WatDabney

At this point, I'm assuming that "reforms" that are going to lead to deaths are a deliberate eugenic strategy - that the underlying idea is that the owner class will be able to deal with problems privately, so it will be the working class that will be disproportionately affected and will disproportionately die, and that's actually part of the point.

I wonder if there's a specific name for that dynamic by which the ruling class separates work from reward so that they can keep the reward of other people's work for themselves, then ends up conplaining that nobody wants to work any more.

Well... yeah. True.

Nobody tell him that when he says things like that, it doesn't make them look pathetic - it makes him look pathetic.

I'd go even further - get them from people who emulatecthe games rather than people who play them on (or merely buy them for) the original hardware.

People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games, without any of the collector cachet getting in the way.

The ways that society has thought about and treated people on the spectrum as inferiors are completely wrong and long overdue to be discarded, but we shouldn’t go from there to another supremacist mode of thinking.

As a sincere, long-term ideal, yes - I agree.

As an immediately gratifying self-indulgence, fuck 'em. Way WAY too much stupidity and ugliness has come at the hands of people for whom deception and emotional manipulation are the norms and sincerity and emotional honesty are aberrant weaknesses. And I want to revel in some schadenfreude at their expense.

Possibly, but it's likely something about that one specifically. Probably because I grew up with the song, but never really stopped to think about what it was saying much, and it's so timely.

Generally though, about the closest I get to happy people grooving is Necry Talkie or Electric Callboy or The Mattoid - sort of ironically happy or happy with a twist.

Since Trump appears to have no personal stake in this (as opposed to his attacks on the Justice Department, the FBI, the federal court system and so on), I have to assume that this is something he's doing entirely for Putin's benefit.

Holy shit - that just washed away most of my accumulated cynicism in one fell swoop.

It'll return - the current world is just too relentlessly angry, hateful and stupid for it to do otherwise - but for the moment at least, that was a welcome tonic.

So they're basically voting explicitly to void the Constitution.

Interesting tidbit there...

Clinton was impeached for perjury - specifically for lying under osth.

The thing is though that the "lying" part of it wasn't the actual crime. The "under oath" part is the actual crime. Perjury is actually the violation of a legally sworn oath, and it's just that the oath to tell the truth in a court is the one most often violated

But violaing an oath of office is also technically perjury, and a crime, and impeachable. And congresspeople swear oaths to, among other things, uphold the Constitution.

So that could be interesting if the Democrats demolish the Republicans in the midterms.

It likely won't be, since Congresspeople are pretty much universally corrupt cowards, but still...

Those aren't actually lemmy.world communities.

Everything on that list is a community on that instance (whatever it is - lemm.ee I guess).

For example, a post from a lemm.ee account to [email protected] is actually a post to an entirely separate community - [email protected]@lemm.ee That lemm.ee community is a mirror of the lemmy.world community (and of all the other communities on all the other instances that mirror it.

That's how federation actually works. You never actually leave your home instance, and what seems like a post to a community on another instance is actually a post to a locally hosted mirror of that community.

On another note, I wonder, as I generally do, how they define "autism."

I wonder because my own opinion, quite seriously, is that an awful lot of what's included in "the spectrum" is actually a superior way of seeing the world and of conducting human interactions - an evolutionary gain for humanity.

I think there's no question that humans for whom the very idea of injecting unnecessary emotion into an interaction or hiding ones true motivations behind a screen of deception is entirely foreign are clearly superior to those who wallow in emotionalism and lies, and further, I think that at some level, the lying manipulators fear that that's exactly the case. At the very least, they don't know how to deal with us - they're lying and manipulating for all they're worth and we just insist on ignoring their emotionalism and rejecting their lies.

So again, as I generally do, I'm wondering how exactly these particular lying manipulators are defining "autism."