Yeah, we technically didn’t know that he was cognitively impaired, but 80% of Americans said they thought he was too old and couldn’t handle another term. We were all listening to the guy speak and thinking, “…I’m not a doctor, but that guy seems like he’s struggling.”

Yeah, that’s tough. I wouldn’t presume to give you advice on working out, but from personal experience, I would at least advise finding something you like before you blow a lot of money on it. I wasted a lot of money on group cycling before I realized I hated that.

First of all, there have been dozens of articles about Trump’s mental fitness. Second, Biden’s decline was sharper and more noticeable; that’s why, even though they both sounded like rambling old men during the debate, Biden came off worse. Finally, Trump’s mental fitness is usually people’s third concern behind his authoritarianism and corruption. Anyway, now that we’ve addressed that, it would be great if you could give a shit that Democratic party insiders hid the President’s cognitive decline from the country.

Oof, that’s brutal. Are you cleared for physical activity? Working out is the only thing that helps me with my symptoms besides meds (and even then, they work better together than alone).

Yes, but it should he on Data to find those external sources. What if Data chooses to hang out with bodybuilders, and instead develops MDD?

This isn’t, “drama around Bidens declining health,” it’s another symptom of a sickness within the Democratic party. Ruth Bader Ginsberg refused to retire when Obama was in office, so her death gave Donald Trump another Supreme Court nomination. Dianne Feinstein would not leave office despite having severe dementia, and instead died during her term. Jerry Connolly was made Democratic Chair of the House Oversight Committee despite being diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died yesterday, made him the third House Democrat to die in the last 2 months.

The Democratic Party is led by geriatrics who refuse to relinquish power even as they drop dead in office. We should drag every single person who knew about Biden’s failing mental state into the light and make sure they never work in politics again. We should demand to know if his cancer diagnosis was known before the election, and if not, why he didn’t receive a cancer screening for over a decade. We need accountability for the people who allowed the party to reach this state. And before 2026, we need to go to every single House and Senate Democrat over the age of 65 and say, “Thank you for your service, but you’re retiring now. Would you like to endorse anyone for your seat?”

We didn’t know of any obvious major health issues with Biden. He had a shit debate and everyone suddenly acts like they knew something was wrong other than just getting old, being propped up on cold meds or whatever the official excuse was. Prostate cancer doesn’t cause these symptoms.

Sure, no one would have known about the prostate cancer, but plenty of people had been questioning Biden’s mental fitness since 2020, and they were called ageist by pundits. Stewart himself was accused of aiding Trump for running a segment on Biden’s strange mental gaffes just weeks before the debate. If people like Tapper had been doing their jobs instead of deferring to the administration, we would have had answers, not questions.

Agreed, bur let’s forget about her, and Dianne Feinstein, and Biden. Let’s ignore everything that happened before the inauguration and pretend we’re starting with a fresh slate. He’s the third House Democrat to drop dead since January. In five months, three Democrats have been assassinated by time.

Sure, but it seems weird to program that in. Part of his journey to becoming more human should be developing his own body dysmorphia, not having one assigned to him.

I mean, I think, Occam’s Razor, he’s got a rudimentary, non-functioning facsimile of a digestive tract that takes all the food he mashes up in his mouth and pushes out his poop-shoot when he wants to empty himself. That would allow him to have a mostly human-like eating experience, which would aid him in his quest to be more human. I think Soong would have argued pooping is integral to the human experience (After all, he made Data able to pointless eat, drink, and fuck. Why draw the line there?), but even if he didn’t, having Data lean over a sink and regurgitate everything he swallowed at the end if the day feels pretty inhuman.

Boy, I really don’t want to be disrespectful, but did I nail it or what?

So, I’m not a doctor, but it sounds like he’s showing early symptoms, he only has a 15% or living more than 5 years, and he’s more likely than not to die within the next year…I’m not trying to be cruel to the guy; cancer sucks and it’s awful he’s going through this. But given how narrow the Republican lead is in the House, it’s irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.

I mean, he does eat and drink to try and be more human. Where did you think it went?

Yeah, nicotine too. Pretty much any stimulant. ADHD is thought to be caused by low dopamine, and exercise is thought to alleviate symptoms by producing dopamine. I know doctors reccomend strength training and aerobic exercises like running or swimming, but I don’t know how hiking stacks up. If it’s strenuous enough that you feel tired by the end, I’m sure it’s helping.

Anyway, everyone’s different. For me, if I don’t run at least a 5K 3 times a week, my symptoms are terrible, but strength training doesn’t seem to help much.

Yes. All stimulants treat the symptoms of ADHD. You were self-medicating that whole time, although your results were way worse than you would get with a controlled dosage of a time-release stimulant like Adderall. If you don’t want to go back to stimulants, even under a medical setting, regular exercise will help regulate your symptoms (I personally like 30 to 40 minutes of cardio 3 to 4 times a week).

I decided I didn’t need my ADHD meds anymore when I was in my late teens. Spent most of my 20s smoking about a pack a day and drinking 6 or 7 cups of coffee. I quit smoking in my late 20s, struggled until my early 30s, then started taking my medicine again and realized I was an idiot.

Yeah, not the first time I’ve heard that, but I think it’s a bad system for communities that aren’t news/information based. Posts wind up in people’s feed based on upvotes and activity. By only downvoting only based on the rules of the community, it artificially raises the reach of content that the broader instance might not like.

There was a blowup about this a few months ago with the .world vegan community. A lot of posts were obnoxious memes insulting non-vegans, and a mod started banning anyone who ever downvoted them. Posts insulting the majority of the instance suddenly went from 55% upvotes to 95% upvotes and the whole thing became an instance-wide fight. The other mods eventually threw that mod out, but the whole community fell apart.

At the end of the day, it comes down to whether you think it’s the user’s job to block every community they don’t like or the mods job to accept criticism from the broader Lemmy base. I think it’s the former, especially when you consider the new user experience. I don’t think it’s good for a first-time visitor to see a bunch of AI slop or rage-baiting posts with high upvote ratios just because of the individual communities’ guidelines.

Agreed, but let’s take a moment to recognize that he is the highest ranked Democrat in the country, and the fact that no one sees him as the face of the party should be humiliating for him.

Coming in a distant second was close ally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The pair recently went to various states with their Fighting Oligarchy tour. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) placed third in the survey with 8%.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris came in fourth with 6%. Following her was Pete Buttigieg with 5%, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) with 5%, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) with 4%, and California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) with 2%.

LOL, Chuck Schumer didn’t even place. That gives me a little hope.

Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours…

Fuck Mexico, I guess.

I downvote AI content when it winds up in my feed. I recently discovered I was banned from an AI, “art,” community for, “downvote trolling,” (AKA disliking content). At first, I was annoyed, but then I looked at the community and realized it was one guy sharing, “his,” art over and over again for virtually nobody and I just felt sad.