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  • I see the point you are making, or I am interpreting too much into it, but I don't think discussion about subjective, highly variable day-to-day things is useless. Sure, every human is influenced by a lot of factors, but in my opinion there is still something to learn from this. I know I did in less than an hour already.

    I am an idiot.

  • Downvoting anime is always morally correct.

    [I am being hyperbolic here, relax before calling out my hypocrisy]

  • I see you are a bigger person than me (I genuinely mean that, because this can be seen as sarcasm)

  • Ohh, marking replies as read is something I will implement. Never thought about that before.

  • Not trying to defend him, but I never understood why swearing is such a big deal for Americans.

  • I was on .ml first after leaving reddit, because I didn't know this was the case, until I called out straight up state propaganda and defended capitalism with social and ethical policies once. You can imagine how they responded to that.

  • I realized .ml was fucking insane and delusional when they glorified Stalin and refused to recognize the atrocities he committed.

    No matter what your political stance is, as soon as you deny negative facts and exclusively push the "positives" it becomes a problem and may radicalize you (if that isn't already the case).

    What happened to nuanced moderate politics? It seems people unconditionally put the "left" or "right" label on themselves. And ironically these blind followers will have the audacity to call anyone close to the political center, or people who are honest with themselves, cowards.

  • I was going to say that unfortunately strong (often illegal or prescription only) stimulants are the only real answer to this, but as you mentioned, you've already tried your ADHD meds, which are either amphetamine or methylphenidate.

    So there are only obvious things left, like cold showers and caffeine (400mg max/day), which can also be dangerous, because your heart is already stressed. I think naps (up to 3 hours) will only make things worse, because you are unlikely to be in REM and deep sleep for a significant time and heart strain will spike after waking up again.

    Be careful and check your pulse and blood pressure, if you can. Pressing two fingers right below your wrist for pulse and feeling your heartbeat pounding in your neck indicates dangerous blood pressure if you can't accurately measure these.

    And most importantly: As soon as you get dizzy, have chest pain, or in the worst case, feel tingling or numbness in your left arm and/or neck, you MUST stop, lay down in the recovery position and have someone check up on you or call an ambulance, as these symptoms can be early signs of a heart attack.

  • I'm sorry bro, no offense. At least in Germany it's somewhat a stereotype.

  • You can't. Eh, it could be a lot worse. The best you can do is just accept it.

  • This is a german thing, but "Camp David" shirts are the first thing that come to mind. There is a good possibility the person wearing it is the most dense and arrogant person you'll ever meet.

    Könnt ihr doch sicher bestätigen Germanbros, oder?

  • I am convinced most people aren't religious, or at least agnostic. If they truly were they'd not be living like they are and wouldn't give a shit about anything but their holy book. I call it being alibi-religious.

  • I might be missing something, but they could just mass validate 100 IDs in person, without logging anything, then mix/shuffle 100 "person is an adult" codes (or even multiple per person) that aren't directly connected to anyone and hand these out at random.

    This way neither the government, nor the website knows your real ID and your age can still be verified.

    Edit: Sure you can still somewhat be tracked by these codes, but this may be mitigated by handing out new or multiple codes and having them expire.

  • Thanks for letting me know.

    I hope it isn't mandatory, because that would be undeniable indoctrination, but I imagine there is social pressure anyways. It's good to hear that some states don't do it. I hope it becomes less and less common in the future.

  • As a german, the standing up to the american flag and sometimes pledging your allegiance in schools is some insane north korea shit to me. Does that still happen?

  • This is super true. The more IT savvy you are (especially network administration and app development), the more you end up thinking "how the fuck is this legal and no one cares?".

    Edit: Forgot to mention OSINT and pentesting as they are obvious.

    How often I have seen older peoples unhinged comments on explicit posts, while having their photo, full legal name and sometimes their address and phone number on public display is insane.

    Telling them this and running wireshark on their device, explaining the logs in simple terms could change their minds.

  • I think a lot of Americans are about to find out why privacy was and is important.

    Also, an expert gathering OSINT about someone will make anyone shit their pants (this can be illegal, don't do it, unless you have written consent).

  • Damn, that's more sad than funny, even though Trump voters are either stupid, or evil and knew exactly what would happen.