It’s all made up bullshit anyway, they can declare whatever “rules” they want.

Ugh. Pascal’s Wager for technophiles.

The argument is that there is no “you” without memory.

How dare people write fiction with icky things in it.

Private school is not automatically better. I live in a million dollar house and very much intend to use the public school district here.

Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)

Hey look, it’s both sides of the trolley problem.

Not in my area they aren’t. I just talked to an arborist about removing a tree on my lot and they suggested de-limbing it and leaving a standing snag for the ecological benefit, and the wooded parks here have loads of deadfall (which is great for the ferns and huckleberries, they love a nurse log)

It’s still not a good idea to leave a large dead tree standing by the street.

They don’t have to be the same company. Any arborist should be able to section them down into logs of whatever length and then you just get them to a mill. Properly storing the cut lumber after is the tricky part.

The term was always tongue-in-cheek.

Companies are stupid, which is why they do things like demand return-to-office even though employees are more productive on average working from home with less micromanagement. And they’re incredibly short-sighted.

ADHD is mostly a bullshit excuse

There it is, the “your mental illness isn’t real” ableist privilege. I knew there was something under the sealioning.

“I want evidence from people that are definitionally unable to be studied.” Fuck off with that and engage the idea with intellectual honesty. Also putting the entire onus on other people to change your mind.

Erase capitalism from this and it’s still “days I’ve barely been able to get out of bed to hunt/reinforce important relationships/create art”. Inability to focus, relentless forgetfulness, rejection sensitive dysphoria, much of the ADHD experience interferes with non-“productive” life just as much as a job and shit.

I’ll tell my friend that her Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is actually fake and she’s just applying the Corporate America Greed Driven Lifestyle to her close relationships, that’s going to be great news for her.

ADHD is a lot of things.

If you have a culture of understanding and tolerance, it doesn’t feel like a disability

This is you extrapolating your personal experience to dismiss the difficulties many face that have nothing to do with tolerance and understanding and everything to do with their brain chemistry undermining their social life and ability to engage with hobbies.

There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.

Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.

does suck for upper middle class kids who’s parents suck

There’s no solution that doesn’t suck for somebody.

“Nature” is every state of being the universe has ever been. There is no before or after Nature. Nature is not Life.