstrodd··on NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend Its Lifetime Expectations
There is a very good and detailed answer to your question here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/38389/is-it-possib...
jstrodd··on How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom
The problem with manually having to close the tab is not the effort required to close it but then mental hiccup it causes when my brain opens my browser and now has to figure out which tab I was trying to go back to
jstrodd··on Ask HN: Did you deliberatively develop any new hobby in recent years?
I tried to get into BJJ. It was THE perfect hobby for me, on paper. But then I had to roll with the sweaty guy, then drive home smelling like someone else's body odor, and that was it for me.
jstrodd··on Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
> how their legislation affects businesses

Especially the businesses they own shares of...