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Oh yeah, and I feel grumpy as fuck when yoinked out of something I'm concentrating on in order to solve some other problem for somebody else, and masking that is occasionally not very successful. This was a bit of a liability while I was employed as a programmer, because even quite short interruptions so instantly smashed whatever delicate mental model I'd been juggling and ruined my productivity. Oddly, the one time I was given the opportunity to try pair programming, that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 6:30 AM on June 2, 2024

It also shows it at the end of the quiz. For reference for those who don’t want to complete it: here’s what that looks like, showing non-autistic vs autistic scores (screenshot is from my partner’s score). As you can see your average allistic scores a little above a 3, (though many score higher without being autistic) and your average autistic scores a little above a 4 .

So if you think most people would say “agree” to a lot of these questions, you’re probably right! If... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brook horse at 9:22 AM on June 1, 2024

Hey, brook horse, if I want to cry from recognition and exhaustion while taking this quiz, I probably ought to pay attention to that?

More seriously, is this...not the set of experiences that neurotypical people have? Lots of this describes me. But how far off is this from NT experience?

I think your reaction answers the question—you probably wouldn’t feel like that if this weren’t hitting on things you feel like you’ve... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brook horse at 9:07 AM on June 1, 2024

Okay actually I missed explaining the interest part entirely. Autistic brains are very good at paying attention to things they’re interested in and very bad at things they’re not. This is not even in a “this bored me so I’ll ignore it” way but that it processes really only the information relevant to the interest, which leads to missing a whole bunch of other stuff. Unless of course the outside stuff is too demanding, in which case you can’t process anything at all. So you’re either entirely... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brook horse at 6:57 AM on June 1, 2024

Man I’m having such a quartz of course moment. (I’m a researcher in this field and I always forget stuff 6 yrs old that is basically integral to my worldview now is not common knowledge. Me and monotropism indeed)

Uhh how to summarize. Typing on my phone while eating breakfast so this may be a bit messy. Also bear in mind I haven’t read the original article in a hot minute so this is based on the developing research since then. Basically it’s about attention processing.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brook horse at 6:52 AM on June 1, 2024

Surely generative films have been made before
I think maybe the difference with this one is that the generation algorithm is intended to build up the sequence to form a coherent narrative. I see it as being a like a film version of those collages which form an overall picture composed of thousands of individual images. From a performance perspective, the notion that a particular audience would hear a story that was analogous but no means identical to any other... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo at 1:54 AM on June 1, 2024

The election interference is the reason the document falsification is a felony. It should matter for sentencing that the election in question was for US president and not some lesser office. I don't know if it does matter, but it should.
posted to MetaFilter by surlyben at 6:22 AM on June 1, 2024

Post some of the articles? It's two bad candidates in a margin of error tie, even in the recent doomsday coverage. Predicting anything at this point seems really arbitrary and seems to deny that events continue to unfold from now to November. (I make no prediction but I do think, even though it isn't October yet, the week's news amount at least to what I'll call a "Comey," in Biden's favor.)
posted to MetaFilter by kensington314 at 8:56 PM on May 31, 2024

Nelson: "One Jan. 6 defendant who already served time in prison for his role in the Capitol attack also weighed in on X, posting a photo of [District Attorney] Bragg and a photo of a noose. “January 20, 2025 traitors Get The Rope,” he wrote, referring to the date of the next presidential inauguration."

...also referring to a violent neo-Nazi trope, but I guess that's to be assumed at this point.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 4:28 PM on May 31, 2024

Of course, if he just gets a fine then he once again plays the "Illegal for a fine is legal for a price" card and walks off.
posted to MetaFilter by Tell Me No Lies at 2:14 PM on May 31, 2024

It’s not that they can’t understand the election fraud aspects, it’s that crimes have elements that are different from “everyone knows it” that you generally have to prove for conviction.

Elements that the prosecution did, in fact focus on - for example, the whole point of the prosecutors bringing up Trump's lack of concern over Melania finding out was to establish that the intent of this conspiracy was to protect his candidacy.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:47 AM on May 31, 2024

The thing is, there is a problem with the Trump method of avoiding consequences.

This method basically boils down to: it didn't happen; if it did happen, it wasn't wrong; if it was wrong, it wasn't illegal; if it was against the law, it is unenforceable in this particular case; other people have done worse anyway, so you shouldn't be enforcing that law; if you're not going to wave it off, I didn't know about any of this anyway,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 10:14 AM on May 31, 2024

“the defence never had a story that the jury could accept”

[The defense lost because] “They never picked a lane, and because Donald Trump closed off every lane that could have been reasonably been picked”

Best summary I've read of how the defense legal team failed. How could a juror have a reasonable doubt in the prosecution's strong case if a stronger innocent alternative hasn't been made credible?
posted to MetaFilter by Artful Codger at 8:47 AM on May 31, 2024

FWIW TFG is scoring 'low' on remorse right now.
posted to MetaFilter by mazola at 8:19 AM on May 31, 2024

Appeals don't stop a prison sentence. 99% of convicts appeal from prison. He is in the hands of Judge Merchan right now. Fortunately, he has done nothing to antagonize Merchan.
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 8:14 AM on May 31, 2024

New Trump campaign message: “Our man is 34 times more appealing than his opponents”
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 4:49 PM on May 30, 2024

NYT pitchbot is having a field day:
The real felon in the Trump hush money trial? The 12 jurors.
by Jonathan Turley

New York Times Pitchbot
@DougJBalloon
Each of Trump's 34 convictions as a character from Game of Thrones.
by Chris Cillizza

New York Times Pitchbot
@DougJBalloon
Judge Merchan should sentence Trump to five years of hard labor—at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
posted to MetaFilter by bluesky43 at 4:44 PM on May 30, 2024

There's a fight over the wikipedia page rn

On the history page:

infobox criminal: "This template is generally reserved for convicted serial killers, gangsters, mass murderers, old west outlaws, murderers, mafia members, fugitives, FBI 10 Most Wanted, serial rapists, mobsters, and other notorious criminals. [...] Infobox criminal is rarely used where notability is not due primarily to the person being a convicted... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 4:40 PM on May 30, 2024

“Trump will have to first meet with a probation officers in coming days. The officer will put together a sentencing report for Merchan to use at sentencing in July, including details such as whether Trump shows any remorse.” (CBC)

Hahahaha
posted to MetaFilter by mazola at 4:38 PM on May 30, 2024

Oh, and Elon took a hit today, too.
posted to MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll at 3:56 PM on May 30, 2024

if he gets house arrest will he be subject to random drug and alcohol testing?
posted to MetaFilter by logicpunk at 4:14 PM on May 30, 2024

"Oh god this is not how statistics works!!!"

Are you unfamiliar with Spiders Georg?
posted to MetaFilter by Jacqueline at 4:01 PM on May 30, 2024

I wouldn't normally cut and paste something this long from CNN, but I thought everyone might enjoy it just this one time.

Follow the latest on the verdict for each of the counts below:

Count 1: GUILTY
Count 2: GUILTY
Count 3: GUILTY
Count 4: GUILTY
Count 5: GUILTY
Count 6: GUILTY
Count 7: GUILTY
Count 8: GUILTY
Count 9:... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 2:09 PM on May 30, 2024

The fun thing in Atlanta is that Cop City is in unincorporated DeKalb County, but it's being built for the Atlanta Police Dept, and so both the DeKalb and Atlanta cops are directly involved in the harassment, and sometimes as noted in the article, for fun, cops in neighboring jurisdictions help out.

As an urban stream ecologist here, it is really really terrifying. These people are allowed to bulldoze our urban forests and completely destroy the water quality in our... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hydropsyche at 2:58 PM on May 30, 2024

Adam Federman, In These Times: "The War on Protest Is Here."Accompanying these laws is increasingly harsh rhetoric from political figures to demonize protest movements, characterizing activists as rioters, mobs, violent extremists and terrorists. Protesters face other threats too: During the summer of racial justice protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, the Trump administration openly discussed deploying military force to clear... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by audi alteram partem at 2:51 PM on May 30, 2024

A verdict by definition means unanimity, so there are two possibilities:

* I get to feel smug in my cynicism because of course nothing was ever going to happen to the man immune to all consequences who is above the law
* I get to be briefly, slightly happy
posted to MetaFilter by Tomorrowful at 1:58 PM on May 30, 2024

Surely this.
posted to MetaFilter by Mayor West at 1:55 PM on May 30, 2024

One thing that's often not clear in national stories about Cop City is that it's intended to be a revenue generator for the cops: they plan to have different areas on the site that they can rent out to movie studios—the film industry here in Atlanta and the rest of Georgia is HUGE. So the cops have extorted something like $100M from the citizens to build them this "training center", and they're going to keep all the revenue from the rentals.

I'm in two... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by outgrown_hobnail at 1:31 PM on May 30, 2024

Very hard to feel much empathy for that dude.

MAGA culture is sly enough about racism to somehow get POC into their movement at nonzero levels. As far as calling him racist I always think back to Jay Smooths classic video about the "what they did" and the "what they are" conversation. I don't think Kid Rock gets away by the "what they did and said" measure.

My condemnation is that I have never ever, in decades of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by artlung at 12:50 PM on May 28, 2024

I can't remember how long it's been since I had fry bread, which is amazing. It's festival season, I should be able to find some soon.

Fry bread is super easy to make. I have my great (or great-great- — my grandmother didn’t remember which) grandmother’s recipe which I will post in case there’s any interest. I haven’t made it in years since my wife has celiac disease and I suspect it would be depressing using gluten-free flour.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gilgamesh's Chauffeur at 8:35 AM on May 30, 2024

It's not proof he is a jerk, It is proof his whole white trash "straight from the trailer" act is a put on.
posted to MetaFilter by The Manwich Horror at 5:28 PM on May 29, 2024

I think the funniest possible option for this go-round is that Biden wins the electoral vote, but not the popular one.

But not funny ha-ha
posted to MetaFilter by Rudy_Wiser at 8:54 PM on May 29, 2024

perhaps they are accusing Biden of voter suppression. I wouldn't argue with that.
posted to MetaFilter by Audreynachrome at 5:05 AM on May 30, 2024

Selena777: there are plenty of people who are disgusted with Biden's character as a leader but would still hold their nose and vote for him again, just like they did in 2020, if not for all the gratuitous starvation and baby murder.
posted to MetaFilter by adrienneleigh at 9:54 PM on May 29, 2024

I believe the RTF format came about because it became a chore for Microsoft to create converters for all the many, many versions of Word documents through the years. It made more sense to create an "interchange" format that represented Word files internally, so a document could be re-saved to RTF and opened in a different version of Word. In this way, Microsoft accidentally created a somewhat universal document format for rich text.

MrGuilt, I think the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jabah at 4:12 PM on May 29, 2024

Maybe Biden would have less racist "vibes" if he stopped helping Netanyahu carry out a genocide.
posted to MetaFilter by The Manwich Horror at 7:33 PM on May 29, 2024

I really did like the "move the rocks with the Force" thing they were doing in the open air atrium/fake planet scape. It was clever and fun and the rocks could likely just be picked up and moved around outside of that demonstration. That it was such a limited experience would mean people could be talking about it during dinner or cocktail hour or whatever and having others be all "what? no! really?"

It's a small touch to the experience but is a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:23 PM on May 29, 2024

Also: six months before the election, nobody is voting yet. Someone expressing that they are going to withhold their vote, at this point, is a perfectly valid political strategy, and in fact is the only fucking leverage they have unless they're a gazillionaire.

Some of the folks who say "I'm not voting for Biden unless he stops being a genocidaire" will, in fact, go ahead and vote for Biden in November, because they know the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adrienneleigh at 5:30 PM on May 29, 2024

Because Biden doesn't actually think Palestinians are human, and he supports everything Israel is doing.
posted to MetaFilter by adrienneleigh at 5:49 PM on May 29, 2024

oh hey look gender affirming medical care is fine when cis people do it

indeed, and if you are a cis woman there is an entire apparatus of pressure to do so. how can I be sufficiently female without larger, more buoyant mammaries? :(
posted to MetaFilter by supermedusa at 11:22 AM on May 29, 2024

oh hey look gender affirming medical care is fine when cis people do it
posted to MetaFilter by The demon that lives in the air at 11:19 AM on May 29, 2024

Did you just both-sides both-siding? Power move.

To match my power tie.
posted to MetaFilter by a power-tie-wearing she-capitalist at 3:52 PM on May 29, 2024

the... constellation, let's call it, of policy proposals and rhetoric that would really get the especially fiery leftists on board would alienate far more than enough people to make the election completely unwinnable

Real Clinton-era DOMA/DADT "we had to punish the gays to save them" vibes.
posted to MetaFilter by Glegrinof the Pig-Man at 2:53 PM on May 29, 2024

If Trump wins, and all the terrible things we know are going to happen begin, wealthy liberals are going to condemn the people actually fighting the fascists. They're going to demand a return to normalcy while the blood of anarchists and communists is still being shed. If it looks like there might actually be a real and permanent resistance, they will help the fascists kill us and moralize about the rule of law.
posted to MetaFilter by The Manwich Horror at 2:56 PM on May 29, 2024

For my money, the Fiery Leftists that are being scolded are the ones actually out there doing the work. They are helping out in tent cities, they are holding rallies for people who are being renovicted, and they are showing up at city council meetings. You see, those Fiery Leftists put their money where their mouth is. And it's not for nothing I see Liberals bemoaning that we need to focus on X and making fun of the Fiery Leftist who are out there actually helping in their community.
posted to MetaFilter by Kitteh at 2:09 PM on May 29, 2024

I don't know.

I came into this election cycle firmly in the harm reduction hold-your-nose-and-vote camp, in fact argued with some of you at length about it here. Over the last few months though it's just been... so much. Gaza is too much. The protest suppression and blue-line solidarity is too much. The scolding and cynical manipulation is too much. The lip service to things that matter to me while doing nothing or worse than nothing in reality, is too much.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 2:04 PM on May 29, 2024

I think the current generation believe that liberal politics don't matter is that, in spite of overwhelming majorities on issues like abortion, gun control laws, Israel relations, campaign financing issues, etc. the opposition controls these issues so that nothing gets done.
It used to be what two-thirds of people thought mattered.
I agree that Democrats are terrible in presenting issues like crime (down), immigration (a good thing), and the economy (the parts that suck... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 1:34 PM on May 29, 2024

And I just cannot get over the poor planning and stinginess that had one mission require you to go to the Cantina, except you couldn't get in without a reservation. Like, what even is that? You get to stand outside like a refused beggar, until they throw you a little piece of cardboard with a QR code on it? What an absolute letdown that could've been so easily avoided!
posted to MetaFilter by meese at 12:46 PM on May 29, 2024

It's so frustrating that Democrats either forget that they have access to such a powerful political tool, or deliberately hide it for the sake of appearing "centrist".

I don't think most Democrats with any power want any sort of radical, progressive change. I think if there was a poltiical movement that threatened genuine economic justice, they'd work with Trump or whoever else they had to to shut it down.
posted to MetaFilter by The Manwich Horror at 12:50 PM on May 29, 2024

Those candidates aren't grown in vats, you know. If you want to see them, then get in gear and try to run for something.

Pelosi et al. prefer to support anti-abortion corrupt officials than to support those to the left.
posted to MetaFilter by armacy at 12:31 PM on May 29, 2024