I don’t hate my job. I also don’t care for capitalism.

Neither of these are why I don’t like Mondays.

I work in IT support, and Mondays are always one of the busiest days of the week.

It’s like y’all just save up all your IT problems to submit them as critical issues at 8AM on Monday because you like to watch me suffer. If your shit breaks on a Sunday or Friday, or whatever, please, for the love of God, don’t wait until Monday to put in a ticket.

You’re killing me here.

No cap.

Yeah, Buffalo has a few less known meanings. One is “to bully” or something.

Of course you also have the animal, Buffalo, which is just a bison IIRC, and then you have Buffalo the place.

So Buffalo (bison) from Buffalo (place), Buffalo (bully), Buffalo (bison) from Buffalo (place).

…Someone else commented explaining the groups, I’m summarizing here.

Anyways, one way to refer to a thing from a place is to put the place before the thing, like “new York pigeons”. Aka, pigeons from New York… But phrasing it with the location first omits the “from”, so Buffalo from Buffalo, is simply “Buffalo Buffalo” are bullying (aka Buffalo) “Buffalo Buffalo”… Etc.

It took me a while to “get it” too.

I know cross contamination very well.

I trust non-sterile gloves over supposedly “washed” hands, every day of the week.

The number of people that use the toilet without washing, or even rinsing their hands afterwards is insanely high. People are disgusting.

Simply put, I don’t trust fast food gloves to be sterile, never said I did. I just think they’re likely to be cleaner than the unwashed hands inside of them.

Yes, they’re likely cross contaminated, but by the time I’m accepting the risk of having someone else prepare my next meal, i want to reduce the harm they can do to me as much as I can.

Cross contaminated gloves are going to be less harmful than the hands that contaminated them.

Have you met people? They’re not sanitary.

That’s enough internet for me.

Good night everyone.

The warranty sucks too. I can never get a reply from the support team.

I need an RMA, this unit has been defective since day 1.

Cross contamination is so much worse than people think it is.

Everything is pretty much contaminated all the time.

I’d still want the illusion of the workers trying to be sanitary by wearing gloves.

He is old.

I mean… Correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, I’m not sure.

This is more common than you’d expect.

For the record, I didn’t see your post, but from the replies from people that did, it doesn’t sound like it should have been a problem.

My advice is to block the whole instance from your profile. I did this and I’m much happier for it.

I just ignore that instance in its entirety, and ignore the fact that it even exists. Not worth my time.

This. 100%

They gaslight pretty much everyone that posts there. I only had limited, occasional interactions with that instance and almost every time it was negative. I started to wonder what I was doing that was making me so misunderstood, which was getting me into all kinds of discussions…

Once I figured it out and blocked the entire instance from my profile, I’ve had a lot of interactions on Lemmy and I’m no longer walking on eggshells every time I post a comment.

I’m just grateful that the asshats all converged into a few instances so I can just block the entire instance and have a great time on Lemmy.

So. I’ve kind of had two eye opening moments with meds.

I first started with concerta, and it was like stepping into the light. The problems were certainly not gone, but they were at least manageable. I could break out of mental loops that were not productive, and focus on stuff I actually needed to do. I still had a bit of an obsession with being as near-perfect as I could, but I could focus those efforts into things that were actually useful, instead of my mind going in circles.

It improved my emotional state. I was kind of in a long term funk of “everything is meh”, and I found myself smiling so much it hurt my face. A lot of that diminished over time, but it hasn’t gone away, it’s just less intense.

Recently I started on an NDRI, Wellbutrin, which had more subtle positive effects. Immediately I noticed the negative side effects, dry mouth, some GI issues. I stuck with it for a week and most of that has subsided. I dunno if the negatives made the positives more shrouded, or if the positives are just minor in comparison, but I find my emotional state and attitude is more on the positive side rather than sitting fairly firmly in the middle.

As for my usual ADHD symptoms, with the combination of the concerta and Wellbutrin, I have little or no difficulty doing the little routine things that I always had to push myself to do before. The phrase “super easy, barely an inconvenience” applies to all the little trivial tasks I do daily, when before it was always some level of mental effort to get myself to do things.

I feel more “normal” now than I ever have before.

I must say, if this is how non-ADHD (and/or non-executive function disorder) people are, then I get why they don’t understand us. This is an easy, quick, and trivial task, it takes no time or effort to do… But when you have an executive function disorder, the task might as well be “climb Mount Everest” not “fold laundry”.

With the most recent news about arm, I wouldn’t be surprised if RISC-V got a push from larger fabs.

Bluntly, we’ve been computing under proprietary/licensed architectures for so long, it’s time for a change. Make CPUs open source. Make them cheap.

I’m far too verbose all the time.

I don’t even want to read everything I write most of the time.

Oh god, we need to do something.

WE NEED TO SAVE THE BOOBIES!

Hey, I was going to say that.

How dare you!

Good intentions, easily taken wrong.

Look everyone, the corporations are trying to be inclusive!

… No? Nobody cares? Okay. That seems right. They don’t care about us unless we’re going to buy their shit, so that seems fair to me.

Eat the rich.

I take it that’s not your kink?

… Not that there would be anything wrong with it, if it were.