Seigest @ Seigest @lemmy.ca

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Every time I mention I like Undertale and get "Did YoU bEat Sans?"

No, because I'm not a genocidal monster and I never will be. I did the pacifist route. Game over, nothing else to see here.

For free? I doubt it.

In Queens park no less. I'd have figured the city would scare off a lot of birds.

Gotta change the National wifi password as well.

Need to scan the border to make sure they are not running an extension cord through it.

I was in elementary in Canada early 90's. My school was weird. There's a large Mennonite community in the area where I grew up so a large percentage (more than 50%) of the kids in this school were Mennonite. For those unfamiliar, these are similar to Amish. Such farmers with strong religious views, most of them were "old order" meaning they grew up in homes with little to no electricity. They also finish school at age 12 regardless of progress. This meant that they were exempt from a lot of the classes my tiny public school had to offer. No French, computing, or Sex Ed. A lot of them were also in special Ed. I'm not going to sugar coat this. It's forbidden from them to marry outside of their culture and only like 4 families came to the area. So there's a lot of disabilities as a result of inbreeding with that community.

All this to say that my school had absolutely no clue how to deal with my undiagnosed autism. But they seemed to have decent funding due to the much higher needs.

I was in special Ed via French exemption status. This means I never learned french. I'd instead be placed in a room with all the Mennonite kids often in a corner trying to read. Eventually I was put into some kind of program. A neurologist should come by and do experiments on me. Nothing weird, just testing my fine motor skills. They (falsely) diagnosed me with "elementary tremors" a pediatric doctor upped this to a "retardation caused by mild down syndrome" (extremely wrong) after years of that nonsense they decided to use this crazy new fangled technology to give me a leg up with writing. I was given a Macintosh computer. I had a desk with tiny wheels and my 4th grade self had to wheel this from class to class (including "portables"). Of course this was pretty obsolete tech even for its time. My parents got me an Alpha Smart which was way better. By 6th grade I had a personal support worker to help get me caught up. I failed grades 3-6 but was 'placed' into the next grade anyway and never made to repeat anything.

Highschool was very different, no Mennonite, so way less funding. It was still a French exemption class but there were only about 5 other students in the class. It seemed to be less about education, or assessment of my condition. It was some watching videos and doing some analysis. It was mostly just a time to catch up on homework. Often there wasn't even a teacher present.

We really need a modern remake of this.

The older you get the more your going to want that poop command to use on yourself.

Honestly invest in good slippers. I got these before COVID and they are hands down one of the best investments ever. since I work from home I just wear them all day. Do they make me look like a geezer, yes. But my feet are cozy.

Ah perhaps I'm not used too that where I am. I appreciate unions truly, and belive we need more. But the ones I've been in have been nearly as corrupt as the politicians. Often run by the retired and wealthy making decisions on behalf of those still working. Often bad ones.

That whould typically involve unions. No need for them here though.

Unions are great for a lot of things but they'd be less inclined to help on this as they, don't all support the same parties, and probably dont want their workers to violate any contracts as it would damage future negotiations.

I think isn't a matter of labour and would be stonger without unions. It needs to be from the people.

I hope he's taking care of himself. Guys been burning on all cylinders since the Homestuck days.

I dont really get the effort to pursue this. Won't he just pay off doctors, or make up fake reports? Hasnt he already done that in the past?

How many times has this man retired now? I hope he takes good care of himself though. Man wrote the sound track to many of our lives.

Between this and Pokémon sleep I'm questioning why Nintendo needs to watch us sleep.

I like this one. It's just a fun little game, nothing crazy, no hidden lore or hours of grinding. Just a little story telling for the season.

I had intended to change the switches to dimmers as well. Good to keep them low on migraine days.

Good point I assumed these lasted forever, but I guess that'd be wishful thinking.

The methodology seems sketchy. If this ai is just scraping tweets for mentions it may not know the difference between Mario or East side Mario's (Italian restaurant chain in Canada) I don't know anyone up here who'd say Mario is their favorite character in video games. It's could also baised if a game had recently come out featuring any if these characters around the time of polling.

Am I missing a joke or did they spell hear as here accidently?