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I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult 26 and I'm currently on medication, but I've been thinking about something.

I've lived with these symptoms for as long as I can remember, so I don't really have a "before ADHD" version of myself to compare myself to.

My idea of feeling good has always been connected to moments of intense excitement or discovery — the feeling of finding something life-changing, the motivation and excitement when I started studying for college, or the kind of happiness music gave me when I was younger.

But those moments were always followed by lows. It felt like life was made of peaks and crashes.

For people who were diagnosed later in life: how did you redefine what "being okay" or "feeling good" meant after treatment?

I am under the side effect period of my medication treatment and I am like " I do not even know what feeling better means, be more mentally clear and stable?"

I'm looking for original copies of the Irish Independent, Irish Press, or Irish Times from the 1960s–1970s (not reprints).

I've searched eBay, Adverts, and Google but haven't found much.

Do memorabilia or ephemera dealers source specific newspaper issues if you ask them? Or are there any collectors, auction houses, or shops in Ireland that specialise in original newspapers?

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

My girlfriend is obsessed with baby goats and I’m trying to plan something nice for her.

Is there any place near Dublin (or within driving distance) where you can actually interact with baby goats, like feed them, hold them, play with them etc.?

Ideally something more private or calm if possible, not just looking at animals from outside a fence or being surrounded by loads of kids and crowds.

Happy to pay extra for a more “experience” style visit if that exists.

Thanks 🙂

Hey everyone,

My girlfriend is obsessed with baby goats and I’m trying to plan something nice for her.

Is there any place near Dublin (or within driving distance) where you can actually interact with baby goats, like feed them, hold them, play with them etc.?

Ideally something more private or calm if possible, not just looking at animals from outside a fence or being surrounded by loads of kids and crowds.

Happy to pay extra for a more “experience” style visit if that exists.

Thanks 🙂

Capital and labour are the two constant forces in the economy.

For capital owners, labour is necessary, but it is also a cost and an unpredictable force. The more power labourers have, the greater the risk for capital and of power redistribution.

Simplifying to the bone the historical process leading to AI:

1800s–early 1900s, capitalists had most of the power; labour was cheap.

Post WW2, unions and post-war growth strengthened labour, raising wages and protections.

1970s–2000s, capitalism responded by globalising production and shifting work to cheaper regions. We are back at the beginning: capitalism again has cheap labour with fewer rights and protections, just in another part of the world instead of its own nation.

1980s onward, automation reduced the need for human labour in many industries.

2020s My conclusion is that AI is the latest capitalist instrument to reduce labour influence:

- Every mechanical process is being automated

- Every necessary physical labour is moved to cheap-labour nations

- Every intellectual/office job is being replaced by AI in a capitalist logic

Ergo, the “capitalist dream” becomes an economy where capital increasingly operates with minimal labour friction: production is highly automated, labour is outsourced or reduced to the margins, and human work no longer meaningfully constrains returns or pose a risk for the system itself.

What are your opinions?

Are there any meaningful studies on this subject?

I work as a Data Analyst, but most of my job is producing customer invoices.

People ask why a Data Analyst is needed for invoicing. The reason is that the whole process is built on databases, Excel, SQL, Microsoft Fabric, and a lot of custom logic. The invoices are complex, so a big part of my job is creating tools and finding ways to get everything done before deadlines.

Honestly:

90% of the job is firefighting to get invoices out

Every month is stressful and repetitive

I don’t deeply understand all the financial products — other teams validate the numbers

I have many ideas to improve the process, but no time to implement them properly

I ask you:

1. What should I do, evolve? Ask for a data entry coworker?

2. Anyone else in a “Data Analyst” role that feels more like operations and process engineering?

Tha ks!