I second Citizen Eco-Drive

I have a ton of watches and I wear my Citizen Eco-Drive Primo Stingray 620 pretty much everyday.

Definitely would suggest a solar or motion powered watch. Batteries are a pain.

It had passwords so you could always start it back up on the level you were on. That game was too tough for me as a kid, it also got scary ha

My first computer was some kind of IBM with a floppy disk drive and Chip’s Challenge.

First computers at school were the iMAC G3s with Zoombinis

When I see something visual

I wouldn’t think letters, sounds, or words. I’d just get ideas that I can use my internal voice to consider if I wanted to think about it in words.

I believe I have visual dreams when I have them which isn’t often. They feel extremely real when I have them. I feel like I know the details without feeling like I made a list of details to remember, it’s like I remember from seeing it.

Could lean even more heavily into it and make it more of a joke.

That’s because it is. An artist didn’t draw this. A person created it with a photo editor.

At what point is “AI” help too much?

They probably used a stock octagon shape.

Literally the thing it’s trying to point out.

Yeah you lost me

Like you get words popping up in your head when you look at a visual stimulus and you can’t tell if the word are actually written there?

A balanced budget means minimization of your debt service.

If NY has a 1B dollar budget. Receives 1B in revenue and pays 1B in expensives. It has a balanced budget.

It has nothing to do with where or how the money comes in or goes.

Both NY and NY city are required to have a balanced budget legally unlike the federal government. So there would be a problem if it wasn’t balanced.

It is just a fancy way of saying that they don’t have to raise property tax to get enough revenue for expected expenses. Now if those expected expenses exceeds revenue in 2027 is another matter.

“Balancing the budget” means nothing without other information.

It just means they didn’t spend more than what was planned, which should be the default.

Trump could balance the budget spending billions on ICE. Just because the budget balances doesn’t make it “good”. Just means they took in the money they thought and only spent what they thought.

I’m a mayor and my town needs a new orphanage. My budget doesn’t have funds allocated towards a new orphanage in the budget. I don’t order a new orphanage to be built, kids live on street, but at least the budget is balanced. I must be a good mayor.

But, No, let’s pretend doing something great, and extremely rare, like balancing the budget, is a bad thing.

Let’s not pretend that doing something that is expected is automatically viewed as great.

I find myself defaulting back to playing the last catchy song I heard if I choose to hum or whistle or just decide to play something in my head. I’d say it’s like leaving a cassette in the player, I can switch it out if I think about it, but if I just play “something” there will be a default tape in the player.

Hmm that’s really interesting. In a way, your mind can create images then because otherwise you wouldn’t see them. You just cannot consciously produce an image?

“Seldom anything visual”

Like you’d think you saw a black cat out of the corner of your eye and then you look and nothing is there? Or you see the black cat actually sitting there and know it’s not real?

I understand your inner voice it seems pretty much like mine.

Do you get earworms? Or is your inner voice completely voluntary?

Yeah I’m the same way. Always wondered how people were able to give such detailed information to police sketch artists.

Like I could work with one but at best it would be them drawing something close and me going “ehh this part and this part isn’t right” if I got a really good look at the person.

Do you get earworms?

I feel in a way I’d have to practice their voice in my head like I was trying to impersonate them vocally, just my mind could make any sound. But I myself couldn’t talk in a New York accent because I don’t understand what all to change and when. If I heard a New Yorker say a sentence I could repeat it back in my head the same way

Trouble as in poor quality or too many mental images?

You feel your mood shift the most with new mental images?

What kind of sound hallucinations?

Like people or yourself talking to you?

Does it sound like you’re hearing it from your ears?

People can project their mind’s eye image into reality. It’s most likely schizophrenic people can’t control it and would project things they didn’t know they were doing. We know it’s not there and it’s definitely in their mind but they don’t realize that they are conjuring it.

Same with internal monologe.

You have inner speech? I can talk to myself. But someone with an internal monologue they are not talking to themselves like me. Their brain is talking to them, they do not consciously pick each word.

Do you have aphantasia?

I feel like people with aphantasia are less likely to be bipolar because we do not play emotional memories with images.

From my understanding people can change their moods thinking of a beach? Like “Imagine yourself on a beach” and it could make a non-aphant more relaxed and calm?

I feel like my emotions are pure in the moment. Yes I could recall an event that gave me an emotion but it’s nothing like experiencing it in the moment.

I’m not sure.

I can not smell things without actually smelling them. Same with taste.

I can imagine my hand rubbing on different grit sandpaper and know how they would feel differently but I don’t “feel” it.

I can play songs in my head with sounds that are like the actual sounds but it’s similar to humming or whistling in my head. It’s not like I hit play and just listen. I don’t get earworms.

As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me.

So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them “thinking” it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that’s what is required to be schizophrenic.

As a white Hispanic this is my sticker