fushuan

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[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That ADHD is a disability is a fact, it makes living in society harder. Also, saying that someone has a disability and that someone is disabled is different, I did not say that.

You worked out coping mechanisms that you must employ so that life isn't harder than baseline for you as long as you apply them, I would say that you are working harder than someone that doesn't need to think of coping mechanisms.

I completely agree that someone that's little isn't a disabled person because they are more than their disability, but denying that what makes them different from others makes their life overall way harder would be unwise. It's a disability for which a lot of countries have money and help programs specifically because life's harder than for people who don't have it because society sin't designed for little people, or for people with ADHD, or whatever other thing.

Let me repeat it because I really want to drive home the point that I never said that you or anyone else is disabled. Disabilities are part of what defines a person, not what solely defines it, but three's nothing wrong with acknowledging that something is a disability because it makes living in society harder.

Edit: I reread your old comment and you did say the following:

It may make one smarter if it causes them to have to work harder than others to reach the same level.

That's what I was commenting on, your premise is that if ADHD makes one work harder to reach others' level, then that will help them be smarter. I disagree with that notion, I would say that if with ADHD you are able to reach others' level, you were smarter to begin with. So the smartness of the person is irrelevant to my comment, it's the part about having to work harder to reach the same level that I was highlighting. You being able to work out the coping mechanisms and keep using them is because you are smart, not the other way around.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago

I'm knowledgeable about operating systems.
I'm good with math.
I eat junk food and drink energy drinks/soda.
I read about new techniques but am very wary of heavily marketed stuff.
I read a ton of Asian comics.

People assume that I know how to do webpages, they don't know what a web developer is. No, I don't know l. Well barely but not really, I'm a data engineer goddammit.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

other than that the British people don't want to be in the EU.

So your point is that regardless of the euro thing the Brits don't want back? Then why are there so many polls with majority wanting in, and so many talks about it? It's all media manipulation?

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

New ones have to to become full members though?

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I totally get that, and that a lot of them are dead now because of COVID and age. Still, it's not the citizens that have privileges, it's the country, and the majority decided out.

Y'all being on equal footing with other new members shouldn't be seen as punishment, it would be incredibly unfair to other new members if y'all got privileges when joining back. Those other countries also have people that wants to join as much as yours did that didn't want to leave.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Look at those gerrymandered counties! Precious!
/s

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you are smart, you manage it better and people perceive you as smart.

Uh... Duh? You basically said "if smart, smart".

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you have to work harder than other to reach the same level and to keep it, you are not smarter or dumber, you just have a disability that makes it harder.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 days ago

Aaand don't come back!

You clearly don't live in a tourist heavy zone. Also the fact that you generalise what some locals in selected very tourist heavy cities are doing with the whole fucking country is very telling. We are better without you <3

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why are you selectively choosing to consider only the "new kingdom" part of the whole thing? Overall it's from 3150 BC – 30 BC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt

I can also reach to whatever conclusion if I decide to ignore what doesn't fit and modify what does to make it fit better. That's wrong...

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Not many do. Yours didn't, for example.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Average out of which number? There has not been enough empires in human history to get any kind of valid statistical conclusion.

Also, the ancient egyptian empire lasted over 3k years, for you to get an average of 250y with such outlier you would need to include what, several 10y "empires", or divide empires by ruler. Which would then make the conversation moot since each US president would be a new "empire".

The claim comes from John Glubb, and he used this chart to make the average out of... 11 data points!?! While missing tons of other ancient empires that lasted thousands of years?!

This is the book where he makes such claim

So to answer your comment, yeah math is easy. Impossible to reach such average number with all the data though, given that it was made with a wildly incomplete and incorrect data...

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