Well now I want the context of that poem. Is it James Joyce style? Chaucer? Shakespeare? Su Dongpo?

I mean, parts of being autistic can suck but ffs it’s not a death sentence.

So sick and tired of the eugenicist POS narrative that it’s this horrible defect and not predominantly just a heritable neurotype that’s part of the normal variance of human existence. Unfortunately capitalist, and especially US society is built to punish difference but that doesn’t make us the problem.

The 1980s version of Time Bandits is made by the Monty Python team for a family audience!

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Accidentally going the right way is so infuriating.

Amusing AND educational. I love this place - top comment came from a place of understanding instead of being a snarky first-to-the-post one-liner.

Hopefully OOP achieved his goal and/or found some relief.

Goodbye

“Digital media” is a hell of a weird way of saying “capitalism”

“Trumpers” will continue to support the rancid Cheeto-in-a-cheap-suit so long as he continues to do things that will hurt people they don’t like.

It doesn’t even matter if it hurts them anymore; as long as their hate gets enacted then they’ll make that sacrifice.

The only thing he could do to lose their support is express positive things about minorities and suggest UBI, considering the backlash he got for suggesting vaccines could be a good thing some years ago.

Not who you replied to but they could very well be in some military/government field for that to reasonably apply.

Oonga boonga brain says “survive” in majority circumstances ¯\(ツ)/¯

If you’re starving and have a melon in front of you, brain probably says find a way to open and eat it.

If you’re starving, have a melon, and a person with better survival skills nearby, you’re probably going to want to befriend them.

To try to determine/posit the individual moral “nature” of a social species is silly. (◕‿◕✿)

Goodbye

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I’ll admit I lurked a bit to see if you’re US- based and it looks like you are. Maybe instead of “Jesus Christ” you can use “Abraham Lincoln?”

Like “Abraham fucking Lincoln in a cabin made of shit logs” could be a satisfactory expression of frustration.

Any name you can remember easily could work; Billy Crystal, Woody Guthrie, Greta Thunberg, even your neighbors or pets’ names.

The others will be a bit tough since they’re so ingrained in our culture but depending how “non-religious” you intend to be you can switch to “curse/hex” and wean yourself off of that into something more secular ¯\(ツ)/¯

I have one bio parent I can do that with, and I know I’m privileged to have that. To be able to confide, ask questions, seek advice, break down, or even just play cards together provides a certain level of mental safety I didn’t experience otherwise.

I only hope I can provide even a fraction of that to others; everybody deserves safe people.

Yeah this is gross. Like the other commenter said, pretty thinly veiled excuse to freely test on humans without human consent.

Mentioning testing on a “legally dead” person (without mentioning their own prior consent, like even organ donation), then questioning why we should have empathy for things that “just look human” or “just have human DNA” is wild, to put it lightly.

MIT publishing this even as an opinion piece is signaling a pretty quick return to blatant eugenicist attitudes and using live people as lab subjects because they’re rationalized as “not really people.” Ick

Was employee happiness with wages factored into this? I would be a lot more okay dealing with bullshit music for $23/hr than I would be at $10/hr.

The other factor for this would be properly allowing accommodations for employees. Not having any escape, reprieve or say sucks, but can be managed with earbuds/earplugs or occasionally queueing up a preferred song.

McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.

Hide your hands now while you still have them

Iirc at least one Super Mario Bros. game (I think 3?) is literally framed as a stage play, and the LoZ universe is canonized as a ring cycle. There’s plenty of meta-ness to Nintendo’s IPs and it’s pretty neat.