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@punishmenthurts @pathfinder @dyani If he's really neurodivergent, I'm giving him the same latitude that I hope others would give...

@punishmenthurts @pathfinder @dyani

If he's really neurodivergent, I'm giving him the same latitude that I hope others would give me. He's a sysadmin, so he's not a child in the chronologic sense. He does seem to behave childlike, but that is curable.

When I implied that I wanted more engagement here, this IS NOT what I had in mind. Outright cruelty like this ruins an entire week for...

When I implied that I wanted more engagement here, this IS NOT what I had in mind. Outright cruelty like this ruins an entire week for me.

I've gotten such replies more often from neurodivergent people than anyone else. That's especially hurtful.

@PacificNic @lightning My wife is the same way! I bug her about it quite a lot, especially since the medication she has to take is more...

@PacificNic @lightning

My wife is the same way! I bug her about it quite a lot, especially since the medication she has to take is more toxic than mine.

So what does she do? She drinks coffee! *smh*

With roughly comparable numbers of Followers and Followed, I had more engagement when I last used Twitter actively than I do here. I feel...

With roughly comparable numbers of Followers and Followed, I had more engagement when I last used Twitter actively than I do here. I feel more unseen here.

It's like people here are creating deliberate personal walled gardens with their Followers and settings and choices who to Follow in turn, and then neither see nor engage with anything outside that bubble.

One of the simplest things that any citizen in the developed world can do to keep the gears of society meshing smoothly is to check for a...

One of the simplest things that any citizen in the developed world can do to keep the gears of society meshing smoothly is to check for a shopping cart in the parking lot to take into the store with them when they arrive. No one ever does, neither Republican nor Democrat.

I take up to six. The store employees re-tasked with hunting them down are aghast when I do it (I was once one of those employees briefly).

We would have much better leadership in the United States if we appointed people at random instead of having elections. Haven't we...

We would have much better leadership in the United States if we appointed people at random instead of having elections. Haven't we learned yet that those who WANT to be in those positions should NEVER be in those positions? Even the "good" ones aren't if they want the role that badly. Ambition trumps ethics every time.

When the daily news has plotlines more dystopian than the science fiction novels you read as a child, you know you're fucked.

When the daily news has plotlines more dystopian than the science fiction novels you read as a child, you know you're fucked.

TIL: There's an open source application that can be used to RESET #achievements for a game in...

TIL: There's an open source application that can be used to RESET #achievements for a game in #Steam:

https://github.com/gibbed/SteamAchievementManager

You'll probably also want this for Skyrim, an achievements enabler when modding: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/245

And then there's this nifty new thing!
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/126220

#Valheim #Skyrim #Fallout #BaldursGate

I'm a greedy businessman's worst nightmare: when Steam advertises a discount on a game that I've been bold enough to wishlist, I...

I'm a greedy businessman's worst nightmare: when Steam advertises a discount on a game that I've been bold enough to wishlist, I make certain that I visit the Store and view that game AND THEN LEAVE. Of course they're tracking that activity, and so I want them to glean that I've considered and rejected their offer as lacking. In truth I was probably inclined to no more than glance at the list because the discount wasn't great enough, but I want to give them false hope. 😇

I have just a few Unresolved File Conflicts with Skyrim.... 🙄

I have just a few Unresolved File Conflicts with Skyrim.... 🙄

When people in so-called "law enforcement" can legally lie in the course of their so-called professional duties but if a subject...

When people in so-called "law enforcement" can legally lie in the course of their so-called professional duties but if a subject of interest lies to them it's a punishable offense, how is that not correctly judged a double standard and violation of #ruleoflaw?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-swing-voters/Good gawd, they're just now figuring out that he's been a pawn all along since 2016? ...

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-swing-voters/

Good gawd, they're just now figuring out that he's been a pawn all along since 2016? He's not the mastermind of anything, he's the Wide Load MEAT SHIELD for the truly evil people!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/high-doses-adhd-drugs-linked-greater-risk-psychosis-rcna170707Guess who consumed them like...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/high-doses-adhd-drugs-linked-greater-risk-psychosis-rcna170707

Guess who consumed them like Skittles when he was President (and perhaps still does)?

Please stop claiming that Donald Trump is suffering a "cognitive decline". He was always impaired but has simply lost the ability...

Please stop claiming that Donald Trump is suffering a "cognitive decline". He was always impaired but has simply lost the ability to mask it as well as he once did. At no time in his life was he ever cognitively fit to be President.

@Lipidolith #alienonastrangeplanet sounds rather similar to my chosen alter-ego, doesn't it? Now where'd we put our return tickets?...

@Lipidolith

#alienonastrangeplanet sounds rather similar to my chosen alter-ego, doesn't it? Now where'd we put our return tickets? Can we get replacements?

Entertain me! I have huge mod files downloading....

Entertain me! I have huge mod files downloading....

I hope that #Ukrainian soldiers in the #Kursk salient are affording the Russian #civilians there as much latitude, courtesy, and respect as...

I hope that #Ukrainian soldiers in the #Kursk salient are affording the Russian #civilians there as much latitude, courtesy, and respect as possible. I know they've been acting as international law dictates in the situation, but more than that minimum will help. It will further Ukrainian goals considerably if those citizens turn against Putin for his failures, duplicity, and hypocrisy (among other negative traits).

I don't enjoy eating. It's a distracting CHORE, much like certain other bodily functions. Of course when I'm forced to eat I...

I don't enjoy eating. It's a distracting CHORE, much like certain other bodily functions. Of course when I'm forced to eat I don't want the food to be unpleasant, but the act itself is not desirable as it always interrupts something else that I *want* to do at that moment.

Why couldn't I have been born in an age when new consciousnesses are immediately offloaded to a solid-state body or a virtual matrix?

(Motivated by slogging thru deep rabbit holes whilst trying to re-mod Skyrim....)

https://www.sciencealert.com/engineers-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild

https://www.sciencealert.com/engineers-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/04/part-of-brain-network-much-bigger-in-people-with-depression-scientists-find

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/04/part-of-brain-network-much-bigger-in-people-with-depression-scientists-find