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  • It sounds more like you’re not listening to what your doctor is actually saying and just hearing what you want to…

    He won’t diagnose you with ADHD, because he does not believe you meet the diagnosis criteria.

    just like the results of ADHD tests

    Do you mean online quizs? Those are a waste of the 15 minutes they take.

    If you took a bunch of online quiz’s that say ADHD, and you keep badgering for a diagnosis, a common conversation would be: “you have some traits of this condition, but not the condition”.

    You however are talking like it’s a trait you picked in a rpg character creation screen.

    Is this normal?

    Yes, what you described is called “day dreaming” in America.

    But if you disagree with your doctor, you get a second opnion from another doctor, not give a one sided description online and hope people reinforce your beliefs instead of assuming the medical professional knows more than you said in three paragraphs…




  • It’s so weird the appendix isn’t the go to example instead of whiteness and milk drinking…

    Up until a few hundred years ago it was vital as a reserve for gut bacteria when everyone was always getting dysentery and diarrhea. It still burst occasionally but it was a net positive. People without one likely died before it would have burst.

    Then we got indoor plumbing and food safety, we stopped needing it so much which changed the evolutionary pressure. People without one never had it burst, so it flipped.

    Then we discovered how to do an appendectomy ~300 years ago, and removed all the evolutionary pressure.

    So it’ll stay a random percent where some people do and some don’t.

    But everybody always wants to talk about whiteness and milk drinking







  • Do people really think Mamdani was sucking up to trump or something?

    Dude called him a despot and a fascist, and trump laughed about it.

    Got him to hype up Bernie and FDR.

    Got him to admit how ridiculous funding Israel’s genocide was.

    And got him to finally admit that America isn’t affordable, that people don’t want ICE, and that it doesn’t solve crime.

    Mamdani didn’t compromise himself at all, but made trump his bitch pretty thoroughly and trump loved every second of it.


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    There’s a lot of gay ways to eat a banana…

    But I can’t imagine a gayer way someone would legitimately try to eat a banana than with a spoon.

    Like, being ridiculous, sure, chopsticks. But maybe doing this but mashing it up with a bobba straw till it was a smoothie and drinking it


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    That doesn’t really make sense at the end…

    Like, it’s structured so that logically it’s a conclusion but it’s not.

    A bottom-up power structure is left wing, but in it the power lies with the voters, not those elected to office:

    The federal party, works for the state parties and the presidential nominee.

    The state parties actually do a lot here, they have a lot of primaries to organize (neutrally) and then assist all the campaigns.

    In both cases though, the politicians are beholden to the voters, and should be governing based on the wishes of the majority of their constituents.

    What would go a long way to fixing that would be an easy route to recall elections.




  • It only focuses on the culture and environment the test is geared towards.

    Correct.

    IQ is a bad way to measure intelligence

    Not correct…

    I’m hoping you meant “IQ tests” and not the fundamental concept of IQ tho…

    You don’t see how fast a fish can climb a tree, but you can time it swimming upstream.

    Some stuff like crystalized intelligence (trivial pursuit) need switched out almost constantly. But things like pattern recognition (make this shape from smaller shapes) are so generic that primates and even corvids can take the same test as us. Working memory too, a chimp absolutely demolishes us at that one btw.

    The main problem with IQ tests is people pick one specific test, and want to have everyone take it and only care about the overall score. Which is a gross oversimplification of any actual IQ exam.




  • Yeah, they’re clearly walking in and setting up a tripod, was probably an accidental zoom even.

    Just fucking ridiculous it’s in the video.

    The whole thing is crazy, they just asked Mamdani if trump was a fascist…

    Mamdani tried to give a diplomatic answer, and trump just laughs and said “just say yes, it’s easier” and moves on with a smile.

    Like, I’ve legitimately never seen trump as president happier than this video. I’m 15 minutes in, and he hasn’t dozed off and when he doesn’t know an answer he just lets Mamdani do it.

    This is exactly why people shouldn’t resign in protest, people like trump are easily steered, and it’s better than leaving him surrounded by the worst of society if you can pull him back