Severe depression and/or burnout can have similar effects. I’ve been in a brain fog for years and it only started getting better with antidepressants. However, first you’ll need to make sure that there is no physical cause. Any good doctor will check your blood more in detail with those symptoms. There’s also the chance that there are several causes, not just one. You could have e.g. sleep apnea and also some other issue.

Are you taking any medicamentation? Even if it’s a common one like allergy meds, you could be one of the unlucky few with severe side effects.

Also severe allergies. I’ve been told I couldn’t be an organ donor due to anaphylaxis. You can donate blood with heterozygous Leiden V factor though.

Dutch gallery gets inaccessible for people with peanut allergy. I hope they issue warnings when selling the tickets.

Movies get a lot of support from those institutions as long as they portray them in a positive light. The US military has an office in Hollywood to ensure cooperation.

The other reaction I’ve encountered is: “They just say that to get attention, they don’t actually want to do those things.”

The point is that it doesn’t work the exact same if you just say, you’re not interested. Countless women, myself included, have made this experience. “Not interested” is met with “why not?”, " come oooon" “am I that ugly?” and “just give me a chance”. You can either spend 15 minutes saying " no" in varying degrees of politeness or 2 seconds saying “I have a boyfriend”.

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In an everyday level: anxious and stubborn. The kind of people who constantly worry but also won’t listen to reason when it’s explained why they needn’t worry.

I would love that. I’m not sure if that works, since afaik the law only regulates the publication of your picture and profiting off of someone’s photo. In cases of AI training you usually publish it yourself and for example Facebook and Reddit already make you agree to using your photo however they want.

I wonder if AI companies could be sued for using pictures from a private website for training.

The Ritter Sport Olympia chocolate (Milk-honey-hazelnut flavour) and snickers icecream. I love it so much. Haven’t eaten it in 8 years. Also curious to find out if they would bother to use an epipen on me just to kill me a couple of hours later.

I think that could fall under “Recht am eigenen Bild” (right to your own picture). It gives you the right to decide how images of you are used. If he profits off of photos/videos of her, she should have the right to sue him. It might also be illegal to publish the videos under GDPR law, especially in combination with more personal information like first name or city.

However, big festivals like the Oktoberfest often have a disclaimer that you agree to being filmed and your picture being published due to TV, press etc. being there. I don’t know how that would work.

Don"t worry, that will all be handled by robots powered by the latest GenAI-model.

I would love to geht into photography more and even develop my own films, but I don’t have the space and I also don’t have the money for a good camera.

Also sewing, same reason.

I bouth a cheap guitar for 10€ at a fleamarket. Doesn’t look good but it works. I you just want to try around and maybe learn a bit with the help of YouTube that’s an option.

The worst part is, this ends up hurting people with real allergies. I myself have an anaphylaxis to nuts so I also carry an epipen. Which is why I asked the coworker for hers, because I am trained to use it. I can’t tell you how often I’ve met people who don’t take it seriously and tell me I’ll be fine with just a little bit of nut or organic nuts. “I have a cousin who’s allergic to XYZ but since eating only organic she’s fine and she can eat it now.” This type of people will say they have allergies and then eat the item later and it leads dumb people to believe allergies are fake.

When the first Covid vaccine came out a coworker told me she wouldn’t get it. Supposedly the vaccine had “killed 90% of the population in Bulgaria already”. I told her I thought we’d have heard about it if that was the case, but she was convinced that the media was covering it up.

She later claimed she was deathly allergic to the vaccine, so I ask which part of it. From what I know you can react to a vaccine if you are allergic to eggs or chicken. That’s a pretty common food item and it would be good to know if your coworker has such an allergy. I also asked where she keeps her epipen so I could help her in an emergency. She claimed she always left her epipen at home and that she was allergic against a lot of medication. She never mentioned any allergies again afterwards and they seemed to have mysteriously disappeared after the pandemic was over.

I’ve defintely stopped reading the comic universes because it gets too much. You can’t just grab a new issue and read it anymore. Doesn’t matter whether marvel or DC. Every comic is connect to 20 other comics and you need to read Deadpool, Dr Strange and 10 others in order to have the back story of one Spiderman issue. When I read comics it’s the independent artists that can finish a story within one or two volumes. Same goes for SciFi and Fantasy novels. Too many SciFi novels out there that are this epic 20 volume complex world building saga. Just give me a story that is finished in one book.

Also knitting. Good yarn has become so expensive.

Before my first birthday after we met I had told my now husband that I wanted to switch to reusable pads. I showed him a brand I had in mind, but they cost 20€ per pad. That birthday I got a 200€ gift card for the pads so I could buy myself a starter pack. I don’t know what I loved more, the fact that he was so thoughtful or how he proved that he wasn’t one of those guys who get weird when the topic of periods comes up.

Me too!

Also subcultures that are more about making your own styles. Not that there wasn’t any consumerism, but there were definitely more people who drew on their backpacks, made paperclips into a necklace or glued flowers to hair clips. Silly stuff like that. It’s become much rarer to see a teenager that looks like they’re expressing their personality with their style.