LainTrain
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- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election 3 days ago:
That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn’t reason and can’t be reasoned with.
- Comment on Robin Ince quits Infinite Monkey Cage over BBC censorship 3 days ago:
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this show, but it’s always a shame to lose something like a science show to this insane far-right takeover of the UK happening right in front of us. What’s happened to the BBC is especially a travesty. I’m glad that there are still people out there who seem reasonable and not driven to insanity, and who use their voice to do right, and as a trans person I appreciate him for standing up for our community.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
Also, FYI, when scientists say “blue light” they don’t mean literally the colour blue, they mean short wavelength light typically emitted by LEDs.
As far as the hue goes, the results in animal testing have been inconsistent, there’s a paper from 2022 that says it has no influence, and this one from 2020 that actually found the opposite to be the case www.cell.com/…/S0960-9822(19)31368-5
In my personal experience I do the exact opposite of all conventional advice as admittedly a diagnosed ADHDer.
I cannot sleep without a good scroll and never have, before phones I had books and before I could read as a child I had music and my mom to read to me.
As an adult if I keep listening to something or reading something intently while comfy I will eventually and fairly quickly fall asleep.
I also sleep much better when I sleep immediately after or while scrolling/reading/doing anything than if I try to sleep “normally”.
The number one way for me personally not to fall asleep is to “try” to sleep. Any sort of “ritual” around sleeping or attempt to deprive myself of stimulation and my mind will go pretty crazy with infinite thoughts and infinite random bullshit and I will fling out of bed in an hour full of energy and start projects, after working on something for 10-20 min I’ll feel sleepy again and could even fall asleep while doing them easily, much more so than in plain dark.
It also helps me to not have any sort of ritual and just sleep whenever I feel sleepy if the circumstances allow. I have no idea why or how neurotypicals have sleep schedules and I’ve given up on understanding it. For me, as long as I get 8 hours or so it doesn’t actually matter at all when I get them, i will feel as fresh and awake waking up at 3AM as I would at 10PM or 7AM as long as I get my hours.
So I pretty much get 8 hours, and sometimes more every day and I feel nice and fresh when I wake up usually with sad exceptions during particularly rough work weeks where I end up staying up way late.
All’s I’m saying is YMMV, I’ve never had any issues with sleep nor do I feel particularly tired, I don’t drink coffee nor alcohol, but if I ever explain this to a doctor they go nuts and assume I have insomnia, they try to offer “treatment” when I literally don’t have any problems with this at all.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 week ago:
Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.
- Comment on Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar 1 week ago:
Wes Streeting should review himself instead because this level of callousness probably warrants a mental health diagnosis of some sort.
- Comment on Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband 2 weeks ago:
That sucks. For what it’s worth all the victorian mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on a street that had literally no signal.
The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 2 weeks ago:
Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.
- Comment on NHS doctor suspended for 15 months over series of 'anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism' comments 2 weeks ago:
Let’s see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about “conspiracy theories” and “denying sexual violence”, so I’d like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn’t just seem like what you’d expect, so I’d like to see it before I dismiss it.
- Comment on fresh groceries 4 weeks ago:
Yeah don’t
- Comment on fresh groceries 4 weeks ago:
Come to the UK and stand outside for a sec on an average day then. 89-96 rH% humidity gets old real fast.
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 4 weeks ago:
Co-founded Interplay. Came out as trans in the mid-2000s. Jesus what a legend gone too soon. Bless.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 4 weeks ago:
That’s not what I asked. I asked for if they had a higher % change than other demographics.
- Comment on And it's BILL by a... Er... Uh... 4 weeks ago:
Taking the moment to link my other comment about this from a previous thread where I looked up other mentions of ‘Bubba’ in the files: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22613917
- Comment on Hackney children among most deprived in England as working parents ‘struggling to feed kids’ 4 weeks ago:
Blackpool has lower healthy life expectancy than Rwanda.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 4 weeks ago:
He’s not wrong though? Was the % points change higher among that demographic or not?
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 4 weeks ago:
“Rest of World”
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Life is active thought. I don’t space out to music at all, I don’t “space out” period, I stay engaged actively with the world.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
I agree with basically everything you said, but let’s be real - I’m not the one doing the tearing down ITT.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
The stoics are morons mostly. Yes I have ADHD, and I’m fully medicated for it, thanks.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Why do you assume I haven’t? Of course I have. I enjoy listening to the sounds of an environment, once, twice, thrice, just not 500 times over and over and over.
I don’t need to connect to the real world, I’m more connected to it than I’d like. I prefer the entertainment industry because it stimulates intelligent thought, and judging by the level of intelligence ITT, y’all need it more than I do.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Really? What emotion have I been feeling since the age of like, 5, up to the age of 30?
Lol he’s not avoiding living in the present, neither are we, take your armchair psychologist crap outta here. It’s you who’s so simple you’re okay with bored contentment. It’s no wonder you people get hijacked by algos so easily, shit is hardly exciting to me because I cherish and nourish my life.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t “struggle”, it’s just a bit annoying.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Already have, I found it’s well managed when it’s directed at assorted internet morons setting new records in retarded shit they say.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
How have I proven your point? Did you even read what I wrote? Or is that too much to ask from your buzzword spouting ass?
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there’s always a limit for me though, once every ounce of dopamine has been extracted from the song/environment, it’s kinda over. Eventually it becomes nostalgic and returns, briefly.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
I am not. I am correct. You’re in denial. Seek help. Stay blocked.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah if being runover was a concern I’d definitely also not listen to music for sure.
I do actually like those sounds as well, just not every day on my way out for chores obviously.
It’s interesting how some people by way of their responses seem to suggest “a walk” and “a run” are something special a unique, and not their main and only way of getting around, probably as a result of car-centric design of some places and zoning laws?
I take it that’s the case for you as well, because of how you phrased “a walk or a run”? I’ve personally never gone for “a run” as an adult, but I rack up thousands of steps daily just getting my groceries home so I can eat food.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 4 weeks ago:
13/11/2025 for us Euros
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 4 weeks ago:
Aye you’re right, I shouldn’t have taken the bait.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 4 weeks ago:
Black people voted for trump even harder. Glass house much?