To be diagnosed in my area you have to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist after a referral.

After some on-point memes convinced me, I asked my doctor with only one google search under my belt. After a couple of screening questions from her, anecdotes from me, she gave a referral. The number of providers offering diagnoses were limited, but I found one, learned the waiting period was 3 months, panicked, and never did anything about it.
My doctor retired, and at my next yearly I talked to my new doctor, and she said most of her patients were seeing 6 month wait periods. But mentioned there’s a website called ADHD diagnosis online (or something like that), that does no-insurance testing.
So I went to the site, saw they were licensed to operate in my area, paid my $180, and then had a 4-hour long online survey (it was 50/50 multiple choice, and long-form answers). About a week later, a psychiatrist reviewed my survey and diagnosed me. I could have sought reimbursement from my insurer, but that seemed overwhelming, so I didn’t.

I know. It’s contributing to the commodification of a skilled professional’s labor. I feel bad about that. They also diagnosed me with anxiety and depression based on my answers. 6 months later I realized that I was in fact depressed (and getting much worse), and after beginning treatment, that I have been since 2018. So… I guess it was pretty worth it.

You fool. You’re forgetting about nuclear winter after the water wars start.

I’ve thought of building a random panel of buttons, switches, toggles, and even throw on some toggle guards and indicator lights for funsies. But I simply don’t have anything I want/need to customize or control that way.

Anyone else think this was the “taking a selfie using a silly object” meme at first?

What would be a compelling answer?

But you’re not. You’re disagreeing with the person while asking leading questions, then arguing against the answers to the questions you asked.

It’s almost like you’re intentionally wasting their effort and mental energy to deal with your gish-galloping.

I’m cynically viewing this as not a positive. I assume this is so they can make pages 2, 3 and so on as spammy as page 1.

Not at first, obviously. You don’t boil that frog on high heat.
You throw out a second page with a cute little text ad off to the side, then 1 or 2 at the top, then a mid-page ad. Maybe some suggested content.

Instead of having to scroll through a page’s worth of ads to get to semi-relevant results with a gem hidden in them, it’ll be a pages worth of ads for your semi-relevant results per page, and maybe what you were looking for 4 or 5 pages in.

Google used to be good. They ‘know’ what people are looking for. So they’ll probably hire someone familiar with gambling to figure out a minimum dispersion of relevant results on the pages, to keep people using the service and scrolling past ads. … I used to remember this. Variable-ratio reward schedule?

Oh.

_Shit.

Well… okay. But only because I’m sleepy.

Boooo! Only my opinion is the right one!

Are they gonna fix how dumb those cars look?

K-2SO lookin’ freak

Spin off company - McJeanolds

Those prongs must be alien metal to not have oxidized away.

I wonder where installs through Microsoft’s Software Center, or when updates are pushed to managed devices fall in the known vs unknown category.

Completely anecdotal, but a lot more of colleagues use FF than I would have expected, and they only have one source for the software.

That’s also highly valid, and not something I factor heavily into my thoughts about the future of U.S. support.

Shit. Huh. I gotta rethink that.

Scary.

Oh, yeah. I just gave up on it. All my info got exposed in the recent AT&T hack, including my SS#, which is available as a data dump on the open web.

My credit is locked, I use a data removal service, and my fingers are crossed. As for the rest… Meh. I’m just gonna keep on swimming.

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Ugh. Yup.

I learned that after buying my house. My furnace is 3x what my house needs and is expected to be an expensive repair someday.

So you’re not describing the issue where internet connected EV chargers can be easily hacked, and potentially told to dump the charge of the connected vehicle’s battery on the grid en masse, causing overloads and transformer explosions.

But a slow moving issue like that sounds like a frequency or voltage issue - something goes under or over enough and isn’t detected via monitoring, causing premature equipment degradation, and potential system collapse. Definitely a lot of expensive damage, though.
(Basically, a stuxnet-style attack on the utility grid - and we’ve already seen evidence that SCADA/PLC’s can be hacked in the water supply system.)

A destabilizing push, rather than a hit with a hammer.