Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.

NodeBB. It’s a fairly popular webforum, but ActivityPub support is fairly new. It’s really something else to see the Fediverse through a the lens of the old Internet.

Because there is zero trust that this won’t be a one-sided liberalization, in favour of the fascists.

Hey, do I work for you?

Laziness has ALWAYS been derided as a character flaw.

This is a nonsequitor. Masturbation has also long been vilified. Doesn’t make it not pleasurable. In fact, many things that are pleasurable are framed as character flaws by people who believe they will benefit from your self-denial.

At the very least, being unable to regulate emotions when under stress. Often with the stress threshold and sources being meaningfully different from neurotypicals.

But I think a lot of people miss this distinction, both coming and going. If you can’t or haven’t identified your stressors, it can feel random. If you are always exposed to your stressors, it can feel perpetual.

Well, time to get some very inflamiatory deepfakes of Elon out there, then

I bet door-to-door salespeople would make way more money if they could just break into your homes, leave their junk on your table, and steal your credit card, and yet we don’t let them do that.

Right. But when the bar is owned by a Nazi, your options for pushing them out of the bar becomes a lot more limited.

It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?

“Reviewers” need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.

JXL is my favourite squadron.

Fuck 'em. Communication is a two-way street, and if they’re only ever willing to communicate on their own terms, then they’re not sctually interested in communicating.

I know that often, the people being discussed in these sorts of conversations are people we feel we cannot avoid, e.g, parents, bosses, partners, etc., but these people can be excised from our lives. We can move away from home when old enough, we can find new jobs, and we can find new partners. It’s work, and it’s not easy, but there are good people out there who will genuinely want to try, and you can find them.

You gotta dedide that part of your struggles today, though, are that others actually are demanding more of you than you are of them, and that they’re deciding they don’t care enough to do their part in bridging the gap.

That hurts in its own right, but it’s a different kind of hurt. It’s a fuck them kind of hurt.

This just boils down to “don’t disucuss social power dynamics” at some point, though, and that’s how social power dynamics remain unchallenged, and only ever evolve towards reinforcing the social hegemony.

People need to be able to criticise others’ words and actions when they perpetuate injustice, regardless of whether they are a part of the affected minority, and this criticism should not be viewed through the lens of taking offence.

One can criticise without being personally offended.

You understand that this is an admission that the US is just flat out a fascist country, right? A fascist democracy is still a fascist country.

I reallly like Trilian, but if you’re looking for something to help your memory, a physical pocket notebook can’t be beat. I highly recommend keeping one on hand.

I wonder when we’ll finally revoke that license.

My dad smoked for years. But so did a huge percentage of boomers. Where I grew up, poor and rural, the majority of people smoked.

You know what the majority of people didn’t have, but which I did? An epileptic grandparent. And a family history of epilepsy is associated with autism diagnoses.

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Same. Honestly, even in college things were OK until social relationships got in the way, and then I couldn’t manage. Things fell apart so fast…