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Exactly, if you think you might have it get yourself tested. If you end up not having it you can be glad, if you do end up having it your life will probably make a lot more sense very quickly.

DX codes are a huge pain these days as a lot of new rolls of film, especially B&W don't have them, leading to a frustrating situation on cameras which won't allow you to manually set ISO (which is a huge number of sub-professional cameras).

How is that relevant? DX codes aren't about storing arbitrary data or backups, it's a system for providing basic information on the roll of film itself.

I think anyone who’s been in a slaughterhouse would find it difficult to agree with that statement and even so, the sheer scale means that the amount of suffering is unfathomable.

No other animal has the mental capacity that we do, the ability to reason, or ethics like us.

We are not like other animals in this regard, we have the option to do better.

HN is not a monolith, many of us have become extremely sceptical of the tech world and “culture” in recent years despite being part of it.

> a career that fits their routine

Ignoring the rest of the comment, I wish everyday I could have this, but I’m not convinced it exists. Modern society and work culture feels setup to be as painful as possible to people like myself.

Better yet, get out the leaf blowers at 6AM and wake up everyone.

I will say, as someone not from Southern Alberta the way they handle winter out there was almost surreal coming from the east.

The Calgary method, why plow the streets when it’ll melt in a few days?

> I think it is unequivocally not a benefit to almost anyone who has it.

I wouldn’t even be capable of overstating the damage done to my life by it. Inattentive form is a curse in my personal experience, but of course I am one person and not all have such bad experiences.

The mentality can be harmful, for some of us there are no strengths and no benefits provided to us, just years of suffering and bad outcomes. Makes me feel worse about myself personally, but I’m glad for those who haven’t had the same issues.

I know my own life perfectly fine. You have this belief the entire west is self isolating, which shows where you’re coming from in this argument.

Name a tangible effect Brexit had on my life, just one. Not theoretical things like political isolation and the like.

I will give you the Ukraine bit, that has impacted me, but I have zero influence over a war on the other side of the globe. Worrying about it is a waste of my time.

It simply didn’t dude, nothing in my life changed in any noticeable way due to Brexit. Claim otherwise as much as you want, but at the end of the day it just didn’t.

The street lighting bill going up though? That was noticeable come property tax time.

> First, there are ballot measures, judicial elections, city council, school board, and many more offices that have nothing to do with party politics that are on the ballot in almost every election.

This is a very American thing fwiw. A lot if not most of these positions are not elected in other countries.

Brexit had zero impact on me that I know of and even if it did, there is literally nothing I could do about it given I’m not a UK citizen. Likewise, I don’t don’t recall being asked to vote on the war in Ukraine.

I have to focus on this I can control and things that impact me directly and most of that happens at the local level, where I actually have power as an individual.

National and international news is almost worthless, it makes me worry over things I have no means of controlling and frankly? My mental health is more important to me than keeping up with news in far off places.

There’s no need to be a dick about it.

I only vote municipal, those elections actually have a real impact on my life and I have firsthand knowledge of the issues and the people.

Selfish? Maybe, but my mental health matters far more to me. I’m not looking for approval or saying what I do is right, I am merely answering the question.

Absolutely not, it’s dangerous to my mental health in a way few other things are. People will call me selfish for not being engaged, but the cost of engagement is too high for me.

If I hear news it’s a five minute hourly update on Radio 1. Tech news is another beast, I quite enjoy things like HN.

Only a fool would run something like this constantly, or even at all outside of a few minutes to prove it worked. If you're being sensible you aren't going to have issues.

So? It's a proof of concept.

Tinker away, laws be damned.

It’s only a mystery to those willingly blind, for fear “their side” did a bad thing and not the enemy.

All short form video content is an abomination. Cancer in video form.

The recommendations have gotten far worse too. Once upon a time they were filled with interesting things I wanted to watch, now as of a few months ago they are filled with garbage I’d never watch. No amount of saying I’m not interested fixes this.

If there’s 100 videos I scroll through at this point 1 might be worth clicking.

Lots of cynicism here, typical whenever art is compared to tech, but I wish him the best. Might as well give it a shot and see how it goes, you can always fall back into tech if needed later on.

This is pretty much exactly it and I agree with you 100%. Most of the stuff I own works exactly as it should, but was someone else's junk.

I didn't want to call out consumerism too directly or by name, because people tend to take it badly. Even a lot of the comments here are quite defensive and I didn't even get into what I truly think about the situation.

There's no way this system is sustainable long term.

> Giving things away is a massive pain in the ass. Have you ever tried to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook? Or even give them away for free?

I admit I don't know the situation in other places, but where I live it's trivial to give things away for free, or to donate them. There are multiple non-profit second hand stores where you can quite literally just drop stuff off outside their door at any hour of the day. They'll access it and if it's fit for resale they'll put a small price on it and handle the rest.

I've seen examples of towns that have specific "free stuff" weeks where people put out things that aren't garbage and anyone can take them. I quite like the idea, because it means people know they won't have to root though actual garbage.

It was really only one example and what prompted me to write this. It is the exception in terms of this, definitely not the norm.

Anyway I picked it up, tested it out, and donated it, so maybe it'll be useful to someone yet.

Just in case: https://archive.ph/Mj4Uu

Do we really want a world where even the skies are full of ads?

> It's also ok to be yourself, and not try to 'fix' yourself.

Society is very clear that it is not okay with this. If I'm "just myself" then I wouldn't be able to hold down a job and survive.

> Medicate always as a last resort

We shouldn't be so hesitant to medicate. It can be extremely useful, especially in combination with other management techniques. This stigma against medication hurts people.

> How, just -how-, could anyone want this disorder?

Because they don't understand just how debilitating it is and how much trauma it causes a person. It's absolutely shit, especially for those of us who find out later in our lives like both of us apparently. Aside from the normal issues that go with it, now I'm also plagued by the thought of how things could have gone had literally anyone picked up on it when I was a kid.

I don't think it's about being cool, at least not completely, I legitimately think some folks want at least some struggle in their lives. Something to fight against, something to give them...purpose? I'm honestly not sure, but I know if they did have it they'd do everything they could to get rid of it.