Thank you

Any idea about alternative ways to suppress your DMN and make some things click?

Yeah, I was wondering if shrooms would be good for this. It’s a shame it’s such a tricky thing to make happen, I have neither anyone I’m close enough with to trip sit me, nor a place to buy the shrooms right now…

Oh, I definitely feel for you. Best of luck with dealing with it

My rule as of late has been to not try to argue with political opponents unless it’s in person. Online it just feels like a time sink (theres an infinite amount of opponents to persuade), plus being face to face ensures some level of civility.

Yeah I find like spending time on discord servers/WA chats etc. is much better than scrolling feeds

You will like my post

https://lemmy.world/post/33522250

I’ve gone to work in a youth hostel.

Ok this one is good

I’ve swapped brushing before bed to brushing after coming in

I brush my teeth whenever I come in from outdoors (even if that’s multiple times a day). That way, it’s doesn’t block me from going straight to bed once I start falling asleep in the evening.

Whenever there’s elections I wait for somebody to mention the result in conversation unprompted and find out that way, to stop myself from doom scrolling

You need to stop lurking. Only posting uses charge

GrapheneOS can uniquely block presidential alerts though.

I love open source

That’s good to hear. UK Labour have practically become defenders of the status quo.

Have you considered UK/Ireland/Aus/NZ?

Sp kindof ironically?

Sunwise and widdershins.

You might like the aesthetics of https://sharge.com/

Wheres the first img from btw?

I tried the HoloLens once, it was certainly interesting to see digital objects floating in the room. I’m not sure I want my brain getting used to an environjent that isn’t fully physical & real though. I don’t know what the reprecussions of that would be.

Once a month, children are brought to [a London studio], one at a time, and shown a handful of episodes to figure out exactly which parts of the shows are engaging and which are tuned out.

For anyone older than 2 years old, the team deploys a whimsically named tool: the Distractatron.

It’s a small TV screen, placed a few feet from the larger one, that plays a continuous loop of banal, real-world scenes — a guy pouring a cup of coffee, someone getting a haircut — each lasting about 20 seconds. Whenever a youngster looks away from the Moonbug show to glimpse the Distractatron, a note is jotted down.

“It’s not super interesting, what’s on the Distractatron,” said Maurice Wheeler, who runs the research group. “But if they aren’t fully focused, they might go, ‘Oh, what’s that?’ and kind of drift over. We can see what they’re looking at and the exact moment when they got distracted.”

What a waste of all lives involved.