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  • valaramech@kbin.socialtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•TC on open source evangelists
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    7 months ago

    In this thread, everyone getting caught up on the first toot and not the second where he clarifies his point.

    If you step past the initial investment of buying a house, the analogy makes perfect sense. When you rent an apartment, your landlord (the provider) takes care of all the maintenance; you just live there and you get what you get. When you own a home, you take care of all of the maintenance, but you get to set the place up however you like. This isn’t that different from a lot of FOSS out there.

  • valaramech@kbin.socialtoADHD@lemmy.world•I can't see how anyone thinks ADHD is a superpower.
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    7 months ago

    I can kinda understand Autism, to an extent. Certain forms of high-functioning autism - like the one I have - are more akin to mild learning disorders. Deliberate practice and effort can mitigate a great deal of the issues.

    On the other side, I’ve seen people with more extreme forms of the condition and I can’t imagine having to deal with that. I know I can be difficult to deal with and I work really hard to try to mitigate my shortcomings with others - especially people who don’t know me well - but I pale in comparison to the difficulty of people with more extreme forms of Autism.

    In this way, I think ADHD and Autism are probably similar - there’s a spectrum of impact the condition has. The milder forms of the condition may actually feel like a superpower to those that shape themselves to utilize their quirks in their favor. The problem arises when all forms of the condition are considered beneficial when they are demonstrably not.

    Hell, even I have problems that no amount of learning can ever overcome. You can’t exactly teach yourself how to pick up on the subconscious body language queues that most people just know inherently. I’m totally blind to that stuff and it makes intense conversations incredibly difficult and a little terrifying.

  • valaramech@kbin.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
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    8 months ago

    Getting repeatedly beaten in competitive multiplayer games is just kinda par for the course if you haven’t learned the meta, strategies, etc. If you lack game knowledge and your opponents have that game knowledge, you will mostly lose.

    If winning in the game is the only way you find enjoyment in them, then those kinds of games require significant investments of time and energy to “git good”.

    I say this as someone who is repeatedly shit on in every game of CoD I’ve ever played and will play in the future. That said, I don’t gain particular enjoyment from winning alone - not that it isn’t fun to win, just that I get just as much enjoyment from other aspects of the game.

    It sounds to me, mostly, that these games just don’t really appeal to your idea of what’s fun.

  • valaramech@kbin.socialtoscience@lemmy.world•Definitely Do Not Put Plastic in the Microwave
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    10 months ago

    For me, it has a picture where it specifies a “polypropylene container”.

    There’s also this bit from near the end of the abstract:

    Additionally, the polyethylene-based food pouch released more particles than polypropylene-based plastic containers. Exposure modeling results suggested that the highest estimated daily intake was 20.3 ng/kg·day for infants drinking microwaved water and 22.1 ng/kg·day for toddlers consuming microwaved dairy products from polypropylene containers.

    So, they’re, at least, discussing polypropylene and polyethylene.