how can you be confident that anything supplied here will be retained if you were previously unaware you even needed to know in the first place?
The information I’m looking for wasn’t immediately important for me to know earlier in life, and because of a mix of the ADHD issues, a lack of home economics-type education and a lot of these kinds of responsibilities being handled by someone else growing up, I wasn’t really in a place to think of educating myself for the future. This all changed a while ago and I realized I needed to do a lot of catching up to be a functional, self-autonomous person. I’ve gotten the impression that there are a ton of folks who feel this way about stuff like learning to do taxes.
TL;DR, my brain holds it as useful, very important information now.
I understand and appreciate the intent of what you’re saying, but I have really bad executive dysfunction/ADHD/whatever issues that make this not a realistic choice for me. This post wouldn’t need to exist if I had the motivation to sit down and read my way to victory. Long-form listenable content is also just much easier for me to multitask with.
In the last 48 hours they’ve only posted on their Facebook about how they helped get Trump elected and criticized (insulted) a study that examines “the relationship between community-level firearm violence and dental health”. They seem pretty unconcerned
When you make this kind of comment it really just adds to the reasons to not use the nostupidquestions and ELI5 communities on this platform. There needs to be safe spaces to admit to being biased and uninformed and to ask people to help you out of it without being berated.
