Even ADHD-oriented media is often being dishonest with people who suspect themselves to have this condition, being toxicly positive and showing ADHD as a "superpower" as if you can hyperfocus your way to success. It is neither a gift nor even an equal exchange between advantages and drawbacks like "you'll be always late but also always creative!" It's a crippling thing that may ruin career or end a relationship. There is nothing good with ADHD.

A Russian video hosting Rutube (which was totally dead until the govt decided to detract Russians from using YouTube, which made the platform semi-dead) actually tried to do that, having a quiz after each ad break, asking questions such as "what TV channel has been advertised in this ad?" and repeating the ad video if answered wrong

Humans: ooh, a new MacOS wallpaper

tbh, in this interpretation, it sounds like extortion, sort of what gangs usually do to minor business owners

tax is tax, it's a mandatory contribution to society you morally and legally obliged to do, not a payment for not being killed

as a person coming from a totalitarian country, I would still prefer dealing with a single gang which also has its own welfare obligations can be corrected or overthrown when needed, than several mafia-like cartels which only care about extorting money from me providing nothing to both me and the society as a whole.

governments have responsibility, too, it's just some don't accept it

draw a Hatsune Miku

Couldn't agree more. Medvedev is just a miserable ex-"liberal" (and is probably now-an-alcoholic) trying to find his place in the Putin's wartime system after his reputation was killed by Putin's "castling" in 2012 and the film "He Is Not Dimon to You" in 2017. Nobody takes him seriously anymore in Russia.

...and refrain from drinking Kool-Aid and punch, just in case

I remember a more modern iteration of a virus that forces you to play an extremely hard game:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rensenware-will-only-decrypt-files-if-victim-scores-2-billion-in-th12-game/

It demands a score of 200 million points in one of the hardest installments of Touhou on the highest difficulty. And 200M is pretty high, basically you need to finish all 6 stages and score reasonably well.

I was moderating my small community on vlemmy, and have posted several markdown-heavy things I would like to back up in case I were to move instances. Gladly, that was possible with lemmy.world cache (for everything but pics).

https://lemmy.world/u/(user)@vlemmy.net

https://lemmy.world/c/(community)@vlemmy.net

so they can filter them from "often visited"

But according to the issue on Bugzilla you have attached, this is to prevent suggested sites from showing alongside these adult sites, without filtering the latter out. Do I understand it wrong?

There was a game show in Russia in 2000s where high schoolers had to answer ridiculously hard questions about Ancient Greece in order to enroll into MGIMO, a prestigious state university of foreign affairs, which was near-impossible to enroll in any other way (e.g. entrance exams) if you weren't a child of a top-level government official.

The contestants had to sit as the audience first and answer some pop-up questions before even having a chance to actually participate in the game show, and then win in a series of games (like quarter-finals, semifinals, finals...)

It really does look like modern job application process where you have to participate in a series of never-ending interviews and test tasks

But... Fuck...

Given the character on the post picture, it should be written together in one word

"you are so smart, just a bit lazy"

Russians having their flashbacks of the main war propaganda network in their homeland

I am not sure how to proceed, to be honest.

I had a small community, ![email protected] (see lemmy.world cache). It had its issues, like low # of posts and comments made by anyone but me, but I could see people starting engaging bit by bit and if I was to write more, the community would be able to compete with its kbin counterpart. Aaaand bam.

Now I'm thinking of where I could move to. ![email protected] is semi-dead and is run by a person who I believe to be a squatter who had occupied a lot of communities and called them "placeholders until the reddit mods evacuate". If I am correct, then I'm not sure if I really like the idea of participating in a community run by a squatter.

Probably I should settle somewhere else.

Local 58 "Contingency" flashbacks

I hope Majima Construction will pitch in fixing shit after the upgrade

Ah, sorry! Have noticed it a bit after posting my comment, that's why it's deleted. Yeah, you were only a mod of ![email protected], but not the support one. And thanks for your participation on vlemmy and your help to newbies like me.