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[–] [email protected] 93 points 5 months ago (39 children)

This is why I can't do online left wing spaces any more. They talk the talk about ableism, but then its "why can't you boycott the only food you can eat, just eat something else", "you could talk to service workers if you wanted to, you just think you're better than them".

Then sharing a video of people with their fingers in their ears at a black music festival with a caption calling them racists, when they're clearly autistic people enjoying the festival but having sensory problems.

I blame the popular understanding/misunderstanding of neurodiversity. People think autism is just a personality type.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this part of a series or something? I have no idea what any part of it means

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (19 children)

The reason they're not able to pay for home ownership is because people buy homes to rent for profit. If poor people only had to compete on price with other poor people instead of with investors, house prices would go back to 20th century levels where you could buy one for 3x your salary.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Does anyone else not really like talking about their special interests?

I can see how bored people are the second I start, like their eye contact suddenly breaks and they look around the room, and only say "mmhmm" instead of replying. So I shut up after one sentence.

But if the other person also likes the subject, I don't like talking to them either, because there's nothing to say. If we disagree I don't want to be rude and argue so I awkwardly pretend to agree. If we agree then all you can do is tell each other things you both already know and agree that they're good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wish my internal monologue would shut the fuck up. It's almost always rehearsing arguments. Like for a whole day all I'll think about is why someone I spoke to in a forum 20 years ago was wrong. I listen to podcasts or loud music to get a break from hearing my thoughts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Also they shouldn't do it unless they're going to apply it to all politicians, like when Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded babies in Israel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

All the answers you got show why this conversation goes badly. No one can come up with an actual problem that data collection causes, it's all silly comparisons to giving people your credit card number or shitting in front of them.

For me, having my data collected is like having CCTV cameras in stores. Yeah, technically someone is filming everything I do. Yeah it would be bad if a private individual was filming me for nefarious reasons. But no one actually uses that data for anything bad, and it doesn't actually cause any problems.

All that happens is I get more relevant ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I hate Musk but this stuff is stupid, including that photo of him "with" Ghislaine Maxwell where he isn't posing or smiling and has his back fully turned to her. They were obviously having separate photos taken when Maxwell's photographer shouted his name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't want a job making more money for hedge fund, but it's such an interesting technical problem. They're building custom hardware with FPGAs to parse price changes directly from network packets and respond before a normal CPU even knows what's happening!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like they commited a change to Piped bot two hours ago which accidentally removed the functionality to actually change the link. Whoops!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Absolutely. I tried getting back into Usenet a few years ago and it was like Yahoo Answers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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