Let's just skip the prison, take him to Antarctica, drop him off on the shore, and leave.

The average Linux evangelist on Lemmy vastly overestimates the tech-saviness of the average person.

It's called a "cruel irony", like my dependence on medication that I have to remember to take every day.

my family would be better too.

I don't struggle with depression that deeply anymore but every once in a great while, I still have moments where I feel this way.

Nearly a century ago, my great-grandpa hung himself. I have no idea why. I do know that the impact was devastating and spanned multiple generations. One of his sons also killed himself about 20 years later. The one that survived, my grandpa, was never the same. He became "head of the household" at 15. Even though I never met him, every description I've ever heard of him was of a man who never got a chance to grow up. That made him a terrible father.

Even if you don't have kids, there are still people in your life who depend on you and need you, even if they don't know how to say it. Your absence would leave a giant crater in their lives that would probably never fully heal.

This knowledge has kept me here at moments. I'm glad you're still here too.

but my doctor said I just wasn't trying hard enough. Broke my spirit.

That's how you know you're talking to the wrong doctor. "Just try harder" is not a solution to executive function disorders. If it were, I would have been a "straight A" student instead of a barely passing one. Stimulants revealed, among numerous other things, that I actually can do math and I'm not a complete and utter moron. My brain just has a physical defect whereby some parts of it are unable to sufficiently absorb neurotransmitters.

Through my extensive experience with doctors, I have learned that generally speaking -- not always, mind you -- doctors are familiar with their own narrow field and nothing outside of it. They also often have as much hubris than the average person and, much like the rest of us, tend to feel threatened by the unknown.

You need to find a doctor that that is either familiar with ADHD and how to effectively treat it, or one who is at least willing to work towards improving your quality of life and is willing to do some serious trial and error to that end.

Absolutely not. I have a septic system and my hopes and dreams would plug up the drainage field. That's a very expensive repair.

Slow news day in WI:

"Steven's Point man arrested for 16th DUI."

Not much of an exaggeration, sadly.

TIL PhotoBucket is still around.

I work for a company you've never heard of that just laid off ~13% of their workforce. Not a tech firm. Not even a business that has frequent layoffs. The recession was probably the last time this happened. Later the same day, I wander off to a conference room where I find one my colleagues. I asked him how he was doing and he said, "the thing that bugs me the most is that a whole bunch of people just got fired and we're supposed to keep going like nothing happened."

I felt that. Something big happened. Layoffs like that basically destroy any trust that employees have in the organization. Not only do a bunch of people lose their jobs, they're often abruptly thrown out of the building. The ones who are left are left to wonder if they'll be next.

Zuck is going to have face the fact that once that bell has been rung, it cannot be un-rung.

Went from working remotely full time to in office full time. It fucking sucks. Got a 45 minute commute one way so now I'm gone almost 11 hours a day. I hate it. My family hates it. Gotta pay the bills somehow though.

Why not both?

Donald Trump wouldn't know a shrewd investment if it ran him over.

Edit: although the "Donald J. Trump Municipal Sewer Plant" does have a nice ring to it.

The US is the world's largest pyramid scheme.

Source: Live in US.

People with hip replacements can walk again for years afterwards. This is not normal.

I can't think of a worse marketing strategy for a company that relies on remote work to remain relevant. This would be like if General Motors forced every employee within 50 miles of an assembly plant to ride a bike to work.

In posts on X following the incident, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the incidents “terrorism” and said the company “just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”

OK buddy.

A good project manager is worth their weight in gold. Large scale projects are complex and have lots of moving parts. Someone who understands this and is good at keeping all the "parts" moving while heading off any potential issues is extremely valuable.

The problem is that often the people doing the hiring don't know what it takes to run a large project, much less what good project management looks like. They just hire some idiot with an agile certification whose only skill is moving items around a kanban board in a way that gives the illusion that progress is being made.