Imagine Spez’s reaction if he was forced to federate.

I get it. I’m not autistic, but I do have a brain tumor and some spinal problems that causes similar symptoms, and people love to get shitty about it. It makes some neurodivergent spaces really hard for me.

I’ve had to cut “friends” loose because they make “jokes” about how I can’t be trusted because we saw what happened with Fetterman.

I’ve stopped talking to people who insisted that I’m autistic and me denying it means I’m a hateful bigot.

I’ve stopped talking to people who think I’m cosplaying as autistic, because I could just do chemo and brain surgery and be normal again, and “real” neurodivergencies like theirs can’t be cured.

It’s lonely.

But I’m not a good puppy. I bite.

I say “thank you, I try” and blow them a flirty kiss.

Whoop whoop!

Hey, burnt offerings were made to the gods of old, right?

I think the square on the cord is an on/off switch for a lamp, not a ferrite bead

Avocados aren’t supposed to be sweet. I can’t do dairy, so sometimes I’ll use avocado to get that creaminess I’m looking for, but my favorite way to eat them is in guacamole with some tortilla chips.

WDYM that’s not normal? Every time I’ve been to the ER, it’s been packed and had to wait hours if you had something less urgent. I had broken my pelvis and one fixator pin had come loose from the halo, but the local hospital couldn’t fix it, so I had to get a friend to drive me two hours to the closest hospital that could, and then had to wait another four hours until they could re-align my bones and tighten the fixator again. If the triage nurse decides you’re not there for an emergency, they absolutely make you sit there until you give up and go away.

I keep hearing that Canada has horrible wait times, but it sounds the same to me? Does your ER not regularly run out of beds?

A similar thing happened to an observer I know in NW Washington the other day too. They realized where ICE was going and bailed, but ICE waited outside their house for hours before giving up.

Drives me insane. Like, you mother fuckers aren’t here to get a grade, you’re here to learn this shit so you know what to do when you see it in whatever hospital hires your dumb ass.

This is happening because the job market is absolutely fucked. Students are under the impression that grades are what will drive job prospects, because nobody is hiring on merit any more.

My SIL has been a nurse in the cardiac surgery department for nearly a decade, and even her hospital is now using AI to screen potential new hires.

We’re so cooked.

Its been a couple years, but I remember my map path thing showed I had to go into a pink hostile area. I figured it was a stealth mission, but I couldn’t pull it off and gave up.

Red Dead Redemption 2. I played partway through, then ran into that quest where Arthur was supposed to meet one of his party members in Blackwater, but it just kept spawning bounty hunters and I gave up after dying like ten times and not finding this guy.

That, and the MRFF site uses AI generated photographs, which always makes me question the veracity of everything associated with it. It’s not an unbelievable claim for me, I’ve been hearing people call for holy war since 9/11, but the way it’s being presented is setting off all kinds of red flags.

It just feels like I’m eating the onion here.

True, assuming this is rational behavior. People can do some pretty crazy things out of hubris or pressure though.

I’m not going to definitively state that Jeffery isn’t dead. It really is most plausible that he died that night. I just, wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up alive.

Yeah, I agree that the attempt to engage is the most important aspect. What actually constitutes “engagement” is up to semantic debate.

I do think that new arguments should be evaluated, even if it’s presented in bad faith. I feel that the bad faith nature of the argument is a factor that counts poorly in my evaluation, but it’s good to have a solid understanding of the nuance in your stance, even when it comes to the ridiculous.

But by your own admittance, you did think about it once the question was posed, so no, you’re not an intellectual nepobaby.

We have all had past experiences with how hard brick-adjacent substances affect teeth, so it’s not discarding it as a knee-jerk reaction. If you went to a dental college, and the professor made the claim before you knew better, I’d assume you’d be interested in finding out how he came to that conclusion, correct?

For example, should I engage in the “challenging idea” that the world is run by lizard people?

As a counterpoint, you likely have. You’re aware of the position, aware of the proposed evidence, and determined the evidence falls short of proof, which means you’ve engaged with their thinking before rejecting it.

I don’t get it either. I’m 5’4", my first boyfriend was 5’1", and it was fine? It lasted less than a year in highschool, but I remember it fondly.