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.

Reminder that you can also do this if your rep voted against tabling to express support for what they’re doing and they they’re representing you well.

That’s awesome, I love how excited cats are about their favorite routines. Does she ever go sit there and look at you like she’s asking for something to sniff?

What a warm, loving thing to do for your companion. He got to keep some normalcy with the added comfort of being held by his person. Thank you for sharing, that made me happy.

Definitely, my cats love to sniff all of my cooked meals. I’ll bring it to them if they’re lounging to pay the sniff tax!

I normally set the grocery bags down when I get home and let them investigate before I put stuff away.

That’s good enrichment right there! Cats love to investigate new and interesting smells within their territory.

Yeah, I agree. This article paints a bit of a different picture than the initial ones. Idgaf what dispute two of my neighbors are having with each other, if one of them is drumming and loudly singing late at night I’m calling in a noise complaint, god damn.

I’ll tell you what I’m not doing though:

1. Arson
2. Psychological torment leaving a pet skull in a burned home
3. Murder

Whoever killed Joss is fucked up, even if 1 and 2 aren’t actually true (barbecue inside…???). Regardless of how much of an ass Joss might have been as a neighbor.

The effort you put into this is so impressive! What a lovely post to read.

I quite agree with what you’re talking about with local elections.

But you’ve misinterpreted what I’m mad about. I’m not mad that they don’t support progressives. I’m mad that the Democratic Party (the DNC, not your local party chairs) spends more time and effort demonizing and sidelining progressives than learning to work with us. That has effects all the way down to local primary elections where voters who have been fed anti-progressive propaganda are voting against progressive candidates.

What I’m mad about is not the lack of support, I’m mad about the absolutely ridiculous hypocrisy of a party clearly working against progressives at every turn and then blaming us when they don’t get their way.

As a side note, I’m also mad that the progressive movement has a lot of real shitty candidates in local elections. Many of them are clearly just absolute weirdos who shouldn’t be anywhere near an elected office. But a small movement isn’t going to have the reach everywhere. My House rep is progressive, and I get to watch as the person that represents me gets hamstrung by their own party time after time after time. And then the very same Party blames us for Donald Trump. It’s absolutely infuriating.