ScoffingLizard

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[–] ScoffingLizard 4 points 54 minutes ago

It's already happened.

[–] ScoffingLizard 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I'm an engineer in the US, and I can tell you that the Imperial unit system is a major pain in the ass. It's makes no sense at all. 1 meter=100cm=1000mm vs. 1yard=3 feet=36inches. I'll not even get into slugs for gravity, miles, and pounds. Whoever invented the English unit system needs to be kicked in the balls. It's probably one of the worst mathematical blunders of humanity.

[–] ScoffingLizard 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Also, why does nobody here know that their mindless nationalism is weird? I've seen military guys stop traffic to stop their cars in the middle of the road and stand with their hand over their heart towards the nearest flag when they play the trumpets at the end of the work day. ( on a military base) But seriously, why would you stop rush hour traffic to virtue signal your worship of an inanimate object. Those people should not be allowed to use firearms. There is seriously something wrong with that. My coworkers did the same thing, but not while they were driving. It's beyond bizarre.

[–] ScoffingLizard 1 points 11 hours ago

It makes you wonder if peaceful societies can ever exist without threat. It's almost like the most greedy and psychopathic people always endure. That's why the liberals in the US and Europe will not win against the violent right wingers. The indigenous folks in the US have a word for the white greed sickness. I think they call it watika.

[–] ScoffingLizard 1 points 12 hours ago

The world wars didn't even really happen there. There has not even been a war there in the last 100 years or something.

[–] ScoffingLizard 3 points 20 hours ago

The lady in the picture straight up looks like the SS.

[–] ScoffingLizard 1 points 21 hours ago

Next thing you know the ICE police are all hugging each other because "we're all connected."

[–] ScoffingLizard 3 points 21 hours ago

The world ends because a bunch of elderly white dudes want to measure dicks. Yay!

[–] ScoffingLizard 1 points 1 day ago

Damn, that's huge. I didn't even know there were any.

[–] ScoffingLizard 5 points 2 days ago

There were even protests in my tiny town. People have been protesting a lot. Hell, they had a massive one in LA just this week. Anyone who says Americans have not been protesting needs to find different media sources unless the ones used are not meant for international coverage. My workplace is even staging a protest soon.

[–] ScoffingLizard 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There are some folks who want to accelerate the total reset and maybe create a UBI. Those are the Dark Enlightment folks (sometimes Dark MAGA), and they are called neoreactionary accelerationist. The intentional destruction of the US gov is the acceleration of the reset that you mention. These are a bit different from the Heritage Foundation and mostly tech bros. They are considered far right, but I'm far left and can't help but see a lot of truth in some of what they say. I've had the same opinion you have for 20 years now, that it would be better to just let this all fall so we can hurry up and rebuild our economy into something that is not a plane with locked engines falling straight out of the sky. I totally know what you mean.

[–] ScoffingLizard 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They certainly are in Saudi Arabia. They say if you prosecuted homosexual acts there, you'd have to put a fence around the entire country. I guess forbidding the socializing of females outside of marriage limits options.

 

Does Iphone have something like fdroid that allows installation of cool apps like ones for jellyfin, etc?

 

I was planning to set transcoding on the M.2 by using a Pi M.2 Hat board. However, since the M.2 is already there, should I just use it to run the OS and downloads, too, or just use it as a transcoding consumable and media drive? This Pi 5 has 16Gb of RAM, so it might handle every bit of the transcoding regardless, but I have not tested it. I'm also concerned about latency between the main Pi board and the hat, connected with a flexible circuit board cable.

Also, anyone have issues with media storage on external drive when using Plex/media servers?

Equipment has been ordered but has not been delivered yet. Should come the next few days.

 

When I was a kid, I was punished excessively. My diagnosis occurred when I was 25. In the 1980s, I got paddled every day at school and was punished constantly. It made me feel rejected, leading to rejection sensitivity dysphoria. By the time I was 9, I decided life was not worth living and have not changed my mind at 45 years old. I would never have a child to suffer the way I did. I still feel like nobody wants me around. My mental health issues have severely impacted my quality of life. I'm just now figuring out that this might be why I have never felt my clock tick, or thought for even a second of my life that I wanted kids.

Has this happened to anyone else? I wonder how many in this forum might have decided against parenthood due to ADHD effects without realizing it.

Update: Here are the results as of June 12, 2025 ( or at least I think I counted decently):

  • 7 people do not want kids
  • 9 said they have and/or want kids
  • 3 responses did not conclude one way or another

Hope this was helpful, even with small sample sizes. This seems to be close to current statistics. Out of 16 who responded definitively, 7 did not want kids, which is 44%, compared to 47% shown in the statistics. This concludes that no evidence has been found from this post to suggest that ADHD has a significant impact on parenting desires. Further research could better validate the results.

And the share of U.S. adults younger than 50 without children who say they are unlikely to ever have kids rose 10 percentage points between 2018 and 2023 (from 37% to 47%), according to a Pew Research Center survey

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