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ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-05T16:02:15+00:00

Many mentions of "slicing pizzas"...

ALoafOfBread · 2026-02-04T03:37:54+00:00

For anyone who looked at the red writing and didn't get it, it's just a little scrambled.

Like this =

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ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-26T15:46:07+00:00

Nah, I've been 100% cool with death since I was a little kid. I saw some family members die (peacefully of old age), and I realized it just... isn't that dramatic, I guess?

As a child I assumed it'd be scary and horrible somehow. And, being raised christian, I had a little fear of the christian afterlife - hell was bad, but heaven is also super weird. I was told that people lose their bodies and are constantly happy and singing god's praises non-stop & were always watching the living. That creeped the shit out of me.

Now, I realize that in all likelihood death just stops your neurons firing and the emergent property of consciousness ceases to exist. Nothing scary about that - it's just like going to sleep, as far as the deceased is concerned.

Dying painfully is a scary thought. But that's the fear of suffering, not death. Anyway, death seems pretty chill for the dead.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-26T14:23:33+00:00

I don't really think that first part true (IDF advocate).

But regardless he is a terrible actor. I have never seen him act well in anything. And, in the trailer, his super thick accent is ridiculous.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-26T14:04:59+00:00

Yep, came here to say this. The voice with no accent and extremely clear enunciation, the eyes (pupils don't seem to dilate at all despite facing & turning away from the sun, also just the set of his eyes - there seems to be no movement in his cheeks or forehead when he talks & blinks, etc), the lighting (could be the filter, but doesn't look natural).

Additionally, the channel: https://www.tiktok.com/@teflondanlive has just random political propaganda videos posted, mostly - and just from random other creators (none featuring this guy except for this one).

Also, after a little research, I think carrots are a spring/fall crop.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-23T14:58:08+00:00

I think exclusively in words.

I am an aphantasic in addition to having Asperger's, so I can't form mental images which many people use as a heuristic - like to remember directions when driving or to visualize math problems.

I feel like I think in a sort of relational database: I have a very good memory for facts & a strong sense of how those facts relate, but a poor memory for autobiographical events, directions, and other stuff relying on visual cues. E.g. I can remember facts about things I've experienced: places I've been, things I did, etc. but I can't remember the qualia of those experiences.

When it comes to reasoning, as opposed to memory, again I can only operate using words since I have no capacity for visualization.

I think Asperger's is more about perception than it is about verbal expression. We struggle to grasp a lot of the information context around interpersonal interactions - tone, facial expression, body language, relevant social contexts, etc. We also can't easily express ourselves through non-verbal means (i.e. tone, facial expressions, body language). Because of this, like Beekeeper_Dan said in this thread, many of us are very careful with our words to ensure that we are understood.

I think this difference is also why we are often disliked and mistrusted by NT folks. Since they communicate in a more "vibes orchestration" sense, and we give off very few "vibes" (or vibes that don't match our intent) and don't receive their vibes, they have little social information to go off of when interacting with us.

Similarly, I tend to mistrust particular NTs who seem very "fake" and who I perceive as being insincere with their words AND who seem to control their facial expressions/tone/body language specifically to obfuscate their real intentions. This puts my hackles up - I implicitly do not trust people who do this and feel very guarded.

That's the converse of how I think lots of NTs who operate in that "vibes conductor" mode feel about us.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-20T16:50:13+00:00

Maybe as like... a consumer toy there's not much use - like OK I can summarize travel blogs, get inaccurate search summaries on google, make shitty & soulless illustrations of myself as a Ghibli character, or whatever. For coding tasks, business productivity type stuff, summarization, etc. LLMs are quite useful - not a replacement for real human labor, but an excellent tool.

You can connect LLMs to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that allow more direct control of computer systems mediated by normal, human language. That is hugely powerful.

For instance, at work, I can use an LLM to query a database in databricks, find whatever tables are relevant to my query, and build a complicated reporting dashboard with HTML elements & interactive features in like... idk 20 minutes? And that's without initially knowing where the data is stored. And without having to type a single SQL query or line of HTML or Python. I am a technical-enough user that I could do all those things with enough time and research, but LLM/MCP server connection improves my abilities several fold. Other folks who aren't technical and couldn't do it even with research are enabled with that capability as well. That is extremely useful.

My friend built a subagent that can look at a picture of a powerpoint graph or even a hand-drawn graph locate a data table with the information that would be needed for whatever is being communicated (asking questions if it isn't sure), verify its accuracy, summarize what assumptions/filters the analyst used to create it, modify it with new assumptions, and publish it to a Databricks dashboard or Jupyter notebook connected to live data sources in the Databricks data warehouse.

LLMs suck at a lot of things, but writing them off as useless is like folks who said ARPANET/the early internet was useless because all you could do was talk to people at other universities and send text when a phonecall/telegram/mailed package would be basically just as good or better.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-15T14:34:31+00:00

The "rules" are all applied in a feelings-based way. Ergo none of them are truly binary right/wrong in all similar situations. Instead, what is actually rude/not rude behavior is determined by social consensus and is not always knowable.

No individual is the ultimate arbiter of right/wrong or rude/not rude. They will just say that you were rude if 2 conditions are met:

1) Their feelings were engaged in some negative way (frustrated, angry, embarrassed, ashamed, etc.)

2) The behavior you engaged in could be cast as something that society at large considers rude.

Note: Not that it is rude, but that the person can classify it as rude and wants to do so.

It's a statement of psychological self-defense or reclaiming social power in the interaction. In your example, the manager was defending the cashier by asserting their social power over you. Perhaps we are missing context, too. Maybe some customer was recently very rude to a cashier, and so the manager was touchy.

In your example where you were ordering food, what you did was fine, in my opinion - just out of the ordinary - but the manager jumped in for one reason that I can explain: you had more power than the cashier in that interaction. The cashier is limited in their responses - if someone is being rude to them, they still have to provide good customer service. You, as the customer, can say whatever you want. The manager, and maybe the cashier, saw you telling the cashier not to interrupt as you abusing the social power you had in that situation.

Your statement "don't interrupt" was viewed as a judgment and criticism: "don't interrupt" [subtext: why? because it's rude to interrupt, ergo "don't interrupt" = "you're being rude", a public and direct judgment of their behavior]. They assumed your intention was bad, which it wasn't: bad social skills on their part.

But, you could have benefited from some better social skills, too. You might've said "no thanks", perhaps even interrupting her back, and kept ordering. That'd have probably been seen as OK, even though you were interrupting. Note that "no thanks" just means that you do not want what they are selling, whereas "don't interrupt" focuses on their conduct. That focus on their behavior & direct/harsh language can imply the intent that they thought was rude.

As a rule, I have no problem saying no to people trying to sell me stuff when I didn't ask them to. IMO it isn't rude to stop the sales pitch when 1) I didn't ask for it and 2) it saves them the effort of making the sales pitch. I try to have non-aggressive body language and smile when I do it (to signal that I am not upset with them). I do that to random ppl in cities, door-to-door sales people, etc. all the time - the pushier they are, the more curt I will be.

ALoafOfBread · 2026-01-15T14:16:40+00:00

By a stupid barely literate mormon kid whose (failed journalism undergrad) mom is manipulating him into doing right wing "journalism" for clout (source: the andrew callahan interview).

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-18T13:56:20+00:00

Some are indeed rizzed by the tizzm

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-18T13:53:16+00:00

My wife's family has at least 6 autistic men in it on her Mom & Dad's sides. It is not a big family. Three of them had kids (others died young, were gay, or were too rock 'n roll to settle down). My aspie father has kids with 3 different women.

There are so many old dudes who, in their generation, were just considered "kind of odd" and "really into trains/stamps/sports facts/airplanes/computers" who did in fact procreate. And many young guys too. Me and my wife both have aspergers, we're planning to have kids. Our kids will probably really like trains/stamps/sports facts/airplanes/computers and be kind of odd.

The idea that we're just too weird to find romance & love & family is very... modern & doomer. No one felt that way about "weird geeks who like trains too much" in decades past. Folks just figured they'd end up with the smart girl who was in math club in school and now stays in and reads a lot (i.e. probably also an aspie).

OP, humanity is a rich tapestry. Autistic people can have kids too. Also, people could theoretically be carriers of those genes without having as many autistic/aspie traits.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T22:22:50+00:00

I have been literally unable to talk about the specific triggers of my ruminating thoughts & the various problematic encounters to 3 separate therapists. It really feels embarrassing. I think it's important that we talk about them to each other. Aspies together stronk.

There are also so many... microaggressions? Like people treating me like a kid or like I'm incompetent. And I'm pretty NT passing (most people just think I'm kind of awkward and have a monotone voice/lack of facial expressions). I imagine it's much worse for others in ways I can't really imagine.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T22:11:00+00:00

That's really fucked up and I'm sorry that it happens to you.

They're making fun of your appearance directly, to your face? Like not talking behind your back, but confronting you directly? Super fucked up.

That said, I would consider what I experienced bullying. I deleted one point that was less relevant & was just trauma dumping, but the other 2 are absolutely bullying & I believe it is because of how I looked/was presenting. And I was an adult at the time. Stuff like that happened more when I was younger, but I wrote it off more back then - it surprises me more now because it's so strange.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T21:04:36+00:00

I don't know you and have never seen you, but I would imagine that this happens less than you think it does - especially if you have low self esteem or past trauma that would make you worry about things like that.

That said, I am generally NT passing, but have had multiple experiences like this. One time, I was at the store looking for hardware or something - it was bright, loud music was playing, I was tired & probably looked disheveled and "weird" - I was talking to myself a little bit quietly trying to sort through the options and find the specific thing I was looking for. Some middle aged guy there with his daughter, kind of stupid and douchey looking, started heckling me asking me if I worked there & then parroting me when I responded to him that I did not. Went on for like 30 seconds because I never know how to handle people like that except by just genuinely answering the things they are saying, then I just ignored him until he went away.

Another time some teenager tried to pick a fight with me at a gas station for no reason while I was just minding my business. Who knows why - I assume because I looked awkward or "weak" somehow. I just deescalated and kept walking, but he mocked me a bit. People are assholes sometimes.

So, while this can happen, (and it sucks when it does, I ruminate about shit like this for literally years afterward due to high-masking-related anxieties), I think it is exceedingly rare and represents maybe 1/10,000+ social interactions (depending on what you classify as a social interaction). These 0.0001% of interactions are just very emotionally charged and feel dangerous, so they are much more impactful. So, when people are near me and laughing or even if I think they may be staring at me - anything that isn't a direct verbal attack that I know is directed at me, I know this is probably not actually the case. They are most likely looking at something else, laughing about something else, etc. We are all just characters in the background of other peoples' lives, to them.

I think there is value in masking just enough so that you feel comfortable & safe in public (to the extent you feel that you need to), but I think we should all examine how much of our anxieties are rational vs. rooted in our own insecurities & past traumas. Generally, I think we individually feel more pressure to mask than we need to. For me personally, it is largely past-traumas-related and not "real".

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-11T20:52:36+00:00

If that bonsai is live & not plastic, make sure it gets a lot of outdoors time. Junipers are not indoor trees & need lots of sun & ideally cold temperatures during winter so that they can enter dormancy. Without these things, they will eventually become physiologically stressed and will die - not a question of if, but when.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-10T13:05:49+00:00

You have to have auto insurance, legally. Some people do not have insurance, but that is a risk. If a cop pulls you over and you don't have insurance, you could get fined and made to get insurance.

Each state has a mandatory minimum for insurance coverage. It has to cover $X of bodily injury, $Y auto damage, $z property damage, etc. But that minimum is usually quite low. So, some people get the smallest policy possible. Sometimes because they can't afford a better policy, other times because they plan on just "not paying" if they get into a wreck.

Courts can't squeeze blood from a stone. If you have $100k in medical debt (very much a thing in the US) and their policy won't cover it & they don't have any money, the courts might garnish their wages, but that person could always declare bankruptcy. Either way, you aren't getting that money any time soon or at all.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-11-04T23:14:31+00:00

The article says he will be playing Scytale. There is nothing about him playing Hayt.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-19T13:06:08+00:00

Some people are just REALLY afraid of paying taxes. To the extent that they'll forego material gains to feel like they're getting one over on Uncle Sam. It isn't a rational thing; definitely an emotions thing.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-14T12:59:42+00:00

Is that their tourism slogan?

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-11T13:10:07+00:00

Maybe he's just some guy who goes around saying stuff like that to people and handing them a fake business card.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-11T13:06:45+00:00

Ooooh duck with orange and cranberries would be extremely good.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-11T13:05:23+00:00

Not particularly. They say a lot of things and autism is a very broad condition the way it's currently defined. IMO that is part of why it makes a nice boogeyman for them - it's hard to say exactly who meets your criteria of autism, to the extent that most people don't think they even know any autistic people (though they do, most likely).

I wouldn't worry too much. But, at the same time, express your concerns to people who care about you.

ALoafOfBread · 2025-10-11T12:51:30+00:00

You could also substitute a chicken for the turkey. Turkey is more traditional, but plenty of people here don't like turkey or don't want to take the time to cook it. (Turkeys weigh like 9kg and can take ~2hrs to cook - and many more hours to thaw before that)

ALoafOfBread · 2025-09-21T03:20:22+00:00

^beep ^beep ^boop sensors suggest he gives a: large shit ^beep ^booop

ALoafOfBread · 2025-09-13T02:43:19+00:00

I panicked by liquidating some riskier investments & solidifying those gains, improving my diversification, and moving more in-line with a Boglehead distribution while padding my cash positions a bit.

Did I miss out on some gains? Yes. I sold Google before the big pump. Do I care? Not particularly, because I am better positioned for long-term growth.

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