May 28, 2016

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I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of war accelerating research beyond the effect of funding research more.

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We were almost done with the Harambe timeline. But some dumbasses in NY had to kidnap and kill an internet famous squirrel named P'Nut.....Now we're an openly fascist country.

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Hey! That's the combo to my luggage!

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Screw Harambe, I want to see the alternate timeline where Hannibal and Carthage won.

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War itself doesn't, pressure and motivation does. War causes pressure and motivation. Humans thrive under pressure. It puts you in hyperfocus mode, which makes you way faster at getting anything done.

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No. Humans don't thrive under pressure. This is merely a totalitarian idea.

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Do you know how many election there were in the year 2000? Gotta be more precise than that

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Strange use of "win" to describe a situation where everyone loses.

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Where'd totalitarianism come in now?

I like how you're downvoting each of my comments as if that makes your arguments more valid. I'll go ahead and do the same to you now.

Look, a relatively massive chunk of research is done by people who aren't neurotypicals. In particular, nearly every good software engineer has ADHD and so do a LOT of scientists, etc.

Without deadlines, nothing would ever get done because we'd all be working on 50 other projects instead of what needs to be done

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You shouldn't have messed with the squirrels Morty!

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If somebody on the internet writes in English and thinks their country is implied without any sort of context, it's 9 times out of 10 somebody from the USA.

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If you send your password, Lemmy will automatically replace it with stars for you!

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Oh wow, let me try. My password is:

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What does that look like to you?!

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Ironically I’m Canadian but yes I meant the USA.

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When so many people have adhd you should question whether it's a mental condition or a societal condition.

And you're just saying bullshit. Just because you can't work without deadlines doesn't mean deadlines are necessary. That's just management lies to extract "productivity" at the expense of everything else.

Free softwares wouldn't exist if your theory had any truth to itself. Art wouldn't exist either.

That is a totalitarian idea because it only leads to totalitarian behaviours. Like the ones we have in so many companies where engineers are monitored like they're children and given unrealistic deadlines under the pretense they're lazy or procrastinate. None of this actually work. There is absolutely zero evidence it does.

You are generalising over something that's wrong. That is the problem of your thesis.

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It's a mental condition. It's been researched plenty. I didn't say much about deadlines. I said most people who might have a hard time focusing more than 3 or 4 hours of their 8 workhours a day otherwise, could probably focus 16 hours a day knowing they're saving millions of lives. Is it sustainable? Hell no, but it gets you rapid innovation.

At the same time what I'm gathering is that you personally would never be motivated to work harder just because other people's lives are at stake.

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You completely missed my point.

Some people are not more efficient under pressure, they collapse or overheat. Putting pressure on people don't always work to extract more productivity. That's all there is.

And if you think it works for everyone, then the next step is for some asshole to weaponize the idea. Which is what they do in many companies : putting pressure on people to extract more productivity. And it does not work.

Some people work better under pressure. Some people work better when they have no pressure. Adhd is irrelevant to that.

I wasn't saying that adhd is not a real illness. I'm saying there aren't so many people with this actual illness. Like women didn't suffer from histeria in the past. Some certainly were crazy. Most weren't. A difference is not an illness is what I'm saying.