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isaacd

@ isaaclyman @lemmy.world

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  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • Or a simple, “hey, that was rude. It hurt my feelings.” Most of the ND people I know would respond, “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to be a jerk. I’ll do better.”

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • This is true! But there’s a very easy way to tell the difference.

    When you find out you hurt someone’s feelings, do you apologize, express how terrible you feel about it, and try to do better? Not an asshole.

    Do you double down, make excuses, and blame them for feeling bad? Asshole.

    Saying the wrong thing doesn’t make you a jerk. Not caring about other people’s feelings, does.

  • Who's rolling grave would probably generate the most electricity and why?

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  • That would be Edward Jenner. He saved more lives than anyone else in history, and that number increases by the day. If it were up to me, his birthday would be an international holiday and kids would learn his name in elementary school.

  • Absruledism

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  • For anyone who likes the video: definitely read The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. Exurb1a does a solid job summarizing it, much better than most YouTubers, but skips a lot in order to keep the video short. It’s a very accessible book, especially if you skim the Kierkegaard stuff, and the core of it is strenuously punk and badass.

    Of note: Camus doesn’t just think you should live in defiance of a meaningless universe. He argues that you should live as long as possible, experience as much as you can, repeatedly do what you love most even to the exclusion of everything else. Absurdism is not mere hedonism nor optimistic nihilism; its rebellion is tenacious, passionate, intentional, and incapable of passivity.

    For a followup read, I recommend Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks, which is a great crash course in staring into the abyss.

  • The experience is 'unreal'

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  • Maybe not documented as such, but it’s understood to be correlated (especially in terms of “risky behaviors”), likely by way of chronic understimulation.

    In layman’s terms: brain never gets the reward chemicals it needs > sex is a reliable source of reward chemicals > okay we’re obsessed with it now

  • how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone?

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  • Holy butts, why has no one ever said this sentence to me before

  • What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?

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  • “If you knew what it was, you’d be using it already.”

  • thanks.dev – open source funding platform

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  • This is a great concept. I hope it catches on.

    I participate in a pledge called #50forFOSS. On the first Friday of every month, I choose an open source project and give the maintainer $50, no strings attached. It lets me target small projects that may not have a lot of users, but are valuable to me, as well as bigger ones with more expenses. My mindset these days is that I need to insist on paying for the software I use, because if I don’t, someone else will (i.e. advertisers and venture capitalists, which is bad) or no one else will (i.e. abandonware, which is worse).

    Disclaimer: I started #50forFOSS and there’s a very small group of us who are doing it.

  • Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time

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  • I had 12 weeks of paternity leave at my last job. The only rule was that, as secondary caregiver, I couldn’t take it all at once.

    I spread out the last 8 weeks and took every other Friday off for several months. It was awesome, and if it reduced my productivity, the difference was imperceptible. I had to be a little more keyed in on Mondays, sure, but I always felt more than capable after a long weekend.

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  • This was my experience with MTG. Dude was all excited to “teach” me how to play, made a deck for me and everything, and then whomped me on the second turn.

    I never played again and still don’t know how

  • Hail Chonkus

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  • Mine is yeast, but if Chonkus saves us all I guess it can have second place

  • Code comments

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  • Only for the floors that are labeled correctly, though.

  • When did humans settle on all the stuff we eat?

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  • Only tangentially related, but the cheapest (by weight and per unit) type of hamburger patties at my local Costco this month are Impossible Burgers.

    If you’re not familiar with these, they’re completely vegan, made from soy protein, but the texture and flavor is almost identical to beef. They cook like beef, taste like beef, and “bleed” like beef. And (for a few weeks, at least) they’re cheaper than beef.

    That’s a new and exciting sandwich IMO.

  • Cycling has a weight problem: a call for the industry to be more transparent about its weight limits

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  • It almost has to be intentional. Two sheets of plywood stuck together at 90° would be more comfortable than whatever it is they’re doing.

    On the other hand, my wife is 5’4” and springs out of her seat after a four hour flight like she’s just had a spa day.

  • Cycling has a weight problem: a call for the industry to be more transparent about its weight limits

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  • Yeah, being tall sucks. If anyone out there wants to be 4 inches taller, I’ll be your donor.

    Honestly if airplane seats were less like medieval torture devices and T-shirts didn’t shrink in the dryer, I’d be all right. I can deal with bumping my head on things and getting the same questions/comments every time I meet someone new. But being constantly reminded by ordinary objects that I’m not considered part of the bell curve? Rude.

  • Cycling has a weight problem: a call for the industry to be more transparent about its weight limits

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  • 6 feet 6 inches, 270 pounds here. I spent a couple of weeks tracking down weight and height limits when I was looking into bikes. It wasn’t easy, and it should have been. I don’t expect every model of every bike at every manufacturer to cater to me, I just wanted to find one goddamn mountain bike I could safely ride.

    I ended up with an eMTB made by Specialized, and paying more than I wanted to, and calling the bike shop to see if they knew the weight limit because the documentation on the website was unreadable without an engineering degree. (I exaggerate, but it was bad.)

    But in the meantime, I spent a lot of time having bike brand website “sizing quizzes” do the surprised pikachu face when I entered my height/weight: https://toot.cafe/@isaaclyman/112714856810902224

  • Cycling has a weight problem: a call for the industry to be more transparent about its weight limits

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  • It’s worse than that, even. Some brands (like Tern) go by gross vehicle weight, meaning rider + cargo + bike. And their most popular bike is 75 pounds.

    It’s not as much of a problem for Tern specifically because their bikes are rock solid (I’m very big and tall and don’t have a problem with mine) but still a confusing way to measure.

  • Dogs Against Bones

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  • Wondermark is rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but funny is only one thing comics can be. I like it because it’s smart, zany, and artistically interesting (every comic is made from Victorian woodcuts).

  • Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices

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  • Tap-to-pay on credit card chips, too.