Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That’s America for you.

From my experience, black people want to be called black. I’m a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers’ culture, and they felt attached to it, and “black culture” was cool to all of us. And in anything we participated in I’ve never heard a single African-American who didn’t call themselves “black” and be fine being called that. Maybe there are some rich people like Obama or Tom of The Boondocks who wouldn’t call themselves “black”, but they seem to be of a different lifestyle and culture than that.

I’ve also sometimes made the argument in defense of “black”, that “African-American” is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it. Because it’s not synonymous with skin color itself, it’s a statement about where they came from. We don’t call white people “European-Americans”; and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So… yeah.

And things even worse than slavery towards them. And that a lot of racists who would likely shoot black people still use that word on purpose. And that there’s still a lot of those people.

And we’d still call what it was “Twitter”.

That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.

So if an instance is defederated from a second, I wouldn’t see any cross-posts from the second?

I don’t read on my phone.

Haha, I didn’t even notice that last part.

I tried Claude once and it was absolute garbage. Then again, it advertised that it could analyze a .txt document and send me results. It only hallucinated that it could give me results.

Update: I’m using Claude now, at least for a month.

Additionally, first I thought I liked Gemini, but I’m not interested in an AI that can’t remember a conversation. Chat-GPT could at least do that.

So what you’re saying is, I can block a toxic community, but I am still forced to see when they post the same post again somewhere else.

Ugh. Can I just block literally every post with a certain word in it? Also every comment with that same word?

I may be the only person who knows why you said that.

Not all the pointing people are old memes.

Why isn’t this illegal. Why isn’t anything that has to do with houses illegal.

I do like a lot of what you’re saying, but this over here made me raise an eyebrow:

In the end, whether someone is autistic or not (as currently defined by autism as a diagnosis) is subject to an arbitrary line where the judge says “this is/isn’t autistic enough”

So you’re saying that “whether someone is autistic or not is arbitrary, there is no finite criteria,” and “everybody’s a little autistic, some people are just more”?

Indeed! And sorry for your experience.

I am lower-left quadrant by far. I used to make myself the center of attention, I was cringey, and everyone knew who I was-- whether that made them love me or hate me.

Non-rhetorical questions, just to get you to think.

1. What are symptoms associated with autism? Are there any? Well, stimming is a thing, right? I’m not claiming stimming is universal for autism; but if it’s associated with autism, then that’s a pattern, right? Autism has more stimming than the neurotypical control group?
2. Is autism mental only, or is it neurological? If it has sensory symptoms (once again not necessarily universally, but as a pattern more than neurotypical/control), that’s neurological, right?
3. What does “autism is a spectrum” mean? Does it mean autism varies some, or does it mean it varies indefinitely? If it varies some, where does the grouping end? If autism varies indefinitely, why is human =/= autistic?
4. How do you define autism? What makes an autistic person different from non-autistic people?
5. If autism is just “having a special mind”, then what’s the difference between autism and other neurodivergencies and statistically-smaller psychologies? ADHD? Mathematical genius/brilliance? Bipolar? Severe intellectual disability?

Remaining sort of neutral with my opinions, I still state that autism must be by definition a mental and/or neurological phenomenon, and that means it has symptoms or criteria of some kind. And if autism doesn’t, then it would not be finite, and that would mean everyone is autistic, and therefore it would be a useless label and “autism” wouldn’t exist.

If you believe that you are neurodivergent, but you don’t share a not-insignificant number of relevant traits with another neurodivergent person, then you wouldn’t share a label. It wouldn’t mean you’re not neurodivergent, it means you should find another label. And if you can’t find one that fits adequately, I encourage you to explore your own symptoms/criteria and create one.

Dumb, preachy meme made by myself.

It’s like people who say desktop Linux is currently good enough to be mainstream for everyone, and it will any day now, please? And that it’s everyone else’s fault that it hasn’t, they’re just lazy and afraid or something.

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