Hi all! I was formally diagnosed with ADHD in my mid 20's. Currently taking generic Vyvanse and Guanfacine. Getting on meds was a huge quality of life improvement. One thing that I still struggle with is chronic insomnia, which is a common commorbidity with -- or maybe symptom of -- ADHD. The insomnia started around the time I hit puberty and I can count on one hand the number of great nights sleeps I've had since then.

I've tried a lot of environmental changes like:

• Having a rigid bedtime schedule.
• Wearing blue light filter glasses for 3 hours before bed.
• Taking melatonin supplements.
• Minimizing screentime.
• Using a weighted blanket.

Those all seem to help somewhat but not to a huge degree. I still feel sleep deprived most of the time.

Apparently I also occasionally have jerking movements while asleep somewhat consistent with "Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep (PLMS)".

Has anyone else had a similar experience and found any effective treatments?

Five members of the Iranian women's football team have left the team's training camp and successfully sought refuge in Australia, after fears they could "face dire consequences" on their return to the country.

just one big commie cuddle puddle 🥺

I can only wish them safety, the evil iranian regime will not be pleased by this

An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI.

Key points:

• The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such.
• Many of these links are for Sam Altman’s World ID.
• Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared.
• The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.

Modern Germany: "You're not allowed to make Hitler jokes"

Society :(

Obviously due to recent events [both epstein files and iran war], posts discussing why Americans haven't been more active in trying to stop all of this have been recirculating

I'm going to offer an alternative explanation given what I've seen both personally psychologically and also what makes sense. I dislike answers which are just "they're stupid lol," they're uncreative and unexplanatory.

There's this phenomenon teens can go through, which I went through, where instead of fighting back they essentially shut down into survival mode. With normal parents, or those teens perceive as normal parents, they will have a tendency to rebel, slam their doors, etc. They'll be angry and make it known, because they want the parent to change whatever is upsetting them [I know portraying the state as a parent is a common right wing point, that's not my intention in this case].

However, with emotionally abusive or negligent parents, teens will do something else. They'll essentially not do anything besides the bare minimum. As long as they aren't being actively beaten, they'll just go through their day and not interact with their parents more than they have to. They won't cry or scream or demand xyz, they simply live. It looks obedient, but they're actually just trying to keep their head down because they know that fighting back makes things worse.

So my hypothesis is that Americans are in this sort of state. I've seen a lot of people in my life like this. They don't go out and protest or try to make things change because they think nothing can or nothing will. So they stick their head down and try to live their day to day life.

I feel it makes some sense. Besides the mobilization in Minnesota, the protests against the double murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good didn't have the numbers or intensity of the George Floyd protests in 2020. Why? It's not like Americans have better material conditions now then they did in 2020 [Besides covid, but I'm unsure if that would make it much worse than today]. So why the change? My two explanations are that the democratic party (who had a large hand in the George Floyd protests, to my knowledge) no longer works as a mobilization force as it did before, both because the leadership doesn't want to and because people have lost faith in them, and also my "survival mode" explanation above

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10958558

Ukraine's state-owned Oschadbank has launched a two-track international legal campaign to recover assets still held in Hungary after the 5 March convoy seizure, the bank stated. (...)

The incident occurred on 5 March, when Hungary's Counter-Terrorism Centre (TEK) — a force under the Interior Ministry regularly deployed for government political operations — intercepted the convoy [which was transporting money and gold from Ukraine to Austria] and hid the vehicles on TEK's closed compound. Budapest then released the seven employees on the evening of 6 March, but the vehicles and valuables remain in Hungary.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44241262

March 8, 2026
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]

Also:

• With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment
• Pahlavi? IRGC? What’s next for Iran after Khamenei
• ‘Compulsive repetition’: How permanent war shapes the Israeli psyche

And this ever expanding horrific war, and the possibility that Israel might use nuclear weapons, will just make global warming intensify even more.

Rented a car from booking in the name bob, for example. Name on ID is bobby, and they didnt rent us the car, called booking asking to change the name, impossible. Company then offers 10x the price reservation. Similar things happened to other people, is their any avenue I can complain about this? Thanks people.

A sustained disruption of traffic through Hormuz would not simply constitute an energy crisis. It would also represent a fertiliser shock (where prices go up dramatically and supply goes down) – and, by extension, a direct risk to global food security.