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  • I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them

    And yet, in that little whine right there, you managed to use the very gender neutral pronoun that would have saved you all this hassle (including the hassle you’re making up of having to go and look up the pronouns of every individual you interact with).

    So you know it exists, and you know how to use it, but you decided to try and be funny instead, and it backfired.

    You misgendered someone, and now have to deal with the most minor of minorest consequences for harm you caused to another.

    You are still free to create 100 different accounts on 100 different instances, just not the one where you broke the rules. No one owes you a platform, deal with it.

    Your choice now is to double down and make it worse, or you can be an adult, admit you made a mistake, and learn from it for the future so you don’t repeat it.

    I dare to say you have already chosen, but feel free to prove me wrong.


  • Sorry, I was just trying to relate this to autism in a silly way, no criticism or meanness intended.

    What’s the difference between deep touch and deep pressure

    I don’t know for sure, but personally I would say that deep touch is the opposite of soft touch (like grabbing someone’s hand vs lightly brushing against it), while deep pressure is about deliberately applying pressure deep in to the tissue (so yeah, like massaging, but also like a really heavy weighted blanket or the steamroller with a ball thing).

    I must have missed your previous post, or not had the brain power to reply, good to see these conversations happening either way. 😊



  • You’re new to autism, aren’t you lol

    On a more serious note, this is something I needed long before I knew why or what it was called. A couple of decades later, I do indeed know the term, and the reason why I prefer deep pressure to light touch (autism related sensory processing disorder), though I’m sure it isn’t the only reason people need/prefer it.

    Either way, if you genuinely want to hear more personal experiences from people who are more likely to know about and have practice with theses techniques, post over on one of the autism communities.




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    9 days ago

    Exactly.

    People not being able to tell the difference between tankie rhetoric (“put all of the bourgeoisie up against the wall and everyone I disagree with in the gulag!!12”) or even plain old anti-communist propaganda, and actual leftist views is for them to figure out with themselves. I said what I said, and I mean it as I said it (including saying that I don’t even think it’s necessary to kill all billionaires, never mind anyone bellow them, which they conveniently ignore).




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    9 days ago

    I first started playing when it originally launched for mobile around 2019 and never even made it to the bit at the end because I got scared and overwhelmed long before it lol, but I got back in to it a few months ago, actually took the time to read up on the wiki and stuff which wasn’t really around back then (or I didn’t think to look) to understand what was going on, and it’s been great.

    They update every 2 weeks at the least with traveling spirits - spirits from past seasons that come back so you can get their cosmetics, emotes, and music sheets/instruments, then there are seasons that last 3 months, and “days of” events that last 2 weeks. It can be a bit overwhelming, but the idea is there’s almost always something going on, and old things cycle back, so you always have a chance to get (most) things you missed.

    Check out !skychildrenoflight@lemmy.world, I also lurk the libreddit equivalent for more active posting, and definitely dip your toe back in, the new season just launched this week!



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    Once you make one group acceptable to kill, you give others a vested interest in defining groups they have prejudice against into that group.

    So… they’re going to make us all billionaires?

    I agree with a lot of points the post is making, but there is also one group in particular, that isn’t only responsible for turning society against each other, literally dragging us back in to fascism, but is waaaaay above the law and would always remain that way until the system that put that law in place and enforces it is abolished, which is a complete impossibility without using force.

    Do I think all billionaires should die? Not necessarily, but I do think they should cease to exist as billionaires.

    Do I think any billionaire would, at first, just give up their money and power and just agree to be like the rest of us? Not a fucking chance.

    So yeah, while prison isn’t a real threat to them, and they have all the power, and adamant refusal to give it up, I see them as a group it is acceptable to kill, because they see us all as acceptable to kill (and they actively are).

    You simply can’t compare a random citizen, however harmful to the people around them, to the handful of people who literally control the entire world economy, and all of the abuse and destruction it brings with it, killing millions annually (via artificial scarcity and other methods of deliberately depriving people access to food, water, shelter, and medicine for preventable disease, not to mention other exploitation like slavery or starvation wages, child labour, as well as the patriarchy, queerphobia, and so on which encourage gendered violence and the kind of murder OP is talking about).

    Part of being on the left is considering systemic power structures, and understanding that they can not be addressed in the same way an individual offender is.

    And for the record: I don’t believe in the death penalty and I don’t think paedophiles, rapists, and murderers should be executed, because as opposed to billionaires, they can be removed from society in different ways, because they don’t own it.