Reddit refugee #2643.
This meme is art
No, but I cross my legs while standing so that my feet are close to perpendicular. It’s comfy.
Exactly! It’s called planning ahead, get with it NT folks
noooo it’s horrifying
My autistic dad frequently said that I was on the spectrum (always that exact phrase) but refused to have me diagnosed. I grew up just assuming that I had a high-functioning (as I need relatively few accommodations; my apologies if this is an outdated term) form of autism.
Now as an adult, I still don’t have the resources to get a professional diagnosis. I feel very much at home in groups like this; I have many of the symptoms of autism though not all; I got 136 on the RAADS-R test. That test was the tipping point that pushed me mentally from “strongly suspecting I’m autistic” to “self-diagnosed autistic”.
Great article, very enlightening for those of us who are too young to remember the early internet.
Not an excuse, but an explanation: ignorance.
Most people don’t know how ads or data collection works beyond the obvious uptick in a product after you search for it. They don’t know what impact it might have.
Full disclosure: I’m mostly in this camp. I only recently started using firefox over chrome, for example. I know that big tech collects obscene amounts of data, and monetizes it by targeted advertisements, but…beyond that, I don’t know what FAANG can do with the data collected on me. I only have a vague idea of what’s being collected.
Fundamental rights
Lmao you absolutely can.
I was working at a grocery store, stocking food in the freezer aisle. Along comes a customer, passing by on the other side of the waist-level coolers that divide the aisle in half. She’s unremarkable: middle-aged, white, obese. Indistinguishable from the thousands of other customers I saw in my years there.
So this woman passes me, just looking at the frozen foods. And there, hanging on the back of her shirt, is a lizard. And not just a common garden-variety lizard, but a bearded dragon.
A live adult bearded dragon is just chilling on the back of this customer’s shirt as she does her grocery shopping.
Just. What.
I had so many questions. But I was a socially awkward teenager so I said nothing and never saw the lizard lady again.
Lemmy already has jerboa.
I was homeschooled. Never went to public school. And my parents were christians, so naturally they bought christian apologetic textbooks.
One science (biology I think, high school level) textbook had most of a chapter discussing why the “theory of evolution” was “wrong”. Another book from the same publisher discussed at length why global warming (and the ozone-thinning effect of certain chemicals) was untrue.
My chemistry professor in college, wonderful man that he was, was the first person to explain divergent and convergent evolution to me.
The clean energy was the deciding factor for me, since virtually everything’s accessible from any instance. There were some bumps around some communities not being found - I assume from rapid growth caused by the reddit exodus - but things are working smoothly now.
Saturdays are for grocery shopping, extra long walks with the dog and my toddler, and various other chores: mowing the lawn, mopping the floors, laundry, etc.
Sundays are for baking, practicing piano and in theory for relaxing. In practice I have issues with just stopping and relaxing.
Interesting food for thought, thanks!
I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.
I’m not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that’s not something I’m going to support it any way.
Yes