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"It's cannabis, not cann'tabis."
"It's cannabis, not cann'tabis."
And eventually, over time, exposure to these patterns of behavior causes anxiety that makes autistic people less likely to engage at all, and more likely to withdraw from emotionally fraught situations.
May 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And eventually, over time, exposure to these patterns of behavior causes anxiety that makes autistic people less likely to engage at all, and more likely to withdraw from emotionally fraught situations.
Exactly. It's not really that there's always a deficit in empathy, cognitive or affective. It's the result of a mutual breakdown in communication, and some NT people who don't know any better tend to assign blame to autistic people instead of actually understanding what's going on.
May 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Exactly. It's not really that there's always a deficit in empathy, cognitive or affective. It's the result of a mutual breakdown in communication, and some NT people who don't know any better tend to assign blame to autistic people instead of actually understanding what's going on.
As a young man in America, it's real bad.
February 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As a young man in America, it's real bad.
LITERALLY! I end up having to be an "incel whisperer" from time to time, and some of these dumbasses do not believe me when I tell them that the exact suffering they are going through is shit that therapists help fix every day of their career.
February 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
LITERALLY! I end up having to be an "incel whisperer" from time to time, and some of these dumbasses do not believe me when I tell them that the exact suffering they are going through is shit that therapists help fix every day of their career.
I guess Chappell Roan really saved some lives with "Good Luck Babe".
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I guess Chappell Roan really saved some lives with "Good Luck Babe".
It's always the least courageous and least honorable people you know who are insistent that those qualities should be important for everybody else, but not for them.
You want a more courageous and honorable world? Stand up for people when they can't fight back.
You want a more courageous and honorable world? Stand up for people when they can't fight back.
February 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It's always the least courageous and least honorable people you know who are insistent that those qualities should be important for everybody else, but not for them.
You want a more courageous and honorable world? Stand up for people when they can't fight back.
You want a more courageous and honorable world? Stand up for people when they can't fight back.
And when you have a large, conservative group of men that devalues healthcare, education, administration, and literacy in a country, I think that we are now seeing the results of what that looks like right this very moment.
February 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
And when you have a large, conservative group of men that devalues healthcare, education, administration, and literacy in a country, I think that we are now seeing the results of what that looks like right this very moment.
Men are held to such low standards that it's honestly insulting. Meanwhile, women have to do everything we have to do "backwards and in heels" and never stop getting shit for no reason.
Men cling to sexism, but it only makes them unhappy and lonely. Getting rid of it benefits men and women.
Men cling to sexism, but it only makes them unhappy and lonely. Getting rid of it benefits men and women.
February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Men are held to such low standards that it's honestly insulting. Meanwhile, women have to do everything we have to do "backwards and in heels" and never stop getting shit for no reason.
Men cling to sexism, but it only makes them unhappy and lonely. Getting rid of it benefits men and women.
Men cling to sexism, but it only makes them unhappy and lonely. Getting rid of it benefits men and women.
Part of the reason why those incentives would be needed to begin with is because people working in those professions tend to be treated like crap because of a long history of sexism causing them to be devalued.
February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Part of the reason why those incentives would be needed to begin with is because people working in those professions tend to be treated like crap because of a long history of sexism causing them to be devalued.
If that's even close to reality, then maybe those young men should feel lonely and ashamed. This is what happens when you grow up thinking that reading is gay or whatever, and you never actually give any thought into why reading = gay or gay = bad.
February 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If that's even close to reality, then maybe those young men should feel lonely and ashamed. This is what happens when you grow up thinking that reading is gay or whatever, and you never actually give any thought into why reading = gay or gay = bad.
"Glocalities found young women are most concerned about issues like 'sexual harassment, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and mental health problems.' Men were generally more focused on 'competition, bravery, and honor.'"
So, women care about actual problems, and men don't?
So, women care about actual problems, and men don't?
February 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Glocalities found young women are most concerned about issues like 'sexual harassment, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and mental health problems.' Men were generally more focused on 'competition, bravery, and honor.'"
So, women care about actual problems, and men don't?
So, women care about actual problems, and men don't?
I get the feeling that this is God telling Harrison Butker that he should take the advice he usually saves for "uppity women". "Your place is in the home."
February 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I get the feeling that this is God telling Harrison Butker that he should take the advice he usually saves for "uppity women". "Your place is in the home."
From that perspective, I think that we can agree the issue with these mechanics is that they often demand this very different mode of thinking from players without notice and without explicit expectations or scaffolding.
February 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
From that perspective, I think that we can agree the issue with these mechanics is that they often demand this very different mode of thinking from players without notice and without explicit expectations or scaffolding.
I don't know if we're talking about the same phenomenon right now.
It might be an autism thing on my end, but it seems to me like normal RPG play from a player's perspective also requires improvisation and a willingness to communicate in front of a group.
It might be an autism thing on my end, but it seems to me like normal RPG play from a player's perspective also requires improvisation and a willingness to communicate in front of a group.
February 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I don't know if we're talking about the same phenomenon right now.
It might be an autism thing on my end, but it seems to me like normal RPG play from a player's perspective also requires improvisation and a willingness to communicate in front of a group.
It might be an autism thing on my end, but it seems to me like normal RPG play from a player's perspective also requires improvisation and a willingness to communicate in front of a group.
I wonder to what extent asking players to improvise is a cause of anxiety.
I think it's possible that your observation may relate to expectations for psychological safety.
e.g People may feel comfortable improvising in what they see as the traditional role of a player, but not outside of it.
I think it's possible that your observation may relate to expectations for psychological safety.
e.g People may feel comfortable improvising in what they see as the traditional role of a player, but not outside of it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I wonder to what extent asking players to improvise is a cause of anxiety.
I think it's possible that your observation may relate to expectations for psychological safety.
e.g People may feel comfortable improvising in what they see as the traditional role of a player, but not outside of it.
I think it's possible that your observation may relate to expectations for psychological safety.
e.g People may feel comfortable improvising in what they see as the traditional role of a player, but not outside of it.
I think one game that uses that kind of delegation to the player effectively is how Brindlewood Bay handles solving mysteries.
The players' improvisation is scaffolded because they have to put together the clues that they've spent the entire session gathering in a way that actually makes sense.
The players' improvisation is scaffolded because they have to put together the clues that they've spent the entire session gathering in a way that actually makes sense.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I think one game that uses that kind of delegation to the player effectively is how Brindlewood Bay handles solving mysteries.
The players' improvisation is scaffolded because they have to put together the clues that they've spent the entire session gathering in a way that actually makes sense.
The players' improvisation is scaffolded because they have to put together the clues that they've spent the entire session gathering in a way that actually makes sense.
"Inclusion and exclusion criteria" are words that are going to be in any clinical trial or systematic review.
February 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Inclusion and exclusion criteria" are words that are going to be in any clinical trial or systematic review.
The hat man gives you a little boost in the air. If you give him the 20 bucks you owe him, he might agree to give you a piggyback ride.
February 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The hat man gives you a little boost in the air. If you give him the 20 bucks you owe him, he might agree to give you a piggyback ride.
He did that shit *twice*.
January 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
He did that shit *twice*.
I'll never know what would have happened in a world where Pfizer didn't shut their research down. I do know that I'm going to think about it a lot.
January 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'll never know what would have happened in a world where Pfizer didn't shut their research down. I do know that I'm going to think about it a lot.
I just lost my grandfather because of Parkinson's, which was diagnosed back in 2018. A week ago, he threw up his last dose of Sinemet, went to sleep, and never woke up again before he died of dehydration in his sleep seven days later.
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I just lost my grandfather because of Parkinson's, which was diagnosed back in 2018. A week ago, he threw up his last dose of Sinemet, went to sleep, and never woke up again before he died of dehydration in his sleep seven days later.
To be clear, many people working at Pfizer legitimately do want to make the world a healthier place to live in.
I just think that their executive leadership's decision to cut funding for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research and fire the researchers back in 2018 was clearly greed-motivated.
I just think that their executive leadership's decision to cut funding for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research and fire the researchers back in 2018 was clearly greed-motivated.
January 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To be clear, many people working at Pfizer legitimately do want to make the world a healthier place to live in.
I just think that their executive leadership's decision to cut funding for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research and fire the researchers back in 2018 was clearly greed-motivated.
I just think that their executive leadership's decision to cut funding for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research and fire the researchers back in 2018 was clearly greed-motivated.