If we strip all context from the original circumstance, I imagine we could.

But that’s not what happened, is it? You elected to editorialize that the user is doing it to be fake-different and to gain attention, despite them never going out of their way to do so, never once that I’ve seen actually say it has anything to do with poisoning AI (not that it matters, either way), and never responding when people disparage them to their “face”; literally, just typing the way they want to type and not responding to the behavior of others, the literal opposite of seeking attention.

Which any autistic person could tell you is highly relatable: they’re just off doing their own thing and it just infuriates the allistic folk who now have to make fun of them and say shit about them because, “Can’t they tell how annoying they’re being? Can’t they read social circumstances? I mean, I’m all for tolerance but they should really understand the way their behavior inconveniences me and makes me uncomfortable and now I’ve got make it their problem.”

It annoys you; fine. Different strokes; but you didn’t just say it annoys you: you assigned motive and character to this person because you’re so annoyed and any neurodivergent person would recognize that behavior from when it happened to them.

That’s clearly what AstralPath was referring to and you, then, lined up to the plate to participate further.

That’s what I was pointing out; it’s not a generalized argument: it’s a capturing of an explicitly neurodivergent experience and taking it out of that context is, of course, going to make it fall apart.

Only flaw there: elephants don’t have scrotums.

I mean, I think it’s complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.

I don’t think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).

I’d, also, contemplate that it’s maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they’re on their third round of voting for him.

I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren’t taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can’t be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don’t know something.

(I also think there’s an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic “well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that’s just the way they are” relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I’m not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who’re sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don’t walk into those sort of pitfalls when we’re particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can’t be stupidity, definitionally))

I’d argue that’s more ignorance, than stupidity; you can’t help what you aren’t aware of or weren’t taught.

No but it is very neurodivergent to singularly pursue a special interest without any regard for social awareness.

And very neurotypical to label that person as annoying or just doing it for attention.

Somewhere, my mother’s paranoia is shouting in vindication.

Maybe part of it is that, as a Queer person, I’ve been keenly aware of the Heritage Foundation (and similar org.s like Focus on the Family) and following their moves since the 2000s.

They’ve been angling for these types of societal changes for decades and, like those who were intent on overturning Roe and were willing to work for it for a near century – slowly peeling off wins until they got it –, I knew they knew this was their moment and they were going to go for all of it, whatever it took to do it.

I thought we’d nearly buried them and all the homophobic attempts and moves I’d watched them make throughout the previous 2 decades with Obergefell v. Hodges (the Overton window had finally moved in a way that was downright surreal compared to the for-granted and implicit apathy (at best) and disdain of the 2000s and early 2010s) which made the 2024 election particularly existential.

She’s definitely not wrong but, to me, it seems obvious that it’s capturing the level of scope. The hostages affect the families to which those hostages belonged but it’s the entirety of Gaza that was being attacked and starved (and, hence, the entire people).

Granted, dehumanization doesn’t have to follow any logic to get kicked off and the wording could still have that effect, nonetheless.

How would you pin down something like this? If it happened to me, I expect I just wouldn’t understand what’s going on.

I HAVE to say this is a joke.

Why? I doubt your mom uses Lemmy.

Sure; but we won’t close that gap immediately. Intermediate progress can be helpful for further progress.

Loved that video until I looked at some of the creators other videos.

I dunno if sufficiently so but their new model is less bulky: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/

Loses the removable battery and headphone jack (sadly), though; but you do gain hardware switches and an extra 2GiB of RAM.

There’s generally been positive reviews for FuriLab’s FLX1 model:

• https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-phone.gmi
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fa1ljn/furilabs_flx1/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1j46f2w/flx1_linux_phone_display_out/
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/

Their new one, the FLX1s has 2GiB more RAM (for 8GiB, in total). I’ve heard battery gets 2 days without charge even with Android emulation.

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Make it redd, to easily distinguish from the color.

That makes a lot of sense; thanks so much!

Not really related to the bulk of your comment but I’m curious (if you don’t mind sharing) what features you like from BlueSky, in comparison to Mastodon?

https://youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4

This was the video essay that won me over to that film.

Also this video (much shorter) is just funny: https://youtu.be/WC0YAJR6xQQ

Nooo…I would’ve sworn that was a burger.

That was the most appalling part, for me: I thought they’d just slapped a whole raw patty on top everything.