Atkat

This sword is enchanted with fire magic!

...The handle is made of super flammable material, though, and a bunch of people got third degree burns trying to weild it. There was a massive recall.

You know what "recall" means, though? Collector's item! These are rare af.

So that one speaker took over for the entire world when we were done playing it 24/7, collectively?

That's kind of inspiring. You go little speaker! ☺️

Muscles don't keep you warm in freezing ocean water! Blubber does that.

...Man I wish I had a bulletproof excuse like that.

I see a lot of people pointing out how autism is a spectrum disorder, so it would have a bunch of different presentations already.

That's true of course, but spectrum disorders typically have a set of core symptoms, and regardless of your particular presentation you need to experience all or most of them to meet the criteria for an affirmative diagnosis.

For example, My partner and I both have ADHD; the two opposing classic "types", (inattentive and hyperactive). There are a number of symptoms that relate to his type that don't apply to me, and vice versa. We also have different ways we've grown up trying to compensate for our symptoms, so they have different effects on us.

Undeniably though, we both experience all 7 core symptoms.

If scientists are making this claim, they must be saying that their research on ASD suggests they found there to be no definite core symptoms.

It would be crazy dumb otherwise to announce their findings studying a spectrum disorder, if their findings were, "it appears to be a spectrum disorder".😂

Hm...I don't know. I think terrible names are popular enough presently that when the generation being born right now is school-aged, a McKeinsleigh will probably need to use a last initial in class to not get her confused with the other one(s).

No, the Karen in that scenario is the implied snitch. That line is saying something like, "are you a young POC just minding your own fucking business in your apartment when you keep catching that damn white lady sticking her head around the balcony divider to peer into your place and listen to your conversations, trying to catch you doing something wrong? We'll tell you what your rights to privacy are"

If you knew that's what it meant and you were actually saying don't snitch on the racist white lady for spying or her Black neighbors or whatever though...well we just won't ever be friends I guess.

If this were a comment on my social media to answer...well first of all I would have to clarify with them "you must mean my second broken engagement, right? The first one happened before Facebook, back in 2005, but we had MySpace then I think, but still, you mean 2024?".

"Well, see what happened in 2024 was, August 17th we were supposed to be wed. I picked the anniversary of my best friend's death for our wedding date as a way of making her a part of it, and also as a way to bring some joy to what used to be the worst day of the year. Now it'll be our wedding anniversary ever year! We can party!

Come August 13th though, my fiancés struggle with meth addiction/psychosis took the wheel again, and drove him off into outer space.

He dumped me on his way off the planet though, because apparently (and I quote), "we can't be together because there is a woman waiting in the states for me to go breed with her, so I can pass on my super powers. I would have tried with you, but you're too old."

Haha, omg. Steal my last few years of good fetility then call me too old to have a kid like I've always wanted to, like I made sure you wanted to before i even agreed to start this relationship, that we used to always daydream about, that we made plans for including picking out a name, until you changed your mind out of nowhere one day, and now you're saying this "too old" shit to me while you're in the process of leaving me at the fucking altar, essentially? Wow.

And now, you might have expected that this cruel quote of his would be the craziest part of this story. It's not. The crazier part is this: I had just taken that motherfucker back!!

Just a month ago, we got back together. In retrospect, what would follow should not have been a surprise, but... we only got to spend like 2 weeks together as a couple before his next relapse/psychotic break would disappear him from my life again. Haven't heard a peep from him in 2 weeks now. No idea where he is or if he's ok. No idea if he's even alive.

And I was the genius who said, "sure, I'll trust you one more time".

That's what happened."

When I was in my 20s I took a couple trips clear across the states on the Greyhound, seeing 35 different states and countless famous US cities.

There were so many times I would be staring out the bus window though and Tim Armstrong from Rancid's voice would pop into by head to sing this one piece of a line from the song Travie Bickle that I think of all the time when I'm away from home, because in all my personal travels so far, he has never not been right. It's simply:

"...every city looks the fucking same."

And it sure does.

Like this one time...I'd been on the road 3 straight days when I looked outside and...we hadn't even left the PNW yet? Oh no wait, those vintage, dark-colored exterior brick walls that I thought were screaming 'craft brew', were actually going 'choo choo'. This isnt Portland goddammit. We made it all the way to Pittsburgh!

Or my first time in LA, I started to feel weirdly at home just after nightfall. Did I actually portal home somehow, I wondered? No. Venice Beach and English Bay (Vancouver) were in fact always the exact same place. I just couldn't see it until the smog stopped blocking the view.

Another time, I went for a quick wander through Seattle during a layover on the bus, to find a bank and exchange more CAD into USD. I'm trying to think of where I've seen them around here on earlier trips except...wait...I'm not familiar with this part of Seattle because we are in Nashville and I've never been to Nashville before today.

Or the time I got to walk around Chicago for a couple hours. At first I'm bracing for strangers to stop me and share all their racist/anti LGBTQIA+ opinions and stuff with me, then I thankfully remember...that's the L train up there, not the absolutely fucking identical raised LRT track in Edmonton.

Oh and Fargo! Fargo looks like...it looks like I broke a promise to myself because I'm somehow back in ND again?! How did I get here when I swore...NEVER. NEVER again! Er, I mean Fargo looks a little like Olympia, WA, but a LOT like a town south of me growing up on Vancouver Island; a town called Nanaimo. Famous for a dessert square and nothing else.

So yeah, every city looks the fucking same. That's the apathetic harumph of my exhausted, jaded inner traveler who still kinda wishes they were going places, but they're also just kinda over a lot of them.

My 'every city looks the fucking same' seemed very similar, in the moment to your "...yeah. That place...exists." 😂 That's the whole reason I rambled on to the ridiculous length of this comment, just to relate the experience of my line to the feel of that line of yours.

I sooo get it.

There's only ONE?! Wow I'm apparently doing way better in life than I thought.

So offensive, their clocks hanging out for all to see.

Someone explained in a reel that I saw once that the reason we feel like this is because we struggle with transitions.

It made a lot of sense; like as to why I take so long to leave my bed for the first time after I wake up, or why I can never motivate myself to go walk outside, but when I'm already outside walking because I was forced to be, I'll walk 20 blocks to the grocery store to avoid having to sit down and be still for 10 minutes waiting for the bus.

PS: I've only been using Lemmy for something like 10 minutes total so far, only heard of it 15 minutes ago, and this is my first ever comment here, so if I'm making any dumb mistakes with formatting, or if say my comment ends up in the wrong place or something, it's because I haven't learned the platform's ins and outs yet. Plz no judge. Reddit was really judgmental today and that's why I came here.