you don’t have to be far right for them to want to consider you a nazi or punch you. you just have to be less extremist than they are, or not the same flavor of anarchist/socialist/communist.

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I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.

They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is…

Make your own. It’s pretty easy. It’s just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.

Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.

Yeah. The Identity Trap.

Great book on how/why our universities and politics are so fucked up the past 10 years.

a lot of the lemmy all frontpage is sensationalist nonsense posted from hyper partisan sources that is heavily upvoted.

the majority of comments on here or any platform are braindead nonsense to me. I just try to focus on the one or two intelligent and informative ones. And boy do dumb people like to downvote smart commentary or personally harass the poster.

Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.

People have different boundaries and beliefs than you do.

That’s fine.

Not everyone is the same or should be. If you are happy doing you than do you. Don’t worry about what other people are doing. They are not you.

I’m not arrogant enough to assume I know what other people know and don’t know. Every prof I had always had lots of knowledge of things I had no knowledge of. But that’s what it means when everyone is specialized.

it’s also the culture. some schools are more inclusive and others are exclusive. my undergrad was a more inclusive place than my grad school. my grad school was like 95% white.

i wouldn’t use that instance.

toxic positivity is not a thing i’m interested in participating in. i’ve seen it ruin many places and people.

Cartman is still a fatass in 2026.

Or does he have a ‘lipid mass regulation deficiency’?

literally everyone is slightly autistic. that is a useless classification.

it’s like saying have to eat food or you have to poop. so does litereally every other person who ever existed… it’s not a distinguishing aspect of any one person over another.

when you self-diagnose you are doing nothing more than taking a horoscope. i bet you are a ‘little bit of a Pisces’. too.

You aren’t supposed to keep up with that shit. It’s stupid.

Assuming it isn’t your professional job in some capacity.

My take is if people get offended at you not calling them some preferred nomenclature… they are assholes. Well-adjusted people typically don’t start a shitfit about such things. Nor is a single person’s testimony anything to make a broader assumption upon.

Saying we are all on the spectrum is the same as saying nobody is on it.

That’s why I’m skeptical. Saying you are autistic has no meaning anymore. Anyone could say it and believe it abotu themselves.

That’s VERY different than getting clinically diagnosed.

There is a massive difference between officially being diagnosed as being autistic and self-identifying as it. A differences based in clinical science.

What is messed up is people can’t acknowledge this, or act like this difference is oppressive and problematic.’

According to self-diagnosis, I can easily convince myself I’m autistic or a million other mental conditions. But I am not. Because I’m not a professional clinician, and even if I was self-diagnosis is a violation of professional ethics.

hidden or deleted?

are you talking about the accounts that post once and then self-delete?

my undergrad experience was awesome, but my grad experience was bad.

really good schools/programs can isolate you from the shitshow and actually are very professional. but they are rare.

it could also have been you meshed with the politics of your school. i very much meshed with the politics of my undergrad dept, but was a pariah in my grad program for those very same politics/values.

Brave to this comment man. This relates to so much of my own experience and what is so fucked up and self-destructive about academic life these.

God forbid you just want to do good research and teach your students factual knowledge and skills. Now it’s just consumerism qua intellectualism and everyone is copying each other chasing ‘success’.

I remember when I was in grad school a blogger/professor ran some stats on admissions in my field basic on public data and it showed clear and obviously biases and trends in PhD admissions and he was basically ousted from the field. Bea cause it didn’t fit the narrative that somehow PhD admissions was this ‘objective measure’ of quality of a student’s work and potential… when all it was was a measurement how famous your advisors were.