[…] in blog posts and videos and published memoirs, autistic teens and young adults described living for a decade or more without any way to communicate, while people around them assumed they were intellectually deficient.
On a related note… only 5% of hearing parents with a deaf child will learn sign language.
I don’t disagree that there’s a dark strain of the use and misuse of women in mainstream porn, but my point is that what is claimed as the basis for a porn ban and how far it will go and what it will target are two entirely different things.
One thing to note is that it is ALWAYS claimed that the issue is the Really Bad Stuff - the graphic content - but that it inevitably becomes anything that is socially offensive, and I’ll give you one queer guess as to what tends to get labeled “graphic content” right quick.
“Musk says” is a phrase that needs to be treated properly: as an injustice against the poor letters trapped within it and not as anything approaching meaning.
I don’t think there’s a minimum level where people flip the switch from “good” to “bad”, just varying degrees of access and power over things someone might care about, which can have an effect on the people who choose to seek or are tempted by those things.
To give you an example: moderating a forum is a very small amount of power, but for the person who is very invested in a community or a topic or a site and wants to essentially keep it on ice and under their control, moderating can quickly spiral into their own little kingdom.
For another person, running for governor is the next logical step after having been a community organizer and feeling as though they can do more for their community in that position. Have you ever encountered a problem that you know you have a good response for but you see no one else (or worse, the wrong people) doing anything about it?
I think the main thing that sets the power hungry apart from those climbing the ladder of power is where does their sense of entitlement come from? Does it come from their imagined, top down view of the world, or does it come from a variety of sources and communities who speak to and then through someone who is angered and saddened that their voices are not heard?
How do these people expect things to go down? That no one should ever comment anything remotely sexual on anything that perceivably could be accessed by a minor?
Honestly? Yeah, I thought you were serious, because I’ve seen that attitude expressed before. Generally it’s more “this hazy, unspecified population can be sacrificed to help me deal with the existential dread that me and my world are walking off a cliff” than “dear me I so DO delight in death”, but it makes my teeth ache.
Thank you for clarifying, and I’m sorry for jumping on you.
Referring to the potential starvation deaths of a large group of people as a positive for climate change is like saying you’re glad someone died early from a car accident instead of suicide.
As global and national economies stagger and fail under the effects of climate change, you can at least look forward to the return of city-states. Maybe even a return to walled cities, if they’re near water.
Well, that’s one way to disprove the “brain in a vat” hypothesis, I suppose…