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Fair enough, we can agree to disagree and we'll see how things progress there I guess. Its possible that his coalition will lose the elections, in which case we can see what the alternatives are.

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hmm, where are you hearing that from?

its the aftermath of a mass casualty disaster, things are pretty chaotic. But you can rest assured that Turkiye is doing the best it can, as are organisations in that country and also from other countries.

I think its useful to keep in mind that Erdogan is deeply unpopular with the west, and there are elections coming soon that the west would like his party to lose. so if you rely on western sources, including social media, it can create an impression that goes against common sense - like that Turkiye deliberately harms its own disaster relief efforts or its own people.

assuming the war ends with Ukraine, it'll be mostly carved up by its neighbours as is its historic fate/cycle. What's left, rump Ukraine will be sold off to western interests and linger as a zombie borderland state, which will enable it to meet its century of reparations to Russia.

its likely that most moderators, certainly the so called super-mods, are paid staff. The vast majority of people don't have the time or inclination to do that kind of thing, certainly not without renumeration. I imagine there are exceptions, obsessives or hobbyists or idealogues, but even then such people need to have the time to do this kind of thing, which means they're certainly not coming from the bottom of the pyramid nationally or globally. With the structure of that site being what it is - silos of information/contribution policed by anonymous accounts - it looks to me a lot like an informational warfare experiment, one big psyop.

targeting the demographics it does - originally and most notably tech workers, but broadly the PMC - makes sense because they have skills and educations and a place in the hierarchy that make them somewhat useful/dangerous to a state. Like they target academics, not via that site of course but in other ways.

edit; I forgot to mention another common category of user/poster/moderator, the grifter. The merchants and artists and scammers looking to promote their brand/show/product etc and sometimes denigrate that of their rivals. This is more difficult on reddit because of the relative anonymity but wherever people gather the vultures circle too.

demographics - some proportional split of bots, US military, tech workers , some disaffected proles with an education who failed to secure their rightful place in the hierarchy - with the vast majority being from the anglosphere and some from the rest of 'the west'. Also, the structure of the site with moderators - and disguised reddit staff - policing. In other words, its a forum made up of the contributions of enforcers of the western hegemony and class hierarchies. The middle of the pyramid - kick down & lick up - given a voice, and unsurprisingly its pretty vile.

That's interesting. Out of curiosity from this thread I found a more recent paper that seemingly had difficulty finding a genetic cause (but not association), and concluded that any cause was possibly environmental or possibly 'omnigenic'. Its this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477889/ if you want to have a look. Its interesting that heritability conclusions are different when relying on self-assessment vs parent or clinician assessments.

From the paper you linked, I checked to see what the classification was - because I was wondering if it was described as a developmental disorder or not:

"ADHD is a behavioural syndrome characterised by the presence of developmentally inappropriate levels of hyperactive, impulsive and inattentive behaviours"

That to me is a remarkable definition, I'm sure you'll understand better, but isn't it equivalent to saying ADHD is a description of somebody who acts younger than they are supposed to? I guess I'm asking, since you seem like somebody who might know, how is it concluded or determined that a person's activity levels, impulsivity, and attention span is 'inappropriate'?

I suppose from that and other definitions I've read it seems to me that you can say of ADHD sufferers - these people aren't acting grown up enough for wage slavery so we give them amphetamines to calm them down?

ok, thanks for explaining. I said 'difficulty concentrating' because its another way of saying attention deficit. Isn't it to be expected that difficulty concentrating, or attention deficit, will necessarily involve issues with motivation, task initiation, and executive function since those things are all required for attention?

Personally, interacting with various people who have been diagnosed with ADHD, I find it very difficult to notice a difference between them and any other person except in that they're more socially expressive of how (understandably) bored they are by what I'm saying or what they're/we're doing. Of course I'm no expert in the criteria for such a diagnosis, this is just my subjective perception of these people.

thanks for the clarification. Is it really the case that a particular part of the brain can't change after the developmental period, or redevelop for want of a better term? That feels somewhat concerning in principle as a model for how our brains work, like doesn't it have implications for a whole range of societal and individual problems? I guess the ideas of lifelong education/learning and also rehabilitation are impacted by this structural issue presumably? I'm not disagreeing, I'm sure you know more than I do about this, but it is worrying if a bad childhood means lifelong substance use by necessity, if you see what I mean. Presumably good for drug manufacturers though!

well the US was founded on genocide and plunder so it isn't really surprising that most USians don't have an issue with following in the path of their ancestors. Its a cultural thing. Assuming the US is still around in a thousand years (only 33 short or 12 long generations of descendants) it'll have calmed down and grown up by then.

It was mostly an observation, but I suppose if I were getting at anything it'd be that if there's any possible way, even if greatly difficult, to avoid taking the substance and also avoiding homelessness then that'd be vastly preferable. Absent of any societal assistance in that, unfortunately and unfairly it requires the individual to attempt to find a way on their own or to attempt to organise such assistance. I'm not necessarily sure its a consequence or that there's a direct causative link with overworked absent parents though, since that has been a factor elsewhere/when seemingly without the solution being amphetamine prescription and usage.

edit: I would say that the doctors who diagnose and prescribe it are effectively claiming that there's something natural about it - its treated as a strictly physical condition with a physical solution in that case, with no attempt to address the cause(s) or enquire about them or alleviate them.

The internet was invented by the military. It functions on a consumer level as a personalised Skinner box.

I think it's illusory that it draws people to the left - that seeming effect is just because leftist ideology has intrinsic mass appeal, which of course necessitates the infiltration, policing, control of the medium of mass communication, just like town hall gatherings. So far at least the internet doesn't seem to have resulted in any real world gains for left wing movements, or maybe I'm ignorant of such an occurrence?

i don't really have a good take on it, but i've got a good conspiracy theory

the shortage is because of an increase in demand in the precursors and manufacturing chains for the military in Ukraine.

I don't really understand why so many people, particularly (but not exclusively) in the US, would need amphetamines to function 'properly'. I find it difficult to buy that there's a 'natural' reason and that it isn't just a kind of Brave New World socio-environmental issue causing a psychosomatic response in people that gets labelled as ADHD or similar. I don't mean to be callous or dismissive or imply there isn't an issue for people, but I know a few people with such a diagnosis and I'm pretty sure if I'd had their upbringing/life circumstances I'd find it difficult to concentrate too.