ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
I guess I'm drawn to the Japonic world that exists beyond textbooks for learners of Japanese. I feel like Japanese is taught very inefficiently much of the time, because language teaching tends to be a bit superficial in general, and Japanese in particular (and I'm sure also other Japonic or East Asian languages) sees some features unnecessarily exoticized, while other features are contrarily forced into ill-fitting categories of European origin.
So I guess for me, Japonic linguistics is about getting to know Japanese on sort of a deeper level: where the language came from and where it's going, the diversities of its dialects and sociolects, the various shades of its registers, and the sort of underlying logic of the language.
I really would like to broaden my scope into other Japonic languages than just the big one, and into East Asian languages more broadly, but so far my forays into those other languages have been much more limited.
Of course I also stim for the typical reasons, but I feel like I'll sometimes sort of "play up" certain autism-associated traits as a form of body language... I've also experienced people not understanding what stims are and misinterpreting mine, so maybe it's a bit naïve of me to do this.
Perhaps normally I would do those things for those reasons, but there will always be times when I can neither talk nor leave, and don't have a communication bracelet or smartphone on my person nor a good 'helper' nearby. In those types of last-resort situations, something like trying to call attention to my stimming ends up being really the only form of communication permitted by the all-powerful Zakon*.
It might actually be precisely because this "communicative stimming" is vague/indirect that draws me to it: indirect communication is for me not subject to temporary loss in the same way as the otherwise far more preferable direct communication; and because I so often need to interpret the weird body language of the neurotypical hegemon, I might end up deriving some sort of satisfaction from "turning the tables" in a situation where it's pretty much hopeless that I'd be able to communicate at all otherwise.
*"The Zakon" (← RU зако́н 'law') is my all-encompassing term for rigid routines, as well as hypersensitivities and related behaviors, and the outwardly irrational behaviors related to masking-induced social anxieties/over-analysis. In summary, the Zakon is the compelling force behind every behavior that prompts people to ask why I don't do the obviously much easier and better thing.
Reubens also definitely did not possess dozens of photos of child sexual abuse, for which he was arrested in 2002
Edit: The photos were classified by authorities as ｢child pornography｣, ｢obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct｣, and most specifically as ｢people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation｣. Reubens denied all of these classifications of the photos, saying that the photos were just art and 100% not sexual. I wrote this comment under the assumption that Reubens was BS'ing, because I feel like the justice system would have no reason nor ability to arrest him and intentionally or accidentally describe his photo collection as worse than it actually was, and would on the contrary have every reason to let him off easy by accepting his plea bargain.
But I guess from the response to this comment that he was actually being truthful and I misunderstood/misrepresented the situation. As tends to happen when your only knowledge of a situation comes from Wikipedia. Sorry!
It could be that the type of Redditor who appreciates that type of transparency is also the same type of person who is most likely to migrate to a platform whose very code is based on transparency. I would get replies similar to yours whenever I admitted to mistakes on Reddit as well, and those types of replies always gave me mixed feelings, because something so bare-minimum really should be both mundane and expected...
I mean, it's probably not a particularly fun experience to only find out that you have this allergy after you almost fucking die eight hours after getting a vaccine with trace amounts of alpha-gal in it, in severe cases.
As the disease rises in prominence, I reckon we'll start to see at-home tests. I certainly hope that happens.
The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.
Indeed! Here in Norway we have a flag with "split and tongue" used as the state and war flag and ensign, but our civil flag is rectangular.
Nepal's flag is a thing of beauty. While the shape of the flag is ultimately based on a historical double-pennant, the shape is nowadays taken as representing a pagoda, or the shape of the Himalayas... I think this is a very clever form of symbolism, to utilize the shape of the flag itself to convey meaning. More flags should do that!
This flag uses a pall to represent the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the city, similarly to how the flag of Tuva represents the confluence of the Bii-Khem and Kaa-Khem into the Yenisei River, in their capital, Kyzyl. It's things like this that make some flag design experts recommend that flags shouldn't represent local bodies of water: it is very common for cities to be founded on confluences or forks.
Nevertheless, the flag of St. Louis is very distinctive and attractive, and I'd easily consider it to be among the best city flags of the Americas!
The motto of the Isle of Man is "Quocunque Jeceris Stabit", meaning "Wherever you throw it, it will stand". While the Manx triskelion well predates this motto, the motto is still a very nice piece of retroactive symbolism for what could be described as a very unique and striking flag, to say the least.
Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons ｜ Orlando Sentinel (nordot.app)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
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Do you have a moment to talk about... (lemmy.ml)
For those of you interested in or studying Japonic languages, what specific languages and fields pique your interest?
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
azrulemanga daioh (pawb.social)
Russia adds Norway to list of countries 'unfriendly' to its diplomats (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/999112...
I feel like I sometimes stim mainly to communicate "I am autistic and feeling overwhelmed right now" to onlookers when I can't easily talk. Can anyone else relate?
Of course I also stim for the typical reasons, but I feel like I'll sometimes sort of "play up" certain autism-associated traits as a form of body language... I've also experienced people not understanding what stims are and misinterpreting mine, so maybe it's a bit naïve of me to do this.
Venezuela has formally proposed to join the BRICS group, says Maduro (www.riotimesonline.com)
Love Denver's flag (lemmy.world)
Paul Reubens, actor best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, dies aged 70 (www.theguardian.com)
The actor died Sunday night, years after he had been diagnosed with cancer, according to his team
OC "You can't be a daddy if you have eggs" mfers when
When 1,500 daddies longleg crawl into their mouth and lay eggs in it
Unleash the science y’all (i.imgur.com)
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
Nepal's national flag is the world's only irregular flag acting as both the state flag and civil flag of a sovereign country (en.m.wikipedia.org)
City of St Louis flag (lemmy.world)
Flag of the Isle of Man (lemmy.world)
Some U.S. territorial flag remakes
Building the fediverse is an investment in us and the open web. (lemmy.world)
Felt this belonged here.
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that's rule in the corner (beehaw.org)