gerryflap @ gerryflap @feddit.nl

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Could've saved themselves, Yuki, and Liam a lot of stress if they just gave Liam a year at the junior team right away and put Yuki in that car from the start. I'm curious whether that car is actually that much of a shitbox or whether it just doesn't specifically doesn't fit Liam. I guess Yuki will show us. I hope both Liam and Yuki will benefit from this move

I've got a master's degree and I've also been a teaching assistant and I strongly disagree with the notion that online teaching is more effective. Putting all materials online is useful, but explaining something to someone is way more effective when you're standing next to them.

She is so chaotic sometimes. I love it. Passionate about the sport and knowledgeable, which is the golden combo for commentators.

My nails are purple. They're pretty fucked tho, I was planning to remove it yesterday but I forgot. I'm AMAB and started painting my nails like 2 years ago. I expected people to be rude about it, but honestly I've mostly just gotten completes, well-meaning questions, and friendly jokes.

I tend to play female characters. Only because of the smaller hitbox tho, definitely not for other reasons.

:3

I never used to be a morning person, but honestly I prefer it this way now. I want to have the work done before my free time, and I want my free time to have as much daytime as possible. Following my current working hours has me awake when the sun is up, which personally gives me way more energy than doing stuff in the dark. I'd love to wake up later, but honestly that just wastes a nice part of daytime. You can train your body to maintain a schedule like this and then any other one will feel weird.

I'm Dutch and I think this map is completely unfair. It overrates our food significantly

I'm Dutch, so pretty far away yeah

Fair point. Yeah that fits exactly

Damn that's quite the difference. Worth considering yeah. I do want to be flexible though, so I hope it still allows you to switch e-mail provider without changing the e-mail address

Because I find calling hugely uncomfortable if I don't know what to expect. If the person on the other side wants something from me, they can inform me beforehand via a message so I can prepare. An unexpected call interrupts whatever I'm doing and therefore has no respect for my day. If I take the call I'll have to refocus on whatever I was doing again which can take time and will take me energy.

Look, maybe it's because of Autism or AD(H)D, but task switching is something that costs me a lot of energy and causes a lot of chaos. When I get a message, I can easily decide whether it's actually worth my time, and in the case that it is urgent enough I can still usually clean up whatever I'm doing in such a way that I can easily continue. Getting a call forces my brain to drop everything on the spot (leaving behind a mess) in order to focus on the "being social " part, locks down one of my hands to hold my phone, and does not allow me to filter. Combine that with the numerous bullshit calls that I get from companies, spammers, and recruiters and you'll hopefully understand why I absolutely hate unexpected calls from random phone numbers.

Calls can be very useful, but I'm only okay with it when it's expected or necessary. Having a friend or family member call (or better: asking if we can call) because they need to tell me something important or need my urgent attention is the best way to do it. I don't want a message if someone needs me right now, because I could easily read the message only 20 minutes later. Likewise, we're obviously not going to have remote meetings via chat at work, not am I going to game with friends over text chat. But even then it's often not oldschool calls with their horrible quality, need to hold the phone, and lack of video or screen sharing. It's services like mumble or other VoIP services.

This makes me realize that I never saw a non-male techbro. Somehow the techbro crowd seems to mostly consist of young men.

Very me irl. Almost the same ages. I'm looking to change it to one that uses my own domain name though, so I can switch email providers in the future. The convenience of Gmail was always too much to overcome, but the US is no longer to be trusted and I'd rather use something European and cut any ties to the US. Before the orange man pulls some stunt that either results in all my mail being inaccessible or all my mail being shared with the world wide web.

Okay I'm autistic so I might be missing stuff as well, but really the only reasoning I can think of is the following: They might be very understaffed when you called and therefore busy, that's why they assigned you after all. She might have been working her ass off when you called (or the whole day before you called) and be completely stressed out. Especially if you called during her working hours. Assuming you called during working hours, you were probably distracting her from all the important work she is stressing about to ask a question that from her context kinda equates to "is water wet?".

Assuming all (or most) of these assumptions are true I can understand why she got annoyed, even if it's mostly a miscommunication. If she was very busy and stressed you probably also became a bit of a lightning rod for all the stress that built up over the day.

I don't think this necessarily a "mistake" that only autistic people would make. In the wrong conditions this could happen to anyone. But as an autistic person I do recognize that stuff like this often happens more to me because I tend to find things that are "obvious" and "dumb questions" to neurotypicals absolutely not obvious. Combine that with often not understanding how others will feel, and it becomes very easy to make these mistakes as someone who's autistic.

Mood. Someone has been calling me 3 times in the past days and I don't know who. They left one accidental voice mail that didn't help and didn't text or anything. I'm not going to pick up the phone, guess I'll text them if they try again.

I only accept phone calls from people I know (when other means of communication wouldn't be practical) or when I've specifically agreed to call with someone unknown (like the doctor or something).

Well if I could quickly check how all clothes would fit on me without going to the store and without having to change clothes, I'd probably spend the same effort. Having a character creator would also be neato

I'm aro/ace and honestly same. I refuse to use any longer acronym because to me it sounds silly.

In a similar fashion, I'm also not a major fan of the pride flags with more than the rainbow. It's fine for special occasions in order to draw attention to a cause that needs it, but not as the default. Adding black stripes, the trans flag, and intersex flag all at the same time seems ridiculous to me, and it only invites other groups to feel left out. Adding the black stripes, the trans flag, the intersex flag, or whatever to the flag for some event, protest, or personal reason is great but imo we shouldn't permanently muddy the flag like that.

Yeah same. It makes the elections quite annoying because I agree with the local green party in almost every other way. But to me nuclear power is an important way to get reliable green energy. Something that still provides energy when the wind is not blowing and the sun isn't shining. And to me some of the arguments feel way too "feeling based" instead of facts based. That its unsafe or dirty.

Preferably we'd have fusion, but until we manage to get that going I think nuclear fission is a decent alternative. Not forever, but for the coming 50-100 years until we find a better alternative.

I've found myself transition from subscriptions to the feed over the years. My subscriptions became such a long list of past interests while the feed somehow almost always seems to know what I want. It's exactly the poisonous quick dopamine hack that every other social media is also abusing. I hate it, but at the same time I don't quite have the energy to fight it. After I arrive at home tired from work and grocery shopping I just need some quick entertainment, and the feed usually knows wat better what I want than my own subscriptions.

Yeah it definitely took some getting used to. Very annoying. I usually always keep the cap with the bottle anyways, so it's not helping me. But I suppose some people would just yeet those caps everywhere