I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.
Maybe like twenty years ago my Demonoid account had a glitch where it showed my download as a few bytes, regardless of how much I was actually downloading. The number definitely should have been way way higher. Every time I would log on the digits for my ratio would run off the side of the screen.
I got covid March 2020 and it was basically just a bad cough when I was positive, but like two days after my cough went away I developed some issues with feeling dizzy and weak, but sometimes those feelings were a lot stronger than other times. When it was really bad it would feel like I was about to pass out soon. The fact that my symptoms weren’t visible to others and that the tests showed I should be healthy made it easy for doctors to dismiss, and it was absolutely miserable. On my better days I would feel like a crazy person and ask myself if I’d been imagining the whole thing.
I’ve almost entirely recovered from the long covid, but mentally I’m still messed up from that experience. I feel pretty confident that I was not a hypochondriac in February 2020, but now I freak out over every stupid thing. If I feel some sort of pain and the cause isn’t outwardly visible, I go through an extensive mental dialogue over whether I’m imagining it. At one point I had a reaction to a new medicine and I waited months to tell the doctor because I couldn’t tell if it was in my head, while I was freaking out a little every time I thought about it. I really believe that I didn’t used to be like this.
Being treated like this can add a lot on top of already existing misery. I know doctors are people too, and they don’t have to believe me, but I wish they would have had the respect to pretend that they do.
I’m using an android phone because apple doesn’t allow anything like fdroid to exist on iphone.
Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like “Redditors of Reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?”
It’s not coming completely out of nowhere. The fact that you’re having a discussion on Lemmy means the people you’re conversing with are aware that you’re willing to consider libre alternatives to shitty mainstream tech.
Once she pieces together that dusk and dawn are in there too she’ll figure out day should be mid-day and night should be mid-night. She’s right there to becoming history’s second timecuber. All she needs to do is take that step past duality, from two to four.