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They could have destroyed capitalism instead, but that would have made getting funding prohibitive.

People are sometimes like "Ooh those dastardly tech bros invented AI because they hate creativity" but the truth is they permanently destroyed the human spirit basically by accident, which is much funnier

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What's the matter?

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I've always wanted to start a brass metal band (for lack of a better term) with carnyxes, sackbuts, horns, bugles, trombones, trumpets, and probably some Tubas.

The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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If you ever find yourself putting something back together with too few screws, be sure to put screws in any holes on a printed circuit board that have a shiny metal circle instead of the regular substrate.

You almost certainly don't need all of the screws, but sometimes some of them can be used for grounding electronics, which can make things not work in weird ways, or possibly even be dangerous if you're playing with things you're not "supposed" to.

Small electronics come with extra screws inside. Its expected that you'll have seven or eight left over after reassembly

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I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly it’s not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose

I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean they’re emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone who’s said something mean is about to say “just kidding”, but tbh I think that’s more on them than me.

BUT

My grandmother asked me “Do you know when the trash was taken out last?” and I said “I think Eliot took it out yesterday” and a few hours later she yelled at me for “not taking out the trash when I asked you to” and I was like???? You didn’t ask me????

I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I don’t know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or don’t understand exactly what they’re asking or the wording’s unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but I’m pretty sure what they actually meant was that and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago? Does everyone else somehow understand all these questions?

I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else they’re like “just call them?” and I’m like “how could that help? the rules say that what I’m trying to do is impossible”

And all of that? That’s how “taking things literally” ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. It’s not “haha you think ‘getting under your skin’ means parasites”. It’s “you have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and you’re supposed to lie on job applications and ‘it’s required’ means ‘it’s preferred’, and you don’t”.

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Not to be nuanced on tumblr but I think it’s possible to believe that there are severe human rights abuses happening in Palestine right now and also believe that it’s wrong to try and rectify this by instilling fear in Jewish communities via violence.

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Caffeine is good for you and will never hurt you and you should drink more caffeine now

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With all this talk about DEI hires, I have to admit that I didn't even know Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated was a real company.

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I fully expect to see video of this on UFO reddit with people convinced that it is an intelligent plasmoid entity.

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Without a right to bodily autonomy, all other rights become meaningless.

If you have bodily autonomy, then there is always a chance that you will do something to your body that you will regret. This is not an argument for taking that autonomy away.

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What's the alternative that works across all platforms, including mobile?

That is a serious question, asked sincerely.

I know python and a tiny bit of html, and I'm starting to consider a more complex project. Bundling a browser is stupid, but my app isn't a website and I don't really want to build one.

It would have a sever component (Django rest framework possibly?), but primarily be standalone.

I really don't want to learn another language if I don't have to, especially css or java

if your app runs on electron you should be ashamed of yourself

thoughtless and irresponsible behaviour