Portable Hat

I will now gently present the possibility that everything will be fine.

The joke in all this is that you will read it and think I am bragging.

It used to make me so sad! Some of you know me from before. I was really going through it. Couldn't believe that I was what I am, and got what I get. But the ultimate truth is: I am capable of everything. Including happiness. I am sorry you are not.

I thought I was autistic for a while. I have nearly all the symptoms. I was informed that (in the psychiatrist's words), "Autism is defined by a lack," and that I, "don't have any." Instead, I learned very young how to incorporate events intellectually, which alleviated the need for emotional development--that is until the emotional content of my life gained a sort of critical mass that outstripped my ability to synthesize.

Note to self: It is not your responsibility to explain. It is their responsibility to understand.

Hard to form a canon if everybody carries their own ball and shot, eh?

What I'm saying is: I don't think any individual is likely to use their factory in a way more meaningful to others than the productions of their own factory. We're going to drown in vibes, guys.

On AI proliferation: What happens when you sell everybody a factory that makes factory-making factories?

@larrykingundead I remember that it made me feel normal. If I could get swatted like any other kid, then I wasn't so strange after all. I suppose it was brutal, but it was a comfortable brutality.

@PortableHat They never made it an open affair like that here, but that had to be brutal. It happening to you, and seeing it.

This is incorrect. Fluoride was administered in many classrooms, not in gifted classes particularly. The drink that gifted kids got (and it was only a very few who were screened) wasn't fluoride. (benzo, imo) The conflation is understandable, but fluoride is a red herring here.

I only got swatted once that I recall. Our assistant principal used to prowl the lunchroom while we ate. If one of the kids got too rowdy, he'd grab them by their scruff, haul them up and smack their butt with his open palm. I was clowning, I suddenly levitated a foot, got a sudden sharp smack, and back down. I was very quiet the rest of lunch, lol.

@PortableHat Ha. I recall an incident where I was given the choice to take the beating with the wooden paddle or be sent home, I chose home, they figured my mother would be upset, but she was more upset that they wanted to lay hands on me after she saw the marks the other kid caused.

@larrykingundead Yes, I went to one of those schools and I know exactly what you're talking about. Rinse, spit, don't swallow, and don't act up in line or you might get the paddle. The two experiences were similar enough that talking about one will be conflated with the other.

@PortableHat In a rural school in an agrarian area, they did the fluoride swishing thing with the paper cups and the jug with the pump. This was when they still could beat kids without parents permission too. So it was implied, swish or take a beating.

@larrykingundead It's for the culture!

The whole "we need people in wheelchairs adventuring in fantasy" thing never leans into Mer-people. For shame!

@larrykingundead @buran_1120 Yep, I am pretty much on board with yours, really. I'd draw several lines through states rather than on their borders, lol.

@PortableHat @buran_1120 Oh for sure, others would approach it in different ways. From my own travels, and experiences with people from these areas is why it is the way it is.

一つきづいたんだけどアメリカって日本人の感覚だと、いくつもの国があるイメージ🇺🇸？

@larrykingundead @buran_1120 There is a realization springing from this map that is also informative about Americans: We would all draw slightly different regions.

@buran_1120 It pretty much is. This is how I see the the United States of America. Each one has roughly it's own feel to it, taste in food, people even.

@buran_1120 It feels that way to us Americans, most of the time.

@OfAthenry The community note is so note-perfect for the kind of egomaniacs who leave these horrific calling cards that I am overjoyed with the proof of concept it provides. They are forest Karens, and you'd better leave their rock castles alone!

Kick these stupid things down every time you see them. They disrupt the ecosystem.

A bit of a hint: True satori will not make you miserable.

Mothers, please take care with your curses. My own mother was fond of telling me, "I hope you have a child one day who is just like you!" Cruel.