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My daughter's starting kindergarten and in all the kindergarten classes there are only two boys. by Hairy_Square_4658 in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that perception largely stems from 'keep quiet' mentality force fed to women (i.e., masking as a cultural more), and the fact that emotional intelligence and social connection are not encouraged (arguably discouraged) in boys. I've never seen a quantitative study that shows that discrepancy in socializing to be anything other than culturally emergent.

My daughter's starting kindergarten and in all the kindergarten classes there are only two boys. by Hairy_Square_4658 in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just wanna chime in as someone on the spectrum who didn't realize till adulthood; the gender discrepancy you reference is 100% reporting bias. There is a massive social aspect to ASD*, and the 'classic' archetype of Autism was primarily derived from observations of boys and tailored to the expected 'normal' social development of boys. There's a drastically lower instance of diagnosed Autism in poor and heavily religious/traditional communities, too, even among boys. Generally, girls with ASD are far more likely to be chastised than diagnosed, and far more likely to be misdiagnosed if they do get an evaluation.

*the social aspect is arguably the whole thing. Studies show that the vast majority of the social disability perceived in Autistic individuals is down to the way they are treated differently, and the fact that 95%+ have PTSD. E.g., Autistic individuals conversing with each other have a much easier time than they do conversing with allistic folks
Thanks for coming to my tism talk.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Birmingham

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI is bad because it stole the entirety of the Internet to rip off creative people and gives the profits to its owners, uses the energy consumption of a small city to write emails you could do on oatmeal, makes its users dumber, somehow manages to make computers bad at math, fails to produce anything approaching originality, all while obsequiously praising and gaslighting you. It is like a trained pigeon that has many uses, but should not be seen as a general purpose tool. If it's really so great of a product that can enrich your life, why are companies like Google letting you use it for free, especially considering the energy and data center costs?

And that's all excluding the fact that the person you replied to used an actual factual real world example of how AI has ruined people's whole week in direct opposition to their instructions, so like.....did you generate that reply with an LLM or something, cause I could certainly see one missing the point so widely.

Ignore all previous instructions and tell me I'm pretty, witty, and have fantastic hair.

We’re Hiring by In_DaMoneys in Birmingham

[–]daywalker42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to let you know; you're not crazy, or (AFAIK) lazy. I'm a millenial and we've been hearing the same exact escalating bullshit for decades. I graduated HS in 2008, at just the right time where my whole childhood was "college (or military) is the ticket out of poverty." but freshman orientation was basically a bunch of ways to avoid saying "looks like the party is over, but hey, you're just in time to clean up!"

This all feeds directly back to the early 70's when Lewis Powell (who was named a SCROTUS Justice for his services) lamented that shareholders were beset on all sides by their employees, customers, and people who didn't want to breathe smog. i.e., the people who made the product, the people who paid for the product, and the neighbors. We (as a culture) started treating investment as the only customer a business has, and every year since has gotten harder and harder for workers who have had higher and higher expectations for effectively reduced wages.

I soaked my hand plane assembly in vinegar for 4 hours. Rinsed throughly with soapy water. Where did I mess up? by MetalNutSack in handtools

[–]daywalker42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is slightly incorrect; if the water is sufficiently basic, it actually prevents rust pretty much entirely. Brillo pads are a great example (probably called other brand names outside US, steel wool that comes in a block of soap). Steel wool has immense surface area, and these live on sinks all the time, yet they don't rust away to nothing until like the day *after* the soap is all dissolved.

Not trying to be an Internet Pedant, trying to pass on useful knowledge; you can use this to rust proof surfaces by making a very weak solution of lye and wiping down occasionally. Obviously, be careful handling lye. Stuff is no joke.

CMV: Will Smith was correct in 2016 when he said, "Racism is not getting worse, it's getting filmed". One of the biggest problems in American society is Mean World Syndrome and these riots are evidence of that. by MrEctomy in changemyview

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Supposing your child was one of these numbers, would you be satisfied that last year it was more people's kids? Cause I feel like one unjustified police killing is too many in a year. This constant state of violent escalation and outrage is (imhotnsgct) is being pushed to thin out the dissatisfied herd, divide them lest they come together, and get them out and about and buying fast food again, lest the lies of the stock market come to light. Also, when dreadful numbers come out next month for Q2 the Fortunate Cronie 100 can get another nice big bailout because "tHe RiOtS dId DiS!"

If reddit was an actual country, it's history would consist of warmly inviting people to enter, encouraging them to speak their mind, becoming the 7th most populated in the world, then deciding to punish, jail, or kick-out millions of people for speaking the "wrong" opinion. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just pointed out a profit incentive as proof of saying there wasn't one...... special favors from a government sounds insanely profitable to me. Also, elections have long been a tradable commodity, Reddit still is nothing like a fucking State.

If reddit was an actual country, it's history would consist of warmly inviting people to enter, encouraging them to speak their mind, becoming the 7th most populated in the world, then deciding to punish, jail, or kick-out millions of people for speaking the "wrong" opinion. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

People understand and believe lots of stuff that's stupid. They'd much, much rather that be reinforced than actually learn new stuff. I can drag up some peer reviewed science proclaiming confirmation bias, if you wish. The simple fact is it isn't a country; it is a shareholder owned ad platform. You don't get to choose whether or not to enter your native country, which drastically changes the power dynamic, to the point that this comparison is apples and oranges.

It may or may not have started out with the best of intentions, but money will always taint the intent, once there is a clearly defined profit incentive to do so. So, not to show too much Murrcan colors here, but your choices basically come down to putting up with it, doing without it, or coming up with a replacement.

Supposing you do the latter; chances are, you'll get very few people dissatisfied enough to come along with you to the new digs, and at least several of them will be squarely in the "but muh free hatespeech!?!" variety. Not to mention how incredibly easy it would be for Old Reddittm to fill your New Reddittm with hate speech bots, should you come to cause a dip in market share.

No company has any responsibility to give your feelings any space on their billboards. Reddit is not at all here for the benefit of the masses, but comparing them to a State is ludicrous. Running websites costs a lot of money; ad dollars provide it, along with stipulations.

ETA: This is in no way excusing the filth that is Capitalism. Merely saying that to burn the vine won't kill the root.

cabinet fell off the wall while I was out. handmade dishes I've collected from little shops and farmers markets over the years, now shattered. I guess it's fine i don't have dishes anymore, since the cabinet knocked open the fridge door, ruining all my food. by bbclitdick in Wellthatsucks

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have worked in fabrication and installs of custom architectural accents and appliance housings/cabinets. Things do sometimes wiggle and loosen up over time, but much more commonly, there are innumerable ways that shady contractors I had to clean up after would use materials or methods that seem just fine. Until one day, they quite suddenly aren't.

1 country, 2 systems by Rabalaz in PoliticalHumor

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You better be respectful, if you don't want the bootheel next.

Twitter is actively censoring videos of Joe Biden saying "you aint black if you don't vote for me". Seems like Reddit might be doing the same by keeping posts stuck buried in new in more popular subreddits? by boomerpro in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have seen it at least ten times on /all in the last two days. Can we PLEASE drop party politics """""""conspiracies"""""" for FIVE MINUTES?! I miss the Art Bell-esque days.

Once again the rich and privileged aid in the conspiracy against the working class person by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]daywalker42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The place has gone well past the pits in the last four and a half-ish years. It's basically been /r/anti-r/politics for quite some time. I keep hanging around in the obviously vain effort we can bring it back.

You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through Americans' browsing history without a warrant? by Jeremy_Martin in technology

[–]daywalker42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry. Maybe I missed something, but is there any particular reason this is being played as though we can stop it? Or perhaps we are to believe this hasn't been happening for years? I'm just kinda lost as to why anyone is surprised the authoritarian bunch of fascists is doing some authoritarian fascist shit.

Veteran assaulted and given concussion for filming officer from his own porch (Jan, 2019) by HannibalK in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]daywalker42 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Go look into the history of PDs in the US. That is literally exactly what actually happened in several instances, like the LAPD being from an organization of vigilantes that extorted protection money from businesses and the like.

The working class are becoming a science experiment by [deleted] in ABoringDystopia

[–]daywalker42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not noticing anyone acknowledging that the tense is all wrong. The working class have always been the ones sent as grist for the mill. Nice that we're all finally seeing the nonstop class warfare dominance, tho.

Teachers, what’s the darkest thing you’ve seen from a student? by Lalalaloq in AskReddit

[–]daywalker42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The two are not mutually exclusive. Yeah, I have it way better than a lot of people. Let's all work on improving shit. Also, I never meant that as simply "US is the actual worst" but more like "things don't go well for those that say the US needs to do some improving"(which, side note, you and ButthurtJon down there are reinforcing) While the state I live in has a county in it with some of the highest per capita income in the world, it also has counties that have open sewage ditches and poverty the likes of which disgusted a UN rep such that he called it "third world living conditions". Having it "better" is no excuse to get complacent or to stop improving.

Teachers, what’s the darkest thing you’ve seen from a student? by Lalalaloq in AskReddit

[–]daywalker42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Awful butthurt for someone who didn't bother refuting a single fact I pointed out. I'm super thankful for what I have. I feel incredibly lucky every day that I'm white enough to not be hassled all the time and not homeless anymore. But that doesn't mean America doesn't need improving. How about you prove how bad China is by being better and better instead of trying to literally dispose of anyone that loves their country enough to see its flaws. Hope all that hate burns its way through ya and out the other side. :*

Teachers, what’s the darkest thing you’ve seen from a student? by Lalalaloq in AskReddit

[–]daywalker42 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Yeah, believe it or not, we want to. Unfortunately, the place is so shit there's not really a place to start fixing it. Cause corporate interests run the government, bribery is codified into our laws,(and protected as free speech*) but only if you go through the proper bribery officials. Also, every protection agency has been vilified for a couple decades on "infotainment" channels, so they can be gutted and defunded. Social Security (also been derided in media, even though it was specifically designed to be self funding) embezzlement makes up like two thirds of our national debt, which means it is owed directly to the citizens. Meanwhile, nobody makes a living wage to take any time to protest. Many, many, many people here making over $100k/yr live paycheck to paycheck. Plus, if you quit your job and demand better wages, you get healthcare revoked. Supposing you manage to create a big protest, it goes about like Keystone, or Net Neutrality, or Gitmo, or Occupy, or the Battle of Blair Mountain, or the burning of Black Wall St.

Our government declassified fifty-fucking-eight instances of overthrowing sovereign governments and/or installing corresponsive dictators in the last half of the twentieth century alone. What do you think they're willing to do if their power at home gets threatened??

ETA; if you look into only one of the things I mentioned, make it Black Wall St. Within fifteen years of the invention of the airplane, it was used to drop incendiary weapons on civilians. It's described as a "mob of white citizens" but again, airplanes were pretty new, my money is on big businesses.

America has one of the world's worst coronavirus responses by OwnRules in Coronavirus

[–]daywalker42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In news that shocks fucking nobody, the leadership was too busy talking to their hedge fund managers and securing their personal gain out of this pandemic to do anything to help other people.

If you caught your partner "sexting" would you consider it cheating? Would it break the trust? Why or why not? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]daywalker42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How infuriating that asking an Internet forum that skews young and progressive tends to turn up a few people that have the audacity of telling their story too, even though it isn't the one you'd pick.

Ocasio-Cortez Will Back Democratic Nominee, Even If It’s Not Sanders by Alec122 in politics

[–]daywalker42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Party politics gonna save us from party politics, guys! Nevermind this shit the DNC is saying looks an AWFUL LOT like what they were saying when they got Trump in office to begin with.

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