Feeling this right now.

[laughs in cheap municipal hydroelectric power]

I don't care what someone calls themselves as long as they oppose fascism and understand that the only place where Pedophiles are welcome is the inside of a wood chipper.

I'm one of the lucky few for whom a non-stimulant works.

Strattera paired with a low dose of Wellbutrin because my psychiatrist knows there's risk of interaction if I take too much Wellbutrin.

It's incredible having agency again, agency that doesn't fade every few hours because ritalin would wear off and I forget to take the next dose because it wore off.

Also stimulants can make the body form a tolerance that subverts their effects eventually x_x but honestly I'm grateful to see ANYTHING working for ANYONE.

The reason I didn't seek treatment for most of my life was because I didn't want to believe that ADHD was real. I wanted to believe it was nothing more than an imaginary first-world-problem "affluenza" that only afflicted people who were too fortunate to have REAL worries challenging their survival. I wanted to believe that I could just LEARN to 'be better'.

HAHA NOPE, that shit wrecked me for the prime years of my life.

GPT LLMs "solve problems" as much as cargo cult "build airports".

Psh that looks nothing like the Orion Spur connecting the Perseus and Sagittarius arms! That galaxy doesn't even look like the Milky Way with a bar-shaped center!

(This is not a serious complaint, I'm just a massive fucking nerd and I like to gripe about this :3)

ID verification won't protect anyone from rapists like him.

But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.

Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.

And now that the censorship gatekeeping is happening for "porn" games and "violent" news, ANY GAME CAN BE DESTROYED BY THAT, NOW, TOO.

There are video deepfake systems that can animate these fictional faces. We need a catalogue of the kinds of facial positions these systems ask for

(at least as far as the ADHD parts...)

The answer to the question of treatment is

Yes.

Nobody deserves to suffer like that without help.

You don't have to let this shit ruin your life and steal opportunities from you. You CAN feel better than this, DO better than this, BECOME better than you thought yourself capable of being, with a competently administered treatment plan. And you aren't the only one who will benefit from it.

Being able to casually remember commitments and promises and personal details of people you care about, and actually sense the passage and "distance" of time; being able to STOP doing something you don't even want to be doing right now and START doing something you WANT to get done; being able to more quickly and decisively make choices without becoming staggered by the multitude of options--all of these will make you a more helpful, more thoughtful, more beneficial, and overall better presence in the lives of every single person you care about.

You don't have to languish in helpless, hapless, hopeless DESPAIR unable to trust yourself to follow up and follow through while gaslighting yourself about being a useless burden on the lives of everyone you care about like I did for DECADES. Please. PLEASE DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKE.

This is NOT a thing in which the myth of bootstrappy rugged individualism will bear any fruit.

I can tell you from personal experience that there is NOTHING to be gained from neglecting yourself.

Seek treatment.

Clearly I think it would be preferable if they didn't do business with Russia, israel, or any other states actively engaging in the invasion of other people's sovereignty, but that doesn't have to be the only disqualifying factor. There are plenty of nations in the world that are toxic by other criteria. I highly doubt countries that murder civilians for wearing the "wrong" clothes or espousing the "wrong" opinions, for instance, would be conducive with the operation of such a credit union. Also, countries where if they find out you're gay they execute you. That's not very anti-censorship and tacit complicity with that fuckery would not further the mission.

So it would definitively not be bothering with the laws of countries it will never interact with.

anti-censorship international credit union owned by members that can conduct transactions internally without having to ask for visa or mastercard's FUCKING permission when?????

I'm saying we should build Dual Power and go around them.