Notices by winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)
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winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 22:58:35 JST winter @Moon @shmibs i had a close friend years ago who had to grow up with a severely autistic brother whose parents were too loving & hippie-minded to have institutionalized for the family's safety. the violence and stress gave her ptsd. people like her have no voice in this whatsoever -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 22:19:48 JST winter remember what a huge fad autism/asperger's was in the '90s? every weird kid and their dog was suddenly coming to school with a diagnosis, and then it jumped online, and suddenly people were self-diagnosing and proclaiming themselves "autistic" because they had an unusual hobby or whateverit's weird and obnoxious and it was also materially harmful. the thing is, autism is rare. it is also, in most cases, an extremely severe disorder. "high functioning autism" does exist but it's mostly a meme. in many cases absent a cure the only thing a civilized, compassionate society could really do for the victim would be to administer painless and dignified euthanasia to end their horrific and inescapable suffering, but because we're not a civilized society we do everything we can to keep these poor creatures alive and trapped in the hell of their own bodies for as long as possible and forcibly prevent them from even killing themselves, wasting vast amounts of money and resources on each case. it is horrible.quirky people are not autistic. however, there are vastly more quirky people in the world than there are autistic people, and when a significant proportion of them self-declares autistic and is enabled by hapless bystanders, this has an effect on what people perceive autism to be. and suddenly, the low-functioning people who can't speak for themselves are cut out of public and institutional awareness, with only the handful of doctors who actually have to deal with these broken, failed humans aware of their existence. and the deluded quirky people see efforts to cure this horrific disease, and they scream "NO YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SPORK AWAY THIS IS AKTION T4 LITERAL GENOCIDE!!!!" and start sending death threats to scientists working on cures.it's quite obvious to any remotely rational person that none of these mildly quirky people have any kind of neurological disorder (personality disorders, that's another question entirely). and when you've encountered enough of them, you might very rationally conclude that autism doesn't actually exist, and everyone's faking it for attention, and we should just remove the disorder from the DSM because obviously it was a mistake. because you don't spend time in the kind of psych hospitals where autistic patients are confined.and all of that will only make existence (i won't call it life) for the genuinely autistic vastly worsethis is why i'm not very happy about knee-jerk anti-trans reaction. because i'm one of the relatively few people who *does* know normal transexuals, normal people who you probably wouldn't even guess were trans if they hadn't told you because they're indistinguishable from normal men or women, who just live normal lives and want to be happy and have no interest in ruining the lives of normal people. there's even a trans woman writes for RT and is constantly calling out the insane depraved evil shit the tranny movement is doing. but normal people don't see this, don't notice this, they only notice the degenerate trannies who vastly outnumber the handful of legitimate transexuals, for exactly the same reason that self-proclaimed "high-functioning autists" outnumber people with actual autism diagnoses: social contagion.99% of the time i agree with the anti-trans crowd. 99% of the people they want institutionalized or jailed or shot for being psychotic monster pedophile sex freaks or whatever, i'm completely on board. the current situation where demented perverts have taken over the culture and are trying to brainwash children is beyond unacceptable and nobody should ever, ever be able to just declare themselves the opposite sex. actual transexuality is trivially detectable with brain scans, and it's crazy fucking rare, as you would expect of a condition this freakishly maladaptive. there's no material reason for this to be a national issue, there's no reason for ordinary people to even know or care what transexuality is anymore than autism or rare colon cancers. it's an obscure but treatable medical condition, nothing more. anyone who tells you otherwise is nuts and probably wants to rape your kidsbut that 1% includes people i care about and betraying them for the sake of trendy online politics would be subhuman -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 22:26:58 JST winter this is an interesting barometer for how close to the normie standard i fall. some of these things strike me as "nice to have" bonuses that are irrelevant to relationship quality (house, height, 6pack), some i don't especially care about (gym, penis length (it's girth that matters btw), parents, "fashionable"), some are legit turn-offs ("has a car" unless it's electric i guess, "college degree", "wants kids" yikes, "6 figure salary" like sure being rich would be cool i guess but also fuck the bouge you must be this working class to pass).going to the gym is sexy, sure, but it also means more time apart which i hate because, y'know, bpd.i didn't even originally want to get married and we initially did it primarily for legal reasons (but yes, no prenup, because fuck that), but in retrospect it was the best decision of my life.about the only one that was actually mandatory for me was "doesn't watch porn". and anyone who doesn't have a full head of hair would have been waaaay out of my age range lolalso "5 year plan" lol. sorry i only date ruling communist parties -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Sunday, 08-Aug-2021 04:33:50 JST winter @lain @naruciakk @augustus @shpuld we had to go to the hospital in kassel during the height of the initial "wave" because like a complete retard i managed to get a fragment of glass in my foot at the worst possible time and couldn't walk, and i was terrified i was going to get the 'rona (i have asthma and that was before we knew it wasn't a risk factor) but the hospital was completely empty lol, granted it was pretty late at night, usually the ERs are bustling around that time in the US tho -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jul-2021 05:18:08 JST winter @shmibs @yogthos i have absolutely zero sympathy for terrorists who kidnap journalists and set random people on fire because they're assmad that china wanted to be able to punish a man who abused a legal loophole to murder his girlfriend and keep other people from doing the same, or their gazillionaire backers. just because i'm american doesn't mean i'm ignorant enough to fall for this "evil chicoms want to take away muh liberties" bs, sorry. and speaking of ignorance, i also have absolutely zero interest in discussing anything related to politics with people who still haven't figured out that the US regime change apparatus doesn't throw gobs of money and sympathetic media coverage at good people. -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jul-2021 02:15:25 JST winter @shmibs @yogthos yes, i have, and i'm aware that it's sovereign chinese territory that was stolen by force by the british empire, then returned by treaty. what about it -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jul-2021 02:10:33 JST winter @shmibs @yogthos > acquire nearby territories who don't want uscitation needed lmao -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jul-2021 12:30:29 JST winter @yogthos russia and china are making me feel p optimistic rn. just not about the future of ppl in the west, or for my rapidly imploding homeland :/ -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jul-2021 23:04:20 JST winter @lain …is this actually how you think us devs livemy god fam -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jul-2021 23:04:18 JST winter @lain facebook is the one place i know of anyone who had a not completely miserable experience in tech (they apparently have a support group for amazon survivors there lol.) the rest… hoo boy. -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Monday, 05-Jul-2021 02:24:31 JST winter @shmibs @Moon @p the US has had an active bioweapons program for a very long time, and yes, it employs virologists, and other kinds of microbiologists, and all sorts of people to do create organisms capable of killing people and wrecking economies. none of that is secret, and i'm a little surprised you think american scientists would be so superhumanly ethical that they would refuse to work on such projects. -
winter (velartrill@springbo.cc)'s status on Monday, 05-Jul-2021 00:24:18 JST winter @Moon @shmibs @p afaik the only "evidence" anyone has been able to come up with for the silly "chinese lab leak" hypothesis was that a couple of the lab's thousands of employees were experiencing flu-like symptoms at the height of flu season. ofc, the trump admin did claim that they had ABSOLUTE PROOF that China Diddit (no you can't see it you will never be allowed to see it why do you hate america)meanwhile there is vastly more evidence supporting the conspiracy theory that COVID was an american bioweapon unleashed *against* china. doesn't mean that's true, it's still very out there, but it makes trying to pin this on china look like nationalist wishful thinking, and very hard to take seriously