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it's really hard for me to think of something that gives me as much joy as when zoos just give all the animals a pumpkin

re: uspol 

@sir This doesn't make sense to me. What do you mean by "make their play at the Supreme Court"? I'm assuming, since #5 is getting SCOTUS to call in favor of Dems in this scheme, that everything that comes before #5 happens before the election is called .. and that's going be some time in November or at most early December. If the Dems win the Senate they won't actually be seated until Jan 3, and Trump will still be in power until Jan 20, so.. yeah, this is all cart-before-the-horse.

It's actually quite interesting that it explains why people feel fine when their blood-oxygen is at dangerously low levels -- the virus damages the part of the medula that senses low oxygen and regulates breathing in response.

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2-player Untitled Geese Game is the kind of stupid fun we need right now.

Florida has informed me that they received my vote. I VOTED!!!! 🎉

uspol 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Scientists detect potential sign of extraterrestrial life on Venus"

UM PROTOMOLECULE ANYONE??

9/11, US imperialism 

@syash @datatitian I want to do a write-up about all of these (we did this in several South and Central American countries) and give it to the high schoolers in my family. Americans are not taught about this in school and that's a problem

This dog across the way does this every afternoon and I love it.

@darius That's a good idea.. I have iNaturalist on my phone but I always use iSeek instead. But in this case it couldn't get more specific "monocot".

Can anyone identify this plant? I need to care for it but I can't figure out what it is. It has some red berries, interesting stems, and new leaves unfurl from the ends of the stems.

uspol 

@jeroenpraat @philgoose In the US the fascists are the ones armed to the teeth, not the leftists. Any leftist coup or division of the Union would result in .. fascism. And with the size of the US military it would not be good for the rest of the world. I've left. I live in NL now, and I plan to naturalize here. But I'm still TERRIFIED of what will happen if Biden doesn't win in November (and I don't like the guy), because chaos in the US has a long reach.

uspol 

@freeloader2020 @jeroenpraat That.. is not in any way what would happen. The people in the US who are armed and who would exploit anarchy in the US are the "drill baby drill", "bomb Iran", evangelicals who are itching to ramp up the murder and incarceration of people of color, who would close health centers that serve women, end all environmental protections, etc. The US needs a multi-party system that doesn't force us to compromise when we vote.. but rn we need damage control (vote Biden).

things I wish ppl had told me about adhd 

- it doesn't always look like a boy being hyper and screaming jumping flipping tables.

it can also look like a shy kid being late, again, because there was a funny green bug, and a cat ran away, and check out this red flower, doesn't it kinda look like a fireflower from super mario, maybe mom could teach me to plant flowers?, and I wonder if that ice cream cart has jackfruit, and then you're almost ran over by a car.

(or, in the case of child me, you ran _into_ the car. while it's speeding.)

this is called an innatentive presentation, and it's though to be more common in girls, leading to underdiagnosis. it's still considered to be the same condition because both kids are suffering from understimulation and desperately trying to find something, anything to busy themselves with. the "h" part can look like hyperactivity of the mind, rather than bouncing around the room.

- the name is a misnomer, and a pretty misleading one at that.

there's no deficit of attention. in fact adhd ppl are notorious for paying inordinate amounts of attention to the most random things (‘hyperfocus’). they will manage to be attentive to stuff that everybody else filters out.

the difficulty is in controlling what the attention latches onto, and how much of it to dispense. alternative names proposed include ‘executive function disorder’, ‘attention regulation deficit disorder’, and in a positive framing, ‘variable attention stimulus trait’.

- adhd and autism overlap somewhat in symptoms

for example, adhd ‘hyperfocus’ can look a lot like spectrum ‘special interest’ (I suspect special interests are more long-lived). both are likely fidgety and trying to stim. both spectrum ppl and adhd will have trouble with conversational behaviour norms, turn-taking, word-dumping etc. (spectrum due to problems with unspoken cues and nonliteral language, adhd because (interrupts you)—ever notice that the word "because" is made of "be" and "cause" (in German the prefix be- like this is very productive and it's an unaccented prefix (which is important because of this thing called separable verbs, where if the prefix is accented... (goes on opening a few more parentheses; won't rest until closing all of them properly))).

difficulty with social norms will lead to bad experiences which may cause social anxiety, correlated to both traits.

this overlap in symptoms means if you have one trait, you'll score higher than average in tests for the other, without meaning you have both. otoh...

- autism, adhd, dyslexia, gender issues are all correlated

(I hate the word ‘comorbidity’).

the new large-scale study on the connection between trans ppl and autism is notorious. but previous (smaller) studies suggest about just a strong a connection between gender stuff and adhd, and the intersection between the spectrum and adhd seems even bigger, and some 20~40% of adhd ppl have dyslexia (which in my opinion is less a ‘mental disorder’ than a hardware issue in implementing this weird new brain hack that connects an out-of-manual wire between the 3d edge detection module and the language module, a mod which we call ‘reading’).

trying to take a wider view, adhd and autism diagnoses are clusters of symptoms, and AFAICT it's not very clear yet the extent to which items in each box occur together vs. inter-boxically. irl ppl seem to be able to show some symptoms from each box. maybe you took ‘can't process faces and social cues’ from the spectrum box, but not ‘needs routine and known patterns’, preferring ‘needs stimulus from constant novelty’ from the adhd box.

I suspect these labels and models will probably be redrawn as our knowledge of weird brain stuff improves.

- adhd is significantly hereditary (35~75%)

so if you have a diagnosis, you might want to take a closer look at your parents/children, and vice-versa.

#adhd

uspol, disinfo 

There are Russian campaigns trying to get left wing voters to sit out the US election theguardian.com/technology/202

It is possible to both think that electoralism won't solve all our problems and that voting is a form of damage control. Don't be manipulated by fascists. Request a ballot. Cast a vote.

vote.org/

@phooky @th That photo is of a sign we found in a Marriott elevator. We laughed so hard.

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