intentionally curious

i gotta know

[potatotsunami]

Things I have control over:

-How I interact with my surroundings.

-. . .

Actually that's it.

[thememedaddy]

[catchymemes]

[scienceisdope]

Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.

Here’s full study: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/478386

If you enjoyed this post, please give it a ❤️ and check out @scienceisdope for more science and daily facts.

[guerrillatech]

[a-bed-of-moss-deactivated202605]

Peer reviewed:

[potatotsunami]

I've always hated pledging to the flag. Avoided it at all costs. Of course, growing up I was BIG into medieval stories and I put a lot of credence into knights pledges plus the weight of one's words. I didn't want to pledge my aligence when I felt zero loyalty!

No one else seemed to care?? About their words??

[elliespectacular]

I feel like Spotify's most notable trait is how they barely pay their artists at all, so start a music library. Buy and/or download the songs you like, stick them in and app like iTunes or MusicBee and boom! They're right there on your hard drive and they'll never get region-locked or delisted and you'll never have to hear an ad when listening to it ever.

What are you paying monthly for Spotify? Make that your monthly music budget to buy from Bandcamp or what have you. Then the songs are yours to keep and the artists actually get a substantial cut (at least by comparison).

Maybe you can't afford a bunch right away - that's fine! Build your early library from old CDs or YouTube rips or whatever so you've got stuff to listen to. Giant Record Companies hosting already-millionaire artists don't need your money anyway.

Seriously you can do it. If you could make all your Spotify playlists you can make a music library. Unless you've just been listening to those algorithmically generated playlists, in which case I guess you and Spotify deserve each other.

[tilthat]

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

[squeeful]

Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

[kurowrites]

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

[solarpunkcast]

Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name

[bogleech]

Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”

[prismatic-bell]

Patterson died 5 December 1995.

Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.

[augustdementhe]

Merry CCP Day!

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day, and fuck the oil and gas industries

[thepoisonroom]

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

[elmerseason-deactivated-deactiv]

[0gl1tch0]

I actually learned a fun therapy trick for this!

The statute of limitations on arson is 6 years.

So whenever I remember an embarrassing or shameful thing I’ve done, I ask myself if it was worse than arson. If it wasn’t, and it was 6 or more years ago, I forgive myself.

Also just the comedic shock of going “well, that was a stupid and mean thing I said, but 6 years is the statute of limitations on arson” helps.

[potatotsunami]

Stories are lies after all, tales of people who never existed and the things that never actually happened to them.

[peachdoxie]

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

[starshine-atlas]

I'm gonna fight my silly little neurodivergent brain because my constant state whenever I have free time is

My brain: So boreddddddd, nothing to do

Me: I have comics, I like reading comics, I could read comics

Brain: no, no, too hard.

Me: The comics are right next to me!!! It takes very little effort! I don't even have to stand up.

Brain: No, no, no, something easier.

Me: Well, I'm already on my computer, I could watch that movie that I've been meaning to watch for like five months--

Brain: ABSOLUTELY NOT, too hard.

Me: Well, I can scroll through Tumblr for a little bit--

Brain: Not enough stimulation, no, do more

Me: Well, reading comics or watching a movie would probably provide more stimulation--

Brain: Fuck you. I'm so bored. So bored. So so so so boreddddddddd

And it goes on and on and I do nothing all day.

[potatotsunami]

This is me but never too tired to read comics. If I wasn't reading over 700 comics it'd be accurate.

[potatotsunami]

I don't have OCD. I just have *very strong PREFERENCES* for how things should be and experience physical discomfort when that's not how they are.

[potatotsunami]

dunno if this is an autistic thing or just a personal thing:

I operate on like, a task-based system. When I'm in the middle of something (cooking for instance) and my partner comes up to give me a squeeze my brain is like, "no! Squeeze and cutsie interaction comes AFTER the task" and I'm not fond of whatever OS I'm running that keeps me from fluidly interacting in my moments.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

I know next to nothing about the Addam’s Family’s greater canon, but the fact that Lurch is visually so strongly based on Frankenstein’s Creature makes me so happy, because it’s the happy ending the Creature deserves and I can so imagine it? You have the Creature at the end of the novel who is lonely and who has resigned himself that he will never be loved and that all humans will reject him on sight and then he meets the Addam’s Family and they are the first ones who don’t attack him or run away screaming - they either don’t say anything or even more likely, they are high-key excited about a Creature put together from corpses. That’s probably the highest Addam’s aspiration, to be more than 1 corpse. So they take him in and he has a family for the first time. What a crossover. What over-thinking on my part. I love it.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

I’m going to add to this that because of the Creature’s line “I ought to be thy Adam”, many people irl nickname the Creature ‘Adam’ (being the first of his species) so if he were adopted by the Addam’s Family his name would officially be ‘Adam Addams” and I can only approve of that.

[if-you-think-about-it]

He’s not Frankenstein monster anymore, he’s the Adams monster. He’s theirs

[johnadamsbignaturals]

it’s Adam’s Family :)

[sandersstudies]

“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”

I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.

Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.

[krudman]

[yiffmaster]

“Shared joy is double joy, but shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”

[angelsonthesideline-deactivated]

[beggars-opera]

One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.

For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It's all here. Page not yet archived? There's a button for that and now you got it.

There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don't always work. This does.

Go forth and read the newspaper.