[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I imagine it would only be relevant if the average person owned index stocks

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Agreed. I think using the masculine as the default should be fine if everyone agrees that it applies to all genders in this context. I wouldn't even mind if the feminine was used for this instead. It's just for the sake of legibility.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The woodgrain is 😚👌

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I thought that dumb and nerd were mutually exclusive

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

I need this on a shirt

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago

How did this make sense in 1836?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

People have clearly stopped liking Fish and Chips.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I quite liked the idea of doing translation, as it uses the creative part of my brain which successfully gets me into flow, but unfortunately they are very picky and translation as a career is quickly dying out.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

Any ideas? I'm 21 so not too many bills to pay.
I just need something that will give me the financial freedom to move around and hopefully some time left over.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/europe@feddit.org

I spent a long time in the UK and currently live in Czechia.

In the UK if you stood in a group conversation and weren't saying anything, people tried to involve you and asked you questions. In Czechia, unless you said something, you would be ignored*. I know this is kind of an odd thing to consider but I've determined it's the one thing that decides if I'm able to find actual close friends in a society. Because I've spent several years here (am Czech) and although I've made acquaintances I've never met anyone who was more interested to get to know me than I was to get to know them. This has left me feeling lonely.

So in order to know where else I'd fit in, I'd be curious to know how this hypothetical situation would play out in your country. I know the dividing line must be somewhere between UK and CZ but don't know where. When I visited Eastern Germany and spoke German it was only marginally better than Czechia.

*So when trying to make conversation, all the effort had to come from your side (which gets tiring). In the UK you could feel that the other person was trying to help carry the conversation too. And actually, I've found this happens when non native speakers switch to English too (eg. when Erasmus people came)

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I either have an exciting plan,
or when that fails, no plan (I resign).
Since the exciting plans usually fail, I end up living on autopilot.

I really struggle making things in life move. There's too many simultaneous Big Tasks* whose logistics I need to keep track of that I can’t hold them all in my head at once (I can only focus on one Big Task at once). Especially when most tasks are timelines where you need to wait for responses, compose emails, search for things (there might be none – what then?) etc. and where you need to think about the order of the tasks in the timeline so that you save time. Not to forget remembering to notice if people haven’t replied to your e-mail and having to either remind them or come up with a Plan B (this usually leaves you stumped because you now can't get the thing you started the whole journey for). There's so many steps to keep track of and you can't even write them down because the amount of steps keeps changing.

*Finding the next place to rent, booking a dentist for my hurting tooth, planning journeys (what is the Plan B if the journey is too expensive?)

The cluelessness and dread of having to come up with a Plan B is why I hate searching for things. Having to come up with a Plan B is so disorienting. And it's the opposite of stimulating: you've put in a ton of effort and gotten nowhere. How do you all deal with it?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

I imagine some of these agencies didn't exist before 2010, meaning they got staffed under the Tories. I know viewing the Tories as purely bad is a very simplistic way of looking at things, but when Boris was partying in Downing street and clearly resigning on his duties to protect the public, how come this level of resignation didn't seep into these govt. agencies? From the articles below it seems that even after 14 years fhey still have teeth. Are they independent enough to escape influence from the Cabinet?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/20/the-big-tech-firms-want-an-ai-monopoly-but-the-uk-watchdog-can-bring-them-to-heel https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/national/24470785.data-watchdog-reprimands-school-facial-recognition-canteen-payments/

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Rule on his carpet (www.youtube.com)
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From the book Plurality chapter 2-2

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Not all doom and gloom (www.theguardian.com)
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I'm just thinking about ways that PR could be passed. If Labour get a massive majority, and the party (ie. MPs) want PR but the government does not, would having a ton of MPs beyond a majority make it easier to pass as a private member's bill in defiance of the government, as even a substantial amount of Labour MPs sticking with the govt would not bring aye votes below the 50% mark? (Plus if the newly strengthened Lib Dems voted in favour)

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

I've been having quite a stressful period of exams recently and at one point I started feeling a mixture of burnt out and depressed. I immediately stopped preparing for the exams, and to ease the thought that I would need to manage 2 more years of this (this is what triggered the depression), I started making plans to switch to an easier degree.

Usually when I feel depressed I know exactly why (my mind tunnel visions on the big picture problem and blocks out the present), and once I address the cause I begin to feel hopeful again. But this time, although doing these things eased the immediate feeling of burnout, I have carried on feeling depressed. I am usually a humorous person so I tried to watch my favourite comedy to rekindle my playfulness but I felt completely numb to the jokes and nuance in it that I usually appreciate. Same when I tried to socialize.

I've removed the cause so I don't understand why I'm still depressed and what else I need to do to make my mind operate normally again. Could it be from other unadressed things in my life that have been in the background? Does anyone have any ideas?

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submitted 2 months ago by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

My psych wants to take me off Strattera because it isn't helping my ADHD and apparently it's quite expensive.
One thing it is helping me with though is my anxiety – I no longer get the random bouts of anxiety that I used to and I feel like I'm just generally more chill and enjoying the present moment.
What's more, I can actively feel the Strattera keeping me calm at times when my brain would have panicked before, like when approaching girls.
Do you know if other anti-anxiety meds my psych is likely to give me will have this same effect, or should I urge him to keep me on Strattera?

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