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   Ham on Wry (hamonwry@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 15:39:50 JST Ham on Wry

   After the Georgia shooting that took place at Apalachee High School, both JD Vance and felon Trump essentially said that shootings are just part of life in America and we should just get used to them. In a nutshell, families of the slain should just suck it up.

   So, why are Republicans making such a big deal about some guy with an AR-15 style rifle being on the fringes of a golf course where trump was playing?

   #trump #republicans

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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 07:07:24 JST goatsarah

   OK, so I basically have undiagnosed ADHD, and my life is organised to accommodate that, so I have no real interest in a diagnosis.

   But I found myself wondering about this weird hypocritical thing that a lot of neurotypical people do, and that's regarding conversations. Neurotypical people will talk over each other constantly and interrupt, and so if you, as a neurodiverse person, have something useful to contribute, you too have to interrupt because if you wait for a gap, it will never come.

   But while they allow interruptions from each other, they don't allow them from us. They'll stop for each other, bit for us they'll keep going too, until we shut up.

   So I tried searching online for insight about why this happens, and I kept finding articles written by neurotypical people that were all along the lines of, "Hey ADHD people, here's how to stop interrupting us!"

   And my response was, "you absolute, totally self-unaware, fucking hypocrites!"

   And then I finally found something that explained it.

   When neurodiverse people talk to each other, we generally have two goals:
   

   1. Information exchange
   2. Mutual enjoyment

   Turns out that when neuro "typical" people talk to each other, information exchange is usually not actually that important, and they're doing something that we basically don't in these situations: they're setting and reinforcing social status.

   We, of course, simply do not play this game, largely because IT'S COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID AND PATHETIC, which means we are automatically awarded a "game" score of zero, and therefore do not get to speak.

   And if we try to speak, we are "interrupting" and "being rude", even if we supply information which is relevant to the alleged topic, and even if we're literally the most qualified person in the room on it.

   This explains why we can have conversations with other neurodiverse people just fine. We aren't playing the stupid rutting game.

   I am honestly shocked by this revelation. Like, it's barely one step removed from picking ticks off of each other and eating them. I'm also massively fucking depressed, because this utter obsession that the neurotypical world seems to have with comparative status if a massive reason why we can't have nice things. They treat the world like it's pie, and they have to have a bigger piece than everyone else, even if that means their piece is far smaller than if they'd just cooperated to bake a bigger pie, and share it fairly.

   Anyway, bit of a revelation to me. Shit one, but there we are.

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:16:09 JST Rich Felker

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   I have one non-malicious theory for where the practice is coming from:

   Designers see their pretty layout as the product, rather than as a tool for delivering the product (actual informational page content) effectively.

   The main article, product info, whatever, is a very freeform, unknown size, "untrusted input" to their beautiful design, and they don't want it messing that up.

   So they design a fixed size space for it where their layout looks exactly the way they want. 🤦

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   AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 10:36:13 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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   Welp...my landlord has now notified me that I will have to pay my rent earlier, because he has extra bills that need paying & because he's tired of me waiting until the last minute to pay up.

   So, I'll be needing that $450 right away. And that $1,260 goal for mid-August just got pushed ahead.

   It never stops, does it? Please....HELLLP!!!

   #MutualAidHelp #MutualAidBoost #HelpFolksLive2024

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   https://cash.app/AnthonyJK6319
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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 14:53:51 JST Aral Balkan

   @andre Thanks for the heads up.

   So, AI, eh? Have you heard if the screen reader is working yet?

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   Tek say vote (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 08:42:48 JST Tek say vote

   Long time back, a friend who was moving gave me his short server rack. It sat sad, lonely, and empty in a forgotten closet until yesterday. I finally have enough random electronic stuff strewn about the living room that it’s time to mount it all up.

   So this is my life now. A server rack in the room where my kids play. It’s come to this.