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NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

hey how do you do school work when the material pisses you off so much you're getting twitter trenches flashbacks but also you have adhd and interest is a prerequisite to do anything

asking for me and this stupid environmental studies book that keeps going on at length about overpopulation. Yes, still going. I thought it was done, but it's back


NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

By 1804 the world's population had reached the 1 billion mark. A few decades later Louis Pasteur and others demonstrated that bacteria spread disease. Sanitation improved, vaccines were developed, and antibiotics were subsequently developed. Infant mortality dropped. By 1930 the population had doubled again, reaching 2 billion.

why are you making it sound like "less dead babies" is a bad thing


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in reply to @NoelBWrites's post:

maybe start working in parallel on a sort of Ultimate Quote Tweet of it. whenever you get mad at it do some research on when these ideas popped up in history, how they never made accurate predictions and always served the existing power structures... and just post that 10000 word essay to every participant after the course ends

I truly think that's part of why this anger is so distracting: it's an online class, which means I have no outlet lmao I can't bring it up in class because... there is no class! Just the lectures and assignments, etc.

in reply to @NoelBWrites's post:

practical stuff that helped me, in roughly descending order of sustainability: waking up at 5am and doing my most hateful thing; studying with friends; posting up someplace where you can eat that isn't your house; listening to spiteful greasy teenager music, whatever that means for you; vyvanse; one or two beers; ice cream to excess. source: I have terrible adhd (and bipolar!) and graduated summa cum laude (wish it had been a 3.5 and a brain that wasn't shredded but here we are)

thank you, vyvanse is definitely a godsend lol

I think of all the coping mechanisms I've developed over the years I never thought I needed to find one to calm the fuck down when I'm too angry to focus :eggbug-sob:

Wow this pull quote is excitingly dumb if she's trying to make a point that there will be overpopulation. The quote literally argues against the material: This is not "exponential growth" it's "a specific special event happened that increased the population growth rate one time".