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SaraTonin

@ SaraTonin @lemmy.world

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  • Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.

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  • Without commenting on any specific meme (if for no other reason than that imgur is booked the UK and i can’t see the image) and without meaning to disparage OP in any way, because i believe they are asking an honest question, i think that sometimes it’s a question of framing. I think of it like this:

    Say you’ve broken your leg and it’s painful for you to hobble around on crutches. You get to work and find that the lift (elevator for the yanks) is out of order. You work on the 20th floor and have no choice but to take the stairs. You talk about how unpleasant this is going to be for you, and a colleague says “yes, everybody hates taking the stairs”. Maybe they do, but it’s not the same thing.

    Which again isn’t to suggest that everybody posting memes about neurodivergence is talking about real traits, just that the idea that “everybody runs out of social battery sometimes and therefore everybody is on the spectrum somewhere” isn’t really accurate. It can be the difference between deciding to skip a party because you’d rather curl up with a book and spending 4 months not exchanging a single word with another human being. Or the difference between having a favourite film which you say you’re “obsessed” with and spending 9 days straight watching it on repeat while only sleeping 4 hours a night because the other 20 are you watching the film.

    A decade or two ago people used to say “everybody’s a little bit OCD”. That seems to have fallen out of fashion now. I’m reminded of the meme which goes something like one person saying “I’m a bit OCD, i arrange my books by colour”, and the second person saying “cool. I think that if I don’t flip the light switch 40 times all my family will die”.

  • What's a standalone movie that deserves a good sequel?

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  • I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material

  • Are you there, God?

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  • The sun is blowing up

  • ‘Something’s Gonna Have to be Done With Mexico’: Trump Floats Further Intervention to Fox & Friends

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  • Why does something need to be done with Mexico?i thought there was a big beautiful wall keeping all the drugs and crime out?

  • Games then vs now

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  • Yeah, the whole “achievement unlocked” thing is from when Flash games were king

  • Number of people who say Britons must be ‘born British’ is rising, study shows | British identity and society

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  • it’s pretty much because of that. Mostly through happenstance we had the most advanced navy when there was the cutting edge of warfare and therefore we managed to have one of the largest empires ever. So there’s a deeply ingrained myth of exceptionalism in the British psyche, where a lot of people still believe that we’ve got our position in the world because we deserve it as birthright

    See also: Brexit

  • what do you guys think about ai

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  • I wouldn’t call anything a clanker because I’m not a Boomer

  • When did this trend of putting cropped social media posts on giant ugly backgrounds start?

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  • Never argue with an idiot. The best possible outcome is that you’ll win an argument against an idiot

  • What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?

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  • I understand what you’re saying and the political point you’re making but welfare, in political terms, is defined as state intervention via public institutions to ensure the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens.

  • Most Played Games on Steam Deck for 2025

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  • Oh that looks interesting, thanks

  • What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?

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  • That over-simplifies the definition of neoliberalism, and the contested nature of definitions of that term. It also ignores the differences between the liberalism that Thatcher claimed and her actual policies (although I’m not claiming that Hayak, for example, wasn’t part of the then-current definition of liberalism), particularly her social policies.

    I promise you, despite what Wikipedia claims, if a British newspaper were to refer to a liberal politician, they would not include Thatcher and Johnson.

    Firstly, the social aspect of the term liberalism is more prominant than the economic. And secondly, it would be rare in the modern age to see it applied to Hayakian economics as opposed to Keyensian.

    Neoliberalism, as a term, is to liberalism as Libertarian is to liberalism. They share a root and you can point to similarites, but once you scratch beneath the surface they aren’t all that similar and have important areas of opposition.

  • What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?

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  • To be more specific on the capitalism front, liberals generally support a well-regulated market which also has safety nets like welfare. As opposed to positions like neoliberalism which supports As opposed to positions like neoliberalism, which supports laissez-faire markets and opposes welfare.

  • What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?

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  • Liberal in the UK definitely doesn’t mean neoliberal

  • Most Played Games on Steam Deck for 2025

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  • Kind of doing Megabonk, i suppose

  • Most Played Games on Steam Deck for 2025

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  • I stopped playing it after s few hundred hours and a couple of DLCs, but I’m glad to see Vampire Survivors is still doing well

  • Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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  • Again, burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Whether or not you choose to believe them, when they have provided zero sources for their claim, is up to you.

  • Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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  • Again, specific sources are more or less irrelevant, because all sources agree. Plus, the onus isn’t on me to provide a source which debunks the claim that Android and iOS are equal in terms of vulnerability, the onus is on OP to provide a source which supports their assertion.

  • Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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  • It was just the first one that came to hand. LOL at this source for another example: https://deepstrike.io/blog/Malware-Attacks-and-Infections-2025

    That claims that Android devices are 50 times more likely to be compromised than iOS. Look at most reports from people like Kasperky & Malwarebytes and they don’t even bother to mention iOS in statistics and only occasionally mention the platform if there is a specific notable threat.

    It can be argued that iOS isn’t as secure as Apple would like you to think or as a lot of Apple users do think, but it really can’t be argued that it’s equally as vulnerable as Android

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