• Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      261·
      1 year ago

      A mobile computer heavily optimized to exploit the mental weaknesses of most users to distract and advertize to them as often as possible, while extracting and selling their information.

      But it’s also device occassionally reworked by some users to not be so obnoxious, and just a very useful and variable tool with access to an unprecedented library of knowledge. But that really is pretty rare.

      • flicker@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        Is there any evidence that it’s being overprescribed? I only ask because I know prescriptions have jumped but I also know that women over 30 are seen as an epidemic of those never diagnosed, and now that they are finally being diagnosed (and some choose to start medication) I wonder if it’s that it’s overprescribed or if we’re just catching up?

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I mean, if antidepresives & social media count, then this indeed happened. But it doesn’t count and instead we pursued the goal of achieving climate change asap & rigging the economy for stagnation of human development.

      • NegativeInf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        An ADHD diagnosis changed my entire life. 10 years of treatment for depression. Then bam! Adderall!

          • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Love the neurotypicals apparently thinking the other guy was being sarcastic with conditions notorious for comorbidity.

            Toss in some anxiety and you have a “gifted” student.

            • NegativeInf@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              Hahaha. I’m in this comment and I hate it. And yes, I was being genuine. Diagnosed at 30 with ADHD.

            • PopShark@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Toss in growing up without any resources offered to help you and then have an existential crisis once on proper meds as an adult wondering how all those years would’ve been different with just a fuckin occasional shrink visit sometime in early teenage years

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    I love stuff like this. Source?

    Edit: Thanks! I also find the psychology disturbing: “Yay! We get to have slaves again! Except, you know, animals this time because that’s okay…”

    • Ragdoll X@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      In one of his old Q&As Jordan Peterson said that his IQ was over 150. Despite this apparent intelligence he spends all his time lying about climate change, trans people and “cultural Marxism”, and posting joker memes and pseudo-haikus on Twitter. That’s when he’s not tweeting milking fetish porn or quoting a Bond villain as if his speech was a historical fact.

      The guy is clearly becoming increasingly insane and unhinged, and due to his immense narcissism and overconfidence he’s become completely incapable of changing his mind or legitimate academic inquiry. Even if he was as smart as he said that didn’t stop him from shoving his head up his own ass and becoming increasingly stupid.

      Intelligence can help, but it’s obviously just one piece of a larger puzzle. What we need is to teach people how to think critically and with empathy so they won’t become like or fall for con-men like Peterson.