TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read the shitty meme again

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this like that "the 90s were 10 years ago" effect? The viking age was 1,000 years ago. More, really.

500 years ago the world had been circumnavigated

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Please attend a very basic civics class

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

And the ebooks automatically return themselves.

FUCK I've been wasting so many USB drives

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

That's what you think, Michael

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Can I ask, in the friendliest way possible and purely for my curiosity so I really don't expect an answer, how you balance "higher power" with "doesn't use it"? The way you've described it could be interrupted as anything from an otherwise traditional Christian who doesn't believe in directly answered prayers, to believing that this is some sort of simulation we will wake up from.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How long do you have to wait for a sexual assault to no longer be a crime, in your opinion? Remember this is the law. You can't just say "when it feels like it". 50 years? 25? 7?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not autistic (well, probably - I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until my thirties because mental health was taboo in Ireland) but am ND and so is my son. It's hard to know how to thread this line with him. A world that catered for ADHD would be a nice one to live in, it might even set us up for success by giving us the roles we're good at. But this isn't that world, and NT people aren't any more to blame for growing up in a world that has been shaped for millenia by NT people. You can be educated about neurodiversity but they can't see inside an ADHD brain any more than I can see inside an autistic brain (again... Probably).

Even in a simple, small, and flexible society, there would be downsides to ADHD. Acceptance and patience isn't going to solve rejection sensitivity. New measures of success aren't going to solve dopamine deficiency. I assume there are sides of autism that all the love and acceptance in the world won't make a blessing.

Gifted the head is something like what ADHD people get patronisingly called too when someone looks for a saccharin label. I would dislike it. The newer term sounds far closer to neurodivergent which - and it's new-ish still for me at my age! - better gives a short and non-judgemental statement - brain different.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

WebP is definitely the VHS in this scenario - editing and creating images is NOT the most common use of image files. Not by a long shot. It's for distribution of images, which is vastly more common a usage.

And there is nothing technically deficient about WebP for editing either - it's just a new image format that came to popularity in the last 18 months. I'm old enough to remember JPEG being new, and it had the same things said about it. If you're doing anything serious, both JPEG and WebP are the distribution format of your master image that you keep for yourself in a bitmap format.

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