Uair

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

dangillmor, 1 month ago to random

As @pluralistic reminds us, capitalists absolutely hate capitalism, and they're systematically returning us to their favorite system: feudalism.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/

ashleyspencer, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

I get the “you must be high functioning” often when people ask what I do for a living. I’m really not. I can’t survive in the real world. No amount of accommodations can fix that. I struggle so much socially that I’ve been bullied at almost every job I’ve had. I’ve crafted myself a perfect autistic self-employed bubble where I flourish, because in the real world I don’t.

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Are normal people hungry all the time?

I sunk out of panic mode for a couple days and goddamn if my stomach isn't a lot more aggressive than usual. I hardly ever notice it, normally.

Is this a thing? Constant hunger when you finally calm down?

Uair, 1 month ago to tech

@actuallyautistic #tech

I hardly ever automate things because it's hardly ever worth the effort. For most of my life, my coffeepot had a clock on it so i could set the pot to brew ahead of time. I just used this feature for the first time.

I don't know why, but i naturally avoid automating something until the world forces me to. I think that instinct may be right. It seems like people are forgetting basic shit because a machine does it for them.

Like how to remember things.

Uair, 1 month ago to politics

@actuallyautistic #politics

Does anyone else hear echoes of the soviet union here? Mocking a strawman because you'll be punished for talking straight is a hallmark of totaliatarianism. Fuck amazon. Nationalize that shit. Set base pay for the most menial employee engaged in bringing us our consumer goods at a hundred grand a year. Or break up the monopolies and allow competition. Something. This needs fixing.

https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/

Uair, 1 month ago to Law

@actuallyautistic #law #politics

Billion dollar idea:

Build a new landline network in america. People would pay a /lot/ of money for a phone the cops need a warrant to tap.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I identify as:

A grownup

I can't seem to find the others, at least in meatspace. sigh

It's like the world forgot how.

flexghost, 1 month ago to random

** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme is:

☁️🪩 PARTY TIME, EXCELLENT!🍸🤍

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🎵 Post songs you’d play if you were throwing a party along with what you’re drinking 🎶
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A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
She's got it
Yeah, baby she's got it
I’m your Venus
I'm your fire, at your desire

🍷 Venus - Shocking Blue + Cosmo🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Video of the band shocking blue high on -- I don't even know what

mykhaylo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Ukraine

You guys still didn’t get it. It’s not a choice between supporting or not supporting Ukraine.

It’s a choice between fighting Russia yourself or with money. And it’s not indefinite, if Ukraine loses you will have to fight.

Not because you want to. But because there’s only one kind of invitation you cannot say no to: “let’s go outside”.

France is smart: they are already discussing reinstating general military service. They are preparing. You should too. 1/2

#ukraine #war #nato #us #ww3 #eu

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Does anyone else use Perplexity, the AI search engine? Mine died this week. I'm trying to figure out if the app is dead or i'm just not allowed to use it any more.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

It was twenty years ago i accepted the pointelessness of doing. There is nothing i can do to improve my situation. Any action i take will only make it worse.

Ten years ago i accepted the impossibility of thinking.I know it takes a year to complete a train of thought alone i could finish in a half hour with a human to talk to.

Last year i accepted the impossibility of getting ahead of the cops.Any stranger has just seen a pic of me telling them to hate me.

I'm paralyzed.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

True story:

When i was in DC trying to get some civil rights, i caught the first preseason caps game. I ordered a Flyers jersey and a top deck mid ice seat right at the glass. My plan was to cheer the injuries. I didn't know what the fuck was going on at all at the time, i just knew i was l on the wrong side of the kissinger people.

I ended up not going. I'm a writer, not a performer.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

More adventures in homelessness.

Looks like i'm being driven out of this funhouse hotel roim. I mean, it'd be nice to trade up for a home that doesn't have cameras, and isn't rigged to prevent me sleeping.

Last friday i walked around the block and someone shouted, "call a lawyer", but i was on a drunk and waited to sober up. I even bought a phone.

1/2

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

1/2

Fun story:

When i was in DC trying to get some civil rights, they put some poor FBI guy in the park across from my hotel. He was posing as a homeless person and had to sleep on a bench. I used to sit at the next bench and talk to him out the side of my mouth like a 20s gangster while smoking a joint.

I offered to switch places with him. I've slept on benches--it's brutal for old fucks like me and he. I had a bed inside i only used half of the time.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Fun new chapter in being broke! I just managed to start getting real sleep. I thought i had worked out an accommodation with the local police.

A few minutes ago a lease termination was slipped under my door. I now owe 120% of April's rent. 120% more. I already paid it.

Oh well. Find out tomorrow.

I'm so tired of being fucked with. They broke in and put a rubber band under my pillow, too. I'm used to that kind of stuff. A big hair. Whatever.

This game gets old.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I just duckduck'ed "heridatery" because my brain refused to agree that any sequence of vowels in that word were the correct spelling.

Anyway, the first 19 results were about the movie. M-w.com was 20th.

The search engine apocalypse is here.

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to random

I read something today about how almost everything in the wellness and influencer industries are actually multi level marketing, and that finally explains those industries to me. Probably also true of some aspects of online alt right movements

Everything is MLM and everything is a cult. A somewhere in between, or both

(From the person from the podcast ‘The Dream’ who also has a new book out about this, ‘Selling the Dream’)

samplereality, 1 month ago to random

Twice in the past week I've read scholars who should know better repeat the urban legend that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, and thus, jamming, on early typewriters.

That'd be cool if it were true, but it's not, and the the truth is even cooler. The QWERTY keyboard evolved over time, shaped by two forces: (1) since the early machines were used by telegraph operators, the keys were arranged to avoid common transcription errors; and (2) competing patents of the typewriter slightly arranged the keyboard layout in order to qualify as new (and therefore patentable) designs.

Check out this research for more: https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf