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Peter Wood. Tooting from the hip. Software developer for >= 25 years. I like #music, #guitar, #films, #dev, #programming #python, #Zappa, #Holdsworth. I believe in kindness, equality, forbearance, but need practice. #SystemicRacismMatters I have half-baked ideas for how to improve online discussions with technology, but am unskilled, afraid, overwhelmed at the prospect of implementing them.
They/them, but it's not really important to me.

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pete , to actuallyautistic

I'm moving and find it difficult to make , searching for common ground, complaining about a common enemy, e.g. a neighbour, the council, some changes that they didn't like, and I'm just no good at that.

I feel like saying "I'm and find small talk difficult. I know you're being friendly and trying to welcome and initiate me into the community, but I find it difficult to complain about things. I really want to get to know you better"

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pete OP ,

@heartofcoyote @actuallyautistic

I just feel I'm too slow thinking on my feet... maybe just letting the silences work in my favour will help. thanx

pete OP ,

@bhawthorne @actuallyautistic

I've not tried, not yet... I'm still in my post-first-contact pre-second-contact phase of overthinking 😂

Uair , to actuallyautistic
@Uair@autistics.life avatar

@actuallyautistic @AtheismActually

I read "Cat's Cradle" online yesterday, and my livemonitor highlit this Calypso for me:

Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?”
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.

Now that I've had some time to think about it, I'm pretty enraged by that. The message there is that "why" is an unanswerable question. Vonnegut wrote that to comfort stone ignorant, starving, helpless, hopeless people. Nobody has to, or wants to, be that.

The "why" behind damn near everything today is that the (rich, white, male) people with the power want it to be that way. The "why" explaining the past 500 years of history is almost always European colonialism. "Why" is an easy fucking question to answer, and we've known a lot of the big "why" answers for 150 years. Insisting that people can only pretend to understand "why" is just a way for power to hide in the shadows.

They don't use whips to make slaves any more. They use lies and bullshit to maintain the perpetually expanding pyramids.

The perpetually expanding pyramids will end all life on Earth. Marx could see this, and it was obvious to all after WWI. A hundred-fucking-years-ago, we could see what needed to be done. And the rich white cunts are /still/ managing to keep people bickering over resolved questions so nobody interferes while they commit omnicide.

Reality doesn't get a voice. Only competing fantasies about the way the world should work. No peasant is allowed to know the way the world really does work. Jesus fuckme christ, if people knew that, they could change it. The whole global pyramid would collapse! The real two classes today are those with the information and those without, and it's fucked up that your local cops have access to surveillance information while your local college professors are kept in the dark.

Whatever. What do I know? I sit alone in a room.

pete ,

@Uair @actuallyautistic @AtheismActually

For me, the underlying "why" is the the belief that some people deserve to survive, thrive and be happy more than others.

It explains sexism, racism, homophobia, capitalism, patriotism, nationalism, fascism, genocide.

TheConversationUS , to histodons
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The song ‘Born in the USA’ has been used in iconic – and ironic – ways.

An example is in 1984, when Ronald Reagan used the song in his reelection and announced that Bruce Springsteen and him shared the same American dream. The Boss vehemently disagreed.

https://theconversation.com/born-in-the-usa-turns-40-and-still-remains-one-of-bruce-springsteens-most-misunderstood-songs-228348
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pete ,

@j258853 @TheConversationUS @histodons

Slogans, booing, cheering, flag waving. Short circuits the brain.

templetongate , to bookstodon
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Apologies for the problematic title of the latest book reviewed. It is not my book, and I'm sure the author was aware of the controversy. The story is very good regardless.

http://templetongate.net/gypsy.htm

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pete ,

@templetongate @bookstodon

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/summaries/gypsy-roma-irish-traveller/

AutisticAdam , to actuallyautistic
@AutisticAdam@autistics.life avatar

Many autistic people struggle with “multiple choice” and “select the right answer” exam questions. A key reason for this is that the options available can feel - to our brains - like such vague simplifications or awkwardly worded answers that they all feel somewhat incorrect. 1/2

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pete ,

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

Our work's online training has multichoice questions at the end, and if you don't get 80% you have to repeat. When there are 5 questions it's not so bad, but once there were 10 questions, each with 5 possible answers, and it took me forever to work out which ones I was getting correct. Such a waste of time. I'm not stupid!

spika , to actuallyautistic
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My dude's tipping point into meltdown was a YouTube glitch where the thumbnails were playing in 2x for no known reason this morning.

Meltdowns that get triggered by tech seem to be the ones that I get riled up about the most because of my years of web development experience. It is incredibly difficult to not info dump a hypothesis about why a bug might happening, because even though he seems to be asking for an explanation, he's not. The explanation is too much and it makes the meltdown worse. I need to learn to sit with the discomfort of not explaining.

@actuallyautistic

pete ,

@neversosimple @spika @actuallyautistic

The three main things that should be far, far better by now are:

  • toasters
  • printers (generally)
  • the price of printer ink
  • the price of spectacles

You can't blame any of them on social media making them crap, although I would like to see the bosses of companies who manufacture these products, have to use them on some equivalent of the ice bucket challenge.

The cost of printer ink and spectacles is to do with monopoly. That should be regulated.

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