I feel like a horrible person for describing anyone’s music like that, but hearing either of those two artists instantly sours my mood and makes me feel depressed and despondent. I’ve had struggles with mental health for 30+ years, and one of the few things that helps with any consistency is avoiding things (music, movies, tv shows) I know will likely put me in a sour mood.

I’m glad their music brings joy to others. I am just not ever going to enjoy it. The absolute best I can possibly manage is to grind my teeth and bite my tongue until the song is over and hopefully something more pleasant comes on.

I can’t stand anything by Crosby Stills & Nash or by Cat Stevens. It all sounds like horrifically depressing heroin addict music to me.

My deceased father in law loved listening to them, and it drove me nuts.

I have similar issues with this. I feel like I have negligible control over what music is stuck in my head, to the point that sometimes it feels like my brain chooses which songs to play on infinite loop in my head based on what’s most likely to ruin my day or mood, or tempt me into taking an ice pick to my ear drums. In contrast, trying to get a song I like stuck in my head often feels as frustrating as trying to wrestle a greased up angry toddler.

I have noise cancelling headphones that work well for countering this, but I’m often in situations where it would be very weird for me to use them, so I’m often powerless to do anything about it.

The more I hate a song being played in a public space, the more my brain wants to make me miserable by forcing me to pay attention to the hated song and nothing else.

• larger percent of people going for diagnosis
• better & more reliable diagnostics
• understanding that men arent the only ones susceptible to adhd
• understanding that adhd doesnt present identically across all populations
• better awareness in general of neurological differences

If Microsoft wants people to use its AI product, they’d be better off making it useful instead of making it more invasive and annoying than pop up and interstitial pause screen ads.

Less money on marketing and VPs, more money on quality developers.

If they’re a 10 and you’re a 2, you should be suspicious.

As a former sysadmin I agree with this chart

Not to mention trying to threaten it into cooperation

I go about once a week

Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?

Video games

She’s apparently never heard of earbuds either

I’ve spent most of my life in poverty. I don’t like Christmas terribly much because it just gives me childhood memories of being disappointed. Nowadays I sometimes feel like a monster because I can’t make myself be (or at least pretend to be) happy during Christmas.

Glow in the dark, since i do lap swimming for exercise and the other option would rule that out.

Option 2 so i can at least see

• take professional development on my employer’s budget
• bring a book
• don’t be afraid to take slightly longer than usual lunches for errands or for exercise or whatevs
• if monitoring is lax enough, and there’s unmonitored guest wifi, bring your personal laptop and play some vidya

Interstellar post-scarcity society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Is the month and change we have left before 2026 hits enough time to develop society and tech as shown in The Culture novels?

Is Artie by chance a turkish van kitty? We have a turkish van who has markings and coloration very similar to Artie’s.

Sounds like a good time to have a meeting with an external partner that you can’t skip or reschedule.

And by meeting, I mean a legit looking calendar event that will fool a cursory investigation.

This works best if you have an office with a door you can shut.

Or. Hell. Sounds like a good time to schedule a conflicting dental or doctor appointment.