pizzadog

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by pizzadog 1y ago
Wanna add my 2c here, I feel you strongly. I had a similar path, getting medicated in my 30s and feeling like it destroyed barriers I had been struggling with my entire life. But it has resulted in some negatives as well, like you mentioned
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by pizzadog 1y ago
I have a lot of experience with rationalists. What I will say is: 1) If you have a criticism about them or their stupid name or how "'all I know is that I know nothing' how smug of them to say they're truly wise," r
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by pizzadog 1y ago
This might sound like a strange position to take, but in my experience at least one social media platform has managed to retain its original direction (just being a place for people to come socialize) and that platform is 4chan. I've s
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by pizzadog 1y ago
Can you expand on this? I remember canv.as, it was a weird but interesting project but it seemed doomed from the outset.
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by pizzadog 1y ago
This is a huge point I think. I live in metro Seattle as well. I've lived in a few other American cities in my life, all bigger than Seattle, but I've never felt further away from the rest of a city than I have living here. The ci
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by pizzadog 2y ago
At the risk of blogposting, it's been truly shocking to me over the years to see the reaction people have to stoicism. I naturally found myself stumbling into stoic/CBT-adjacent mental practices after many years of a hard upbringi
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by pizzadog 2y ago
This comment is super relatable. Thanks for sharing your story. I had a similar issue with pneumonia changing me from a gymrat grinding out PRs to someone forcing myself under the bar 3 times a week at best. It makes sense obviously in retr
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by pizzadog 2y ago
Yeah... it's strange. Every partner I've had has been someone very aware (to the point of reading books about it in a few cases) of gender issues and the issues with our social norms. But all of them still followed this same trend
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by pizzadog 2y ago
I hardly post here but I just wanted to say that this is also my experience exactly. Addies were a godsend at first, I was able to succeed at school and dedicated hobbies for the first time in my goddamn life, but after the honeymoon phase
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by pizzadog 2y ago
Don't often comment here but I just wanted to say that I feel you. ADHD was crippling for me my whole life and you really do develop a whole host of weird little layers of protection, either against yourself or against how you expect o