Phoenicianpirate
@Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
- Comment on I hate the modern web 4 days ago:
Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 5 days ago:
Just use a different vpn server…
- Comment on He's just eccentric 5 days ago:
You were a protagonist of a 90s adventure game! You carried all manner of weird things to solve moon logic puzzles!
- Comment on He's just eccentric 6 days ago:
One way I look at historic figured for who might and might not been a high functioning autistic individual is to look at how well they may have functioned socially vs. How technical they were.
Take William Bligh for example. He was the captain of the Bounty when they famous mutiny happened. Contrary to popular belief, he wasn’t some tyrannical captain who was so monstrous that his crew were pushed beyond human dignity. He actually was milder than most captains and had unusual methods of keeping his crew in shape. For example he ordered his crew to dance on a daily basis. Why? Because for prolonged periods of time there was actually minimal activity needed on the ship, so many sailors would be lazy and get out of shape. By having them dance he was trying to keep them in shape to do their jobs when needed.
It worked and it was practical, but it made everyone hate him. He was a highly socially inept man and the mutiny on the bounty was NOT the only mutiny or rebellion he had to deal with.
But… as a sailor he was brilliant. He really did manage to keep his men healthier than normal, and as a navigator he was probably one of the best to have ever lived. No joke. When the crew set him adrift on a raft with the few loyal members with him. He navigated across the open pacific without a map and nonexistent tools, working only by memory and the stars that he had memorized and managed to make a trek of thousands of kilometers to the nearest safe port.
That kind of obsession on detail is not something that comes without being somewhat on the spectrum.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 6 days ago:
Amateur. Back in the 90s i collected odds and ends because I wanted to exactly be like a Sierra online adventure game protagonist.
Also I collected coins. But I guess that was not eccentric enough to be an autistic thing?
- Comment on ARMADILL-NO 1 week ago:
Stray kittens are like that. I knew some strays that had their kittens. I would come by with food and for play time. Their mom was quite happy and joined in. This made the kittens trust people too much and… well, some people took them home when they were too damn young to be adopted. Knowing how most people are who spontaneously adopt strays they probably got tired of them really quick and abandoned them far away. It pains me to think of that
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 1 week ago:
That’s a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass…
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 1 week ago:
Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 1 week ago:
Worst part about the Triangle Waistshirt factory fire is that the owners actually chained the exits and many of the fire exits were so poorly maintained that when the workers tried to escape using them, they collapsed and many fell to their deaths… and when a lawsuit was filed, somehow the judge believed that the whole thing was a whiny conspiracy and they ruled in favor of the owners.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 1 week ago:
This is why labor unions really started to fail in the 60s and 70s. The union guys valued race far more than class and the powers of unions diminished.
They have been doing it well before reconstruction. Once upon a time there wasn’t that much racism in the US, but after Bacon’s rebellion the elites realized that whites and blacks were working together and have since then been pitting them against one another.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 weeks ago:
And China executed a shitload of people for political dissent…
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 2 weeks ago:
I remember in 2010 when someone posted a meme on ragecomics that showed how sad they are that some people still use ‘years ago’ to refer to the early 90s…
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 3 weeks ago:
He looks like a Rob Liefeld drawing…
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has nightmares of slipping on ice and falling down stairs when I sleep. The kicks I do are annoying.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
It’s called trolling.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 1 month ago:
And specifically to make sure the reality of Nazis are shown. Like in the literature you find in the newer Wolfenstein games, the stuff is shines a light on how stupid the Nazi ‘scientific’ mentality really was.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
I watched a video that had dr. Robotnik say how is going to take over the US Healthcare system and make it hell… then shadow keeps interjecting to tell him that his plans are actually a vast improvement over the system, and Robotnik is then left unsure what to think.
- Comment on Babyllionaire Musk got r/whitepoepletwitter banned 1 month ago:
Laws and rules to these people are not meant to be obeyed by them in any shape or form. They are meant to protect them and bind others.
- Comment on Babyllionaire Musk got r/whitepoepletwitter banned 1 month ago:
I liked that reddit. What a fucking pussy cunt. He claimed they broke the law when they didn’t. All they were doing was exposing his illegal shit and criminal underlings, who should all be facing at least 20 years in prison for the stuff they are doing now.
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 1 month ago:
At this time there kinda is too much political bullshit to ignore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The people who did it are the same wealthy anti-progressive, anti-New Dealers who hated how the government did so many programs that didn’t just work, but worked brilliantly. I need to mention that not all New Deal programs survived, but most of the ones that were cut were done so due to early concerted opposition to them and nothing organic.
No joke, it is a combination of old ideas and opposition to new ideas.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 months ago:
More like nintendon’t!
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
Try 6000$ machine… no joke.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 months ago:
I had to replace my computer because it died.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 months ago:
But what are the rules? Is it like death note where you need their name and be thinking of their face? Or is it “Hey, that 3rd grade math teacher who gave me a hard time. What’s her name? Forgot how she looks, too… she shits herself now!” Type of thing.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 months ago:
Why not both? Help the constipated AND make the world’s worst people shit themselves on live TV…
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 2 months ago:
I don’t get non-smoking signs in many places. Smoking bans have been around for so long that they almost feel redundant.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 2 months ago:
I was born in the early 80s. Yes I remember a time when so many people smoked and indoor smoking was extremely common.
Even children’s places were ok for adults to smoke in. You know on how many arcade bars today they have cup holders bolted onto the machines for people to put their drinks (alcoholic or otherwise)? Back in the 80s and 90s, they had the same thing in many of those arcades… but they were bolted on ashtrays.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 3 months ago:
If he dies and confesses as you put it, and the situation gets bad enough he could be canonized a lot sooner. Saint Maximillian was beatified barely 30 years after his death and canonized 41 years after his death.
Saint Maximillian Kolbe was a Saint who died in the holocaust during ww2. His story is fucking incredible. The Nazis were gathering people and had a set number of people to take to the death camps… one guy was terrified and begged for mercy, and then Saint Max came in to step in his place. Since the SS officer involved was only concerned with the number of people and not who, he accepted and left the guy alone and took Maximillian in his place.
You basically have someone who willingly sacrificed his life for an absolute stranger he never met before… and you know what is even better? The guy who Maximillian saved not only survived ww2, but also lived to be over 90 years old AND he pointed out at the war’s end who was the officer who took all those people to their deaths. The officer was hanged for his crimes in 1946.
We need people who can make that kind of sacrifice. Luigi threw away a promising life to have a shot at the system. He isn’t much of a leftist, but that is just a small detail.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 3 months ago:
If he is a catholic then I pray that he becomes a legit saint for what he did.