same

She really means Bismuth! :D

It's both by the way.

That takes ages. Hell, I may deal with that for the rest of my life. It's one of the reasons I feel a bit lost, because I feel myself falling for the same rhetorical tricks and seeing that a lot of folks that agree with me also fall for the same tricks.

Deconstructing means learning to see this even as an atheist; it's not enough to point these faculties at non-belief, you have to actively undo the "repeat, don't learn" mentalities you're stuffed full with. That, to me, is what deconstruction truly is. Unlearning all of the reinforcing behavior.

"When they say this, you say this. When they make this claim, you say this". It's rote memorization of a script. And because lines of logic against creation don't materially change, the script stays good for a long while.

Christian deconstruction is something that isn't spoken of often enough. One of the mental faculties you're imbued with when you're raised in creationist circles is that you do whatever it takes to win an argument.

This isn't taught directly; it's a result of whatever it is we were taught.

I hadn't considered this. It would explain why it's always buses, traffic lights, bicycles, motorcycles.

To help train image recognition software.

So I've been given a full-time contract by MicroProse, which is part of why I haven't been able to stream even though I love it. I'm working on Ground Branch, and it's been both difficult and rewarding.

I'm also going to be building a new office in our backyard; hopefully I'll stream from there.

make local coop to play with wife

The label of AuDHD helps me navigate the world safely, without such detriment to my psyche that I figure the world's better off without me. It helps me communicate more effectively and select my friend group more strictly.

Because the idea that you're just naturally a horrible person is so demoralizing that it's hard to fathom changing to the degree you're required to change. It's hard to imagine riding the downward spiral and avoiding the inevitable conclusion at its terminus.

And all of that *will* stack up if you don't understand that you are different, as well as how and why. It doesn't make you better than anyone, it doesn't EXCUSE you when you do things wrong, but at least you don't think you're just born a piece of shit.

It's exhausting to have your own mentalities and behaviors litigated while the people doing that, especially those close to you, don't seem to care about their mentalities and behaviors and how they're hurtful, because lord knows what happens when you express things that annoy YOU.

And if I didn't have the context that my cognition is different from neurotypical individuals, I think by now I might be in a very, very different mental headspace. I might not even be alive. Because it is brutal to be a certain way and have your world tell you you're wrong.

Because otherwise my behaviors are "lazy" to outsiders rather than a symptom that can be solved with the right medication. My "need for accurate information" is translated as "needing to be right", which itself I've misunderstood for so long, because what's wrong with needing the right info?

I see a lot of people, especially some medical professionals, critiquing the assignment of labels, usually for decent enough reasons, but I NEED those labels. I need to be able to understand that I'm ADHD and Autistic. Why?

I think it's important to understand why having the labels of ADHD and Autism (collectively, AuDHD) are important to people like me.🧵

HOURS OF OPERATION, THAT'S CUTE

I genuinely cannot even imagine why that's happening.

It's not like this is a weak year, so I REALLY don't understand this nomination.

If you don't want Russia taking Greenland, support Ukraine.

Send them armaments, ammunition, intelligence, and logistical support. You can keep Russia pinned to an expensive conflict that drains their capabilities without stomping on the sovereignty of another nation.

Ooooh, looking forward to all that yappin!

What do you call an aggressive potato?

An agitater.

I remember playing a CTF match in BF4. It was a nearly dead server, 2 v 1 and I was on the 2-man team. My teammate would constantly TK me when I capped the flag and then "apologize" in VOIP. Then I did it to him once, and he lost his mind.

I think about that a lot.

I'd RATHER it be raining, have you seen the temps there? It gets hot in SEA and worse when it's humid.

Today, I discovered my wife is cheating on me.

She said she has a cute husband. So clearly she is hiding a second husband she's not telling me about.

English Bulldogs do not live 13 years without having an incredible owner.

Lewis loved him enough to know, after 4 days, that their time together was over and he needed to let Roscoe go.

I've had pain with cats we had 2 months that we needed to put down. Can't imagine Lewis' grief rn

#Silksong feels like #TeamCherry played their game for 7 years and kept balancing against their own skill, and now players have to play a game balanced against game designers constantly searching for challenge 7 years on.

I'm sorry, but a random patrol bug should not be doing 2 masks on contact.