Helmic

Unhealthy by what metric, and how are you defining making media your entire existence that somehow doesn't apply to autistics?

There's a growing number because autistic liberation and the ND movement more generally are growing movements, and they challenge normative assumptions about things like interests. If you want to criticize mass media, you'll have to dig deeper than a surface level digust with people being "weird" about it if you genuinley don't want to give people shit for being weird.

And I think that is a bad take, and I base that on the frequent complaints about that take in autistic spaces. I literally haven't seen a Marvel movie, I listen to theory as audiobooks while I'm at work, my position is based on the awful shit that gets done to autistics to "correct" this supposedly bad behavior.

If one wanted to criticize the internalization of bad ideas in mass media, like "US are the world police and that is good" then sure, but media as a reflection of moral chatacter is some 19th century "everything has to quote Shakespeare because intellectuals read Shakespeare" shit.

Too bad, not gonna throw the many autistics that got shit for "age inappropriate" interests under the bus so people can make bad criticisms of something they find annoying.

i know people who literally have a special interest in barney. the fuckin' purple dinosaur. like you can't operate in an autistic space if you're unable to get on with people who don't share a show with you, so the alternative is generally learning to appreciate others enjoying shit you don't

i think rhe assumption that people will go down this linear progression in taste is flawed, given that lots of people keep the same tastes their whole life and are otherwise perfectly functional.

i am beginning to regret the slop and treat memes. moralizing media consumption easily dips into ableism, it's often just a way to act smug about superficial preferences instead of actually criticizing the parts of popular media that are actually bad, like the CIA propaganda or exploitation in production.

doesn't the dev draw porn of the siblings? it's very obviously a fetish thing.

yeah it's not something people would advertise about themselves. in that rare exception sure i'm not gonna go on the twitter dot com and cancel some random married couple that did not break up a long term relationship over it, but that's usually not what the weirdos who argue for it are talking about.

Virtually everyone outside of certain cities drives, though. Without infrastructure to provide an alternative to driving - at a minimum, a bus route, which not even that will happen near here - people are going to drive even if it sucks. It already sucks and people are still spending a plurality of their income maintaining their car.

inconsistent traffic laws make you safer by keeping you on your toes

in practice we just have "no right on red" signs or specific right turn signals at intersections where it would be problematic. out where everything is so spread out there isn't any pedestrian traffic and bikes act like vehicles (and so are not alllowed to cut past cars on their right where they are liable to get hit).

as typical, american imagination about change is based on the assumption there will be no infrastructure to support it. no turn on red wouldn't make sense as a blanket rule given current infrastructure due to a lack of bike or pedestrian infrastructure to take advantage of it and the obvious congestion problems that come from cars idling at a traffic light. actually create that infrastructure and the time lost to needing to sit at a red light so non car traffic can cross safely will be less than the time saved due to there being fewer cars on the road to begin with. imagine if the light wasn't red to begin with because there weren't other cars. imagine not having to drive at all.

iunno how i'm feeling about AI art. like, i'm generally not a fan of presenting lowered barriers as a bad thing, but something about any dickhead being able to conjure up an image that, at least at first glance, looks very technically accomplished (before you notice the stray limbs and mindfuck geometry) has removed so much of what made someone posting pictures online notable. there's not even the art of someone collecting memes and applying them in a way that is appropriate or interesting, it's literally just someone typing in the most thoughtless thing into a prompt and posting the image result, and thus making the presence of images online less interesting.

like, had someone tried to paint a surreal picture like that, it'd be fascinating to dissect, but because AI pictures are omnipresent, weird and surreal images are now just a sign of laziness instead of actual creativity that would invite contemplation. it becomes harder to just sit and think about how a strange picture makes me feel knowing it isn't any more reflective of another human being than the pattern of grooves in the paint on my walls - technically put there by another person but far more the result of the tool being used than any sort of creative process. and then knowing that i'm gonna actually pass over something that actually would be interesting because i assumed it was just another meaningless AI prompt.

Look, we don't know the context. For all we know he was doing something wrong and was heroically stopped by an inmate. These situations happen in a split second, we cannot judge the inmate for what they did to secure their own safety and the safety of others.

In all seriousness, celebrating the carceral system's cruelty when we are trying to abolish it is inherently contradictory, but most of us are stuck thinking in carceral terms. I'm sure your position is consistent, but people are used to the only time the prison system gets criticized is when a right wing ghoul or offer privileged white boy gets in trouble. So we get this situation where prison abolitionists don't feel comfortable trying to argue "no exceptions" because if someone isn't netting tortured then that's taken as the original harm not being taken seriously... and the harm here was a racist public lynching.

In an abstract sense, I don't want any murderers killed like that. I don't want prison to be a thing. But for once the people exempted from the prison industrial complex are subjected to the same shit as everyone else.