30 years old now. Was put in Special Ed at age 9. Dysgraphia + What at the time they called ADHD, but my current psychiatrist and therapist believe is actually ASD.

Special Ed means different things in different places. In Brazil in the very early 2000s it meant I attended school with all the normal kids, but would stay in the afternoon for a bunch of mandatory extra stuff.

Consequences… ? Enh. I mean. I never learned how to properly study, given I had tutors for every subject and so was basically always in class. To this day I’m not sure how one studies on their own. Had quite a hard time through college, when I had to figure this shit out on my own. Still managed to graduate eventually.

But like. Some people who were in Special Ed report, like, major emotional trauma from it. That really wasn’t a thing for me, I guess I got lucky? At most I have an irrational dislike of colouring pencils because of all the colouring books they made me fill in, in hopes that would “cure” my dysgraphia (fat load of good THAT did).

I got emotional trauma from bullying, but I was already being bullied before being put in Special Ed. And it didn’t get any better or worse until I like. Changed schools.

You know this human instinct, when if told we can’t have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?

The American government told its kids that they can’t have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)

So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn’t even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.

It’s just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it’s just a bunch of people following what’s trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any “apps run by a foreign adversary”. You’ll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.

Ofc, I doubt it’ll be enforced for things like temu and wish.

Ad-free internet stuff.

Computer Operating Systems

A lot of Software actually

Way I see it, “Comrade” is a term of endearment, like “mate” or “dude” or whatever.

Whereas “Citizen” is a honorific. An ungendered stand-in for “sir/madam”.

I was thinking less ‘the combine’ and more ‘the french revolution’

But. Sure.

Finna start using ‘citizen’ as an honorific

Leto Atreides II WOULD be a supporter of Batista.

Eh. There’s plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he’d been given unlimited internet access without also being a public figure).

And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don’t run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.

Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is,

Musk wasn’t always as completely off his hinges as he is right now, and I feel like at least half of the reason he got as bad as he did, is because he is constantly, 24/7/365, surrounded by yes men who do nothing but say how great and smart he is (and he has the money and power to ensure this always remains the case)

Like he was always a bigot and kind of a dumbshit, but he didn’t become unhinged until a few years back.

Which is why I think a hypothetical middle-or-lower-class Elon Musk would be just.

… A mediocre internet user. Holds some bigoted opinions. Gets into fights on webforums and social media. Has a low-level job in tech doing something no one cares about for a company everyone hates.

(I think they are asking about what level of wealth he’d be born into in your imaginary scenario – I wrote my post assuming ‘my own’, which is to say ‘comfortably middle-class parents in a rapidly crumbling economy, not poor per-se, but working class nonetheless, and pretty much guaranteed to die poorer than his folks’)

Statistically?

Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.

He’s very autistic, but if he weren’t a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn’t be there. (Although being from South Africa, he’d probably still be a massive Racist)

This means there’s a 93.4% chance he’d be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.

🥚-xactly.

Slavery 2: It won’t matter if you’re black or white

If I may be a centrist about this.

OP is being silly wanting a year-cutoff. Geeenerally people who are whole-hog on AI are very proud of that and will yell about it to the four winds. And even if they didn’t, reputation is a real thing one can rely on for knowing who are the goodies and the baddies. (… though if they do feel that’s the only way… 2023. That’s the date. November 2023 is when ChatGPT became something the public could use, and the floodgates opened for businesspeople wanting to replace all artists with robots. Before that, Generative AI was used mostly either by scientists for research into AI itself… Or by internet dorks like me for shitposting. It wasn’t good enough for anything else either way.)

With that said, y’all are being unreasonable to them too: Literature is art, and when it comes to art, “I don’t like the way it feels” is more than enough reason to not want to engage with something. If OP says “I don’t want to touch anything AI related, I don’t care if it is quote-unquote good” then that should be a complete sentence, and require no belaboured justification whatsoever.

That just proves my point though

The down votes are from internet strangers

I’m an internet stranger

Friends would presumably be people who share in your interests and outlooks and so would be willing to help you figure such things out. At least mine are.

You could start by switching from strangers to friends.

Strangers on the internet have always been unreliable. AI just adds to the stench.

batcat

It’s like cat but better. Great for when you just want to look at the contents of a file, without loading a whole text editor.

Oh also, tldr

My procedure for learning how to use a cli command goes tldr page -> --help if the tldr fails to help me -> THEN the full manpage

Vimwiki & syncthing

Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.

Sure, sounds fun.

Like I’d most definitely fuck something up, but I’d have a good time doing it.

No keep going, I like what you’re cooking.