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Neurodivergents Will Inherit the Earth

2 points by blackhole 4y ago

publius_ 4y ago
I fail to see how furries are culturally important. Please enlighten me
- legerdemain 4y ago
  The governing body of the Rust programming language is basically run by furries. As is the Rust subreddit, mainstream Rust Discord servers, and so on.
legerdemain 4y ago
I am very sympathetic to the claim that urban and residential environments are filled with irritants and distraction. However... > Unfortunately, in our modern society, houses have little to no interior > noise insulation and almost every single electronic device makes a constant > high-frequency drone. Neurotypicals either do not hear these sounds, or tune > them out after a few minutes (and then claim the sound doesn't exist, having > immediately forgotten it). These houses are then built right next to roads > with noisy cars, often without sidewalks, and sometimes with ubiquitous > traffic noises when buried deep inside the city. How distracting these > noises are depends on the person, the noise, whether it is speech, music, > a kind of music you don't like, or a ticking clock. Many places make these > sounds inescapable, like restaurants with loud music and conversations, or > offices with ticking clocks in every single room. > > In contrast, in VR you can wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on music > no one else can hear [...] I don't think you have to be in VR to wear noise-canceling headphones. That said, I also don't think noise-canceling headphones are a solution to incidental, sudden ambient noises, since they are pretty clearly best suited to droning sounds, such as airplane engine noise. In-store music, a baby, a passing truck, and a rattling air conditioning system all easily defeat noise cancellation.
legerdemain 4y ago
> [...] allow plural people to switch between avatars depending on who is fronting. *Painful echoes of being cornered in college by someone who was very excited about self-applying the label SAPIOSEXUAL and couldn't stop talking about it.* This really, really reads like the Very Serious Writing of 17-18-year-old people picking up and putting down identities that they desperately want to fit them.

2 points by blackhole 4y ago

publius_ 4y ago

I fail to see how furries are culturally important. Please enlighten me

legerdemain 4y ago
The governing body of the Rust programming language is basically run by furries. As is the Rust subreddit, mainstream Rust Discord servers, and so on.

legerdemain 4y ago

I am very sympathetic to the claim that urban and residential environments are filled with irritants and distraction. However... > Unfortunately, in our modern society, houses have little to no interior > noise insulation and almost every single electronic device makes a constant > high-frequency drone. Neurotypicals either do not hear these sounds, or tune > them out after a few minutes (and then claim the sound doesn't exist, having > immediately forgotten it). These houses are then built right next to roads > with noisy cars, often without sidewalks, and sometimes with ubiquitous > traffic noises when buried deep inside the city. How distracting these > noises are depends on the person, the noise, whether it is speech, music, > a kind of music you don't like, or a ticking clock. Many places make these > sounds inescapable, like restaurants with loud music and conversations, or > offices with ticking clocks in every single room. > > In contrast, in VR you can wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on music > no one else can hear [...] I don't think you have to be in VR to wear noise-canceling headphones. That said, I also don't think noise-canceling headphones are a solution to incidental, sudden ambient noises, since they are pretty clearly best suited to droning sounds, such as airplane engine noise. In-store music, a baby, a passing truck, and a rattling air conditioning system all easily defeat noise cancellation.

legerdemain 4y ago

> [...] allow plural people to switch between avatars depending on who is fronting. *Painful echoes of being cornered in college by someone who was very excited about self-applying the label SAPIOSEXUAL and couldn't stop talking about it.* This really, really reads like the Very Serious Writing of 17-18-year-old people picking up and putting down identities that they desperately want to fit them.