Awesome. This makes for good readin’. Thanks for sharing!

WHATCHU LOOKIN AT MY GUT FER?

I thought the same thing.

That’s a good question and I’m not sure I have a good answer. I yearn for a time when we can talk about neurodivergence simply and in human terms. Doesn’t “That person has a short attention span” get the point across without adding “… like a squirrel” to the end? It’s a difficult conversation to have, as you’ve rightly pointed out, but I think if we keep having that talk we’ll get better at it.

And now that you have me thinking about it, another thought: We also use animal analogies in positive ways like “she’s a shark” or “he’s lionhearted”. I wonder if there’s a happy middle ground somewhere. Can we find an analogy that works that doesn’t equate someone to a rodent?

It is fact this meme compares neurodivergence to animalistic behavior, but you clearly aren’t interested. Instead, you’ve tried to insinuate racism. Another dog whistle, and another shot at my character.

You clearly have nothing useful to contribute to the conversation. You are not arguing in good faith. I will not continue entertaining you.

And this has the energy of a dog whistle.

You seem intent on making this personal, and I’m not sure why. Either way, I’m not interested in “defending” a factual observation.

it just seems pedantic

I’d like to refer you to all of history for what happens to marginalized groups when it becomes culturally acceptable to compare their behavior to animals.

You do you and whatever, but it doesn’t matter who made this or with what intent, it’s still comparing neurodivergent behavior to squirrels and beavers.

Lighten up?

It genuinely doesn’t matter to me, I’m just pointing it out.

Comparing neurodivergence to the behavior of animals doesn’t seem like the way towards understanding & acceptance.

Eh. The “all or none” mentality destroys movements.

I view Obsidian like a gateway drug to FOSS. Works well & one can still explore FOSS alternatives simultaneously since it’s all just markdown.

icantstopbuying.domains is a call for help

You are correct. The source code for Obsidian is proprietary, but a lotta FOSS-friendly folks give them a pass since it’s all plaintext Markdown etc on the backend.

I want more movies and shows where the bodyguard grows a conscience and murders the corrupt POS they’re guarding.

So it’s fair use when the AI reads something it didn’t pay for, but for humans it’s “piracy”.

Funny what money does.

My old elementary school had a deal with some distributor. Distributor put in a couple snack & soda machines & the school got a cut of the profit.

I just assume this is similar.

a scene with flashing lights induced photosensitive epileptic seizures in children across [Japan]. Over 600 children were taken to hospitals.

I had heard some rumors about kids getting seizures during a Pokémon episode way back when, but TIL how widespread it was. Holy shit.

I share your optimism. I’d love to see Ecosia + Qwant (or whoever, really) succeed.

That’s a fair point, “misleading” might’ve been a poor choice of words, but - one of the points on their page reads

“Our solar panels produce enough energy to power your searches twice over, meaning more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the energy grid.”

So fair enough, they’re offsetting enough to power the connection from their users to Google/MS; I just thought this quote (and their home page in general) glossed over their reliance on those 3rd parties to “do the dirty work”, so to speak.

Hey, that’s cool! I hope they can keep up the environmental message as they wean off Google/MS. Have they given a timeframe on when they hope to implement it? Seems like a huge task.