Homicide* … unless you actually mean homocide.

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Ah, thanks for the reference.

Believe it or not, there’s actually places in the US where it’s called a hamburg and others were it’s called a burger. There’s more regional variation than you’d think, but I realize this is just a Simpsons joke.

Are you having an aneurysm

New England?

This dude is from Pennsylvania.

This has never been my experience with autistic people. My brother, cousins, and coworkers are autistic. Very often they’re the last to know, and everyone else after interacting with them will then talk to other people and say “I think they’re on the spectrum.”

In my world, the idea that someone on the spectrum would be good in school and be well behaved is largely unrelated to autism. Autism stands out most socially, in my experience, and I don’t mean to shame anyone on that front, it’s just how I notice it.

I have a coworker that was raised by two autistic parents and has an older brother that is autistic, but he’s convinced he’s not. I guess that comes from his parents not wanting their children to deal with being “labeled” autistic. That’s why his brother didn’t get a “diagnosis” until his late 20s.

I’m not a medical doctor or whatever, but treating my coworker like my autistic brother makes things a lot easier for him. There’s no stigma around autism to me, but I know that can be a stigma. I quite like autistic people. You can be much more direct with them and they appreciate it. It’s often a more honest relationship.

People are people, and people be in all kinds of different ways. Try to love all the variations! It’s the flavor of humanity.

Honest question: did guys in the generation that makes them about 16-26 now have some sort of generationally curly hair event? Or are dudes getting perms, or what the heck is happening. Nothing against curly hair, it just seems like suddenly almost all young guys have curly hair and a broccoli hair cut.

Edit: oh, duh. Dude’s are using curling irons. I’m an idiot.

You sonovabitch, I’m in!

What we need to do here is find a way to liquify the camel’s body and increase the diameter of the eye of the needle. Then it’s really just a matter of patience.

It doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing. The camel/gate (unfounded) interpretation has been stretched to note that a camel COULD fit through the gate on its knees, therefore it’s a metaphor about being on your knees (pray) if you are wealthy and you can go through the gate, i.e., you can be rich if you are pious.

There weren’t TVs in the 11th century, so no televangelists. I know what you mean by this, but that’s the problem. Language is weird. Terms come and go, and someone from the 11th century wouldn’t know what that means, just as we don’t know exactly what was said by people who wrote the Bible.

You actually didn’t know what they meant by this. They were saying that a televangelist, in the age of television, dug up this interpretation from the 11th century to argue, in the age of television, that the lesson was that it was challenging for the rich to get into heaven but not impossible.

But it does serve the more fundamental point that language is complicated and prone to misinterpretation. And that people will voice confidently incorrect opinions based their misunderstanding.

Outdoor activities as well, obviously. I think the point the parents are making is that kids are going to play games on their screens, so if, perhaps, they could get their child to play a game that improves cognitive ability, coping skills, problem solving skills, and socioaffective development, that would be better.

It also has an “IRL” version where the skills from the screen are almost directly translated over the board, which is helpful. That was the context of the win against the GM.

You the best lol

It broke.

Some men are looking for a “hack” that will let them dominate the “meta.” They think life is just like video games. You can see them angrily talking about women while the stream themselves playing games.

The problem is, people (not just women) are generally interested in people that are interesting. Being interesting requires time and effort.

Much easier to be told there is ONE SIMPLE HACK.

Oh that is nice if you to follow up. I don’t think it was intentionally insensitive. It was a reasonable conclusion to draw without knowing more context, but thanks for being mature and responsible for what you say/write. Seems pretty rare these days.

That’s another Mandela effect.

Fruit of the Loom never produced underwear.

Totally agree! I love these kinds of things. I honestly prefer to believe it’s multiverse collapse, but, you know. Generally I know that is unlikely.