@Sibshops@Wikisteff@Andres@pikesley I am "on the autism spectrum" (that is, I'm autistic) and I can confidently say I would not score a point against Serena. I also find the typical male ego ludicrous and obnoxious, despite being male myself.
Now I'm wondering, why did autism get dragged into this?
@hosford42 Yep, my son is barely on the autistic spectrum.
It wouldn't be out of character for him to say "I don't know" or "I don't think so." if I ask him if he would be able to get a point against a tennis pro.
@Sibshops That's a common misconception. The spectrum isn't a fade from full-blown non-autistic to full-blown autistic. It's more like a color wheel, with twenty different hues of autism, none of which is closer than any other to being "normal". I look and act neurotypical to most people, until they get to know me better, so people tend to call me "high-functioning" or otherwise water down my autism, but I'm every bit as autistic as any other autistic person. What most people see as more or less autistic is actually more or less able to pretend to be normal.
On May 29, 1787, The “Virginia Plan” written by #JamesMadison was proposed by VA #Governor Edmond Randolph, and included the proposal “... that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States [and] to be of the age of _____ years at least …”.
Madison’s proposal literally had a ‘blank’ for how old a member of the #HouseofRepresentatives should be.
What was the decision of the Convention?
A. 25 years
B. 30 years
C. 35 years
Add your guess below!
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The Constitution Quiz of the Week is made in collaboration with Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier.
In Aug. 1828, the Madisons’ friend Margaret Bayard Smith wrote a vivid description of her visit to #Montpelier :
“The drawing-room walls are covered with pictures, some very fine, from the ancient masters, but most of them portraits of our most distinguished men, six or eight by Stewart...
"...The mantlepiece, tables in each corner and in fact wherever one could be fixed, were filled with busts, and groups of figures in plaster, so that this apartment had more the appearance of a museum of the arts than of a drawing room.”
Photo by Jenniffer Powers, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation
YSK: When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin always put at the end some hashtags related to your post topic.
So users from Mastodon and Pixelfed can interact with your post without even need to use their Lemmy/Kbin account or learn about "how to use the ActivityPub".
This also helps to have more content avaliable across the Fediverse due to better discoverability.
The trick is to edit out the mention of the lemmy community before you add the hashtags then lemmy doesn't see the updated version of the post with the hash tags, but people on mastodon see the hash tags
@darth That’s exactly what I have done 10 years ago. Got a good PC, and setup year after year all emulators for games I owned or I am interested in. In my opinion, those games are part of our culture, and they should be freely available to anyone at some point. It’s really a shame that doing so is illegal, but we cannot rely on those corporations to keep video game history safe.
Hey, I'm so honored to be here with the cool crew on the Beige Party Boat!
I'm not allowed to follow any more people until after 8PM, says whomever's dad is in charge of that kind of thing.
As a little intro, for those who don't know me: I am an avid reader and reviewer of mostly fiction. I really do love to learn about anything, so hit me with your area of interest/expertise. I love all the arts. I am a champion of democracy, rights and equity for all. I will post about politics, but also about my dog Baxter, my wife J, and odd happenings in my neighborhood, etc.
Every Tuesday, I post a curated list of new book releases which I believe bear consideration.
@kimlockhartga
Is there a hashtag you use for your Tuesday lists? I'm curious but having trouble finding it. (Sorry...my available minutes to scroll waaaay back are ridiculously limited lately.)
We did Elder Scrolls tier lists on Discord so I figured I'd share my terrible opinion on here.
Honestly, Morrowind could probably drop down one slot, but I'm too nostalgic for it. I think each game does something different really well. I don't think there's a "best" TES game.
The #RomanceForMaui auction is live, until 3pm EDT on Monday August 21; the original goal was a humble $5K, but the current total is siting just shy of $62K, with 281 items on offer.
OMG I might be having a revelation.
I found my high school leaving book the other day and it has this page in it where my friends wrote down the phrases I'd said through my entire high school - I said them so often (multiple times a day every day) that they became a "thing."
Now wondering if this is an #ActuallyAutistic thing cos I'm the same now though many of the phrases have changed.
My old name is on the top (I changed it in the alt text) - please ignore!
What got me out of that was realizing that what other people did to me wasn't as bad as what I'd been doing myself - accepting the blame for what they'd done, because it had to be something wrong with me. I've been working on that - not blaming myself, not beating myself up. If I was an ass, sure, I'll own that, and I'll apologize, but if I was just being my autistic self and they reacted badly, that's on them, not me.