I think they are all lifelong believers since the get-rich-quick schemes initiated by “the city” and hutch prices. They’re all landlords with shares in the grain market, and this constant feed of grain down their gullets has turned them into plump idiots. Many of them even don’t even care we’re getting close to Xmas any more, there are even Xmas cultists
Yeah, studies are mixed, but all interesting. The fact the studies were commissioned at all points to there being some concern, though seemingly somewhat overblown. As you say, the main anxieties were financial.
No I think these are cultural differences, this was written for an English audience. Ironically the xenophobic Brexit vote was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.
This is very obviously an English nationalist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, rally.
Whilst it’s pointless to further discuss precise authorial intent, what is interesting is your insistence that this little illustrated story is not referencing the far-right with a character that has been subsequently co-opted by the far-right.
Yeah I played it. She was player bait, a classic femme fatale. You were supposed to end up at the racist rally because look she has fun hair and then oop regret your decisions.
Orwellian is a misnomer here, though. The “game” was literally about getting on with homework instead of being drawn into sketchy shit. Unless you really hate homework and you want to rage against learning idk
Amelia is thirsty fascist slop, derivative and boring like everything right wing. Because conservativism is by definition dull samey grandad politics for dull samey cardboard cutout tryhard emotionally stunted bootlicking johns
Non-fallacious forms can also exist. It is fairly obvious that it is warranted in authoritarian regimes to expect progression (regression?).
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Yeah look if we really are seeing diagnoses suddenly rise, and it’s not just “a better telescope”, maybe it is worth considering exploring environmental causes, diagnostic criteria, societal tolerance of certain traits etc. That’s fair.
But idk about the height example. People can’t self-medicate height. For adhd, people absolutely self-medicate caffeine, nicotine, illicit stimulants, grey-market ADHD meds, etc. That alone suggests there’s a real functional problem exerting pressure that needs immediate addressing. Stimulants do not work the same way on people with adhd.
What concerns me about your responses is that “investigating why diagnoses are increasing” is used all the time to cast doubt on ADHD itself. Obviously there’s a substantial body of neurological and clinical evidence that it’s real, and dramatically affects attention regulation and executive function.
So I think people who legitimately believe in it falling for this mainstream theatre, risk letting us all slide down the slippery slope to believing the condition is mainly a societal construct and we should limit access to medication, whilst people top themselves.
It’s just speed, just stimulants. Caffeine is an example of legal self-titration. When done properly, the doses are not high and it can really help. IMO meth-heads are a symptom of disproportionate availability of the real thing (only sometimes coca-cola).
Having said that, I am not on board with widespread use in developing brains, much as with caffeine
The minority will never be adequately provisioned for without access to intervention. In theory, that can instead be legal or political. Many schools or workplaces put in provisions for ADHD, mostly because of laws. Society does have a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. The “mould” problem is a deliberate authoritarian tool, beyond the scope of this discussion.
But you need to understand that this is access to medication, nobody is forcing this down our throats. If people want it, it exists, and it helps reduce scary mental health (we’re talking suicide), ableist restriction of access to interventions is super dangerous.
Is this for your shotgun arm
Yeah sorry I was thinking more of the other specs than the chip itself. As you say, a pretty good little A chip, I suspect the first real go to market one given M comparisons. Perfect as you say for heavy keyboard users.
I mean if by shell you mean KVM then yes.
It’s a pretty good price for those peripherals plus the low end phone though
POV wanks too, huh
Let me gobble you up like a Türkiye
with these, absolutely
Into the trash can, that’s grate