If you pay attention to the footage, the riots are tiny. I think the biggest was around 100 people.
We finally managed to kick the right wing theives out, and some people are less than happy. They managed to rial a few idiots up, and the media have lapped it up.
Our brains are constantly understimulated. It takes effort to try and raise the level back up. When you first get medicated, it's like someone took a load off your back that you never realised you were carrying.
We also tend to be sleep deprived. It is harder to fall asleep, so the level at which we do requires more exhaustion.
Combine these 2 and the sleep thing makes sense. We are suddenly able to just relax, possibly for the first time. We are also constantly tired. It's not surprising we can fall asleep!
Thirdly, many of us self medicate with caffeine etc. Medication makes us but that back.
Some do. However, a more common situation is that the parents have been dealing with a sick baby, and decided to let them sleep, when they finally went down. A phone call waking them, after a sleepless night can be met with inappropriate, but understandable, anger.
Many nurseries err on the side of politeness.
I thought I understood the sleep deprivation until I became a dad. The part most people don't account for is the chronic nature of it. It's not 1 night, or even a few, it's weeks and months of it. It's also combined with having your hormones thrown for a loop (yes, men too!). It jams your brain in ways you would never expect.
It's so easy to screw up that badly that I'm amazed at how infrequent it actually is.
I don't know if it's real or just nostalgia, but reddit is massively worse than I remember. I've gone back to nose a few times, and it feels like a ghost town, compared to what it used to be.
While I have an inner monologue, I'm also able to shut it down and still think. The inner voice is likely an artefact of how we learn. So much learning is done by voice instruction that it becomes the default for most people.
On the contrary, do not ignore them. People base their feeling on the group opinion almost entirely on how often they hear a particular argument. They won't remember that 90% came from 1 person.
Secondly, unless an idea is actively disagreed with, people (subconsciously) assume you agree with it.
Take every opportunity to disagree with the idiots. You won't convert them, but you will sow seeds in the minds of those they might be swaying.
The executive functions are a tiebreak system, in many ways. It balances the various possible options, both benefits and costs, short term and long.
Procrastination is when this system can't overcome various situational inertias. I tend to think of it akin to a teacher in a classroom. The kids are perfectly capable of raiding a kitchen, when sufficiently hungry. It's also impossible to keep them focused on maths, when a dozen labrador puppies are released into the classroom. Within its limits however, it's supposed to turn disparate drives into coherent action.
I have adhd. The teacher is exhausted from a 3 day bender, and someone swiched their coffee to decaf. Avoiding situations that cause a procrastination lockup are a fact of life.
Lightburn (laser cutter software) lets you trial the full version for 1 month free. It doubles as an excellent way to get up to speed on the software without tying up the laser cutter's computer (community machine).
Most phones can open the camera without unlocking the phone. This makes it an easy prank source when someone leaves there phone unattended. Many a friend, acquaintance, or random stranger, has ended up with random selfies of me in their photos. (Generally just before i ask who misplaced their phone)
The other one is adding a few selfies when you offer to take a group photo for people.
There's a paper published somewhere on the effectiveness of tin foil hats. It turned out that "traditional" designs actually acted to focus RF energy onto the brain.
It's been years since I saw the paper, unfortunately, so I don't have a link to hand.
There's more than 1 form of meditation. I still use martial arts patterns as a form of meditation. Your entire body is involved. Mind, body, and mood move towards a good, known state.
I can normally never shut up the chattering monkey in my head. Give it something to do, and it's now happy to let the rest of my mind truly relax for a minute or so.