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Uair

@Uair@autistics.life

I have no hole into which you can pigeon me. I'm unique. Just like everyone else.

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Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

1/2

I'll put out the call again. Maybe someday...

I need one person who isn't lying to me. I've never had that. Everyone I've been close to, all my family, were lying to me about who they were and who I was all my life. Now, my only source of information is the internet, and I don't trust it. I missed the memo where everyone on the internet became honest and honorable; I still see it as an unregulated wasteland of bullshit and scam artists.

Uair,
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@actuallyautistic

2/3

So--is anyone willing to be my only person? It's a burden, I know, and even creepier because I don't believe internet people are real until I've met them in meatspace. I was "friends" with "Juan" for fifteen years, loaning money back and forth and talking on the phone, and he was a federal construct.

I need answers I can trust to the following questions:

  1. was there a big solar flare causing Aurora Borealis recently?

  2. <cont.>

Uair, to Economics
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@actuallyautistic

I was fiddling around online recently and came across the trope that there's some kind of housing shortage in the US. Jeeze Louise! I thought we'd solved that forever ago. This guy 'splained it in '92:

https://invidious.drgns.space/watch?v=GchEbLSY9FY

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

Uair,
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@RickiTarr

compatibility

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@economics@a.gup.pe @actuallyautistic

I had another million dollar idea. Start manufacturing reusable substitutes for plastic junk. I cook, and try to reuse the packaging my foodstuffs come in, but why not glass/ wood/ metal/ silicon permanent solutions? Most people see a difference between an old pickle jar--trash--and a glass jar with steel lid they bought at Sharper Image, so make some money selling them one.

I need a place to store 20lbs of rice and 4lb bags of beans.

Uair, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

Uair,
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@Rhube @bookstodon
SF isn't superior, but it is harder to write.As is mystery. Fantasy and horror require the least skill of any genre to write.Any time you write yourself into a corner you can simply change the rules.Hell, zombie stories are like "the aristocrats" in that there's no actual story on which to hang the rest. They're a jazz riff.Far as I can tell, time travel is the hardest to do well.

Bear in mind, pTerry is my favorite author.

And story comes first.
https://invidious.drgns.space/watch?v=9vZcMHhmolU

Uair,
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@benetnasch @bookstodon

1/2

It makes sense to me. Sorry.

I do stand by "story comes first". I'm versatile; I think like a creator. I can enjoy a book that's just a montage when it's well done. Brautigan has his moments. Story is the engine of a novel, of a play. It's the framework upon which all else is draped, it's the reader's reason to turn the page. And the story is a lot easier to write in fantasy and horror than scifi and mystery. I've done enough composition to know.

Uair,
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@benetnasch @bookstodon

I think a lot of people are making a broader statement out of my words than the one at which I was aiming.

I wasn't looking for a fight, but always seem to find one.

While I'm at it, Tolkien sucks.

randahl, to random
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Brilliant proposal by German politicians: Let us place air defence systems inside NATO, and have these systems save civilian lives by shooting down missiles over western Ukraine.

This is pretty clever because

  1. Russia cannot bomb these systems as that would be an act of war against the entire NATO alliance.

  2. The systems cannot trigger a war with Russia themselves, as they are not attacking Russia.

Do it!

https://www.dw.com/uk/u-nimeccini-proponuut-zbivati-droni-nad-ukrainou-silami-nato/a-69054148

Uair,
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@tshirtman

IIRC, although it took a lot of arm-twisting, Europe went along with invasion for "regime change" fairly recently.

Putin probably knows this.

Uair,
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@tshirtman

You missed my point.

I was saying that if he fucks with Europe, they will go in and depose him. He knows this. I hope.

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic @brainteaser

Which would you rather have, a truckload of nickles or half a truckload of dimes?

Bonus Q:
In a statistically significant pile of American pocket change, the coins are in a ratio of 1:2:3:4. Why?

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic @ashleyspencer @health

I had another million dollar idea if anyone wants to run with it.

As a kid, mmy family used to take 95 down the East coast (USA) and I always was happy when we got to South of the Border, a sprawling truck stop that was the last place to purchase fireworks for a thousand miles.

We should make North of the Border, a for-profit healthcare complex. We can have the abortion wing, where abortionists hang out shingles advertizing their wares.

1/2

Uair,
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@actuallyautistic @ashleyspencer @health

2/2

Then we can have the trans care wing, with all those alternatives displayed.

Include a banned bookstore.

And anything else the red states want to take away from their citizens. Blue staters can head South for fireworks and illegal guns, red staters can head north for healthcare and information.

Win-win!

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

Uair,
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@RickiTarr

they make movies about me and I don't know why. they make movies about me and I don't know why. they make movies about me and I don't know why. all play and no work makes jack and interesting boy. all play and no work makes jack an interesting boy. all play and no work makes jack an interesting boy. reality doesn't get a voice. reality doesn't get a voice. reality doesn't get a voice.

I'm prone to brain loops.

I don't cope. Weed + video games.

Uair,
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@RickiTarr

AuDHD + cPTSD. Those three go together. On a 5 scale, I'd say I'm 2.5 on ADD, 3 on autism, and 4 on trauma. Maybe 4.5.

Add to that a lifetime of near-to-total isolation and the fact that I grew up without a sibling, cousin, religion, or culture, and I'm just done in.

Weed and video games. They can nullify a whole lifetime's ambition. Why do I need to nullify my ambition? Well, I don't trust the internet enough to stay up for the aurora last night. I figured I was being punked.

Uair,
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@RickiTarr

Be as nosy as you like. I communicate well that way. It's an autistic thing, but I definitely appreciate someone who just fucking asks me shit. I do not do indirect well.

Yeah, there's not much to do with ambition any more. Chase money? Naaah.

I'd like a voice, but am too unstable just yet.

It gets hard to sit alone in a room and do nothing after the first couple decades.

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

How are you with animals?

I tend to throw off the wrong vibe for people, but get along with even the iffy animals. Dogs that don't like most people warm to me.

Just wondering how much of that is autism and how much me. My dad hates animals.

Uair,
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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic

I am an animal. A clever monkey.

Uair,
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@CarolynStirling @actuallyautistic @EVDHmn

I'm scared of horses, too.

Uair,
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@stevebrady @actuallyautistic

Based on my informal survey, yes, we're much better with animals than normal people.

That makes sense. Everybody's an animal; autists aren't in denial of it.

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

Hey everyone! I mentioned this once before, but I've been using the page substitutes on this account and they really are awesome. This is the old internet. Better. Worth checking out.

https://autistics.life/@freeschool@qoto.org

mekkaokereke, to random
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No one watches women's sports! (Because we don't televise the games 🤡).

So the WNBA premiere of Caitlin Clark was televised. But the WNBA premiere of Angel Reese (2023 champ who beat Caitlin Clark) and Kamila Cardoso (2024 champ who beat Caitlin Clark), wasn't televised or available to stream in the app. So... A fan set up a bootleg stream. 430K viewers tuned in to watch.🤯

https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/angel-reese-lsu-fan-livestream-wnba-debut-drew-430000-viewers/article_ad17806f-56e1-5be1-ab0c-785e0a26dbaf.html

This is free money! Customers are trying to throw it at you!

Uair,
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@mekkaokereke @philip_cardella

We need a WNHL.

It's the only sport I know where a woman can compete against the men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Rh%C3%A9aume

Uair,
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@mekkaokereke @philip_cardella

Arcanum explained it. Women get -1 str and +1 constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura

Uair, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

Well, today I'm not allowed to buy potatoes or lemon juice. I have no freaking idea why the state are such assholes to me. They trick me into thinking there is some kind of way to get along with them and it's always Charlie Brown placekicking. Today they had me convinced they wanted me sober, but that's not enough, apparently, to be allowed a side dish or flavoring in my water.

They make movies about me and I don't know why. They make movies about me and I don't know why.

Uair,
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@actuallyautistic

That ended up being a funny escapade. I just hate being driven like that. I hate the lack of autonomy.

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