[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 89 points 4 months ago

I'm half convinced Putin wants NATO to get directly involved so that he can pull out of Ukraine and be like "We didn't lose to Ukraine, it was the West who once again oppresses poor little Russia"

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nothing says "we're on path towards inevitable victory" (as Russian shills like to claim) like nuclear saber rattling.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 63 points 6 months ago

Ah yes the US foreign policy of "not being invaded by Russia"

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I come from an era before widespread official anime translations, when the only name an anime show had was the original Japanese name. So that's still the paradigm I'm using.

Edit: Out of all the shit I post, I wouldn't have expected this comment to be the controversial one

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 51 points 8 months ago

Pihole and uBlock Origin have different purposes. Pihole blocks ad domains network-wide. uBlock Origin can remove specific elements from specific webpages with surgical precision regardless of the domain the content is served from, so it is a much more precise wide-spectrum content blocker.

In other words, uBlock Origin can block basically everything, but only works in your browser. Pihole blocks fewer things and less precisely but works for all your devices.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 43 points 9 months ago

In part because there are people actively and deliberately muddying together the Netanyahu government and Israel (as well as Israel and Jews) so that any criticism of the actions of Israel or Netanyahu can be labeled "antisemitism".

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 114 points 9 months ago

Japan has various earthquake notification systems. Tweets are just one more way to get the information to the people on a platform they use.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 57 points 10 months ago

Like the old joke goes, "when I'm watching anime and my mom walks in, I alt tab to porn because it's easier to explain"

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 95 points 10 months ago

I feel like if someone is insane, it must be Musk, trying to circumvent the unions in a Nordic country, which have one some of the strongest unions and union culture in the world.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 74 points 11 months ago

The price of a cup of coffee yeah maybe, but with how many paid online services there are, how many cups of coffee a day y'all think I'm having?

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 87 points 11 months ago

I don't think it will have enough room to stand up

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submitted 1 year ago by wandermind@sopuli.xyz to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I just had my first ever meeting with a psychiatrist to get diagnosed with ADHD.

Long story short, they said that I clearly exhibit ADHD symptoms.

But they're not willing to go forward with a diagnosis because, according to them, I seem to be doing alright in my life, so the symptoms are hardly causing me enough problems to be eligible for a diagnosis. (And also because there's no evidence of me having had such symptoms in childhood.)

And I was just sitting there thinking, do you really think I would be here if I didn't think the symptoms were causing me problems in life?

Based on what they said, they expected me to have experienced things like getting warnings or being fired from jobs, ruining my relationships with people, and such. And they suggested the usual things, exercise, the Pomodoro method, etc. As if I haven't tried them already.

My bad for masking so well, I guess.

Anyway, just wanted to vent a bit. I know it's too common a story. I guess the next thing I need to do is to find a psychiatrist specializing in adult ADHD. Once my (still undiagnosed) ADHD lets me do that.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I don't expect Reddit to necessarily collapse immediately, or Lemmy to replace Reddit for all Reddit users. I'm just happy if Lemmy becomes at least a medium-sized social network. That means that it would have moved from a niche platform into a large enough ecosystem to sustain itself, and become a viable alternative to Reddit, like you said.

With a huge platform like Reddit, the impact of the current events might not be instantly obvious. But with everything going on recently with Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy, and even Threads, I think it's clear that there's some kind of transformation of the social media landscape going on. But how long it will take, and what the end result will look like, is anybody's guess. Maybe it's the fall of the old giants and a rise of new, more democratic platforms. Maybe the giants keep standing, but significantly weakened, with a bunch of new, smaller, more open platforms becoming real alternatives. Or maybe it's something else.

Be it as it may, I'm glad that the status quo is being shaken up a bit.

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