I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver’s seat and just… go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It’s so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase ‘after a long day’ made it click. So thanks, OP.

Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(

That man is a menace.

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

For anyone else that needs it, there’s also stuff for co-ax. Some cable guy went nuts putting coaxial cable into just about every room of my new (very old) house. I seriously considered MoCA for a bit, but wifi is working well enough for the moment.

https://www.techreviewer.com/learn-about-tech/ethernet-over-coax-a-complete-guide-to-moca-adapters/

I think that’s just the Post Office, with extra steps.

What in the futhark is that ugly ass OS.

A ham-fisted attempt to drag the DOS world into the 32-bit era. Oh, and they needed to compete with OS/2 but Win3.11 and NT4.0 weren’t going to cut it.

Do the action the way you think they would.

Wait. Are you suggesting that I just role-play or “play pretend” my way out of distraction by just pretending I’m someone else?

You son of a bitch, I’m in.

You might have executive dysfunction but Hannibal Lecter sure doesn’t.

I mean, he’s got other problems though. This idea has the right spirit but I’m not trading my cards in for that.

Directions unclear. Woke up on floor.

It really is.

I’m 99% positive that my mother has ADHD and my dad is AuDHD. Looking back the clues were… abundant.

I’m the same way, except my body insists upon going to sleep at 10PM. I can push past that, but insomnia awaits me after midnight.

I can’t explain what the underlying mechanism is, only that your brain and body just function differently in conjunction with your circadian rhythm. Provided you have a good rhythm, that is (not all neurodivergent types have that). In the worst cases, like dementia patients, this is called ‘sundowning’ and is a real shit-show. For high-functioning types, it’s where your body prepares for sleep and your brain shifts gears.

As for what that has to do with ADHD, I’m not sure - it’s probably been studied. My best guess is that melatonin helps, and maybe the brain is more receptive to dopamine at night? You may have fewer environmental distractions at night too; I know I do.

It’s tough to look at, but I bet it’s amazing for traffic calming.

The cook:

We have some monstrously large hurdles to clear in this regard. What’s working against a general strike:

• No social safety net for housing or medical until you’re below the poverty line for a tax year
• Bankruptcy, poor credit, limits future employment options (e.g. background checks)
• Most industries are not unionized, so your job can easily be filled in your absence
• Really high unemployment right now for skilled sectors like IT
• A lot of people are paycheck-to-paycheck thanks to a host of factors like high rent

To say nothing of all the illegal shit government and private business will do to end and/or prevent a strike.

It’s not impossible, but it does mean that any reasonable person would like to know that millions upon millions of others will be striking alongside them. Support networks for unemployed strikers along with strategies to deal with scabs would be a good start, too.

Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.

What’s kind of amusing is that all those old ports with the screw-in fasteners were moving around anywhere from 3v to 12v at about 45mA on the high-side. Meanwhile, USB-C can move 240W and has nothing to prevent disconnecting while sending enough power to run a power tool.

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.

I think I’d still rather this than have a heavy device on my head,

I’ve wondered about this, actually. We’d need necks like an NFL linebacker.

an umbilical, and motion sickness.

Joking aside, that’s a legit concern. It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure.

May I recommend looking into your local kink-scene? I know you’re joking, but honestly, that’s the closest thing to an actual “sex guild” and it may be worth your while. Bigger metro areas typically have highly organized clubs for this - no fooling. If nothing else, you can learn some very cool things to do with rope.

This. A LOT of this. There’s a reason why the VFW has/had a lot of alcohol available, cigarettes were super popular, and why biker clubs became a thing post-war. The “greatest generation” was doing a lot of self-medication without managing to fix anything.

You can kind of see boomers become aware of how that’s not okay, as the tone of war movies shifts dramatically from WWII to Vietnam. They still missed the mark, but at least the idea of vets having “flashbacks” was something in popular media from that point forward. It was progress, if however minimal and incremental.