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You don't have an assorted cables drawer? I mean mine is a bucket in a cabinet but same thing really.

Smoking gives you a sense of doing something while doing nothing. And it's great. I've read that 90% of schizophrenics smoke.

I got diagnosed last year. I'm 41. My entire life would have been very different. In fact, I believe I was diagnosed as a child but my mom never did anything about it or told me.

Anyway, I can tell that even my wife of ten years thinks I'm exaggerating or trying to make excuses.

You are correct. It's the ol Euphemism Treadmill again. And again and again and again.

I had a Velcro wallet full of supplies like uhh.. some bits of thread, some zip ties, twist ties, rubber bands, stuff like that. I never did anything with that crap. I was a strange one.

I'm barely 40 and calling something a length of X seems totally normal to me. Making me feel old with that grandpa talk kid.

They can sell the land and buy education and the means to live while they go through it perhaps?

Still mostly a democracy? Erdogan just had the opposition candidate for president arrested and is in progress with getting him disqualified from running entirely. Turkiye has not been a democracy for a long time and the dictator is just doing it in the open now.

I support the Turks. Let them kick Erdogan out!

Dictatorship.

Read that short column by Asimov elsewhere in the thread. It's a photo of a column in Newsweek so it should be easy to find. It was written in 1980 - three and a half years before I was born, and he's bemoaning anti-intellectualism and the rising acceptance of ignorance being just as valuable as the opinion of an expert.

If he could have seen what the internet has done, social media specifically, I can't imagine what he'd think. Social media with 24/7 access to anything that will tell you what you feel in your gut is right. Yeah, we're dumber than we've ever been since before literacy became ubiquitous.

You call it an filtered version of history and you're exactly right. I'd say it's more filtered than ever before. Not just history is filtered but the very evidence of the current day from your eyes and ears is filtered in real time.

Like most (all?) big counter-culture movements, most of the people who were "in" it were not really there for deep seated beliefs. It was cool, there were parties and music, sex and drugs were plentiful. Then it was time to grow up put all that stuff behind them.

I don't mean to disparage the whole hippie thing. Lots of people really believed in it and do to this day. I just think the majority were there for the fun then got back to "real life".