What do you mean ‘real beauty’? I don’t see any means to consider ‘beauty’ as anything but subjective, existing only in the eyes of the beholder.

Not really. I feel a drive to live in a city in spite of not liking crowds. Really what I want is good public transport and internet connection… unfortunately my options for that appear to be live in a city or leave the continent.

Hate Lives in a Small Town, by Voltaire

Dreams are a normal process of sleep. What they are, to the best of my understanding, is your brain doing one of it’s sleep-tasks: memory transfer from short to long term storage. Normally, recording new memories is suppose to be “off” during the process. It’s most common to remember them when your sleep isn’t very restful or is disturbed during the part of sleep where that process takes place, REM sleep.

That being said I’m with ThrowawayPermanente, it’s extremely rare that I ‘dream’.

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own… Resistance is Futile.” - The Borg Collective (Star Trek)

“If they won’t act, I will. At dawn’s first light - the sources of Gotham’s ruin WILL. BE. DESTROYED.” - Anarky (DC comics, Arkham video games)

Estimating my own ability I’d say that I am pretty good at it. A majority of the time I make good on them, in the event that I don’t I apologize to whomever the promise was to sincerely and try to ensure that I do not let them down again. Further I try not to make promises that I may not be able to fulfill.

With how frequently I see hypocrisy I’m beginning to hypothesize the neurotypicals aren’t good at, at-least, that kind of logical consistency.

Getting diagnosed isn’t free, it can also be counterproductive if you can make-do without support. This is for several reasons, including discrimination. Not to mention it can be harder to diagnose an adult and even more so pointless as most support centers on autistic children (so I guess fuck us once we’re adults/s). I was diagnosed at three years old. My father has never been diagnosed. We’re a lot alike and now that my family knows #1 Autism is a thing, & #2 what at-least one Autistic person is like some of us believe that he is autistic too. There’s not much point in him being diagnosed in spite of him hitting a lot of the same criteria I do because he is able to make-do without help. He very well may benefit if he had support but he doesn’t and has managed to arrange his life to evade most of the things that give him difficulty.

Min/Maxing? In any sufficiently complex game I can determine something that would be an efficient path to victory and pursue it harder than anyone else. I seem to really have a knack for making something work precisely to what I want even if it struggles in other respects.

It’s most apparent when I play Stellaris with friends. I self-impose a penalty not to play particular builds that are the best at my min/maxing preference but my not-tryharding play-style will still put me at twice the research output of the next player extremely quickly. Granted my empire has extreme and exploitable weaknesses that theirs doesn’t but my gamble frequently pays off.

I have a harder time making it work in Civ6 but that’s likely because I play it really infrequently. I believe I’ve figured out what needs to be done to make it happen though.

I think I’d show up to work in something that could be taken for Bill Cypher cosplay just to drive home the point.

The easiest test I’ve ever received was the written portion of a US driving test. I’m sure the average American would need no more than ten minutes of study to pass it. I regularly observe US drivers either willfully ignoring what they know from the test or having forgotten it entirely. Everything is bad here but for transportation I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the worst in the developed world.

I suffer under the American dystopia. I’m familiar with how bad it is here. I like to burn incense on occasion for no other reason than enjoyment of the scent created. I’m fine with doing things for the sake of ‘feels good’. What I’m opposed to is the prevalence of falsehoods or indeterminable notions held to be true and from them actively harmful decisions being made. I don’t see a mechanism to effectively prevent that category of poor decisions from being made without addressing the root cause.

Edit for Clarity: Was just thinking about my comment and felt I should add to clarify that I in no way mean to say taking the nonscientific services away from anyone. I mean to say shut down the advocacy for unsupported, and occasionally quite dangerous, assertions that these can do anything more than what they demonstrably do. My ire is directed entirely at advocates and practitioners who act on or spread misinformation.

IMO psuedoscience needs to be shut down HARD. If there’s legitimate use of something and the pseudoscience mythologizes it to do more than that even more so as people who get it for one of the things it’s legit for could more easily be duped into believing the bullsh*t and expose themselves to potential harm or just degrade the common understanding of reality.

If being on Lemmy isn’t doing it then make a random selection system of some kind. Draw activities from a hat, use a digital wheel, roll a die and assign activities to each number etc. Or just commit to doing the next enjoyable activity that crosses your mind.

I don’t have a cat of my own but I volunteer at an animal shelter that primarily deals with cats. I enjoy it, and I’m pretty good at working with scared cats. They seem to get it that I mean them no harm.

Think about it like this: Stress is bad for you. It degrades your ability to do things effectively and degrades your physical and mental health if it’s too consistent. Therefore removing stress is a necessary and important activity. Do what you enjoy, at least sometimes.

The history of it is… interesting and somewhat unfortunate. It at-least helps understand why we’ve got the mess we have now. The early history of the study of autism is muddled with the politics and hatred of WWII.

IIRC the current diagnostic system is ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’ and then there’s a level stated. 1: Requires Support; some trouble in social situations, rigid/inflexible behavior, stress during transitions 2: Requires Substantial Support; atypical social behavior, high interest in specific topics, noticable distress with change 3: Requires Very Substantial Support; severe communication deficits, repetitive behaviors, extreme distress when asked to switch tasks

Ah, yes. The enemy being the enemy, exactly as expected. It’s a work of exceptional propaganda that anyone tolerates our dystopia.

Seeing the commonality of this subject I’m almost thinking I should get a shelf and a few small object display cases (ex those used to hold signed baseballs) and have a shelf of shame for bad objects.

… If I had this my home would become difficult to burgle as I’d have invested in a set of security cameras. I’d have to know where they go when they disappear.