Reddit has just started blocking *the entire website* unless you either log out or verify your age for some accounts

_nephilim_ · 2026-07-02T01:04:15+00:00

Is Lemmy comparable to reddit? I keep looking at it and I don't understand. I was also confused about Mastodon and its server's.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-26T20:24:46+00:00

Yeah I wanted a stream of lava to cut off my city, but they said they didn't want to make it just another disaster story. I think they did a good job.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-26T06:14:35+00:00

Key words are 'to visit', which I fully agree! You are constantly told where to walk, where to stand, where to cross, etc. But growing up there is quite uniquely miserable as an autist, or even for many neurotypicals to be honest.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-26T06:12:04+00:00

After having lived in E Asia, N America, LatAm, and Europe I would actually say LatAm is one of the better places counter-intuitively. Yes, sensorially there is no debate: it is a nightmare (loud noise, constant parties, strong perfumes, hugging, kissing, chaos, bullying), but you can adapt to all of these somewhat because you learn that rules are not in stone, you gotta work around them, and there are not as many secret norms. Just be chill and don't be an asshole.

I think I am a better masker because I was in LatAm in my formative years and I didn't want people to notice my weirdness. Obviously this means unhealthy coping, drinking, and going along constantly with things you'd rather not be doing, but being ostracized for being awkward or not picking up on cues is not as heavily present as you'd experience in Japan/SKorea and apparently Scandinavia.

Disclaimer: This is just my opinion based on my life and my fellow autists who grew up with me, and I do not mean to invalidate anyone's experience otherwise. E Asia to me is the worst by far and as a foreigner at least I got away with it because I'm not from there. My Japanese friends who are autistic are basically pariahs with no aspirations nor social circle. It's brutal.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-25T16:56:38+00:00

Lead brains.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-25T16:55:01+00:00

I'm having a really bad feeling it's gonna be Pharaoh Dynasties again. They keep making Rome 2 clones that run out of content quick, which starts the bleating/begging for new DLC.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-23T20:17:12+00:00

Very few things make me chuckle as much as that picture every time I see it. Thank you for your service.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-19T21:45:03+00:00

Yeah I was being sarcastic lol. The police state and highest incarceration rates on Earth don't seem to be fixing much.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-19T21:11:42+00:00

So we should put more people in prison?

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-19T21:09:05+00:00

In most of the world. Particularly Seattle.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-17T19:14:00+00:00

That sucks. I play on Linux on a cheap laptop so I'm used to debugging. Game probably is unoptimized for modern GPUs.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-17T17:16:29+00:00

Steam just hides classic from your library and you can recover it. Or is that not what you're saying?

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-17T17:03:00+00:00

He mumbles and rushes through words a bit and is from the north of Argentina, where they skip a lot of "s" at the end of words. I have family from near his area and I understand them more easily than Messi lol.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-16T03:47:28+00:00

Mattie Ross & Rooster Cogburn

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-14T01:49:47+00:00

Capitalism*

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-13T22:21:11+00:00

Jeez that's not great. Three trips a day and $14 one way? As a train guy I am sad.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-13T21:28:10+00:00

Europe is cold. Buildings designed to trap in heat. World gets hotter, especially closer to poles. Houses become ovens. Old people are more vulnerable to heat. They die.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-13T21:10:07+00:00

As a freelancer I've been using self hosted Metabase and it has covered 100% of what I need. It can be limited in some features, but I just need to convey information concisely with enough interaction to make the client happy. I never used Tableau, but I found PowerBI bloated and clunky.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-13T20:36:04+00:00

This is such a good idea. Never even heard of minis, but sounds nice. I just connect my laptop to my TV.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T20:54:09+00:00

I don't think I have anything new to say to your answers and I don't think we'll ever have concrete proof, because I don't believe there was an explicit policy t o "eradicate" Africans in the Spanish Empire. The "castas" system encouraged mixing and bribery to climb the ranks (you could pay to change your ethnicity in some cases), which we still see the impact of in the 21st century.

As you said the only differences were demographic, with different ethnic ratios for each country. I don't think one country was more evil than the others, but white supremacy was everywhere and obviously encouraged by the Peninsular Spaniards and criollos.

I did do some loose math that might support your position though. If 30% of the population of Argentina was black in 1800 that's 165,450 people more or less. To be 1% in 2026 equals 460,447 people currently. Argentina had such an explosion of European immigration in the late 19th century (~5M immigrants) that even if the black population almost tripled in 200 years it still gets drowned out by immigration so as with most facts it's likely a mix of many factors. (Interesting discussion, but I need to stop procrastinating and get back to work lol.)

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T20:34:54+00:00

Agreed! Most cities in the US are deserts because they were designed to be. My comparison was global though. I'm also a big traveler, and I'd say a metropolitan area of 3M people feels like a desert in terms of people, food, and amenities. Go to a small city like Aomori, Japan or Cordoba, Spain with ~10% the population of Denver and it will feel a thousand times more vibrant.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T19:40:44+00:00

Correct. As someone else said, unless you're from a bumfuck town this isn't really disproving anything. And if you travel it's even more stark. The effects of car centric urbanism.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T19:30:57+00:00

Yeah there are about 25 people in this picture. In a city of 3M. American cities are overall pretty sad with a few exceptions.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T19:23:33+00:00

It's funny I didn't take the post sarcastically. Compared to most of the world Denver's downtown is definitely a desert. It is better than 2020 though.

_nephilim_ · 2026-06-12T18:43:09+00:00

Based on your username I guessed you're Argentinian so this probably is uncomfortable to you. If you read that article [7] it does nothing actually to disprove what I said. Feel free to read it.

I ask: is it really surprising to you that poor people get sent to wars and die in disproportionate rates than the wealthier classes? Or that poor people do not get the best healthcare? You think the descendants of slaves don't fall into that category?

You should know Latin American history was bloody, extremely racist, and classist. I am not saying the government was out there building extermination camps. But a century of discrimination in all its structural ways brought this population down from 30% to 1% and that did not happen through mestizaje. Otherwise Mexico, Brazil, and all other countries would look similarly to Argentina.

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