Based on the other comments, some DMs seem to have an issue with that. Did they give a reason? I am extremely confused because I’m pretty sure that’s not just the archetype, but also just RAW for rogue. Is there some ambiguity in the wording of the class that I’m just missing?

I don’t know the person you were picturing, but me and at least a handful of other people were not talking about autistic people who happen to be nerdy. In my opinion, regularly making people cry in a workplace setting is lacking social skills. Based on just the OP, I imagine that teacher is not sending this home because the son is exhibiting signs of autism, he’s probably being a prick, which I’d say most kids are by default, but it’s a parents job to help them mature out of that phase. I generally have not experienced any issues working with people on the spectrum, certainly none that would elicit tears, which I think is an ok proxy for some social skills. Obviously, we can have just been thinking of different people, but I have not had many issues on Lemmy and I didn’t want people to come away with the impression that Lemmy is 2/3rds hostile or has issues communicating. Most people are pretty nice. Someone even gave me a soup recipe!

I imagine that’s a joke, but that’s being overly gracious to lemmys collective intellect and insulting to lemmys collective interpersonal skills. Most people I interact with on Lemmy are nice, if not at least cordial, and I don’t think being tech savvy equates to the kind of skill I’m attributing to that guy. Unfortunately, knowing what Linux is doesn’t actually make you intelligent, despite what even I sometimes like to believe.

Glad to hear that hasn’t been your experience. I’ve been in both now, but I’ve seen people I wouldn’t spit at if on fire get funding or positions because of the work they produce. A guy known for making grad students cry has a line out the door because people want to be associated with him. He’s got the funding and pull to make things happen because he’s good at what he does, despite being an impossible prick. I think part of it is that there are very few people of the caliber that people will excuse that behavior from. Not every smart person with a bad attitude gets a pass, but in my experience, there’s a threshold past which people will excuse a lot. I think there’s a similar thing with money. Not every millionaire can get what they want, but at a certain point of wealth they just can. I totally understand if that’s not a universal experience. I was just offering my perspective.

Yea, that’s completely valid. I imagine personal experience affects this a lot, but I’m glad to see people’s experiences have been contrary to what I imagine this woman has likely encountered. Not that anything excuses letting your child’s emotional and interpersonal development languish. She’s a terrible influence, regardless of if she was correct.

My perception might be tainted by personal experience. If you’re good at math and easy to work with, you’re golden, but between ok at math/easy to work with and great at math/terrible to work with, in my experience the former is let go before the latter. To a certain extent it makes sense, wether it’s publish or perish in academia or maximizing profit in the corporate world, you end up prioritizing the “best” and brightest.

That’s does kind of prove her point. That guy still has a job and likely would not have that job if he were just ok at math. She’s not wrong, but hopefully society moves away from that culture and then that guy will have to either adjust or be left behind.

I don’t know her particular situation, but if she needed “non-emergency” medical care, it’s possible it’s only covered in the state. I don’t know why she went in or disclosed, but if she went in for something non life threatening it’s possible it’d be out of pocket anywhere else.

Presumably she works in tech, but it’s very strange to see that kind of interaction. I don’t know why anyone would type in all caps or use multiple question marks regardless of if they’re talking to AI, a simple bot, or a real person. Maybe a “help” or “options” but I can’t imagine thinking an all caps hello would help in this situation.

Why did you comment twice? I already explained that the person you responded to is not asking anyone to care. They are agreeing that Americans knew what they were doing.

They are not expecting sympathy though.

Someone said “I have very little sympathy for America” and they replied that we don’t deserve it. They agreed.

I’m pretty sure they mean we don’t deserve the sympathy. If you take into account their whole comment, it seems like they are saying sympathy is undeserved because people knew what they were getting.

I can’t guarantee it, but I’d guess the girl is talking about their period. I don’t think that him giving advice is helpful in this context and from your comment it seems like maybe that wasn’t how you understood the comic. Just adding that because it seems like your comment has a good intent but might not relate to how some people interpret the comic.

Real Xmas movie has no ghosts showing up because there is no force in the universe that actually cares and the rich surround themselves with yes men who would never call them out. It’s more just the comfy bed thing.

I understand how it might be personally upsetting, but products should have warnings and health guidelines before the instructions. If I’m supposed to wear gloves before touching something, I sure hope I see that before I see how to use it. This is actually good in my opinion. People might not actually read it all, but at least safety information is front loaded.

I believe I got into a conversation on Lemmy where I was saying that there should be a big persistent warning banner stuck on every single AI chat app that “the following information has no relation to reality” or some other thing. The other person kept insisting it was not needed. I’m not saying it would stop all of these events, but it couldn’t hurt.

I’d love to pretend I have a tried and true method, but statistically I’ve hit more walls than bridges. The thing that works more often than others is finding something they care about that’s easily falsifiable and honing in on that. Do that a few times in a row and hopefully they see that they don’t actually know what they’re talking about because their politicians don’t want them to. One of the easiest for me has been to really explain the gun show loophole. Guns seem to be pretty important to people I interact with, even if they don’t own any. They really have no idea what gun laws are. One of the other more recent things is Hegseths changes and the Trump ballroom. Depending on how tech bro they are and how willing or able you are to keep them on topic, DOGE isn’t too bad, but it can get off track fast. If she’s spiteful, the new Trump accounts might be worth bringing up. It’s really not a bad idea, but that’s HER taxes going to a bunch of babies.

What are you looking for re posting pattern? I have a few accounts tagged as bots or trolls but I’m not sure what I should be looking for here.

3.2k over 2 months is numbers I generally attribute to bots/shills. Is that a normal level of online in your spaces?

Nah, they know what they’re doing. They know if put together properly it’ll work, so they spend years fucking it up so badly that it’ll take decades to fix, which they know won’t happen. Then they point to how broken it is and use that as an excuse to make people believe it was never working and even if it did it can never work again.