As the it department, I agree. Along with being unable to add local user accounts without using a backdoor process

So the ai has already won?

Ah, I see you don’t have insomnia

I’ve attempted but my brain is not meant for meditation, I fear

See, you say that but when you are literally always thinking about things, making connections, finding patterns, and such, it’s exhausting and there is no off switch

Yes, I create stuff but my point is that it’s less a choice to do so and more a bandaid. Like having an itch in your palm that can only be fixed with the tooth bite maneuver or something. The instant relief is there but it’ll come back very shortly. My brain is constantly going. Even with medication, it still constantly goes. Yeah, I can make connections that others don’t or find patterns faster than my peers but the constant search for dopamine is exhausting as fuck

The world before 9/11 in the US is something that can’t even be adequately described to those who didn’t live before then. The culture shift. The surveillance and acceptance of loss of private areas. The decay of third spaces. It’s wild how much changed in a short period of time

For me, I changed my definition of useful. I won’t change the world with something or contribute to a world changing thing, no. But I can change the world for a few people

Honestly, I don’t like boredom. I had to accept early on that I’d be bored a lot but it doesn’t mean I like it. Then again, I’m constantly bored. I’m not saying I’m bored a lot, I’m saying that is my default state. People are constantly explaining things to me I already understand or otherwise tell me things that do not matter. It’s noise to fill space because they’re uncomfortable with silence and unable to make interesting conversation. At work, if I’m not actively fixing a problem, the boredom is there.

So I make things. I print things out, clean them up, paint them to keep my attention. I build contraptions and devices. I fiddle with settings and make pictures I took look just how I want them. All of this and more just to keep the boredom away for a short time

And who you are apparently

Or take the fees for applications but not process any of them. As they are currently doing

The biggest thing for me was honestly just walking past a piece of trash or something that fell on the floor and just… Picking it up. Nothing groundbreaking or momentous. A simple action. An action that everyone else seems to do with no issues. There was no internal debate or fight with myself to pick it up. Just “oh, lemme grab that as I’m walking past.”

It does no good to look at what could have been. I was diagnosed well into adulthood and I could very easily spiral on the what ifs. Every previous possible me would not be the same me that I currently am so I only concern myself with what I do, not what some other person would do

Like what

Would you rather they do nothing at all cause that’s the other legal option they have at this moment

The dichotomy of actual law vs the subjective reality is definitely an issue that should be discussed, I agree. My only issue is that you posed it as a rebuttal and degrading my statement. I could have been less lazy in my wordage and assumed that people would understand the meaning behind it.

It wasn’t my intention to make it seem like I was trying something shifty, I was legitimately just clarifying my meaning and using more accurate terms to do so. I do see how one could interpret it like I was changing positions as words do matter

Bruh. I don’t even know what your point is. All you’ve done is “well actually”'d through this whole back and forth while I’ve clarified my point.

It’s like I said the sky is blue and you came back with well it’s really clear but the defraction of sunlight through the atmosphere disperses the color blue more than other colors due to its shorter wavelength making it look blue. It’s a net zero contribution to the conversation other than to make you feel smarter for saying it that way

You cannot win a defamation case if they used truthful statements or statements they had reasonable belief of it being true. Sorry I used “can’t sue” as a layman way of saying “can’t win” because it’s obvious that anyone can physically sue for any reason and it’s equally obvious that anyone who is being sued must go through the court system no matter the suits legitimacy.

The fact that I had to spell all that out explicitly is wild. They should be taken as contextually assumed so we could discuss more interesting bits instead of “but what about obvious thing? And other obvious thing?”

What, like several decades of evidence of him being a shit show? Pfft who’d have that? The Internet, major TV networks, and most new York News publications?

I was clarifying my point, not moving goalposts. I can’t help if you assumed the goal was in a different place and argued based on that false assumption. That’s why I clarified my point since you seemed to have consistently missed it.

My point has not changed nor has the context in which I made it.