Therapy (if we talk about talk therapy with a psychologist) is difficult, and takes a very highly trained and skillful person many many sessions to get a breakthrough. As sad as that sounds, these qualities make it expensive, and thus only available to those who have money or have access to a system that provides it (for which in most places you need to be a very severe case).
My impression is that it’s quite normal for a patient going in completely oblivious about the nature of their issues. If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the therapist to directly address the issue that I name as my top concern. I would expect them to start learning about me, finding out who am I and what my life was like, then identify the issue we need to work on, then gently lead me to discover it for myself. To put it bluntly, if you knew your issue, you wouldn’t need this type of therapy.
Having said that, it is very important to be able to trust your therapist and feel that you are in good hands, and it can take a few tries to find someone who works.
Meditation, exercise and sleep are very very helpful for mental health, but may not be all you need. Still, it’s good to make progress on these fronts as well, won’t hurt. I wish you good luck and I hope you will find the help you need. It took me years of trying different approaches and things before I found a therapist who helped. The issue that I was seeking help for during all those years, was a surface level symptom and had nothing to do with my real issues.

This thought is so deep I will drown in it. When do people stop posting it?

Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.

There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.

I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide

The reason why I don’t think there can be a definitive answer to your question is that wealth, infrastructure and healthcare can do a lot to mitigate the issues with deadly heatwaves.
In a region with no AC, no potable water, and no healthcare, society probably wouldn’t survive a week with wet bulb temperatures above 35C for more than 8 hours every day.
So if that happens in an undeveloped region, a lot of people die, but a lot do find some kind of relief that lets them survive. In a developed, industrialized region, like Arizona or Texas, you can have that kind of weather for months, and most people will just hate the heat but otherwise live and work normally. You could picture a hypothetical technically advanced civilization which exists in a climate that is persistently lethal to humans.
Places that face extreme heatwaves need to build countermeasures, but societies tend to be able to do that, even in the global south.

It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.

I don’t know about you but I didn’t have to present any form of identification for registering here.

Good point. If there is a karma system, the main activity for a sizeable (and by definition overrepresented) chunk of the user base will just use the platform to maximize karma, whether for nefarious purposes or just because people treat gamified systems like games. Having real user registrations (so you can block individual users) as opposed to a 4chan like thing, but having no karma system or engagement optimization algorithm in the feed, are the requirements for a healthy forum.

As someone who used Notion and thinks about long term accessibility and vendor lock in: the ability to migrate is an important factor but not the only and most important factor. Notion is really, very good, very easy to get started with basic functionality and implement more sophisticated systems as the need evolves. And that is one reason why it’s popular.
I moved away from using it it to another proprietary subscription platform years ago when I changed jobs and started working on new projects. I still occasionally log back in and look up things, but not often because those projects are complete and closed. If Notion becomes unavailable one day, I have everything exported, saved on my computer, and backed up. It would be inconvenient to use those exports, but I didn’t have to so far, and probably never will.
Obsidian or logseq may be very powerful, and would certainly work for my personal notetaking. But for work, I want to avoid spending more time than necessary on configuring things and training people in using it, I need something that is easy to use correctly and securely for anyone. We regularly export and save everything. Migration would be a huge pain, but it wouldn’t be an unsolvable problem, it would just take time. I wouldn’t want to preemptively spend time when the platform may actually outlast the project.

Dragon age: Origins, 2 and Inquisition? I think it fits all, although it is squad based and can be played in turns, at lower difficulty it is entirely viable to play as a 1st person action game where AI squad members assist. The story is somewhat scripted but it does feel kind of open world if I remember correctly. Haven’t played for a long time, but I remember I liked it and it wasn’t too different from Elder Scrolls as the overall experience.

Just curious: how frequently do you talk to people who have isolated themselves from human connection? Apparently it’s common enough for you to notice a pattern; but I personally always talk to people who are talking to other humans, for the obvious reason of communication being a bidirectional process.
Are you sure this observation of yours is not a delusion stemming from your unchecked social media use?

Good idea. Next time you apply for a job and get interviewed, send them the list of your approved questions, and clarify that you are not able to understand or willing to answer any questions that are not on your list. It will help make them understand that you are too smart for their stupid recruiters and managers.

I agree, “why did you apply” is a silly way to phrase that question.

Why is answering a simple question lying? This is why you can learn something from asking any question. You see the candidates’ attitude, communication skills, and critical thinking skills through pretty much any question. We need to have a conversation during the interview, and the questions are markers that path out that conversation. If you come across as just lying or bullshitting, that’s a signal too. Of course there are better and more awkward questions to ask. But what is so hard about just responding to them like a decent, polite, smart person?
Reading this thread, I guess the problem for some folks stuck on the job market is that they think the hiring manager wants to know: “should I give this guy a job? Do they deserve a chance?”. But that is not the case. They want to know: “Should I fill the position with this candidate or that other one?”. Going in the interview not understanding that they need to be able to differentiate between candidates is just a bad start, and you will only ever get the job if there is no other qualified candidate.

I don’t understand your point. The interviewer asks that question to understand why does the candidate think the position is a good fit for them. If you don’t think that it is a particularly good fit for you, you just need a job, that is information for the interviewer. They receive a hundred applications and have to pick a good one. Can you imagine that there are other candidates who actually have a really good reason why they applied for this particular position?

By “lost”, we mean they paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to the businesses of friends and family, from the billions of dollars of corruption money that was funneled into the company as crypto “investments” from foreign criminals? Sure. Let’s keep going with the “ha-ha, Trump is such a loser, and he will die next week” narrative as he is strengthening his authoritarian grip on political power and his gross enrichment from the most blatant forms of corruption the developed world has seen.

Oops, I read the headline like the neanderthals are building their own github and got really curious!

Thanks for the constructive comment. I am suspicious that it’s only a temporary stopgap and the feature will keep being pushed on users with increasing difficulty of opting out. For me, this is the time to move on from Chrome like it was time to move on from Windows 11 about a year ago. I am only using it out of some friction of setting up addons on a different browser, but at some point cutting the heads of the AI bloat hydra becomes the bigger hassle.

I settled on sublime. It is not exactly the same as np++, but works great on both Mac and Linux, so at least I don’t need to get used to a separate editor for those two environments.