idiomaddict @ idiomaddict @lemmy.world

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On June 2, 2045, I’ll outlive my mother. My father is still alive and in pretty good health. I think I take after him, but I started smoking again recently. I’m tapering off pretty well though and I’m still relatively young.

I knew someone who worked there with a woman who, when asked if she recommended the seasonal cheesecake, replied: “it’s so good, it makes me wet.”

She wasn’t fired, so I don’t think they really screen their staff much.

That’s a waste. I make better meat fresh.

True, I thought that’s what you meant by mind reading. Nevertheless, from the linked article:

This theory and subsequent findings challenge the commonly held belief that the social skills of all autistic individuals are inherently and universally impaired across contexts, as well as the theory of "mind-blindness" proposed by prominent autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen in the mid-1990s, which suggested that empathy and theory of mind are universally impaired in autistic individuals.[13][14][15][16]

I also replied to them that that’s not the current understanding. Autistic people are able to demonstrate both types of empathy with other autistic people, and neither autistic nor allistic people can do it as well with each other. There are just way more allistic people, so we used to think the empathy disconnect was one-sided.

That’s not true, they can infer emotions with similar accuracy from the nonverbal communication of other autistic people. The double empathy problem prevents this from happening between autistic and allistic people (in both directions!)

Autistic people don’t lack empathy. I learned that as a kid too and it was a real barrier to getting diagnosed, because there are few qualities I more obviously possess than empathy.

Autistic people and allistic people use different signals to show their emotional state, so it’s easier for autistic people to interpret the emotions of fellow autistic people (and vice versa).

This is in Australia, where prostitution is legal or decriminalized and the issues faced by sex workers are therefore very different from in the US.

I found one in community dance, specifically local folk dance. The median age is probably 65, so it’s adaptable to a wide range of athleticism levels, but it does require significant mobility.

I absolutely loved it until covid, and then I moved, but it was a wonderful group of people through whom I met dear friends, found a job offer, learned a bunch of things, and found a home.

You can keep the fridge, but I’ve fallen in love with the cabinets.

Nixon didn’t before his pardon, but I suspect it would be necessary for a commutation.

I saw two of my favorite coworkers outside of work together and felt a short, intense pang of rejection, but I’m honestly not that friendly at work, so what can I expect?

I mean this genuinely, why not just filter the words: Luigi [depending on how much you want to talk about Mario], Mangione, UHC, and depose?

I filtered “game day,” Linux, and all of the moe communities, because I don’t care about it and it will eventually wear on me to see a bunch of stuff related to those topics.

He might have just wanted the large, padded pockets. When I was in high school, kids would wear a giant parka no matter the weather when they were carrying a gun.

I just realized how dystopian that sentence is, sorry.

On the internet, no one knows you’re a cat.

They don’t think the US does, they think it should. You don’t need to be so aggressive about it.

That’s optimistic of you

It stimulates the salivary glands, and saliva does prevent tooth decay.

The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse

Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol