I wouldn’t want to stay in one for long, but passing through that kind of place can be pretty refreshing, at least for me.

Very cool

What’s her degree in?

Just a slang term for discomfort and anxiety.

Oh wait, I think its Matilda. I guess i got my Roald Dahl chocolate scenes mixed up.

That movie also gave me the heebie-jeebies growing up.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory I believe.

Genuinely, switching to Linux full time was amazing for my mental health. I didn’t have a feeling of dread every time there was a new update, wondering what settings would get reset or what new ways they’d try to fuck with me. I no longer felt like I was sharing a house with an abusive person who was going to try to hurt me the second I let my guard down. In the weeks and months that followed tension that I didn’t even know was there melted away.

Of course that was years ago, and Windows is even worse now.

“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.

I don’t disagree necessarily, but food that’s been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.

There’s a clear cause:

See, this is something I think I might be too autistic to understand.

I’m supposed to welcome people to niche communities, which I assume includes helping people with their problems, or else I’m being exclusive and elitist. But also sometimes people post about their problems without actually wanting help, and if you try to help them you’re being annoying. So, don’t help anyone unless they explicitly ask for help, even though in 99% of other situations someone implicitly asking for help means they want your help and its extremely rude to ignore them. I sure hope nobody having their problems ignored takes that as rude or elitist or exclusive.

If you’re annoyed that people keep complaining, express that you are annoyed instead of trying to point to what you think is the solution. You might be wrong about problem or even the solution, but you won’t be wrong about your emotions.

The emotion I get as an autistic person trying to trying to interpret people saying the opposite of what they mean then being considered an asshole when I’m neurologically incapable of interpreting coded messages is that I want to kill someone and then myself.

And remember, these are statistics for New York […] I used the word “inherently” above for a reason.

Did you read my comment?

These articles reference New York specifically because it was considered to be so notoriously dangerous in the 80 and 90s. It hasn’t gotton any less urban since then so what else has changed? And I bring up cities that are even safer despite having a comparable or higher population.

Again, I use the word “inherently” for a reason. I do not think that it is impossible for a city to be bad, you can fuck up a city like you can any community. But I don’t think there’s anything about urban areas that makes the people there violent just as I don’t think there’s anything about rural areas that makes the people virtuous. It mostly has to do with how many people are poor and desperate enough to turn to crime and miserable enough to turn to hard drugs.

IDK, apply that logic to anything else.

Suppose someone says “I hate having to change my car’s motor oil and I hate the effect oil dependency has on the world”, then I say “you should consider getting an electric car, they’re way cheaper and better than they used to be”.

Am I now on the hook to solve that person’s car troubles forever? Do I have to plan every roadtrip for them so they can hit the necessary charging stations?

Likewise, if that person has a problem or it turns out that an electric car can’t meet their needs and they have to switch back to gas is it my fault? Is it the fault of every electric car owner for talking about them and advocating for them?

I don’t think you should be an asshole to someone asking for help on a forum (though that’s not what the tumble post above is even about? They just seem to be complaining about their technical issue being too hard or the explanations being too verbose?), but I do think that if someone went onto the electric vehicles community and posted “I live in the middle of Alaska and drive 400 miles uphill through the snow at -40 every day! How DARE you think EVs are ready for the mainstream!?!” once a day like people do to Linux coms the EV people would start to get annoyed pretty fast.

You are generally less likely to die from homicide in NYC than you are in rural areas, and the worst states in the US have rural counties with homicide rates more than 3 times greater than NYC’s.

And remember, these are statistics for New York, not Vienna or Tokyo. US cities are far from the safest in the world. I used the word “inherently” above for a reason.

It led to this crazy debate about how a city should be so safe and saccharine that a child can walk around unattended. Weird

(Emphasis mine)

TBH, I think this is a very American and kinda conservative take. In most places outside the US and Canada kids walk to school and other places by themselves in urban areas.

Now, I don’t think that means you shouldn’t be able to buy a dildo or whatever, but I don’t agree with the idea that suburbs or small towns are inherently more safe and wholesome. That’s literally just conservative propaganda.

But, if there are public spaces that are actually physically unsafe for a child to be in, that’s a failure of society IMO. For the same reason that its a failure if a woman, or a trans person, or a neurodivergent person is put into danger just for existing in the wrong place. People under the age of 18 are human beings too, just ones with different needs from adults, and like all human beings they deserve to be able to exist in public without fearing for their life.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/high-protein-foods-the-best-protein-sources-to-include-in-a-healthy-diet

Seitan is also very high in protein, containing 75g of protein per 100g compared to 13g per 100g for scrambled eggs (although its low on lysine, so it should be balanced out with other protein sources).

Really? Everything I’ve heard about pedestrian safety suggests that its better to go onto the hood rather than be pushed down and go under the wheels.

It seems like this design would do exactly that, in addition to creating a blind spot directly in front of the vehicle. Though I suppose these trucks are so tall you’re likely to go under anyway.

No? This is a bunch of Tolkien tropes + Conan the Barbarian + a bunch of shuffled around real world cultures.

The Last Airbender continent was mostly China, with the fire nation being steampunk imperial Japan. At the poles there were the Inuit-inspired water benders and the Air Benders were Tibetan monks except spread around all over the place on mountaintops.

There weren’t any Egyptian pyramids or nomadic steppe peoples that I can remember being portrayed in Avatar, and there certainly weren’t any elves, orcs, dwarves, wizards, or barbarians from the icy north.

Reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_farm