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Thank you, that’s helpful!

When I was on Atomoxine, my experience was that if I missed a dose my ADHD felt more pronounced and I was a little bit more dysfunctional for a couple days than I would have been if I was unmedicated. Hard to tell how much of that was just the contrast of not being on it, vs an effect of coming off it, but it felt like more than just not having the meds’ help

Wish you the best!

Thank you :)

Crossflashing sounds like if you dress up in clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex and then show of the goods for people’s amusement and gratification

That makes complete sense to me, that’s a widespread systemic exposure; I’d kinda expect usage of leaded gasoline that to have that sort of impact

And yep, it sure is frustrating 🙃

A sample size of 1000 people isnt exactly huge to be fair.

I’d like to clarify- I wasn’t intending to be hostile, though I can see how it came across that way, and I apologize, I did a kind of shitty job of conveying my idea in a way that would connect with you. I think in online spaces it can be really hard to break the habit of making your point in a way that will register with bystanders rather than the person you’re ostensibly actually talking to. I did a great job at expressing my perspective in a way that would validate the confusion I think amercians are likely to experience reading this post (as reflected by the votes), but I did a kinda crap job of actually addressing you, sorry about that. I’ll do my best to be a little effective in communicating what I meant and why I felt that way.

As an American, this feels like a cartoonishly out of touch representation of the issues my country faces (which to be fair, would be entirely understandable if you don’t live here and don’t have any first-hand experience with the US). We have plenty of them (issues, that is), and there’s lots of discussion to be had on the impact of guns on society, and also from where I’m standing it seems like are far more probable explanations for people lacking critical thinking skills than that we all just shoot our rootin’ tootin’ guns all the time over here in yeehaw land, and so we all have lead poisoning from all the bullets we’re shooting’. (Not trying to build a straw man of things you didn’t say, my point is that it feels like an caricature, and not one that aligns with the experience I have actually living here)

To reach past “crappy educational system”, “weaponized anti-authoritarianism and individualism”, and even “lead from drinking water or gasoline”, or any number of other likely causes, to instead land on a caricature of American life feels a bit silly to me. Thats an acute risk associated with an activity most people don’t participate in, and that even the people who do participate in, don’t very often.

The book you linked appears to be about how the American educational system is conceptually flawed and approaches education in a way unlikely to yield meaningful critical thinking skills- a point I think I’d likely agree with it on. But to be fair, a book also isn’t actually a quantitative reflection of poor critical thinking skills. It wouldn’t totally suprise me if America did struggle with critical thinking, there are lots of possible reasons we might- and at the same time, it’s a little frustrating for someone foreign to my country to look from the outside and say “man, I wonder if they’re all dumb cause they have lead poisoning from shooting guns all the time” while providing evidence for the link between shooting and lead exposure (makes complete sense) but no evidence for the premise that we’re dumb; that part is just taken for granted.

It kinda feels like you’re asking if the caricature of us all shooting guns all the time is the reason for the caricaturization of us all being dumb. And in doing so, overlook much more systemic far-reaching explanations for how a nation might end up in a state where critical thinking skills are lacking.

I’m not wading into looking for evidence because the nature of these things is that it takes a looooot of evidence to dispute an idea that can be thrown out with only a little. My mental health is horrible and I don’t really have the energy for that at present 😅 I think lots of other folks have made valuable contributions to the discussion, but I didn’t see anyone speaking to the fact that this feels like it’s borne out of an outsiders perspective based mostly on an imaginary idea of what it’s like to live here.

I don’t expect my expressing that idea to change your mind, but I still think it has value for providing perspective and context to the things you’re considering. If you don’t actually know much about the US first-hand, it might not be apparent that folks in the US are unlikely to see that a realistic source of the problem you’re describing given the actual experience of living here.

All I really hope to add to the conversation is that perspective. Its fine if you don’t see it the same way that I do, to be totally honest sometimes there are instances where being immersed in or “too close” to something impairs your ability to see it clearly. Though I don’t think this is one of those times.

Sorry this is all over the place, I’m pretty spent and didn’t have it in me to edit further for clarity (or try to be succinct, as you can probably tell by the like 30 paragraphs where a couple of more carefully thought out ones might have sufficed.)

This seems like reaching for the most esoteric and niche explanation to a fairly simple phenomenon.

America’s school system sucks, and the anti-authoritarian nature of a culture formed by rejecting monarchy has been coopted to convince people that science and reason are authority figures you ought to fight back against.

The vast majority of Americans aren’t gun owners, and the vast majority of gun owners don’t shoot very often. You haven’t provided evidence for Americans being incapable of critical thinking, but you want evidence for why guns aren’t the source of american stupidity.

This is a very silly post. 😅

Interesting, I guess maybe boost separately fetches thumbnails for link posts that are missing them…

Thats a super helpful site, thank you! If nothing else now I can remake my post from my .ee account and add the thumbnail manually

Interesting…

There are people on shitjustworks posting youtu.be links on !videos@lemmy.world that do have thumbnails, so whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to have that problem

My .ee account has a field to put in a thumbnail URL, so other comments in this thread are kinda leading me to believe it may be a combination of instance version, and how the instance is configured

Interesting, so I guess maybe the reason shitjustsworks users posting on !videos@lemmy.world are showing up as thumbnails for me is because their instance is getting the thumbnail and that’s federating to me on .world

Okay so it seems like the only people getting thumbnails on !videos@lemmy.world are from shitjustworks.

No dice on using my .ee account though, that didn’t seem to result in a thumbnail either. But in the app I’m using, when on my .ee account there’s a field to put in a thumbnail URL which is interesting

Thats a very helpful response, thank you!

It seems like the only people getting thumbnails on !videos@lemmy.world are from shitjustworks (how fitting lol)

I tried again with a youtu.be link and unfortunately no dice, so it seems it might be an instance issue, I’m gonna go take a look at the videos comm and see if there’s anyone on .world who posted and got a thumbnail. I might also try again from my .ee account

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Most of them have it for me, but I just posted a video to the Souls-like comm and it doesn’t have one, which is really what I’m trying to fix :/

Ah, gotcha. Thank you!

Probably I should go learn who my admin actually is 😅

Oh neat! Is there any way to check if my instance has opted into this?