once when I was being an (at the time) unmedicated AuDHD 5 year old, my autistic mom tried to tell me there was “no autism in my day”. She got upset when I didn’t believe her.

it’s worth pointing that my grandpa (moms side) was really autistic in hindsight. He never got higher than a D in highschool, took apart my grandma’s hairdryer the first day they got married to “figure out how it worked”, and was so obsessed with fishing that his trophies took up too much space and had to be moved to the garage.

I feel like a historian reading hieroglyphics trying to understand this 😭

Just a connection I realized recently. This kind of homophobia is THE REASON WHY people assume there was no gay/trans people in history. Because they’re afraid to say the obvious about history and don’t teach it.

obligatory “people on Lemmy don’t reflect the Idiocracy of where I live” (conservative Florida). I know nearly everyone here knows that trans people have always existed, but my God people here hardly know what a trans person is, much less the history of it. also it’s literally illegal to teach history that’s not heterosexual in school 🥀

damn

emojis of my cat

I really hate monthly subscriptions. The only two I could justify are my $5/m VPN and 3/m discord just bc I used it so much.
Recently I changed discord to $1 to Wikipedia, $1 to archive.org, $1 to Lemmy. It’s not a lot but gives me peace of mind.

put that on my tombstone

it’s not for everyone 🤷‍♀️

Doom Eternal is one of my favorite games precisely because you switch weapons so often and are a slaughter machine. I beat the dlcs and had a blast. I enjoyed the difficulty honestly, it forced me to get better and actually feel like I ‘deserved’ to have the power of the doomslayer. The Marauder has to be my favorite enemy in all of gaming. He was SO hard the first time but once you learn how to counter him you can FUCK HIM UPP. It’s so satisfying to completely 180 him and turn him to a pile of gibs. The 2 at once fight in the first DLC was my favorite encounter of the whole game.

Tutorial hints were super annoying though, however you can just turn them off in settings.

2016 was boring for me tbh. Super excited for dark ages.

oh my God that fits SO WELL

Also, most school laptops are old. Someone did this at my school and got charged (iirc) $175 since it was the really old kind

laptops > raspberry pi imo. Having a screen is SO useful. I just got an old laptop to watch YouTube and mp4s on my TV without ads. Way better than the slow ad filled Roku OS

Hi there, I’m currently in highschool. You don’t understand how school laptops work. There was a court case where a school laptop was recording from a child’s home - it actually happened.

Also when you shut the screen it doesn’t turn off all the way. I’ve had times where I shut the screen, out it in my bag and 45 minutes later on my Bluetooth headphones I’ll head the windows notification sound.

And just for clarity, do I personally believe that they are spying with audio/video? probably not tbh.
Do they track EVERYTHING you do on the laptop? yes. Very obviously yes.

this makes me wonder if deaf people who read the captions on TV understand accents/pronunciation or if they just smile-and-nod

I’m gonna try without letting autocorrect fix it: nessicary

edit :(

what topics are being banned?

as much as I disagree with the “OnLy 7% Of MeAnInG GetS IntO tExt FoRmAt!!1!1” saying, this is one of those times where the removal of tone/body language can make a joke fall flat :/

oh I see, thanks for responding though

shave everything with a single blade and don’t bleed

I’m not who you were replying to, but I recently got a straight razor and have been cutting myself every time I try it, I don’t really understand how to use it. Could you give some tips?

currently I use shaving cream on my legs then run along against the growth, but any time I have a slight bump or even the fingerprint like ridges on my knees it will cut the top off. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, is this just how it’s supposed to work or am I doing it incorrectly?

past the first few chapters it got a bit confusing, but the train trolly thing was like a maze and I kept going in circles for so long 😵‍💫