• melfie@lemmy.zip
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    7 天前

    Someone with ADHD when the other person re-explains something and they miss the re-explanation too because another thought popped into their head.

  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    8 天前

    My spouse has a host of health issues, including vision. We went to see a specialist once and I wasn’t understanding what he meant when he referred to something in her eye as “jelly.” So I asked him to explain. I finally gave up after about the fifth or sixth time he attempted with increasingly obvious irritation to explain using some variation of the same “it’s the jelly” phrase - completely not getting that he needed to explain what “the jelly” was.

    Sometimes it’s not you, but them.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      8 天前

      I think what your wife is saying is that she wants to convince you that she wants a threesome with you and an ophthalmologist. She wants to bring him into the bedroom, and then handcuff you to a chair, and oh no! You can’t do anything from the chair but watch! Now he’s spreading peanut butter on her eye while you lick it off, and talking about the jelly. As you already know, the difference between the jelly and the jam, is he’s going to take the jelly, and put it on her eye. He’s going to take his dick, and jam it up her ass.

      Also, your wife is maybe absolutely leaving you for someone who knows all about the jelly and the jam.

  • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 天前

    I find that saying something like, “My ears seem to be moving faster than my brain today. Can we try this another time?” is a good way to indicate you’re interested in learning what they’re saying while acknowledging you’re having a hard time comprehending it at that moment.

    Most people understand that our brains shut off sometimes; “the lights are on, but nobody’s home.” Most people also know good and well when someone doesn’t understand something. Acknowledging these human traits may be uncomfortable, but it’s better than trying to lie to someone who knows better.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 天前

    I generally don’t feel intellectually dumb. I do feel the “a doy” type thing where its like. Whats wrong with me that I missed that. I sometimes feel the world expects like to much compentence from me though. Like filling out applications so much stuff I have done but its like. You know I would have to sit down and sorta relearn anything specific really but doing so is going to go pretty quickly.

    • MoffKalast@lemmy.world
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      8 天前

      For the most common type: It’s like an infinite one dimensional puzzle where you can attach any piece for a bit (that’s where the data goes), but then after each one of those you need to find a really specific piece that fits, which is so hard to find that it’s unlikely that two people could ever do it. When someone randomly finds it, the puzzle can continue.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          8 天前

          Sounds to me like you understand crypto just fine. You can see that there’s no value, and therefore a scam. You’ve got this!

          • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
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            8 天前

            It’s always felt like a scam to me, but I can’t even count the amount of people who have scoffed or laughed at me for saying so.

            • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
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              8 天前

              There are two pitches to crypto: it’s an investment and it’s gonna be the new default currency.

              1. Is plain wrong, it’s a gamble. The trading value of crypto is erratic and unpredictable. Anyone trying to claim otherwise is a scammer.

              2. Cool, I’ll wait until then.

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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              8 天前

              It is for this reason, I always say “I’m surrounded by morons. Morons everywhere. Far as the eye can see…”

              Talking about those who laugh at you for saying it’s a scam. Check back with them in 5 years, and ask them how much money they’ve profited from crypto. Just don’t be surprised when they become hypocrites, and tell you to shut up about those scams.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 天前

            I’m surprised (but pleased) that this comment has no downvotes.

            If anyone ever sets up crypto for something it’s actually good for, I’ll support it. But until such time…

        • Skua@kbin.earth
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          8 天前

          The thing about money is that it only has value because we collectively agree that it does. If you have a dollar or a euro or a yuan, it’s valuable literally only because other people will give you stuff for it. There’s not really anything special about it otherwise, it’s just really useful to have some way of trading things in easily-transferable numbers

          Crypto is theoretically the same in terms of what makes it valuable, except for that far fewer people agree that it is valuable and there’s much less agreement on how valuable it is amongst those who do

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 天前

      All I can think when I see this emoticon is what I will probably reproduce poorly:

      :-) (====3

      :-O (====3

      :-O==3

      :-O3

      :3

      It ruined that emotion forever. Hopefully I have shared the pain. :)

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 天前

          I’m 51, and when I was growing up and a young adult, “;-)” was the same as “:-)” except you might use it to indicate even more that you were joking, not just a light-hearted reply or something. Somewhere along the way “;-)” gained a flirty meaning that was not there previously, which I learned after a few times where I made a silly joke that got interpreted with a naughty subtext because of that emoticon. Which was frustrating, but it’s how language works. heh