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At the very least, TWOK takes the position of “best Star Trek film” simply because all the other ones are worse. (And I’m someone who thinks TFF is good, actually.)

Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?

I’ve never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.

The train workers were striking primarily over wanting sick days. They got them on April 20, in part due to the Biden administration’s continued efforts.

Then on April 20:

“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.”

Even though the strike was broken, the union (and the Biden administration) continued fighting for it and now they have their sick days. This happened back in April.

After the railroad workers were forced to end their strike, the Biden administration and the union continued working on the problem and on April 20 the workers got the sick day agreement they demanded. It’s not like they were just dropped by the administration. While I do grant that breaking the strike was not great, it’s not as if that was the end of the story.

It’s not just 20-somethings. I’m 50 and still have $53k in student loan debt.

1. No tankies.

That’s pretty much it. I went with kbin.

Here are my personal favorites:

AI War / AI War 2 - Pablo Vega
Dragon Quest series - Koichi Sugiyama
Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy XI - Nobuo Uematsu and others
The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla
Medal of Honor - Michael Giacchino
Offworld Trading Company - Christopher Tin
Stellaris - Andreas Waldetoft (I didn’t notice that this game was just an idle clicker for a long time because the music was so damn good)
Tidalis - Pablo Vega (especially the piano versions)
A Valley Without Wind - Pablo Vega

If you have ADHD you will often have depression stemming from the experience of your life under ADHD, in the manner described in the post.

If you have depression as your primary issue, the problem of not getting things done is not usually due to distraction or executive dysfunction in the way that it is for ADHD. It’s more likely due to mental and emotional fatigue and feelings of uselessness/hopelessness, which then manifest as executive dysfunction.

The two problems are often co-morbid - appearing together. What makes the distinction is which of the two issues is primary. Are you depressed because of your executive dysfunction, or are you exhibiting characteristics of executive dysfunction because you’re depressed?

The reply to that comment is much more likely to be true, though. Elon Musk is not playing 26-D chess. He’s not playing 4D chess. He’s not playing chess. He’s not playing checkers, or even Chutes & Ladders. He’s playing Candyland. He’s not thinking more than 1/10th of a move ahead, and more often than not, he’s thinking 2 moves behind.

His consistency in his behavior with Twitter (in terms of left/right bias) is not down to any kind of planning or forethought, it’s just that he behaves in ways that conform to his worldview whenever the opportunity presents itself. It looks like planning because it’s consistent and because there’s no friction involved in implementing his desires (since he’s the final arbiter of what happens at Twitter, and he has no one around him willing to tell him he’s making bad decisions).

Elon Musk is an emotionally dysregulated rich man whose college level education did not actually stick. That’s all. There’s nothing more nefarious or supervillainous about it. He’s just a lonely moron with money.

One of the essential features of ADHD is the rapid attenuation of the reward system, leading to a biological resistance to the “dopamine rush” that neurotypical people feel. (For me, it manifests most clearly in the fact that I have never in my life felt anything like the “runner’s high” after exercise, although every neurotypical person I’ve spoken to says they feel refreshed, rejuvinated and pleasantly tired afterwards.)

This stems from the fact that the built-in reward system (the positive emotional response to performing/completing a task) attenuates very quickly in people with ADHD. By that I mean that while the response happens, it very quickly drops back to zero. Much faster than for people without ADHD.

This, I suspect, is one of the fundamental aspects of ADHD and why it’s characterized by attention deficit and hyperactivity. Hyperactivity happens because in order to maintain the effects of the reward system we have to do and do and go go go over and over and over again. And we have attention deficit because our interest in any given thing drops extremely quickly, since the reward of experiencing it goes away almost immediately.