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by shazbotter 1y ago
I dunno, I try not to make corporation use part of my identity. It's a fact I use their products, and I think I like that product, but I'd never claim some attachment beyond they make a decent thing worth paying for.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
> Anyone who claims there is no difference between the parties at this point is trolling or sufficiently ignorant as to be indistinguishable from a troll. Good thing that's not what I said. Biden dramatically increased Arctic oil dr
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I use Kagi on my phone. Pretty easy switch. Will anyone switch? Demonstrably yes?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
No credit card, no mortgage, no "you cover dinner tonight and I'll Venmo you later"...
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by shazbotter 1y ago
It really does not matter. Biden didn't meaningfully solve anything (and if anything, he made Trump's ascendency easier). Harris would not have solved things either. She'd continue to empower corporations and the wealthy, jus
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Because they are. Autism is a diagnosis of a collection of symptoms, not a diagnosis of a root cause. We don't know what causes autism, and there may be many many things that do.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I think you may be projecting your experience as the "normal" one, or not understanding the magnitude of "I had to". It's not like, "this is unpleasant" it's like, "I am in a life threatening sit
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Because certain autistic traits are will supported by certain therapies and medications and supports, while other neurodiversity is supported by other forms of therapy, medication, and supports. You cannot fix the root cause, nor should you
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by shazbotter 1y ago
> Nearly 100% of people I know (including myself) have small idiosyncracies that are comparable, i.e. one friend can't leave the house without checking multiple times that the stove is off The difference between an idiosyncrasy and
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Are you asking if people with Down's syndrome are unique people with unique experiences and personalities? Because I hope you'd pretty quickly arrive at "yes, of course people with Down's syndrome are unique people with
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Yep. Too much empathy can be a diagnostic signal for folks with autism. (These days Asperger's is now diagnosed as autism and not a separate diagnosis.)
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I voted third party. But ultimately a presidential vote is worth very little compared to actually putting in the work in one's community. Too many people think if they vote once every four years they've done their civic duty and c
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I largely agree it's fine to cut those people out of your life. But I go to things like food not bombs and if someone shows up a decade from now and confides they voted for Trump but they've since learned why that was bad, and the
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by shazbotter 1y ago
As an autistic person, what you say is correct to my experience. I have all sorts of sensory processing issues that all basically are variations on "I can't ignore signals".
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by shazbotter 1y ago
An autistic person can absolutely be good at that. It might not be intuitive, but that doesn't mean they can't be good at it. > But more to the point, not everything is an attack on autistic people No one said it was. I said it
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Not in the least?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
And that led to under reported statistics?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today. Let people become allies and reconcile with why they took so long another time.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
> People with WS are empathetic, social, friendly and endearing but they tend to have a low IQ, making tasks such as counting money difficult. > They can feel anxious over stimuli such as the buzzing of a bee, or the texture of food.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
That's how I do it, but my needs socially are mostly already met, so the incremental gain for being outgoing serves no practical need, but has some notional risk and cost.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I'm autistic, and what you describe doing sounds impossible to me. I live in constant fear of inconveniencing others. I personally find it inconvenient when someone outside my close circle wants my time. It's expensive for me to p
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Which billionaires haven't hurt anyone in the process? To accumulate a billion dollars, don't you necessarily have to hurt people in the process?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Do you have tattoos? I find most sensors cannot read my vitals through my tattoos.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
There is no human alive who can ethically enjoy a billion dollars. Give them each a hundred million and say, you've hit your cap, everything else goes towards the public good. A hundred million dollars buys you a life of comfort and lu
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by shazbotter 1y ago
> Well the railroads aren't the seat of power that they used to be You don't think that Carnegies, Vanderbilts, Goulds, etc don't have outsized influence and wealth?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I was using computers in the 80s, Usenet by the late 80s. The hacker ethos back then was about as far from fascism as one might imagine.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Hacker culture has always been left leaning, lol. Open source is a grand anarchist experiment. You expect hackers to be like, "we love capitalism! We love strong hierarchies!"? Don't be daft.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Damn, DEF CON used to be a real one. It's a damn shame to see this happen to a group of hackers. I'm sure other venues and community events will take up the mantle given time, but it's still a bummer to see an event that used
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Please be substantive in your replies.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
This is the expected outcome in capitalism. The general flow is money -> commodities -> greater money, and while it's not zero sum eventually that flow necessarily concentrates the money into entities that have the most money. On

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