Mirshe
@Mirshe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 day ago:
Have you also thought of the idea that maybe she’s masking some of those symptoms around you? A lot of the language in your post seems judgmental, if just ignorant. It could be she’s willing and able to internalize those symptoms around you or other people in order to make her life easier - lots of us do it around family because a LOT of parents wind up coming out of the gate sounding like you, and it’s easier to just go “look I’m fine” rather than have to justify our diagnosis constantly.
Autism, especially what used to be considered “high functioning” autism like Asperger’s, isn’t always a “constant” feeling of these symptoms anymore than an average schizoaffective person or someone with BPD or someone with bipolar is constantly experiencing their own symptoms. You have good days, you have bad days, and you have triggers and sometimes you can nut up even on the bad days and go to work or school or whatever. Autistic people aren’t constantly Rainman-ing their way through life, or constantly reenacting Sheldon from Big Bang Theory or whatever your popular conception is.
You’re already saying “she’s mostly not off”, so why is it so hard to believe that she has this disorder, or that it’s hard to take the next step and say “huh, she says that the medicine really helps and makes it easier for her, so I’ll believe her on that.”. I understand wanting the best and worrying about things like chemical dependency, but her doctor should be - and almost certainly IS - monitoring for this at regular checkups.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
“I feel like we couldn’t let Congress know first on the off chance someone actually grows a spine and says you can’t launch a war without approval from us.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That would make sense. Remember all the hullabaloo in the first go around every time he wound up anywhere near Walter Reed. Now, I’m unsure if there are even DOCTORS there anymore, given that DOGE determined that the VA is a horrible waste of money, but if I were wanting to keep my daily dementia drugs secret, I’d convert an interior room at Mar-A-Lago for the setup. No cameras, no paparazzi, etc.
- Comment on ☪️⛎♑️☦️ 4 weeks ago:
Can’t look too Old, because then your audience might not take you seriously. Mid-20s at BEST, unless you can look Old And Erudite, in which case you might be able to pull off mid-40s.
- Comment on "enjoy the show" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, early antifascists kinda sucked too. It didn’t help that the leader of the SA was openly gay, so a lot of antifascists latched onto that as an attack and a rallying cry.
- Comment on Assumptions 5 weeks ago:
People are gored by bison at Yellowstone every year. When I visited a few years ago, the rangers were actively having to tell people to avoid an elk who, with his harem, had decided to hang out in Fort Yellowstone for a couple days. People are dumb, or don’t think “wow that’s a 600+ lb animal the size of a minivan”.
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 1 month ago:
The difference is that Dwyer did it on live television, in a highly publicized press statement. Cameras didn’t cut away.
- Comment on UNIFIL—Israeli tanks fire on UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon 1 month ago:
Not without direct authorization of the Security Council, or if they’re directly fired upon. Considering these were TANKS firing on a foot patrol, I highly doubt anyone brought along a LAW or Javelin.
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 1 month ago:
I was about to say, just from the few BD toys I can identify, that’s an easy $4-600 depending on size.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 2 months ago:
While this is true, job opportunities for remote markets are drying up. Those markets in rural areas went big because everyone was working remote, and you can do that from anywhere with an Internet connection. Now that everyone is being forced into RTOing, people are selling those nice little rural homes to move back into apartments in the city, or else trying to find business opportunities or something out in the country.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 2 months ago:
There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 2 months ago:
So officially it’s just ACCESS. You’re not carting it away without an escort or a clear idea of where it’s going, and it’s still technically controlled by the DOE. However, since the levers are all ripped off by the administration cutting everything to the bone and then some, this is effectively a cash injection to OpenAI by financing some terror organizations and rogue states.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 months ago:
Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 months ago:
It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
I almost forgot about the storyline for FFX because I played so much blitzball.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games 2 months ago:
From what we’ve seen of him playing Path of Exile, basically, yeah. As expected from most rich assholes, he wants the prestige of being good at a game, but wants to shortcut the whole part in between where you’re not good YET.
- Comment on US | Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says 2 months ago:
Yes, but as Vance said: clearly crime is rising everywhere because it’s SO GREAT and these PDs are SO OVERWHELMED or derelict in their duties that they’re NOT EVEN TRACKING crime properly.
It’s literal fascist doublethink.
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 2 months ago:
They weren’t making bombs, apparently they manufactured explosive filler for 155mm artillery shells.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 2 months ago:
More specifically, the story has to MEAN nothing. It has to curve REALLY CLOSE to interesting ideas and statements only to swerve away just before they actually make you think about a thing.
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 months ago:
“Whitewashed tombs” comes to mind.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 2 months ago:
Catholicism IS Christianity.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 months ago:
They might’ve had one (or several) bad experiences and this is a trauma response, but even in that case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “yeah sure they’ll pay their own way, I just feel safer if we have a second pair of eyes I trust in the restaurant/cafe/etc with us”. Like, you don’t gotta be at the table, but I kinda get it for the first date or two being “hey I trust this person, mind if they tag along and grab a drink at the bar to be my watchman or whatever”.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 3 months ago:
Who knew kiting worked in real life?
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 3 months ago:
Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 months ago:
Massaging your stats to make them say what you want is basic statistics 101.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 months ago:
Also, more kids are just getting diagnosed. Back when I was in school in the 90s, I was very lucky to be in a rich school district that actually taught teachers how to spot signs so they could recommend a screening, which the district would foot the bill for because they had a psychologist on staff. Now, more and more districts have people like that, and more and more teachers are taught how to spot early signs of autism (and more parents are aware of it) that kids who previously might have just been “weird kids” are actually getting diagnosed with autism.
I won’t deny a potential environmental link, but if there is one, it’s likely more linked to fossil fuels than anything. BUT that’s hard to get traction against, and it doesn’t have a magic bullet that’ll immediately “solve” the issue.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 3 months ago:
No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 3 months ago:
That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s