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lyth

@ lyth @sh.itjust.works

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  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • Some quick extra bullet points as I'm short on time and much of what I want to say has already been said in this thread:

    • I strongly recommend Behind the Bastards' 2-parter on fake autism cures (huge trigger warning for child abuse though), and just as strongly Rowan Ellis' video essay on autism representation. Both could be listened to during chores or work. https://youtube.com/watch?v=WA9B4_e6sS0
    • If you're making an intentional, good-faith effort to be kind and curious, then as an autistic person I deeply appreciate your showing up, and please don't let the downvotes make you any less curious.
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    is cernunnos a good name for a baby?

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  • It depends on the region and culture you were born into, but I'm gonna have to lean toward no since I can't personally find any evidence that any other person has ever had this name. It'd make it hard to find shirts and stuff that already have your name printed on them

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • Usually for the same reasons you'd get entangled in a movie or book? Games are allowed to be emotionally complex just the same as any other form of media, and the interactive aspect gives them some extra leverage for it that others lack.

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • I've cried really hard to the track "Confronting Myself" from Celeste, which counts as "because of a video game" even though I wasn't playing it at the time.

    I was off my SSRI meds at the time, and it seriously broke me up listening to how the characters' instruments and motifs and the buildup and release of tension in the track mirror the kind of dialogue they're in when it plays. It's also a climactic scene with a lot of mental health allegory going on at the same time, which really adds to the emotions here.

    I'm crying again now thanks

  • 5+1-holy+12=God

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    • You can derive numerical values from words using a letter-number pairing like "A=1, B=2 (...)". This kind of number-letter pairing is called "Gematria".
    • Adding the numerical values of the seven Hebrew words in the first verse of Genesis gives you a number
    • Multiplying these seven values together instead and then adding up each group of three digits in the result gives you the same number as before

  • Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?

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  • how can you be confident that anything supplied here will be retained if you were previously unaware you even needed to know in the first place?

    The information I'm looking for wasn't immediately important for me to know earlier in life, and because of a mix of the ADHD issues, a lack of home economics-type education and a lot of these kinds of responsibilities being handled by someone else growing up, I wasn't really in a place to think of educating myself for the future. This all changed a while ago and I realized I needed to do a lot of catching up to be a functional, self-autonomous person. I've gotten the impression that there are a ton of folks who feel this way about stuff like learning to do taxes.

    TL;DR, my brain holds it as useful, very important information now.

  • Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?

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  • I understand and appreciate the intent of what you're saying, but I have really bad executive dysfunction/ADHD/whatever issues that make this not a realistic choice for me. This post wouldn't need to exist if I had the motivation to sit down and read my way to victory. Long-form listenable content is also just much easier for me to multitask with.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    lyth @sh.itjust.works

    Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?

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    Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?

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  • In the last 48 hours they've only posted on their Facebook about how they helped get Trump elected and criticized (insulted) a study that examines "the relationship between community-level firearm violence and dental health". They seem pretty unconcerned

  • How is taxation not theft?

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  • When you make this kind of comment it really just adds to the reasons to not use the nostupidquestions and ELI5 communities on this platform. There needs to be safe spaces to admit to being biased and uninformed and to ask people to help you out of it without being berated.

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    Do De-Transitioners validate some right wing talking points?

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  • You'd have to specify which talking points you're looking to verify/falsify. A nonzero amount of people surgically transitioning and then regretting it doesn't do much good for the verifiably made-up points or eliminationist points that "right wing talking points surrounding Trans issues as a whole" often contain.

    Anyway, here's Some More News talking about detransitioners. His content tends to be a bit on the ranty side but I hope you'll consider giving it a watch.

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    • Six-year-olds have very little agency over their minds and so little understanding of the world that IMO it's not really worth it to view them as "guilty" of things.
    • I don't know whether this is a useful way of thinking about things for you, but most of the matter in your body has been replaced with new matter since you were six years old. I expect most of the way you think and the things you know have been replaced since then, and how your cognition works on a very basic level has changed. Like, if you're over age 27 you have a developed prefrontal cortex that wasn't all there before. You've changed enough that you could safely regard yourself as a different person in a material sense, and a much better person. Sometimes when I remember something terrible I've done ages ago, the way I'll think of it is that I can destroy that other version of me by becoming a different, better person.
    • You could see life-changing benefits by seeking therapy resources like DBT and CBT. Web searching these can lead you to free video resources that you could listen to while doing whatever else you do with your day.

  • does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng?

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  • Probably not. I found a website that has TNG episode transcripts and I did a web search within it by putting "site:http://chakoteya.net/NextGen/ snoring" into duckduckgo. It only reports Wesley snoring in "Evolution" and Worf snoring in "Redemption: Part 2". Searching for the keyword "snore" gave no useful results.

  • Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?

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  • Ex-Catholic here, standard response where I'm from would be "No, our God is the only god and trying to contact any spirits beside the Holy Spirit just opens you up to all the evil out there".

    My understanding is that Abrahamic religions are universally monotheistic and have been since the Babylonian Exile got rid of the henotheistic aspect of Yahwism. Expect to get a lot of pretty convoluted reasoning if you ask a Catholic whether having three persons in the trinity is the same thing as polytheism.

  • How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off?

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  • permanent brain damage from sleep deprivation, huge new fear unlocked. tyvm for the info

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    lyth @sh.itjust.works

    How much of my sleep debt do I need to pay off?

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    Is my porn viewing problematic?

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  • The image only contains consenting adults who look very happy to be with each other (the perspective on the muzzles could use a little work though), so no, not very problematic. It is problematic if you're making an active effort to stop browsing porn and you still got far enough for your web browser to load that text.

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  • sauce lot to, it fries things a french barbecue like on of on I works

  • People who are 1s and 2s on this scale, do you watch adult video?

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  • It's meant to roughly gauge how clearly you picture things in your mind's eye by asking you which apple you see when prompted to imagine one. #5 references the lack of a mind's eye in people with Aphantasia (coincidentally this Wikipedia article has this same chart as a header image)

  • Did the year zero never exist ?

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  • Years are ordinal numbers, the kind of number that tells you which place you finished in a race, and as such cannot have zeroes or negatives. You're living in the 2,024th year since the instant that began the Common Era. "0th" and "-1st" are not valid expressions for years for the same reason that you can't place 0th in the Olympics

  • What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late?

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  • at 17yo I thought my circumcision scar was a birthmark and I didn't know you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy

    parents, please tell your kids where babies come from and what all their parts are supposed to do, and don't circumcise them either