Yeah, my uncle who passed definitely had Autism, and so does my dad. They’re half-brothers, which means it’s highly likely my grandmother was as well (which my dad also agrees with).

It’s definitely hereditary in my family. I also clearly get my ADHD from my mom.

Not to mention that there are heavy correlations between queer identities and Autism. A lot of neurodivergent Boomers likely died during the AIDS epidemic, unfortunately.

It’s not that there’s a lower threshold. It’s that the definitions and our understanding of Autism changed. People who formerly would have been labeled with Asperger’s are now labeled (correctly) with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Plus we’ve learned how Autism can present differently in other communities that aren’t white male children. Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).

The truth is that there are likely a ton of people out there with undiagnosed Autism, because they wouldn’t have met the criteria to be diagnosed as kids based on our understanding at the time. It’s why there are so many adults now getting late life diagnoses.

Look, I can’t stand Trump, but he’s at least partially right on this one. It’s fucking obvious to anyone who has done even minimal research on it. Gain of function research for coronaviruses was being done at UNC Chapel Hill until it was shut down in 2014 and moved offshore: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research

NIH and USAID then began funding the same research through the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance since they had to move the research offshore: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan

Fauci was the head of NIH and authorized the research originally. Both the US and China have invested interest in making the allegations of a lab leak go away due to liability. It becomes obvious why Fauci wanted to squash any rumors of a lab leak since he was indirectly partially responsible for the research. It’s not a coincidence that Biden backpardoned Fauci specifically to 2014, when the gain of function research was moved overseas: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1385746/dl?inline

That said, Event 201 really is where shit gets really uncomfortable: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9-oVXQX88esnrdhaiuRdXGG7XOVYB9Xm

Look at the timestamp of when that video was posted, who it was posted by and who all were involved. For bonus points, watch the entire thing and not just the highlights. The social media censorship aspects are a bigger part of the discussion than the highlights would suggest.

Whether or not I think Fauci deserves to be held criminally liable for helping fund the research that likely led to the outbreak, I definitely think he should have been found liable (if not for pardons) for his attempts to bury any attempts to look into a lab leak rather than natural origin, and ostracize and ridicule people who tried to look into the possibility of a lab leak. For those who forgot, fucking Jon Stewart was one of them: https://www.yahoo.com/news/dare-jon-stewart-reflects-lab-202138738.html

I don’t know. I enjoyed it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Honestly, I was really looking forward to EverQuest Next. The idea sounded promising before it was cancelled.

Legends was such a weird series. It felt like a Mega Man take on something like Ocarina of Time.

Woah, what? They were going to make a Renegade-style game with C&C3? That would have been so much fun!

According to my friends who worked at Blizzard at the time, there’s a reason Ghost was cancelled. Apparently it wasn’t very good, unfortunately.

Yeah, that’s fair. He was so racist that even his contemporary racists were like “wtf?”

I think that’s an easier argument to make with someone who is dead, like H.P. Lovecraft. It’s a different story when the artist is still alive and actively profiting off the work you are consuming.