Oh my god crawl out of your own ass. You don’t know me or what I’ve been through, and your assertion that someone could only say this sort of thing if they never experienced that kind of trauma is asinine and insulting.

This isn’t elitism, or any other label you’ve got up your sleeve to make it easy to dismiss because you don’t agree with it.

It’s excruciatingly won life experience. I’m not going to apologize for calling what you’ve described what it is.

Yes, people are not compartmentalized automatons. But it’s just as ridiculous to argue that people are complete slaves to their emotions to the point of violence, or that it’s OK that they are.

Actual well adjusted adults are, in general, able to control their response to their own emotions. If they aren’t able to do that to the extreme degree of the examples you used, that is emotional disregulation. That’s literally the term for it.

As I said before, if you find yourself surrounded by people who can’t, do whatever you can to keep yourself safe and get out as soon as you can. If it’s family, limit your exposure or go no contact.

I know that sucks to hear when you’re stuck in the unsafe situation, or when you have to rely on those people financially or otherwise. But for your own safety you need to make an exit plan that you can work towards.

There are plenty of people out there who won’t go out beating people or murdering after a bad day, or even after a bad couple of years. You don’t have to live in a situation with people who do/would, despite how hard it may be to get out.

For fucks sake, in the past few days I called out someone for making a suggestion to someone living in an unsafe situation that seemed kind on the surface but would put them in more danger. Something I know from personal experience.

I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t got out. At best I would have only killed myself.

I ran from a dangerous situation living with my parents, eight hours away to what I thought was a safe new start and a path forward for my life. I had to move back in with my dangerous situation parents because the person I thought I had my new start with was stealing from what was supposed to be my new support network, and they couldn’t take the risk that I was part of the thefts. I wasn’t. I watched my plans for my life crumble instantly while I had to go back to where I tried to escape. Relationship I built over a quarter of my life, trashed. My safe place, my advocate, had been a liar and a thief from the start and I was too blind to see it.

And before you try to squirm around more with shit like “clearly you haven’t interacted with the public in a long time or worked retail” or some shit like that: I worked a total of 8 years between retail and tech support.

Lol, so the process is “go back in time and change how you initially formatted the drive”. Come on man.

Good knowledge for setting up new drives though.

That’s all clear examples of emotional disregulation.

You’re not wrong that you can’t help what you feel, but everyone has an amount of control and responsibility for how they react to their own feelings, and is ultimately responsible for their own actions regardless of the strength of their emotions.

If you live in an environment where people regularly excuse shitty, violent, or abusive behavior by using their emotions as an excuse for it, please understand that is not healthy behavior.

Ask me how I know you’re under the age of 30.

The Bible uses tons of masculine AND feminine descriptors for God. It boggles me that so many Christians have such a hard fucking time with trans topics.

That’s really hard to say. Comparing 1925 to now is crazy.

I think embedded tech would be in just about everything, and we’d probably have implantable tech as well. With that, I’d imagine that virtual reality would be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.

If we’re sticking to the positive, that would be amazing to effectively make distance meaningless for most aspects of relationships and interaction. Would absolutely change life as we know it.

ITT: People who can’t put aside doomerism for even a moment to try and engage with a basic hypothetical.

(Putting my response to the “prompt” in a separate comment)

For the sake of the question, let’s just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.

Come on man. Did you not understand the assignment?

But with AI? I don’t know, I don’t see any stop sign … Maybe that it never reaches this high mark we all expect?

I personally think that’s the most likely outcome. Most of the advances lately rely on effectively “brute forcing” the problem space by shoving more training data in and by using more resources to calculate weights. There are minor improvements here and there by combining approaches, but development of new techniques has largely slowed to a crawl.

There’s also still no clear path for any of this tech to make the massive leap from “trained for a purpose” to generalized knowledge, which is the most pointed to “selling point” for the whole idea.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that OpenAI, the biggest name in the space, operates at a considerable loss. They only still exist because Microsoft can afford to burn the equivalent of a small country’s GDP on the small chance they get to be an industry leader on this. The resource, money, and energy investment for the current results are so absurdly mismatched that unless something huge manages to shake things up, I have a very hard time seeing it ever reach the heights the hype machine has been prophecizing.

Machine Learning is amazing, has been improving all sorts of things for multiple decades, and will continue to do so long after this current overhyped idea of AI fades away. The current glorified chat bots, generative AI stuff? I think we’re already well past the point of reasonable ROI in terms of resources.

Depends on my relationship to the person, how comfortable I feel with them knowing, and if it’s in any way relevant to any conversation/goings on. If it’s not contextually relevant, I’m not going to bring it up out of nowhere.

And it would probably change significantly if I had different “conditions” than what I do have. Stuff with more negative connotations? I’d probably be more tight lipped.

I have ADHD, am medicated for (but not formally diagnosed with) anxiety and depression, and a retired autism spectrum diagnostician that I lived with for a few months was certain I fell somewhere on the spectrum.

I’m comfortable saying this shit online because I don’t know you, and my real identity isn’t tied to this online one. It’s relevant to this conversation too.

IRL:

I’m not shy about the ADHD, except in professional situations. Thay said, my boss and a handful of my coworkers know of it, because at least in my workplace and team there isn’t a stigma around it. I also work in tech, and I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of the team I’m on has some form of neurodivergence. I’m also medicated, with my symptoms fairly controlled, so it’s more used as a deprecating joke about why I document the ever living shit out of everything: “If I don’t write this down, I won’t remember this when I get back from lunch. One sec. Good ol ADHD brain.” My team members also know that I’m not the type to just joke about shit like that. Not someone who goes “lol, I’m so ADHD!”

Beyond that, friends and family know about the depression. Mostly because they were around when it was at the worst, or as I was getting myself back together, but it’s not like I’m ashamed of it or anything. Again, I’m medicated and symptoms are largely under control. If I’m talking about the time in my life that it flared up, I don’t mince words. “Yeah, I went through some years of pretty intense depression. I feel like I had legitimate reasons to feel some of what I did, but I’m glad to be out from it.” Not something I share in the workplace.

My parents and wife know of the anxiety. The anxiety probably shows without me broadcasting it (when it would be relevant). So I don’t talk about that one.

My wife is the only one who knows the potential spectrum-ness, and whatever spectrum-ness I have is relatively minor. Don’t really have reason to bring it up. So it doesn’t leave the two of us.

I guess my thinking is this:

I’m not asking other people to bear the burden of working around my idiosyncracies. I do my best to handle them as my own problems to work through. Occasionally with the help of a close friend that is willing/able to help, but normally just my wife if I absolutely need someone else helping or as a sounding board.

Most of my symptoms are tamped down to a point that I’m just odd, not a problem to be handled or worked around. I’m not ashamed of who I am, and I know who I am. But it’s also not really anyone else’s business but my own. I’ll share if it’s relevant because I’m not ashamed, but I’m not vomiting about my personal brand of weird to people I’ve just met.

The one person who has to deal with the rare instances of “my idiosyncracies are now a problem” is aware of things fully. That’s my wife. And I do what I can day after day to reduce those occasions from ever happening. Slow, constant movement towards better control and understanding of myself. Step by sometimes slow as hell fucking step.

Welcome to the “find out” step of the patented two step FAFO plan.

Clear your cookies. VPN, different/privacy focused browser to mask your device ID. You could also try dual booting or using a VM to mask your device. Don’t use the same email address, same IP, same browser, or appearance of same device or they’ll flag it instantly. Don’t use a remotely similar username.

But seriously? Considering buying a new computer for reddit? Better to take this as a very clear sign that you’re addicted. No website is worth that.

If you can’t figure this shit out yourself through searching online, there’s a near zero percent chance that you won’t fuck something up and just get perma’d again anyway.

“The forgotten generation” strikes again!

At least according to Wikipedia, Generation X is the generation referred to as “the forgotten generation”.

So… you’ve quoted that both Gen X and Gen Z voted more for Trump than last time. Perhaps the issue isn’t specific generations, but a larger turn out for Trump across most demographics?

Or you can always keep looking for reasons to get upset at strangers you don’t know for demographics they belong to that they can’t control. Very bold. We’ll have to see what the crowd thinks when it hits the fashion runway in Paris.

Many people across a wide swath of age ranges and demographics had to vote for Trump for the numbers to turn out how they did. I feel that trying to find some small subset of people to blame is a self defeating choice compared to truly trying to understand what drew people to vote for him rather than Harris.

Going out on a limb here that you’re either young, or some flavor of “nuero-spicy” (I think that’s the hip new term people are using lately).

It’s almost always used rhetorically. To a degree that I could count the number of times I’ve heard it used otherwise in my over 30 years of life on one hand.

The way to respond to it depends on the conversation, but generally it’s your cue to change the subject, or drop the topic they were referring to. Unless you want to start an argument or make things awkward.

You’re also missing some other important “rhetorical” or at least non-literal uses:

• “You’re over thinking this”
• “So few people care about this that it isn’t worth discussing (at least right now or in this context)”
• “That isn’t relevant”

I’m sure I’m missing some other uses myself.

The only way to determine which it’s being used as is through context clues, tone, body language, facial expressions, etc. Welcome to the annoying as hell wonderful world of navigating conversations with people that don’t directly say what they mean.

It gets easier over time with experience, same as any other skill. It’s just a harder skill for some of us to build than it is for others… same as any other skill.

Doesn’t seem that hard to do with only two games in your Steam account, lol.

APA or MLA style citations, like they make you use in US schools. They have styles for citing digital content including videos.

I’d start with one of those two styles, then strip it down from there if you need.

Not a song, but two whole “fuzz rock/metal” albums written to work as one long story: Howling Giant’s Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1 and 2

The story isn’t super direct, but it’s about an escape ship fleeing the dying earth, crashing (Part 1) leaving one survivor, and him going on a maddened journey to become the earth wizard (Part 2).

A bit less obscure is the Protomen’s Act 1 and 2, a rock opera fan fiction based off Megaman

As a lot of people are saying here, you’re probably too far behind at this point to reasonably pull it out of your ass at the last minute.

I might study what you can of what you haven’t gotten to yet. Start with high level overviews before you get deep into the details of any one section. This is probably futile if you’re less than halfway through the material though.

Whatever you do, set a hard cutoff time to just stop, stop worrying, accept whatever is about to happen, and go the fuck to sleep. You aren’t getting through it all in one day. Better to get a good nights rest so you can demonstrate well the bits you do know, and brace for the impact.

Moving forward, learn from this panic and worry.

I’ve been where you are, trying to crunch last minute to pass a class or a test, more times than I can count. My original university put me on academic probation: “We don’t want any more of your money unless you’re going to pass your classes”

A US university saying no to money. Fuck.

In the future you either need to keep up with the work, or notice that you aren’t/can’t/don’t feel like it and pull the ejector seat handle earlier. Stop trusting the voice that tells you that you’ll be able to crunch it at the last moment. You need to be brutally honest with yourself about your own limits, at least internally.

Professors will often work with you if you come to their office hours and talk to them early, but every single one knows when you’re coming in last minute as fire insurance. You can also drop a course before you get too far into it.

3 feet before the cliff is too late to worry about pumping the brakes. But if you can get back up after then you can do better next time.