Not between double yellows at a light with a turn indicator, and not when the turn lane is a freeway exit (so I’m actually just going straight), but pretty much all other times.

I will have to look for Satanic classes, I guess. Or Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Probably won’t be tortured here. Might be pardoned by the next administration if his story gets enough publicity and his family can keep the attention on him.

I just saw a group is going to start doing custom feeds with ads inserted. I blocked the account and every single sucker who comes in to say congrats and how excited they are about it. Fuck the lot of them. That said, that’s a third party, but also an example of what they could do.

Respectfully, this is a vast oversimplification. There are many successful people on the spectrum in tech, but that doesn’t always translate to success or money. Communication is a huge part of a development job and communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.

That being said, a bunch of folks on the milder end of the spectrum have certainly had great success in the field, myself among them.

That strikes me as humor but who knows.

100% cotton? My man!

That’s up to the individual board mods. Freedom of speech only means freedom of government persecution over speech, it doesn’t mean you’re entitled to say what you want on a privately controlled board. That said, I don’t have a problem with it but the mods decided it was not appropriate for the board. Sometimes that’s just because they know it’s going to be a shit show and they don’t want to moderate that because it’s fraught.

Trump blinks. Like everyone knew he would.

It draws from a lot of fantasy mythologies and needs a variety of monsters to populate encounters of all levels with lots of variety, plus intelligent species often have cultures which require more subtypes.

Empathy is a sin, now.

Marriage and kids did really help my depression. Not 100% but pretty well. I feel like I’ve accomplished many of the things in life I wanted. But it took 35 and a failed marriage to get there.

My dad was 19. My bio mom was 15, but she was out of the picture pretty quickly. My grandparents hated her and paid her off to go away. That’s okay. I’ve seen how my half-siblings were raised and I had a life of much greater opportunity than she ever could’ve given me.

My mom was 14. Guess I was about 3 when they married. She married him mainly for my benefit I think. He was good looking and had family money (not to be confused with wealth—I think he and my uncle split less than $2M after taxes when grandma died just before Covid.) but not much of a catch otherwise. I remember going to a lot of parties growing up. Being around a lot of drugs and alcohol, though my mom abstained for the most part.

I never got into drugs at all or alcohol addiction. I’m fifty now and enjoy scotch and cigars but not often to excess. So I wouldn’t say that environment affected me other than I was always talking to adults so I had a pretty advanced vocabulary and view of the world.

Growing up in the seventies able to run around the neighborhood ask I wanted was probably a much bigger influence. There were some fucked up things about my youth, but I think they were less fucked up than a lot of folks I know.

Federal regulators about to come down on him so hard!

We’ve had jerking off tens of thousands of years. It’s not a solution to either.

I would never have known this exists. Now, I will see this with my children.

Same, though I guess I was old enough to get that because my dad used to be a heavy drinker. I don’t have the book for reference but I think that’s pretty Belgium good.

I just started a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians for a bunch of 13-16 year olds.

… Wait, officer, just let me explain…

Ever had a pan-galactic gargleblaster?

I will vote for AOC with pride. But I’m leery about running another woman right now. Neither Hillary nor Kamala could win against Trump.

That said, I can’t think of anyone I’d be happier to vote for. I dream of her being President. I don’t know if swing states will have it, but I would fight to make it so.