From Rev Left’s description of his own OCD, the foundational pillar of OCD is anxiety. All the compulsions revolve around anxiety.

I didn’t really understand the line between NT and ND stimming

I would be careful to lump ND stimming together like this. Autistic stimming is different from ADHD stimming. To compare autistic stimming and NT stimming, the difference is that autistic stimming is much more varied and expressive. There’s a complexity and depth in autistic stimming that is missing in NT stimming. Autistic stimming can also be hyperspecific. For example, I have a vocal stim after I’ve transferred GBs of data from a drive to another drive where I say, “There, the young ones are all aboard.” I have a weird stim that triggers when the Internet is slow where I start blinking my eyes in a weird rhythmic pattern. There’s probably at least 50 unique stims that I do and a lot of it is just weird shit like blinking-when-the-Internet-is-slow stim.

Not bad. I just have this one particular thing I do a lot, that I need to quit. Hmmm, lets try not doing that for tonight and note what happens.

In general, you can’t stop doing a stim. The best you could do is find a similar stim and do that instead. And the similar stim has to be within the same category of stim (motor, vocal, tactile, and so on). So, if you have a maladaptive stim like headrocking into a hard surface (ie you’re basically giving yourself a mild concussion), you could switch that stim into something less maladaptive like headrocking into a pillow or headrocking in the open or slapping your forehead or punching things, but you can’t really just stop doing the headrocking-into-a-hard-surface stim cold turkey like that.

I don’t understand why I am able to not do it for a few hours/all day if I’m out but when I’m alone I need it.

You’re masking when you’re out, so to compensate, once you’re alone when you don’t have to mask, you stim more to make up for the times when you weren’t stimming because you’re out in public. For me, I feel suffocated if I’m forced to not stim. For work, I get around this by stimming during bathroom breaks. You could even vocally stim to a certain extent if your vocal stim is humming. Driving a car is also a good opportunity to stim because it’s not like people are going to hear your vocal stims or see your weird hand flapping while out in the road.

It’s always the he/him flairs.

Love to have steep slopes and those top thingies that make you move really fast alongside crushing blocks and swinging spiked balls that punish you for moving fast.

Aquatic Ruin Zone:

1. It’s a clear demonstration of 2d Sonic level design where you have multiple parallel paths you can take. Aquatic Ruin Zone has three paths, an upper path that completely avoids water, a lower path that is underwater, and a middle path. It’s also arranged based on difficulty with the upper path being the easiest and the lower path being the hardest.

2. Aquatic Ruin Zone is overall a ruins theme zone, but that’s strictly untrue since the ruins theme is only completely present in the middle path. The upper path is more of a forest theme while the lower path is just a water level. Thus, Aquatic Ruin Zone is able to seamlessly incorporate three different zone themes into one zone without it feeling contrived. The only other zone I could think of that is able to incorporate different themes in this way is Hill Top Zone, which is simultaneously a snow and lava zone.

3. The music is also really good.

They’re just another form of escapist slop. And since we live in a capitalist society, the escapist slop is also designed to indoctrinate you into accepting the capitalist world order. The pocket dimension aspect of it is just conditioning people to accept atomization as a good thing. Everyone should live in their own individual pocket dimension bubble with no other independent actor in that bubble. But we live in a interconnected society (which itself is embedded within a historical, geographical, and biospheric context) with contradictions within that society. Living in that interconnected society will not always be cozy because conflict is inevitable.

Capitalization is an orthographic honorific, not its own pronoun. And honorifics never have to be respected.

Also, funny how even reddit allows r/Piracy but not .world lol

Imagine being even more of a corporate simp that Reddit lmao

Good shit. The only time I’ve ever done that was when I thought the due date was earlier than it actually was or when the professor postponed the assignment at the last minute lol

Queen Victoria is from the House of Hanover and Prince Albert is from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The British royal family changed their house to Windsor during WWI because the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha sounded too German.

If you’re going by just family ancestry, Charles III is mostly German. Here’s me after wasting time on Wikipedia:

Maternal grandfather’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII: Anglicized German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark: Danish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Teck: Austrian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mary_Adelaide_of_Cambridge: German

Maternal grandmother’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bowes-Lyon,_13th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bowes-Lyon,_Countess_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cavendish-Bentinck_(priest): English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Cavendish-Bentinck: English

Paternal grandfather’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX_of_Denmark: Danish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Hesse-Kassel: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Nikolayevich_of_Russia: Russian Romanov, but he had 3 German grandparents, so his ancestry is mostly German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Saxe-Altenburg: German

Paternal grandmother’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alexander_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia,_Princess_of_Battenberg: Pole of German descent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IV%252C_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom: German

Imagine simping for an inbred German shambling corpse.

It also fundamentally misunderstands why Linux has such low adoption rates at the desktop. It has much more to do with Windows being ubiquitous in desktop enterprise environments than Linux. MacOS is by all accounts even more intuitive and easier to understand than Windows with a greater selection of native programs than Linux on top of having billions of dollars at their disposal for advertisement, but you’re not exactly seeing MacOS hit >60% of desktops.

Overall, for a thread that’s supposed to help a newbie, this thread has a surprising amount of bad info. From saying Debian doesn’t come with sudo (completely untrue, the Debian installer has an option of adding the user to sudo when most distro installers just add the user to sudo automatically) to saying installing MacOS programs is simply clicking on an icon (not really true either since the only time you’re clicking on shit to install things on MacOS instead of using the store is if you’re installing third-party software, in which case you have to dig through menus).

I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that?

Because the majority of Ledditors are either liberals or full blown reactionaries and the ones who are not range from some cringey techno-libertarian who think FOSS will usher in socialism to some radlib cruise-missile socialist who strangely never deviates from the US state department. The very few who could legitimately be considered socialists are some kind of anarchist. They certainly aren’t Marxist.

Are there any good leftist instances?

Outside of those two, I won’t hold my breath. The easiest litmus test in the world is how they’re responding to the genocide at Gaza. There’s very few places where you’ll get complete support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and not whining about the imaginary babies Hamas allegedly beheaded or trying to equate the conduct of a genocidal nuclear power to a paramilitary fighting for national liberation.

Sinophobic anarchists aren’t comrades. They can join the pit with all the other Sinophobic reactionaries.

I don’t think a racist comic is a good look for anarchism, but you do you.

Japanese fascists were a far bigger threat to the Soviet Union than the Nazis during the 1930s. Japan already sacked Nanjing. In one city, the Japanese fascists butchered the same amount of people as the Francoists did for the entire civil war. This is how brutal the Japanese fascists were relative to the Francoists. And unlike the Francoists, the Empire of Japan actually tried to invade the Soviet Union but got owned before venturing too far. Why should the Soviet Union send those 400+ tanks to Republican Spain without expecting something in return? If anything, the Soviet Union shouldn’t have wasted material with a lost cause that is Republican Spain and shipped those tanks to the Republic of China instead where they wouldn’t be squandered. One tank to Spain is one less tank to China. Frankly, Stalin bet on the wrong horse.

Wait, did they seriously confuse Chinese and Korean? I guess I shouldn’t have expect much from a comic that depicts Mao with slanty eyes.

I haven’t even gone over how some of the colonized Moroccans sided with the Francoists while none of them sided with the Republicans. You would think that the side with the socialists and anarchists would be on board with decolonization, but I guess it’s horizontally organized society for white people, brutal colonial regime for brown people. The white people can own the means of production while the brown people can labor with them.

You can lie to yourselves all you want. Anarchists remember the backstabbing very well and the real reason why they couldn;t fight back efficiently. I’m not here to discuss with tankies though. Plenty has been written about this stalinist revisionism already.

My dude, the vast majority of Republican tanks were provided by the Soviet Union. Let’s take a look at the Wikipedia article about tanks in the Spanish Civil War shall we: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tanks_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War#Tanks_supplied_by_foreign_powers

Locally produced tanks: 24-32

Soviet tanks: 331

French/Polish tanks: 64

Paraguayan tanks: 1

So out of the 420-428 tanks deployed by the Republicans, more than 75% came from the Soviet Union. This is not “backstabbing.” If the Republicans didn’t want the Soviet Union to “interfere” with their civil war, they could have fun with their 89 tanks versus the Francoists’ 280 tanks. Yes, when you accept material aid from another country, that country has a say in the trajectory of your political project. That’s literally how all aid works. The Soviet Union was not a charity. If the Republicans did not want the Soviet Union to interfere with their political project, they could’ve just rejected the material aid. But to accept the substantial material aid and then cry about Soviet interference is called being ungracious. It’s called biting the hand that feeds you.

When your illegitimate regime is definitely not losing every front including the information front and is definitely not about to eat a major L: Israel has announced that consuming “Hamas media” will now be a federal offense punishable by a year in prison, even if no actions were taken. Visiting Hamas websites is considered an offense.