I wake up in Australia every morning and check the news wondering if any of the headlines are going to be the 2026 Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

I posted in an ADHD community about how I’m fed up with managing my symptoms and I think I finally need to talk to a professional. Someone tried to blame my symptoms on capitalism.

As someone who simply left Reddit because they took away RIF and only stays here because I’m stubborn, Lemmy is the left wing version of Truth Social. A great deal of the users here are the absolute embodiment of the people from Sanfrancisco in South Park huffing each others farts about how progressive they are.

Like, I get it and I do agree in principle on most things with Lemmy which is the only reason I dont leave, but make no mistake THE FEDIVERSE IS AN ECHO CHAMBER.

It goes through a weirdness peak between 30 and 50. Once you get to a certain age and stop giving “hello fellow kids” vibes nobody cares.

It does get better.

Its replaced by some new fresh hell, but its nice to know the problems change.

This is especially frustrating with the 2 to 4 age bracket. When they ask for something, especially when its a treat like chocolate or fast food and especially when you decide you dont want to deal with the tantrum for saying no and you give it to them and then they give you A GIANT FUCKING TANTRUM for giving them the treat they asked for.

You dont hate them but fuck…

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I think its a maturity thing for guys. My gym buddies and I were talking about mental health a while back and I said “I was on meds for a while because I had an irrational sense that life wasnt worth living. A year later on the meds I was fat, unmotivated and had erectile dysfunction and I was like ‘Great, now I have legitimate reasons to think about killing myself’ so I came off the pills.”

The 20 somethings all looked super fucking uncomfortable, the thirty somethings nodded and made sympathetic faces and the other 40+ guy said “How are you doing with it these days?” Of course I immediately deflected and said “Oh its hard as a rock” which got the laugh and broke the tension. But the only guy who didnt duck the conversation was the guy of a similar age who had a rough divorce years before I knew him…

Dr Mike from RP?

One of the fitness people I follow has two apps and he regularly tells his viewers “You dont NEED my apps to get great results, you dont NEED to watch my videos either. I just think they both help. Now just subscribing as a member is just money for me so you should definitely do that”

Which is a level of influencer honesty I can definitely get behind.

More like…

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The balls in question are metaphorical. Its just a lazy reply to reply to dudes who act like I’m a pussy because I dont care about football.

Not even all that big on motor racing, If I dont get to drive it I dont really care.

Ok, that was kind of funny.

A lot of his stuff isnt very funny, but its also not highly objectionable. At the end of the day if people see someone constantly posting stuff they dont like block user is right there. Its so much more effective than downvoting every post they make. It doesnt have to be with malicious intent like “Fuck this guy” Ive got tons of communities blocked simply because the content is not relevant to me. Its just clutter.

Honestly I’m all for it.

Not everything needs to be about the evils of capitalism. I posted in an ADHD community about how I think I’m fed up with managing my symptoms and I’m going to talk to a doctor and someone suggested that Capitalism is to blame for my symptoms.

Im surprised they didnt try to tell me I’d also have less trouble focusing if I switched to Linux.

I mean I agree. But I also appreciate people finding the quality comedy on those places for me and sharing it here.

Maybe just start a “SocialMediaGems” sub or something.

Speaking VERY GENERALLY and no I dont want to argue about this. 0 to 5 tend to gravitate towards their mother because they want to feel nurtured and protected. 6 to 12 tend to gravitate to their father because they are more likely to encourage behavior that carries an element of risk as they want to try new things or develop skills.

But they also arent stupid and pretty fast pick up on which parent to take what to for the best outcome.

Real men drive race cars, unlike most sports it takes 2 balls.

Edit - Oh its a boomer response to a boomer meme. Lighten up.

High beam switch.

Next time you’re in a waiting room or somewhere a bunch of people are just sitting around trying not to bother each other have a look around and see how many people are sitting there actively not closing their mouths to breathe, its going to be zero. I dont mean they dont sigh or take the odd breath either. Then just imagine they are, its horrifying.

Butt stuff.