There was a very high profile case of this when Jill Greenberg bragged about intentionally duping John McCain into standing in unflattering light during a shoot for a profile piece in the Atlantic during his presidential campaign. She lit him from below with hard light to look old and and creepy. His team was clearly not that media savvy.

The atalantic disavowed her actions and I think apologized.

Not every job is a great fit for someone with ADHD, but some of that is a learning curve as well. If you’re worried about it I’d recommend looking into the kinds of work that are more hands on, active, and varied.

Beyond that, you don’t choose a job for life. You don’t even necessarily choose an industry for life. Most people will change jobs, industries, even entire careers once or twice. I’d expect people with ADHD probably more so.

You look for something that aligns pretty well with what you want, while doing that you figure out what parts of it you’re good at or you like, then down the line you steer your career in a direction that aligns more with those things. You do that two or three times and you end up with a fulfilling career you may not have known existed at the outset.

Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.

It’s not going to get there. The idea it’s going to turn smart and capable at some undisclosed point in the future as long as we keep giving them billions in investments IS marketing.

Genuinely, there have been many people in my life who have needed help along the way. There’s no shame in this. Depression will tell you not to fix your depression.

You can be living a totally “normal” life while on the cusp of crisis and not realize it. There is no harm in talking to someone about these feelings. I implore you.

With that, you can call me whatever names you want, or talk about how weird or bad or whatever I am… I’m going to bow out here.

Ad hominem aside… There’s a reason we want these things to fall into one of these categories. Presumably it’s so that we can actually recycle reuse or compost end of life products.

So, either we want that sump pump disassembled into component level disposal categories so that we can achieve this goal, or we make peace with a disposal plan that involves chucking this in the trash as a fully assembled good that will almost certainly be cost and time prohibitive to dispose of in any other way than tossing it into a landfill.

I’m saying this is a problem and you’re saying it’s not. You’re not identifying a solution to that problem you just name calling… And I’m the troll?

I didn’t say anything about deserve, I don’t really understand why you have it in quotes.

I thought it was pretty clearly implied the problem was a mental health issue. I’m not a psychiatrist so I’m not qualified to say what the particular mental health issue is any more than I would be able to qualify or runny nose as a cold or allergies or a flu. I just know a symptom when I see it.

A person that wants to determine what species do and do not “deserve” to exist is outside of my pay grade, but clearly unwell.

So we don’t want to achieve the recycling, repair, and re-use, we just want to know it’s theoretically possible?

We banned them here too. I always forget my reusable bags and toss a loose assortment of goods in my trunk to tumble around.

“my life is so miserable that I would rather see the continuation of the species voluntarily end that risk someone else suffers like me” is depression. Maybe it’s not suicidal depression, but it probably requires intervention.

Maybe it’s just immature edgelord BS, but if not that’s a serious problem.

Companies largely respond to what their consumers expect.

Snap on makes high quality buy it for life products with an excellent warranty because they have a consumer base that values these things and will pay for it.

Red Wing makes decent boots you can buy for cheap or buy it for Life boots if you’re willing to spend the money. Because they have both of those consumers.

TCL makes disposable televisions with a 2-year life for consumers who are singularly concerned with the display size to dollar ratio.

I think most people agree with this idea. There are two basic problems preventing it.

1. There is a giant gap between what people believe they should be doing and what they’ll actually do voluntarily when faced with the slightest inconvenience.

Basically you have to make people do inconvenience things. You can’t ask.

For example single-use shopping bags. Everyone understands why they are a problem. Every store sells a reusable alternative. Recyclable paper bags have always been an option. But unless it’s regulated, people continue using disposable single use plastic shopping bags.

2. The problem isn’t just what can be recycled it’s what WILL be recycled.

Imagine going through construction debris trying to separate plaster, wood-lathing wire-lathing, screws, and insulation into separate piles for disposal.

Picture the average grandma disassembling a sump pump to make sure plastic rubber Teflon and metal materials all end up in separate recyclable piles.

I think you may just need to talk to somebody this comment is out of my depth.

It’s getting worse sure. But we have no idea how bad it will get, or what the total effect will be. We have no idea what role technology will play in the future of this crisis, or if recovery would outpace models in the event we decided to take the problem seriously.

Bear in mind that acid rain was a real crisis that was happening in the 80s and the hole in the Ozone was a real crisis that was happening in the 90s. When we made an honest effort to fix those problems… They got fixed.

Also, we can guess at what species will or won’t fare well, but not how they’ll adapt or what else might thrive in a new environment.

And yeah, it’s possible that temps will spike faster than we could ever imagine or deploy solutions and we’ll all bake to death in a sprawling global desert if we don’t all starve from the sweeping famine. I just have more faith in human ingenuity, and will than that.

I’m sure that’s at least part of the idea but I’m yet to see any evidence that it won’t also be dog shit at that. It doesn’t have the context window or foresight to conceive of a decent plot twist in a piece of fiction despite having access to every piece of fiction ever written. I’m not buying that it would be able to build a psychological model and contextualize 40 plus years of lived experience in a way that could get me to buy a $20 Dubai chocolate bar or drive a Chevy.

Of course it did.

If not for the courage and conviction of Vasily Arkhipov, civilization, and potentially humanity, may have ended in 1964. People had kids for 30 years under the very real threat of nuclear extermination. In the end it turned out pretty well.

People had kids during the black plague.

While a climate crisis is more than just a threat, we don’t know what’s going to happen. We have ideas, and models, and educated guesses… But not knowledge.

I wouldn’t tell anyone to have kids if they don’t want to. But no one should plan their life around sparing a hypothetical person from the hypothetical struggles of a slow moving crisis we don’t fully understand.

I’m mostly annoyed that I have to keep explaining to people that 95% of what they hear about AI is marketing. In the years since we bet the whole US economy on AI and were told it’s absolutely the future of all things, it’s yet to produce a really great work of fiction (as far as we know), a groundbreaking piece of software of it’s own production or design, or a blockbuster product that I’m aware of.

We’re betting our whole future on a concept of a product that has yet to reliably profit any of its users or the public as a whole.

I’ve made several good faith efforts at getting it to produce something valuable or helpful to me. I’ve done the legwork on making sure I know how to ask it for what I want, and how I can better communicate with it.

But AI “art” requires an actual artist to clean it up. AI fiction requires a writer to steer it or fix it. AI non-fiction requires a fact cheker. AI code requires a coder. At what point does the public catch on that the emperor has no clothes?

I think I’m 6/10. I’d consider myself an advanced user. I’m capable enough to avoid casual problems, and instead create real serious problems.

I am skilled enough to understand that I don’t know shit.

We don’t need Russian disinformation or funding. The Secretary of Health and the worlds biggest podcaster will happily disinform the public on spotify’s dime and entirely of their own accord.

There is no such thing as a qualified US presidential candidate. There’s no job, or training, or comparable experience that can ready a person for that role. Anyone who honestly thinks they are the most capable person in the world to assume control of the largest military and the largest economy that has ever existed should immediately be disqualified from the role. You’d have to be a madman to think that. But that’s all we ever get.

There’s no indication that a senator, governor, or vice president makes a better president than someone with no political experience (of which there have been 6). In fact, coming through that system seems to teach people to make peace with corruption, bribery, complacence, and protecting the status quo at it’s worst.

As much as I hate Donald Trump’s policy, and flagrant disregard for the law, it would be hard to argue that his experience as a narcissistic game show host hasn’t proven more effective at the day to day politics of implementing his policy than almost any other president of the last 40 years. It’s hard to keep up with how fast he’s getting disastrous shit (that we voted for) done.

And he’s only in office today because 50 years of “qualified” stuffed shirts have wrung all the money, opportunity, and hope out of the middle class. Then the “qualified” people told America to vote for a clearly senile “qualified” candidate.