I took it to be a coyote. They go after sheep sometimes. Also, they are associated with being trickster figures in mythology.

This is a TF2 reference.

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/ÜberCharge

I was using it almost daily from the start and felt worse for it, so I started dreading taking it and quickly preferred no medication. I eventually finished it off and instead of getting a refill, I switched to something that worked great from the start and was cheaper.

I’m not saying it’s not a good medication, I even recommend it, but if it requires a strict schedule and that much of a miserable buildup just to still be worse than an alternative it’s simply not the right one for me.

I went through a month’s supply of strattera before switching to adderall. I also only took it on “need to be productive” days, which may have been the wrong approach. I was reluctant to take it otherwise because of the side effects. I felt like it did help me focus on tasks, but the benefit was essentially offset by the drowsiness it caused making it something of a wash for my productivity. I work at home so I would end up needing to take a nap most days I took it. Sleeping became very refreshing though, which was a silver lining.

Other symptoms were a pounding head, a decrease in appetite, and an increase in anxious thoughts. None of the symptoms were intense except drowsiness, and all of them mellowed out after a few weeks.

Adderall works a lot better for me now and has fewer side effects. But I’ve seen others in the community really appreciate what straterra has done for them, so it seems to vary a lot from person to person. Despite my disappointment with it, it may be worth trying if stimulants aren’t working well for you. My doctor recommended it initially because it was working well for some of her other patients.

This meme’s text has figures about “now” but doesn’t note that it is mostly a paraphrased quote from Deus Ex, a video game set in a fictional dystopian version of America in 2052. The speaker is not in fact talking about 2024 America. But even for the past figures, I would want citations.

The first part seems to be talking about tax sources as a portion of total taxes raised, which isn’t easy to search for. I did find a table that cited whitehouse.gov and recorded income collections compared to total GDP at least. It did peak in 1945, but only at 7.1%.

The US Bureau of Labor doesn’t seem to have records on self-employment before 1948. The only thing I could find talking about self-employment in 1900 was a blog post that said it was 50%. 90% self-employment sounds like a lot of subsistence farming and odd-jobs work, which isn’t exactly the ideal economic model.

The Deus Ex part is part of a longer conversation, but here is the relevant section:

JC Denton: Just answer the question.
Leo Gold: Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers. For a hundred years, there’s been a conspiracy of plutocrats against ordinary people.
JC Denton: Do you have a single fact to back that up?
Leo Gold: Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about two percent.
JC Denton: So?
Leo Gold: It’s called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time.

If you had lived at an earlier point, there’s a good chance your eyesight would have been better. Not just because of natural selection for genes or whatever. The modern spread of nearsightedness is primarily attributed to greater time spent indoors, looking at things close to you like books, and particularly during childhood. It is largely nurture instead of nature.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220927-can-you-prevent-short-sightedness-in-kids

A lot of people got the game with the assumption it was coming.

Do you mean they bought Overwatch 1, with the anticipation that at some point after the release of Overwatch 2, they would add PvE? Because Overwatch 2 was free to play from the start. The only thing that you could “pre-order” was a pack that gave some cosemtics, some premium currency, and the first battlepass. At that point PvE was something they were still planning to add at some point but still had no date, so you could only use those bonuses for the PvP.

Milk in the US uses a different pasteurization technique the most of the rest of the world, so we need to keep it refrigerated while other places don’t until it’s opened.

Second this. It is free for federal, and iirc $15 for state. Also, you can upload submissions from Turbotax if you used them before so many fields will be pre-filled out. I actually preferred the freetaxusa experience to turbotax having used both.

I haven’t been in the workforce all that long but I did experience burnout at my previous job. I sacrificed my mental health so much that I couldn’t concentrate well, meaning I spent longer on work which made me more on edge and things just kept spiraling like that. I had a couple of months to reset with unemployment that did wonders for me.

I found for me the problem wasn’t the work itself but the amount and requirements for it. I am now at a different company doing much of the same tasks but with a less demanding schedule and can work from home. If I can’t focus, I can just walk away and come back to a task instead of feeling like I’m going to explode being trapped in front of work I just cannot pay attention to. And when I am working, I usually have Youtube, an audiobook, music, or a podcast playing to capture overflowing attention. There are still times when it gets bad but it’s uncommon and much more manageable.

I would focus on finding a company that has an emphasis on work-life balance, and is able to retain employees. Flexible schedules and work from home can be dangerous for people with ADHD but I honestly feel like it’s almost necessary. I am not sure I could go back even if it doubled my salary.

For these types of threads, I usually upvote things that are actually hot takes with some justification or unique insight. People that post an extremely popular decision or just insult something that a lot of people see value in get downvoted. Mostly it’s moderately common takes or unusual opinions with no elaboration, so I don’t vote on those.

There is also a consensus by biblical scholars that a man named Mark wrote the first gospel and that the resurrection was a true event. Do you also agree with the consensus here or is it only when it serves your opinion?<

This is not a matter of opinion, but historical fact. You were suggesting that Jesus was likely completely invented and I had heard this myth before. So I found a wikipedia link that discusses how the man wasn’t entirely invented, and certain credible details of his life have been documented by other sources both secular and nonsecular. If you doubt it, there are references in the page that you can judge for yourself to believe or not. As for the other figures, I cannot say how much of their lives are invented and how much might have been true; I haven’t looked. Consensus is not absolute fact of course, it is merely our shared best guess based on our information at the time. So it can be proven wrong with time, but that does not make it is less convincing than an individual’s intuition.

There is zero primary evidence that the man existed and there should be piles of it. Even the minimum historical Jesus requires an insane sequence of events and is such an extraordinary claim that only extraordinary evidence would be justify believing in it.<

What do you feel is missing from what we have found? You may be overestimating how much primary evidence would be preserved and discovered by now. I would remind you that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Otherwise, I would be inclined to point out that we don’t have any record of people doubting what would have been a major conspiracy from around that time.

Minimum historical Jesus would describe what exactly? A man was born in Palestine 2000 years ago, was believed by some to perform miracles, gained a following, threatened/angered others and as a result was crucified unjustly. I would hardly call this “insane”. The corroborating details from earlier apocryphal gospels, various eyewitness testimonies recorded by Paul’s letters, and Roman documents are plenty to make it more believable that various people honestly attempted to discuss real events rather than falsify history for an unclear motive.

So unless you got something better than the logical fallacy of argument from authority I will not be convinced.<

I confess that convincing you may be beyond my capabilities. However, giving a source is not a logical fallacy. Also, appeal to authority is invalid when the reputation of an individual is by itself meant to be justification for believing a conclusion. This is discussion of available evidence from the time, and the evaluations are done by a consensus of unaffiliated historians.

While most of the events of his life cannot be verified, there actually is consensus among historians that a man called Jesus lived in that area at that time, was crucified, and led to the foundation of Christianity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

I’ve only been at two jobs that offered an FSA but both had resources explaining clearly that it is use it or lose it. And my personal risk aversion is why I chose an HSA instead. But it seems like a good idea for people to be able to save money by saying “This isn’t really income, since I am confident it’s only going to a demonstratable health expense. So don’t tax me on it.” It’s like a business expense can be tax deductible, and you are in the business of living. But then you don’t get to take home extra money for being under budget. When used correctly, it’s a tool to drive down living expenses and is more efficient for lower incomes since it uses a flat max annual deduction.

I don’t want to victim blame people that lose money by overcommitting, but it’s not like this is in fine print. You can get short articles that explain it in simple terms just by googling “fsa” before committing thousands of dollars to something. If you don’t have much idea what your minimum spending on healthcare will be, just keep it as income for full freedom or use a different tax-advantaged option. It’s just meant to be an option for people with good awareness of budgetting to save some money.

I was able to get a prescription just from a family doctor: no referral needed. In fact, it was my first appointment with them since I had moved a few years ago and hadn’t needed a doctor since. They went through a questionnaire about how frequently I experienced certain manifestations of symptoms in regular interactions with people, and the score was enough for them to move forward with medication.

From what I have seen, it is typically a much more involved process. If it matters, the prescription was for Straterra, which is not a controlled substance, so that might have meant we needed to go through fewer hoops. My doctor seemed willing to try other medications though. I also went to a smaller practice rather than a big hospital, so maybe that makes it easier to advance things.

I chose to get evaluated in the exact same process as you, even first thinking about the idea after seeing a lot of relatable neurodivergent memes. Over a couple months, I made a list of odd behaviors I seemed to do unusually frequently, and what prompted them. I realized it was very likely more than just unrelated personality quirks that were disrupting my life and making it harder for me to do basic things that others seemed to not struggle with. I also had a decent amount of my list be best explained by autism, but honestly I was more scared of that label and didn’t bring it up with my doctor. I wanted to see if ADHD treatment would help with the others first.

So far, the benefit I’ve had with Straterra has been pretty minor compared to the side effects, but I saw other people saying it took time to adapt to it, and anyway I can try others too. My doctor originally recommended it because it was working for some of her other patients. I’m going to probably finish the supply I have and try something else.

Anyway, that’s my ADHD diagnosis story so far. I can answer questions if you think of any.

No, the opposite really. If you are delivering things alone to strangers, it makes sense to arm yourself. You are putting yourself in vulnerable position frequently and can’t expect others to be unarmed. Otherwise you’d be the loser in the prisoner’s dilemma a society of guns creates. Things might be different if guns weren’t widespread, but that genie’s out of the bottle.

I don’t own a gun, but I might if I didn’t feel safe in my day-to-day life.

My brother had a gun pulled on him while delivering a pizza. I don’t blame delivery people for arming themselves with the unfamiliar situations they have to put themselves in regularly. So long as the strangers they interact with may be armed it’s just an arms race.

Also, in this specific situation where someone comes up behind you and gets in your face something like a knife would be just as deadly.

Piracy leaves creators worse off when it deprives them of a sale, as in you would have paid for something but instead just pirated it because not paying was an option. So I pirate stuff I think is worth my time, but not my money. I then consider it victimless. Maybe that movie is interesting enough to watch but not enough to rent/buy, so I would pirate it. I’m now at a point where money isn’t as scarce as it used to be, so the prices of entertainment seem reasonable and I am much more willing to pay.

There are a couple of exceptions to the above. I pirated almost every textbook I could since the fact that a student requires one specific product puts the customer in an exploitable position that allows the seller to charge unreasonable amounts (and used books have none of their proceeds go back to the creator anyway). Also, there is no issue with pirating content no longer being sold, since the creators aren’t being deprived of anything. This is mostly relevant for me with old video games on emulators.

Socialism good, capitalism bad. Agree?