When I was looking for an ADHD diagnosis I had to soft through lots of clearly finance/tech bro companies

“Disability” is apparently some mythical essence of your being and your worth rather than the literal meaning: not abled. Not a fan of the way it’s been socially constructed tbh.

Something to put the ableism into perspective: when other students underperform compared to me they’re not called lazy for underperforming, I’m called abnormally good instead. But when I underperform at “normal” tasks, I do get called lazy.

Disability is measured relative to the environment.

Compared to fish you’re disabled in that you can’t breath underwater, and if the world changed such that everything was underwater and you were one of the few people who couldn’t breath underwater, you’d be considered disabled because you would literally be less abled in that environment.

I actually would prefer people see them as ideals rather than unchanging facts of the universe, because unchanging facts don’t require you to fight to keep them like ideals do, and I’m tired of hearing diatribes about the world being just instead of people actually making it just.

You could give an upper bound, or even just say you don’t know.

In English there’s often no good way to avoid connotations other than a massive wall of text, and even there people will frequently ignore caveats.

I did find myself over a very long time and it turns out “myself” oscillates between several different points uncontrollably and I somehow think that’s not gonna be considered an acceptable answer.

It’s normal where I live for students to say that. You can argue with that, but then I’d say it’s not worth singling out one person.

You sure you’re not just oversensitized to it? This feels like a false positive.

I didn’t get the impression reading that that they’re presenting themselves as an intellectual or a researcher, just that they’re a nerd going down rabbit holes.

omg it’s my personality 🤩

Everyone I argue online with is a Smurf?

Other FOSS people don’t tend to get loads of money from Cloudflare or all this attention for what’s not even that interesting a project.

The Ladybird project is also run by someone who’s said some bad things but it hasn’t exploded in popularity or received 6 figures in corporate donations. Something feels off about this Omarchy hype… like, the product isn’t even that amazing, so the only thing I imagine could explain this difference is that it’s DHH doing it.

Can it find my level? I lost it 🥺

I’m not sure how you’re compiling the kernel to take up 70GB, my Linux directory hovers around 6GB.

per capita wealth: 👋

And don’t forget visual snow

This would fix me

Actually, the distance doesn’t do weird things. If you traveled at slow speeds (up to like several thousand kilometers per second) time dilation and length contraction would still be negligible and your timing of how long the journey took would mostly line up with someone on Earth.

But if you’re traveling a significant fraction of the speed of light those effects become non-negligible. That’s where our normal understanding of a universal notion of objective time and distance breaks down.

The equations of special relativity are actually very approachable if you know algebra, you should play around with them and plug in some numbers!