Shameful that this is so upvoted.

Still too spicy for human consumption. They’ve been waiting…

Imagine if they didn’t do it just for the kicks…

There’s an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don’t have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html

It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests

To sum up, it’s not about total silence, it’s about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as “sound” rather than the lack of sound.

Or is it… EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we’re going to ask them whether or not that’s a good plan first in our timeline.

That and the claim that it shows Antarctica just because there’s some imaginary land down there drive me nuts. They knew Antarctica existed but not Tierra del Fuego, which was a lot closer? Call me dubious.

Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.

It was months ago, so yes, I’m fine now. Thanks.

I didn’t feel guilty because it was totally necessary every time. For two different problems. I do feel bad for the ER workers though. I’m sure a lot of people come in with things that you don’t need a hospital to fix. In my case, it definitely required a hospital. Especially for the kidney stone. Ouch.

Honestly, at this point in my life, if I do have ADHD, I’ve developed enough coping strategies that it is not an impediment. My main concern is for my daughter, but she is on some excellent medication that works well and isn’t a scheduled substance and she has accommodations in school, so we’re on a good path there.

But I appreciate it, thank you.

I’m a little reticent to get genetic testing done because most of the companies doing it are selling the data they collect. I don’t know of a reputable one in the U.S. at the moment. Please do share if you do.

The main reason I think I might have it other than fitting a lot of symptoms generally is that my daughter has it and I would not be surprised if there were a genetic component.

I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD (although I’ve never been tested and my daughter has it) but this describes me very accurately. I’ve gotten through 46 years without any sort of help with ADHD, but maybe if I had been tested and gotten help for it, I would have been more successful.

Ugh, the ER is the worst. I’ve had to go three times so far this year and the shortest time I was there was six hours. And I went early in the morning all three times so the waiting room was empty when I got there.

But they do go well with liver and a nice chianti.

Great. Capitalism literally makes you stupid.

“I keep sliding my finger and thumb apart and it does nothing except once I ripped the paper!”