Weekend like bookend, both sides.

Sie sind das Essen und ich bin der Cortez!

(Sorry to German speakers, I don’t speak it)

Attack on Chuck?

The child support system is also ineffective if the person is willing to run away. I’m not sure if this has been fixed recently, but my bio father abandoned us in the mid-90s and never paid a cent in child support. He fled the state and disappeared and the state wouldn’t do anything about it.

My stepbrother, abandoned by his mother and raised by our dad as a single father, would also like citation.

Conversely, my sister and I were abandoned by our bio father and left to my mom. Anyone can be a piece of shit and abandon their children, women just can’t do it (safely) between the time when abortions aren’t allowed and birth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Same, I don’t give a fuck what we have to call it. This current system is beyond broken, if we need to stroke the ego of the childish narcissist so be it.

- and a - and a - and a

- and a - and an ING

T and an O and a WN

Kettering Town FC!

This is the most damning evidence of all! When you become more aware of how your autism affects your perception, it’s easier to spot in others.

I have really high justice sensitivity, and your description of your perception changing as injustices were borne out from their actions feels a lot like how I would react. I don’t think you’re wrong at all, but I don’t think your wife is either. It’s a very hard situation. I don’t regret cutting or limiting contact with my far right family, but I would have a hard time doing that with my wife’s family for the same reasons you’ve laid out.

I promise I’m not trying to be dismissive, but do you think you might be autistic? I ask because I am and I struggle with very rigid thinking on how I should react to the consequences of people’s actions that I believe were blatantly foreseeable.

I struggle with this very same issue in my own family. I’ve already gone no contact with my older sister who went full Qanon during COVID, and I barely have a relationship with my Trump-loving grandparents anymore. That relationship is a little laden with religious trauma too, so might not be totally comparable to your situation (I still have to vaguely pretend to be Christian around them even though I’ve been staunchly atheist for twenty years).

Do not feed me aioli, no matter what I say!

This is exactly what my friend would say! Wikipedia is a genius example to use. That upper section is mostly nouns, not complete sentences, so it’s just kanji that are mostly readable to people to understand Traditional Chinese characters. The の character is a grammatical particle (written in hiragana) indicating that 最大 is modifying 都市, to give largest city.

And then all the “curvy” characters in the body of the text are the hiragana carrying the grammar of the sentence. You can understand the nouns and verbs since they’re written in kanji, but the grammar surrounding them is in hiragana. That’s why I thought it was odd for the other person to say you rarely encounter written hiragana. You really can’t write a complete sentence or much more than a single word without it.

I wouldn’t say you rarely encounter written hiragana. It’s in practically every sentence because, as you mentioned, it carries the grammar of a sentence. Particles, conjugations, auxiliary verbs are all written with hiragana.

As one of my Chinese friends in grad school put it: he could kind of understand written Japanese but had no idea what was going on with “those weird characters everywhere.”

Passphrases are easier when you need to enter the password on a system that isn’t logged into your vault, even if they are longer. I usually default to 3 word passphrase + random number at the end of a word + random special character in the middle of a word.

They’ve got a registry for people with autism like me. But it’s okay, they would never use it for anything untoward like eugenics.

Did they ever stop? I don’t think I’ve ever seen liberals (party or base) grapple with how sinister that primary was.

NOT PENNY’S BOAT

How about we make a party that represents people rather than corporate interests? Then you might actually attract people who refuse to support corruption.

Sincerely, someone who has barely brought themselves to vote for shitty candidates they didn’t want to be president 3 times in a row.

You said:

How did your 401k lose more than gained. That would basically be fraud. Just doesn’t work that way.

So I said, with additional detail:

My 401k sat at less than net contributions for 10 months in a row.

I don’t know about the other stuff, but I had a job from late 2021 to early-mid 2023. By the time I left the job, the net contributions over about 18 months were $9,992.78, and the balance was $10,340.83.

From the 2nd through the 11th month, the balance was literally less than net contributions.