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Also of interest: Docs about the Chinese triad and, to a lesser extent, the russian mafia.

I Like memes, but don't understand this phrase. Can anyone explain?

What does it feel like for you when you've used any ADHD medications? I have looked at a bunch of posts but I feel like there are never good answers for this. I have heard that they can help NT people with focus and such, or that y'all build up a tolerance after a bit. And then I hear for people with ADHD, that the first couple of times you take the meds, or if the dose is too high, that you'll feel speedy/high.

I've been trialing meds with my psychiatrist for a while and I feel like I don't even know if I have ADHD because of all this conflicting info and how I feel on them. I know it can take a lot of trying different types and doses but I just doubt my diagnosis I guess.

TL;DR: What do stimulants feel like for you've taken them semi-regularly?

My PC won't turn on. Haven't been able to set it up for a couple of months and so it's been sitting off in the corner of my room. I set everything up on my desk and I pressed the power button and nothing. I double-checked that the outlet it was plugged into worked and the button on the power supply was on but still nothing. I looked a little bit into it and saw people saying it might be the CMOS battery dying so I changed that and still no dice. I was wondering if you computer wizzes had any other things to check that might be causing this. Thanks in advance.

Is there anything I need to know ? Where can I get it clean ? Is it type and go ? Its free right and open source ?

I'm from one of the worst post-soviet countries in terms of nazi apologia. You hear constant anti-Soviet ramblings from every politician. They whine about how oh so many people fled in '44, from the Soviets. Any critical mind could parse together how this is problematic. Why did these people flee? Out of fear of prosecution? Why? Why did they not fear such prosecution during the Nazi occupation? The logical conclusion here is that they were either Nazis (SS or Wehrmacht), collaborators or sympathisers.

There is of course the deportations, or 'genocide' (funny) that the Soviets supposedly commited. I'm not gonna touch on this much, just gonna say this. If there was a concerted effort to commit 'genocide', there'd be evidence of this in the Soviet archives. And, if anyone is wondering why these people were deported... I think it's pretty obvious why.

The most common case of Nazi apologia here, I feel, is the complete forgetting of what the Nazi occupation was about. Of course, they say it was bad and all, but then they, for some reason, feel the need to mention how harsh the Soviets supposedly were. That many of us actually fought against the Soviets (with the Nazis, of course), because they treated us better.

I remember a specific massacre in which they made concentration camp inmates build wooden pyres which they would shortly after use to burn their bodies after they had shot them in the back of their head. Witnesses told that screaming was heard after the fires were lit, meaning some survived the shot and were burned alive. The total number of people murdered in this massacre was ~2000. Usually they had enough time to cover up what they did, burn the victims bones to dust an scatter them in empty fields, but this was done out of haste, as the Soviet army was fast approaching.

These acts have been completely forgotten in popular memory. More accurately, forced to forget.

The folks who did this, the SS, now have memorials built for them. Same with the forest brothers, who were petty anti-Soviet terrorists covertly aided by western intelligence to destabilise the union with Nazi origins. They're now venerated, not liking them is something of an oddity. You have state funded museums calling these Nazi bandits heroes and freedom fighters. Of course they never mention how most of the people they killed were civilians or anything like that

I guess calling it the CPC instead of the CCP could be considered one

I don't get it. I understand that we have borders as a way to have different sets of laws and separate different governments from each other. But why are people so obsessed with making the borders keep people out, or restrict what can come in, tax goods moving between them, etc.

Borders aren't real. At least not physically. If I cross state lines I don't see a literal giant black line dividing, say, North Dakota from South Dakota. In fact I wouldn't know there was a difference if not for the sign saying "Welcome to South Dakota"

For some reason humans can't conceive of a world where we all live on the same chunk of land and we somehow have to separate each other.

Shouldn't humans have a basic right to live where they have the best chance of survival? It seems like borders are just an excuse to exploit people along arbitrary lines by making up more rules to control humans who were born in the "wrong place".

I must be missing something. All of this effort around nations and patriotism over "I live here so I'm better than you" or "those humans suck because they live on THAT chunk of land instead of this one"... we're all the same species and yet we collectively seek out ways to divide ourselves and place people far away "beneath" us. All for some lines on a map.

Thanks for reading my Monday rant.

I’m seeing some people say crazy numbers on Twitter.

I got a ban from a group because there was a lot of horse posting. I basically commented that "hey there's a lot of evidence that horse riding causes permanent injuries", and "who here can actually afford this posh hobby". The admins were rich as fuck. Somehow rich people tend to have more time to do this shit. Anyhow, they said that I was being personally insulting because "posh hobby".

I was also kicked from a sub for reporting obvious Islamophobia. Fuck that place.

I got a two week ban from Facebook for anti-white racism. And I'm officially the whitest person on Hexbear.

Maybe I'm a lib or too damn civil, but I haven't yet been kicked from a site yet

I feel as if technology has stagnated, all that are left are grifts or just make everything terrible, like AI. I was thinking Zoom calls maybe? The tech has definitely improved since Skype.

Yeah yeah treats, slop, fascism and so on. I like true crime, if you've got an issue then come to evergreen terrace 742 and we can talk about it.

Anyway I used to love Last Podcast on The Left, but they've lost the sauce. I enjoyed them for the fact they seemed to do a lot of research, but aloof treatment of the subject matter (making "gold star episodes" for especially gory stuff 🤮) and also, somehow, wanting to do the "scary and serious" type voice... It's shit.

I'd love some recommendations for True Crime podcasts that:

• Treat the victims with respect.
• Don't give the perpetrators mythological gravitas
• Do deep research
• Are entertaining
• Aren't trying to make me believe the world is out to get me so Ill buy their home alarm system.

By entertainment I don't mean funny. I just mean it provides you with whatever it is you expect to get out of listening to a good podcast.

Is Hexbear Leninist-Treatist or Anarcho-Treatlerite?

My uncle who works at Nintendo told me they are gonna buy Hexbear. Is that true ?

I'm wondering if anyone out there plays games the same way I do. Most people approach the hobby normally like play a few games on rotation with friends or to pass the time. What I do is play hundreds of games to completion then for some reason memorise each and every one, learn about all the differences between the ports, the game engine tech it runs on, all the bugs and speed running strats and index it in my head for instant recall.

Why I'm like this I do not know, something to do with making soul reaver my personality when I was a kid which was funny cos nobody knew wtf i was talking about cos other kids were playing gta and lego games.

Any other oddballs like me?

A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.

Should i take it in somewhere? Buy drives to hold the data? How much $ am i gonna be set back?

I just read that there's been some conflicts on the Colombia-Venezuela border between the ELN and a faction of the FARC who didn't disarm after 2016 peace agreements and that it's been displacing a bunch of people. But I don't really get the conflict between the two groups since they seem ideologically similar and are both currently in conflict with the Colombian state.

Also I've heard positive-to-mixed things about the current Colombian head of state, Gustavo Petro, on various lefty forums (including this one).

Idk a ton about the region and am just looking to educate myself.

Got this from most controversial

I'm currently using Sync even though it's closed source because it was still a really well-made app, but it seems to be abandonware now. Jerboa is great and it's actively developed, but IMO it's also the ugliest one.

Can you recommend any of the other FOSS ones, especially one that handles our glorious emotes well?

Energy for this first description but for the sanctity of leather bound books

Someone explain this to me