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I float through physical thoughts. I stare down the abyss of organic dreams.

  • Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc.

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  • Definitely looking for the same.

    I've seen some metal communities (mostly death- and black metal), but generally it's mostly just people posting links to songs, so not much discussion going on.

  • ObsidianMD note taking app

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  • Can you share and collaborate on notes/shopping lists across accounts like Google's Keep Notes?

    This is the only thing keeping me (and presumably at least thousands of other people) from switching to another notes app.

    I'd be happy to pay for it, even.

  • Women in Metal

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  • Do it, if you like sludgey riffing.

  • Women in Metal

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  • Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form

    Female-fronted stoner/sludge doom.

    Saw them open for the almighty YOB back in 2011. Stevie Floyd is a badass.

  • Lost my boy today

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  • We lost our sphynx very dramatically two weeks ago, and he was only 10 years old with no prior health issues, so I know how it feels.

    You're not alone.

    Me and my partner are still devastated and find ourselves sobbing uncontrollably every day.

    It was like losing a child.

    Life is on auto pilot these days.

    I hope I'll see a good day again.

  • modern psychiatry be like

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  • There are a couple of studies on this, and the findings are admittedly kind of scattered, but here are some key points.

    One study suggests as much as 50% of people on the spectrum have at least four (or more) comorbid conditions (a vast variety of things, e.g. ADD, intellectual disabilities etc).

    Another study found that 95% of children with ASD had comorbidities. Again, the rain man trope is rather strongly rooted in our sociocultural reality tunnel.

    I've met a lot of people on the spectrum in my life (about 1% of the population are diagnosed, after all), and almost all of them have also had either ADD, intellectual disabilities, medical disabilities like Crohn's disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, PCOS, hormonal or chromosomal disorders and/or other psychological conditions like schizophrenia or other schizotypal disorders BPD, bipolar disorder etc.

    The fact is that a Sheldon Cooper is kind of a unicorn among autistics.

    But truthfully, my observation that most autistics are below average intelligence is almost entirely anecdotal (yet with a rather sizeable sample pool), because admittedly I'm struggling to find any hard data on it.

    Some figures I've seen say 32% have below 70, 25% have 70-84, 40% have 85-115, with only about 3% being above 115.

    But here's at least one study finding that 55% of autistic kids have an intellectual disability (below 70 IQ).

  • modern psychiatry be like

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  • People still think of autism in like... Rain Man-terms.

    As much as people like to think popular depictions (The Big Bang Theory, Abed in Community, etc) of autistic behavioral patterns are somehow furthering "the cause" (whatever that is) - ultimately, they amount to little more than vaudeville and can be incredibly damaging to people who don't "seem autistic".

    It's very tiring to assure people that yes, you are indeed autistic, when all they know is Sheldon Cooper and Raymond Babbitt.

    Especially annoying if they think you're some sort of genius, when the average autistic's intelligence generally is lower than average.

    Especially now that so many fucking lunatic autistics are committing atrocities.

    If you're obviously greatly disabled autistic=not threatening High functioning autistic=liability

    I was diagnosed 20 years ago, and even I had a very hard time recognizing and accepting that my own partner is also autistic (now diagnosed as an adult).

    But then again, it seems to manifest dramatically different in men v.s. women, as well as there not really being any depictions of autistic women in media for the longest time.

    And a gigantic part of autistic women no doubt went undiagnosed for a long time (and still are).

  • To be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatal

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  • But.. How is that racist?

    It might be stupid, but racist? That's a stretch.

  • To be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatal

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  • Just curious, how exactly is that comment racist?

  • Someone donated 30k to Luigi after yesterday's court appearance

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  • I don't know anything about what he said, but I can't condone murder - especially if it was for nothing.

    It's Schrödinger's vigilantism.

    Part of me wants there to be a vigilante hunting down those who prey on the weak by breaking the social contract.

    But another part of me doesn't think the people who would be willing to do said hunting should even be free in society to begin with.

    Clearly something(s) has to change, but what?

  • I love the future.

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  • The Swedish mid-right also ruled out working with the far-right. Until they had to to gain government control.

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  • I'm autistic, so it's not a one-for-one; but some similarities to ADHD, and what's worked for me, is exercise.

    Walk 10000 steps a day and go to the gym 3 days a week and lift as heavy as you can.

    Use the GZCLP program and you're golden.

    Plus, you get healthier AND you'll look better naked.

  • 23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community

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  • Too young for how old the game is?

  • Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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  • The dog paid for all the groceries in cash.

    Fucking trash app being steadily more and more enshittified by "AI" and somehow adding another level of subscription every other month.

    I've been doing Spanish at the same level for over 400 hours.

    I learned more about Spanish from 30 minutes of language transfer than in nearly 1000 days of Duolingo.

    It's a trash app if you want to learn another language.

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    To all american "leftists" who didn't vote for Kamala, FUCK YOU!

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  • This reads like an almost unhinged copypasta.

    But you ain't wrong...

    I love it.

  • When my family suggests moving to Canada

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  • Definitely seems like a global trend.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • I think this perspective might be a part of the puzzle as to why this happened.

    A lot of people seem to think Trump voters don't know or understand what their vote goes towards, but I think that they not only do, but want that.

    That, and almost half of voting eligible just didn't show up, for many different reasons.

    Although, I'm just some random Swedish dude, so what the hell do I know...

    Except the same thing happened/is happening here.

    And everywhere else...

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • Yeah, it definitely seems like change is in order, regardless of what one thinks of the result.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • Yeah, it's not really a secret that things are bad (or at least not good) everywhere, but at least most other countries' voting doesn't really directly affect the whole world, in contrast to the American elections.