Pretty much what the other comment said. Your understanding of socialism seems tainted by rightwing criticisms that misrepresent socialism, communism, etc. I’m not saying this as an insult or anything, you’re obviously not a rightwinger, but it’s a common issue because almost all of us live in a rightwing system and grow up learning this way.

Participating in capitalism does not make you a bad socialist, it’s simply necessary for survival. This is similar to the argument against a country like China, suggesting they aren’t really socialist because they participate in the global, capitalist economy. But if they didn’t do that, they’d never create the conditions to move forward.

Like yeah you could live in a commune or something, but that doesn’t really do anything and honestly seems worse than just living a “normal” life and trying to radicalize people around you. Basically we gotta change more than our own lifestyles and until we are in a position to change the system, there’s not much point in trying to figure out how to be a “good socialist” under capitlaism

Sounds like you’ve internalized rightwing propaganda.

The statue isn’t even gold. Trump missed a good chance to rile up the libs over nothing. He really has lost the magic.

Yeah, that changes things. I still don’t think they should suggest you’re using autism as an excuse to avoid improving communication. It just feels wrong to criticize you for something that is intrinsic to autism and then say it’s an excuse when you point that out.

If someone did that to me I would probably have a fucking meltdown right then lol

I had to look up dakimakura but you’re right in a way. I just use a rolled up weighted blanket secured with zip ties and a picture of Natasha Lyonne (easier for me to do her voice) stapled to it

My partner is a hot girl and randomly compliments like every person she sees now because I told her that it’s basically magic and she’s really into this witch stuff

How’d it go?

Honestly, your friend’s response frustrates me. Being autistic and having difficulty understanding social situations is not just some excuse, it’s literally part of being autistic. Sure, work on it all you want, but if you’re autistic there will never be a point in your life where you can intuitively know a person is feeling some type of way. You might be able to tell something is different, but knowing what is actually going on is much more difficult (it’s difficult for everyone, but so much worse for autistic people)

Your friend might as well be telling you to learn how to fly. The best you can do is notice there is some change in their behavior and ask what’s up. There are some obvious indicators like crying, but even that can be an expression of various emotions. You can try to understand the context, but most likely the things you think are important aren’t even relevant.

The real solution here is when your friend needs more support, they should ask for it. They shouldn’t lash out at you after the fact, they should ask. If they can’t do that because their autism gets in the way, then they should understand that you also have trouble recognizing their distress if they can’t even express it clearly.

Capitalism

Ruins

Everything

Around

Me

Please provide evidence that humans are immutably greedy. That’s what you’re saying, right? That the system people live in cannot eliminate human greed and therefore we uh…shouldn’t try? Idk what your point actually is here. Do you think greed has less of an impact under capitalism?

Lmao did you vet all of these comments before reading them too? What if one of them persuaded you?! OMG YOU MIGHT ALREADY BE COMPROMISED

Why do you think LLMs use a lot of em dashes if not because the data they are trained on uses a lot of em dashes? And if the data they are trained on uses a lot of em dashes, wouldn’t you expect to see a lot of em dashes in articles?

Yeah, I wish. The app I work on is ancient and it’s just a clone of an even older app. And the whole time we’re fixing the old one we’re making a new version. We have a lot of testing established, but a lot of our devs won’t even add tests without a change request

Wait did a politician in the US just do an unequivocally good thing or am I missing the part where an old growth forest is being cut down to build mcmansions for those afrikaners?

I basically review every PR now because of this kind of shit. So many people who will approve code that doesn’t even work or has obvious issues. Honestly they are blatant too, I’ve been in meetings where someone asks for a review and another person approved it right then, faster than anyone could possibly look at it much less actually run it. I don’t even think our bosses care. I only care because it makes the team’s life harder long-term

Shit maybe the Quakers are wrong about this violence thing then

they’re just merging anything with no conflicts.

every dev I work with

I would only make games about communism and remakes of all my favorite Sega Saturn games (Mystaria would be the first one)

I’m a communist because it makes sense. I don’t even need to like people to know that we gotta work together to accomplish great things and the best way to do that is ensure everyone has what they need to live day-to-day and long-term. Anything less than that seems like we’re giving up on ourselves (humanity) and letting the worst humans decide our fate.

Genuinely, communism makes perfect sense and any resistance to it comes from ignorance, misinformation/indoctrination, or the idea that communism is going to take away their wealth. For some of them that last one is true

Has anyone ever actually hallucinated using weed? I’ve surely consumed enough, but have not once had anything close to hallucinations. Even really high doses of shit like RSO won’t do it.