how did she get so tall

i think the chinese sealed their victory like twenty years ago, as long as we avoid any nuclear incidents. i’m pretty optimistic about the long-term future outside of concerns about who is going to end up in control of america’s nukes when it collapses.

if the US ends up balkanizing, which seems like the probable end result to me, it’s almost inevitable that without some kind of huge foreign intervention nuclear weapons are going to end up in the hands of someone who will use them.

while obviously the world has a bumpy road ahead that’s the one roadblock i see with no plausible way (that i can think of) around it.

i mean at this point it should be clear to anyone that the west isn’t going to do jack about covid and frankly it’s just too late now anyhow. the only options china has is to either commit to eternal zero-covid or try and handle opening up the best they can. i don’t find the first option very plausible so in my mind it’s just a matter of when and how.

i am also autistic + ADHD that’s been in a shitload of therapy over my life and my experience is more or less the same. from what i’ve read from other autistic people there seems to be a general consensus that whatever techniques or ideas (though i’ve felt there hasn’t been any kind of philosophy or science at all behind the therapy i’ve received beyond “talking good”) therapists are trained in are for neurotypicals and they simply don’t work for us. therapists i’ve seen which claim to specialize in autism or ADHD end up not actually having any relevant training but rather have a family member on the spectrum or something. i suppose it’s possible that therapy doesn’t even work for neurotypicals and they’re just more likely to think or say that it does.

i don’t have any advice for you other than to keep talking to your friend. even if you give up on therapists don’t give up on talking about this stuff to people. solidarity.

i think people also underestimate how badly long term isolation screws up your brain even outside of like, the weird ideological/mental consequences. our brains are what they are because they’re designed for complex social interactions. frequent face to face interaction with other people is a required input for our neurochemistry to function properly just like food or water is.

i’ve been more or less a shut-in since i was a teenager and the amount of cognitive decline and weird neurotic shit i can observe in myself over time is staggering. long-term serotonin and dopamine shortages reshape your brain in some very unpleasant ways. i have a knack for self-observation so i can recognize a lot of this stuff in myself and try to regulate it but i fear if i had never developed that skill i would be completely off the deep end.

you telling me “mecha-tankie” is just a larp term? i dont buy it

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rocking my che t-shirt for casual friday here at predator drone command #girlboss

well hook us up then my dude

blows my mind sometimes that shit like this gets semi-regularly called out in the main areas of reddit and people still eat it up after the fact

ah, i see i made the diversity-divergence slipup. i’m aware of the difference but my mind autocompleted incorrectly. this is a good resource though

for a group made up of people often prone to dyslexia and the like you’d think they could have given us some easier to distinguish main terms, huh? the double neurodiver is a killer. good name for a shoegaze band at least

im autistic and have been thinking a neurodiversity or similar channel would be a good idea. there are a lot of neurodiverse comrades. i’d follow it at least.

i think if there is an argument for capital punishment it’s to be used against people like this. the old argument for it being used in the case of murderers and such is that they’re “too dangerous to be left alive.”

i find the likelihood of a corrupt billionaire in a position of power being able to bribe or utilize his connections for escaping or doing more damage to the people from behind bars much much higher than a murderer busting out of maximum security. there is also much less likelihood for reform. these people don’t change because they don’t have to.

there’s just not a good way to ensure he’d remain penniless and in jail for the rest of his life without taking a huge risk.

somebody oughtta commission an artist to make us a soviet style propaganda poster about not just reading headlines

yeah i didnt really mean it as a correction or anything i had just taken my ritalin and was rambling about something i find interesting

i imagine its more a function of “people who have similar activity to you frequently responded to these comments,” and in practice with any sort of political content that’s going to be opinions you disagree with.

i realize its a bit of a chicken and egg situation but i dont think they postulated “oh controversial opinions will get more engagement, lets tweak the algorithm to show that to people.” its that the algorithm led itself to doing that and they’re very happy to let it.

i dont intend to discount the lack of ethics here whatsoever but i just find this kind of simple profit-seeking logic resulting in complex shitty outcomes both fascinating and ubiquitous when analyzing capital’s behavior. so often we attribute an individual’s intent and planning to things that are really emergent complexities of capital’s simple process of profit selection.

anyways im sure everybody already knows this i just find it morbidly neat.

hey im not going to trash a westerner for realizing his head is full of shit

digging shit out of your brain as an american is full time work

projection like this is quintessential to the fascist propaganda strategy. “we’re not fascist, we’re national socialists; the socialists are the real fascists.” “we’re not interfering with your democracy the russians are” “we’re not terrorists; any civilians we kill are designated post-mortem as terrorists” etc. it’s ubiquitous in the american worldview.

antifascists are fascists, elected representatives are dictators, popular revolutions are coups. you’re not brainwashed, anyone who challenges what we tell you is. the most blatant and simplistic tactic for manipulation of public perception is one of the most incredibly effective.

Unfortunately, no. I’ve told myself for years I’d join the PSL “as soon as I get my shit together” but sadly it seems my shit will likely remain apart until the end of time. Hopefully I’ll figure it out someday regardless.