If you’re a more visual person (or have a visual imagination), I find that remembering the context helps recall. Like, where I am, who I’m with, what I was doing, etc.

There’s also classic mnemonics, like acronyms, but done visually. Sometimes I imagine a scene that can immediately recall the thing I want to remember. It’s hard to describe in words, but then again sometimes the thoughts I want to remember aren’t necessarily in “words” anyway.

I have a notebook in my car, specifically for writing down things when I’m out driving somewhere.

Sometimes I spend so long trying to find it under all the rest of the crap in my car, that when I finally get down to writing, I’m lucky if I can recall the thought at all.

Search for low-income housing.

Receive ads for $100,000 condos.

Yeah, just rub it in, why doncha

We won’t know for sure until our partners open their pants and collapse the wave function of their genitals.

I mean, duh? I left the site years ago when it became clear they value making money over making a site I’d want to actually use.

They’re digging a hole in their userbase, even if they’re making money in the meantime. Just as the kid who tries to dig through the Earth can potentially “succeed” for a while, ending up in a hole several times deeper than they are tall, there will come a time when they look back up and realize they can’t get back out of it.

In other words, if Reddit keeps digging, there will come a point where things become untenable. (Although I’m sure those in charge will have their golden parachutes ready to go) the site itself will become so enshittified as to be unrecoverable. There’s no long-term plan to get Reddit out of that situation.

Aww, look at Reddit and its cute little shovel, digging their hole deeper and deeper without any real clue what they’re doing. Yeah, just a few feet more and you’ll dig through the center of the Earth, sweetie! Keep going!

would it kill you to let her continue in the game?

I mean, technically…

I’m so sorry that shit like that is still happening. As an (as-yet undiagnosed) autistic child, I was in the same boat. Bullies use their “strength in numbers” to have a gaggle of friends agree to lie against a lone victim, perhaps one who’s already known to struggle with emotional regulation. It’s nearly impossible to convince anyone of your innocence when other kids weaponize your weaknesses like that. Maybe you threw a chair against a wall in class one day, and now the school administrators are ready to believe that you’d escalate to actually attacking someone (even though you don’t have a history of hurting anyone. Just inanimate objects. Because believe it or not, some of us do have some degree of self-control.)

I’ve been there, and I know what absolute bullshit is possible for someone like us. I’m livid on your behalf.

Thank you for this.

It’s so simple, dumb, and judging from the dopamine hit, exactly where my brain wanted to go.

Although Reddit disappoints me so much that I sigh whenever I see it linked, I am somewhat pleased that when GOG had to link a thread, they chose to use an old.reddit page in particular.

I used to think I wouldn’t quit Reddit until they got rid of the “old” style. Then the API debacle happened two years ago, and whelp. Here I am. 🙃

At least GOG knows how to treat its userbase.

Did you mean, “Trump is to MAGA, as Taylor Swift is to swifties”?

That is, the MAGA cult around Trump is comparable to the fan-cult around Taylor Swift? (Neither of which can accept imperfections in their idol?)

The way it was originally written compares Trump and Swift to each other (and MAGA and swifties to each other), which doesn’t make much sense. But from the context it’s clear you’re comparing the nature of their fans. It follows more to switch a few words around.

Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to make sense of things that don’t add up with my tired, stressed, autistic brain.

I didn’t know what it was at all until I came to the comments. I just thought, “Why is there a random cooler rolling around? Did somebody lose it?”

Ah, can’t wait to look back on this comment a few years from now and slowly shake my head at how naive I was…

Sounds like an appropriate Christmas gift for Kristi Noem.

My mom learned how to train her dogs… long after my siblings and I had grown up. She now sees my aunt with her new puppy, doing the shit she might have done with us, and criticizing her for it.

I mean, I’m glad she learned, and can recognize shitty instruction. Would’ve been nice if she’d understood that reward works better than punishment back when I was a kid, though.

Which is weird, because with Lemmy’s small community, all it took was a glance at the username for me to go, “Oh, I know SatansMaggotyCumFart, they’re cool. Which means that comment was definitely sarcasm.”

Fuck, that’s my now-ex, and me right now. I’m officially less than a week from homelessness because of his choice to end the lease and move (separating from me in the process, despite claiming to still want to be in a relationship. Yeah, okay? Like anyone who loves another person could do this to them.) He seemed to think that giving me months to prepare would somehow make me able to pull magic money out of my ass? I don’t know. Even the cheapest studio apartment is out of range for me, and I make nearly $10 over local minimum wage at a full-time job. How the fuck is ANYONE getting by?!

Anyway, I’m pissed and now I’m ranting, sitting in my cold car, knowing this will be the warmest place for me in the very near future.

Sadly, personal finance acumen wouldn’t save us from low wages, inflation, and ever-increasing cost of living.

I think all schools should teach shop class. That way, you’d always know someone with the know-how to build a guillotine.

I work with kids, including a bright little boy who told me that “Why?” is his favorite question. I explicitly tell him that I hope he never stops asking it. His questions challenge the depths of my knowledge and compel me to look up questions I never thought of before. I love it.

I call him my “little scientist.” He’s only 4 and he teaches my coworkers new things all the time. I feel so lucky to get to work with a little knowledge-sponge that’s as curious as I am!

How do you choose who the unlucky bastards are that get sent to the field to grow food for the people who don’t have to work?

Preferably, they’d be people without disabilities that prevent them from doing that kind of work. OP didn’t say, “Nobody should work,” just that being able to live shouldn’t be dependent on working.

For millions of people with disabilities, the difference between those two ideas is life-changing. It’s important not to conflate them.

I just watched the Magic School Bus (Rides Again) episode that explains magnets this past weekend.

Worth it, by the way. That series still has a way of making some things seems so simple.