Being ASD definitely makes it harder to enjoy April Fools pranks that are harmless and clever.

My ASD friends and family will frequently perceive the omission of information as an offensive lie, when the reality is us not on the spectrum didn’t consider it information worth sharing. Extend this to April Fools Day jokes, which should be intentional, harmless, clever pranks, and they just can’t.

Really good ones stick in my mind forever. Guild Wars once turned all the players into stick figures. I still laugh at that. Prior to enshitification Reddit had some great ones, like Orange Red vs Periwinkle. RuneScape always released upcoming features at the beginning of the month, and April Fools Day was always a fake one that sounded almost believable. I had friends swap clothes and classes for an entire day in college. I had a physics professor teach biology to each of his classes - a different lecture in each period. I had two friends announce they were ending their friendship on Facebook but intended to remain roommates, and continue to hang out with the rest of us.

It’s a social norm. Just like how sarcasm is difficult for some ASD to pick up. But, a lot of us non-ASD do need to choose our audience more carefully. I don’t play pranks on my family and those friends. I also refrain from sarcasm and exaggerating too.

The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.

It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

To be fair - most assassinations by Putin have a much more obvious tie.

She didn’t fall out of a window, she didn’t get exposed to Novichok, and it doesn’t sound like polonium.

That being said, still could have been assassination but by other Russian mobsters.

The only thing I can respond with is:

wut

It’s some new mental illness? Is it just sociopathy?

Is it fried ketamine brain?

You can download Wikipedia.

Anyone can actually.

No you wanna know how fucked up a human can get:

Frank Herbert wrote an entire series of novels about a guy who put his finger in a box and was told “An animal caught in a trap will gnaw its leg off to survive.” Then the dude goes on to cause 66 billion deaths and have a son that lives for 7500 years as a giant worm/human hybrid

Some people know they need help, and seek therapy to get help, but when they find out mental therapy is a lot like physical therapy they get really angry about it.

Uncalled for

You get to actually work on your code?

Instead of 6 hours of meetings it’ll just be 8 hours of meetings

“Go pee on the transformer” but that sounds like “fuck off and die!”

Oh

Ooooooooh lmfao

The same way cutting the budget of poorly performing schools makes students more successful.

So the Anthem thing I sort of get, at least for like sports. Lemme explain:

Sportsmanship keeps the games fun. Establishing sportsmanship starts in the mind - “we’re all here to have a good time.” In nation exclusive sports, (NFL for example) the entire stadium gets “in sync” at that moment. It’s also a useful way to start. In international sports, standing for the opponents anthem is a sign of respect for the other team.

I don’t really remember where else it plays though.

Well, now I know what will be my daily driver. Thanks!

Anything to reduce the advertising revenue of these jackasses

He’s in elementary school so it’s impossible to actually know.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t know if it is, or he just talks about it like it is because I won’t let him play it.

Minecraft is way more fun IMO anyway

Can I recommend Minecraft over Roblox?

Minecraft isn’t as popular, but I was able to get my 8 year old to make TNT arrows and he thought it was a blast. (Hehehehe)

And Minecraft Java definitely works on Linux

Edit: My son claims Roblox is more popular. But that could be because I banned it at home.

IM TRYING MAN

My 8 year old knows how to keyboard a little. I haven’t figured out if they’re gonna teach him in school or not, so I’m erring on the side of caution

Me too

Imagine using a hammer to remove a screw from a beam.

It’s possible, but it’s not the right tool. It’s frankly dangerous, and probably going to damage something.

But, a hammer, when used on nails, is really good at what it does.

Signal encrypts your message, sends it to the recipient, and the recipient’s Signal decrypts the message when they view it.

It is open source, so we can verify it does that ourselves. What that means is that a reader who is not the receiver of the message cannot read it.

That does NOT MEAN:

1. The receiver is who you intended it to be.
2. The receiver is uncompromised.

Signal also DOES NOT:

1. Have control lists to your group discussions.
2. Verify the receiver is who they say they are

The benefit is:

1. We know that the message sent is encrypted.
2. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc, can’t route your message through their servers en route to your recipient. Or well, they can at a low level, but it would just be a garbled mess anyway.

It doesn’t make sense. Critical thinking enables survival. Sometimes it’s not fun. Sometimes it doesn’t feel great.

But it’s typically more rewarding that not. That’s what I don’t understand.