- fallingfrogWhat's to stop Russia from simply abducting whoever we install in his place? If we can do it, anyone can. The arrogance is unbelievable.
- This will lead to a long drawn out guerilla war in the name of oil. Thousands or tens of thousands will die. And trump does. Not. Care. At. All. Neither their lives, or yours or mine, have any meaning to him and his cabinet. They simply do not care.
- Ha, I instantly read "reverse log taper, 10k ohms".
- A CEO is just a mascot without the goofy outfit.
- The autism itself, depending on the person, is often less of a problem than societal expectations. For example- in a world where everyone was red/green colorblind, such a condition would not be considered a handicap. And in a world where everyone was autistic, many things would be different.
Society punishes us severely for not being able to see the difference between red and green, to use that metaphor. And they seem to expect that if they punished us just a little harder, we would suddenly become normal. Thats the big problem. Non conforming behavior is always treated as a crime or offense on some level, but we cannot conform, and therefore must adjust to a life of endless punishment doled out by both authorities and peers.
Its quite difficult to go through life that way without developing a negative self image. This goes for people with autism, adhd and other types of neurodivergence.
- My favorite excerpt so far:
Case ID #: 50D-NY-302757
Witness Information
First Name: Donald
Middle Name:
Last Name: Trump
Age: 70
DOB:
Additional Info: Again, just trying to find out the NYPD detective on the FBI sex trafficking task force that called me a couple of weeks ago and spoke to me about some of these issues.
How is Contact Known: He participated regularly in paying money to force me to ‐----- with him and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.
Type: Business
Address:
City: Washington DC
State: District of Columbia
Zip: 20500
Country: United States
- As expected, the stupidest imaginable policy. Take all the guardrails completely off, even though the ones that are in place are already toothless. Don't worry, the free market will ensure that everything is turned into paperclips at the maximum possible speed.
- One would imagine such a practice to be illegal. But yeah this was my question as well.
- "Blacklist" in what sense? Is there a master list somewhere of people not to hire?
- I've had the experience of having migraines with aphasia- this is essentially a migraine aura that affects the part of the brain that processes language. I can confirm that while this was happening, i was aware of my surroundings and able to have thoughts, but I was unable to speak and unable to understand spoken or written language. It all just looked and sounded like gibberish. I thought about whether I should go to a hospital, what was going on, wondered whether my loved ones were concerned, and so on, but was unable to communicate any of those thoughts to other people. It was a bizarre experience.
- I dont want it to say something shocking
- I can't really hold my attention on a conversation with an AI for very long because all it does is reflect your own thoughts back to you. Its really a rather boring conversation partner. I'm already pretty good at winning arguments with myself in the shower, thank you very much.
- 140k is significantly more money than I've ever made in my life.
Where I live, really the line where life becomes a real struggle is about 80k I would say. Below that, you're putting off maintenance, not saving money, the car is accumulating wear that you can't fix, and a medical bill is fatal.
People living way below 80k can only be doing so with significant government assistance.
- The drummer in my band was the type of person who become anybody's friend in a few minutes. I watched him and gleaned this advice:
When you meet someone, your goal should be to get a little look into their inner world. Find out what they care about. And second, be genuinely interested but don't judge. It shouldn't be fake, you should really care. Pay attention to what they say.
This works pretty well for getting to know a person.
- Ah I remember running a serial cable from my bedroom to the hallway so we could play 1v1 quake via direct connect. Good times! I think we used to play age of empires that way too.
- Oh honey. I wasn't born with this attitude you know- it was beaten into me.
Nothing is punished so swiftly and severely as outshining your boss or making him look stupid.
- Reject subtlety
Embrace cringe
- Nah im just the kind of autistic that is good at solving specific kinds of problems that can be worked out through visualizing data structures
- No reason to risk making the humanity killing doomsday machine appear even a minute sooner, and besides, you wouldn't listen.
I said something because im a fool who cant keep her mouth shut. It was reasons of emotional catharsis having no rational basis.
- Tell you what, here's a story from my last job.
I was hired on to help run these experiments with a machine they were trying to perfect. They wanted to do all this stuff with running two machines in parallel, dumping the refuse from one into another machine, all kinds of silly stuff.
I looked at it and in a few minutes I sketched in my notebook a solution to their problem that would achieve the maximum theoretical yield without all these wacky experiments.
But then what would be my job? I was hired to run these experiments not solve their whole problem in 5 minutes. So I didn't tell them. I was getting paid so i didn't care if they were wasting time. I'm a smiley little trans woman anyway, they wouldn't have listened. I did work out the math though on my own.
A few months later, a team of phds at a university we were working with hit on a rudimentary form of the same idea, so at that point I revealed to the boss, oh, look I've worked out the math for that already. And I wrote up the code, and we hit the maximum theoretical yield and it ran 100x faster computationally, and i got a pat on the back. But the reason they listened was because a man with a degree said it.
Why would I bother giving them ideas if they won't listen anyway? If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.
So now of course youre all telling me im insane, and thats fine because honestly I have no incentive to give you answers ahead of time. Go suck eggs. Figure shit out on your own.