It’s not a language thing, they do it to be quirky…

Wow, I’ve seen a lot of ADHD analogies over the years but I’ve never seen that hits so hard because…This is almost exactly how my brain functions.

On good days, I can just act and don’t have to think. On bad days, I involuntarily make numbered lists in my head of the steps needed to accomplish a goal and then get overwhelmed at how many steps are ahead of me.

A trick I’ve found to “harness” it is to consider how difficult the task is overall. Most of those “overwhelming” tasks are just a little bit too much but they’re several steps.

If cleaning ten dishes is twice as much as you can bear, your new goal is one. That should be only make out you at 20% overwhelmed. And hey, since your hands are wet, why not hit your limit before you take a break? And what do you know, now you’ve finished cleaning all of them.

Sure. But it’s not like the technology they developed is useless outside of an autonomous city, I’m sure they went into it knowing it would never be implemented for real.

Years ago, Microsoft was doing some R&D on autonomous vehicles in a mock city built for it. Instead of each vehicle doing all of the processing, the fake city was built with wireless markers to GIVE the car the information. Like instead of having to “see” a stop sign, the stop sign told cars it was there.

It would be complicated and expensive to implement on a mass scale but I thought it was a really cool idea.

A long time ago I downvoted a bunch of posts from a person spamming and got banned from a half dozen unrelated communities for being a “mass downvoter”

Technically true, I’ve probably downvoted more posts than upvoted. But to ban someone for using fediverse features as designed? I dunno

The “all or nothing” crowd really knows how to stomp on progress, huh?