That’s close to the original distinction between Aspergers and Autism. Aspergers were highly exploitable high performing workers, Autistic people were too disabled to be useful and thus fed to the gas chambers.

The downside of neurodivergent awareness in liberal societies will inevitably be that subsets of neurodivergents will be hyperexploited while the rest will be further marginalized.

It’s also cool that countries like the US and Germany want records of autistic people. Where have we seen this before?

I finally started a book I had been excitedly awaiting the release of, This Brutal Moon. It’s starting strong although I feel like recent a reread of the previous two books would have been good for my brain.

It still cracks me up that Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford became a Daily Show meme.

I think it’s racism.

Probably trying to manufacture consent for German kids to be conscripted.

to 700 kilometers per hour within just two seconds

That’s only a comfy 10G acceleration. What an incredible achievement.

Kinda similar for me. Had a burnout, paid more attention to my patterns, did lots of therapy, got into the neurodivergent social media bubble, and figured it out with the help of other patients.

Just a friendly note on the term Aspergers: it’s been merged back into Autism Spectrum Disorder, because 1 it’s just a different manifestation of the same thing, 2 Asperger was a Nazi who experimented on his patients and let them be murdered, and 3 the differentiation between “Aspergers” and Autism at that time was that the Aspergers patients were economically productive and Autistics were not.

Yes I see that now. Thank you.

Whoops, thanks.

This is a complaint about Epstein though. I wouldn’t put it past Trump either but he’s not named or alluded to in the document.

Didn’t Peggy say Pinochet did nothing wrong, when he was finally being tried for all his heinous crimes?

Canada’s $1 Billion Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia?

The headline!! What an absolute joke. And the article is cope after cope.

It’s also hilarious seeing everyone’s reaction to this after a couple years of “land acknowledgement” platitudes from nominally progressive Canadians.

Is the CIA funding this one as well?

Maybe food production shouldn’t be profit driven.

Yeah, don’t the majority of USians not even have a few hundred dollars saved for an emergency expense?

Germany paid early and bandwagon adopters of rooftop solar almost €0.10/kWh to sell back to the grid for fifteen plus years. There is so much residential solar here it actually causes problems for grid operators.

That buyback subsidy has ended but with some of the highest electricity prices in the world and a political environment which is pushing electric heating, new solar installs are still popular.

I want a backyard SMR so bad.

Good to know.

Bank of International Settlements. Tied up into a lot of conspiracy theories but it does manage a lot of currency exchanges between states.