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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • You don’t need to eat rice and ramen (tho I do love me some…). Turkeys around Tgiving in the us are stupid cheap, pork butts smoke easily (you can even cheat and do them in a standard oven), and cheap beef makes great stew for less than $1/meal. Fish can be affordable too, if that’s your thing.

    How come all your cheap alternatives to rice and ramen are corpse? Are those the only options for frugal people, to have rice and ramen or to be a murderer?


  • But why would someone pay for the software if the seller is not adding any value to to product?

    A: the mistaken belief that the seller is adding value, even in the face of all evidence, which is caused by a capitalist tendency to believe that all prices are inherently just

    B: disbelief in the idea of anything worthwhile being free, which is caused by the capitalist tendency to attack the free exchange of goods and services.



  • Most people have their attention decided by a combination of biology and social norms, but can learn to direct it themselves. So if you’re really hungry, maybe you can’t stop thinking about a sandwich. But most of the time your boss can tell you to pay attention and you will, and you can mediate and think of nothing with practice.

    When you have ADHD, your attention can’t be controlled by social norms, and the biology of your attention is different. And it’s harder to learn to control it yourself. In school, you literally can’t pay attention if you don’t find the subject interesting, it’s too much work. And maybe instead of being hungry and thinking of a sandwich, you’ll go on Wikipedia to learn about the history of snail entomology and end up going 10 hours without food or water. The way your attention moves around is dysregulated. That’s ADHD. Learning to control your attention is an uphill battle, and you’ll never develop a single habit.