Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.

Slightly annoyed about this, as I do use Wordpad (it's lightweight and useful for quick notes that I want to mark up with bold and italic). I don't always want to watch Word or Libreoffice load for twenty to thirty seconds.

Shitty decision, happy to be Wordpad's one fan.

As a counterpoint, I'd like to mention that people often scream "reading incomprehension" when actually, what they wrote was ambiguous or unclear.

Not saying you do this, just that I see this far more often than I see people misreading anything.

Or people could have been autistic all along, and just not diagnosed?

Some of them have a real thing for saying the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened and there's no evidence, too. I guess I just hallucinated those news reports at the time with screams and gunfire in the background.

I couldn't finish it. Really dreadful.

Wasn't the issue with this one that money was changing hands in exchange for a printed, physical book? Like, I know the team wasn't making money, but it's understood in fanfic circles that this is a Bad Idea and this was a very high profile (and, sadly, professional-looking) project.

The work is now on AO3 alongside countless other Star Trek fanfics that exist with no trouble. If they'd done that all along, I suspect there would never have been an issue.

I feel bad for thinking this headline has everything.

Japanese translators hate him!

No, really, they hate him.

I mean if they'd been voted in there wouldn't be a republican majority supreme court and roe wouldn't have been overturned in the first place.

Doesn't have formatting, unless Notepad has got really adventurous at some point in the last decade or two.

Goddamn, Harry Kim just can't catch a break.

Wasn't this also the case in medieval England? The church rang the hours, but the time between them was calculated based on the length of the day?

The fixed-length hour is a surprisingly modern conceit, like universal timezones.

Seems like only yesterday I was co-admining my first public server in 1996.

Fun times.

Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there's essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because "X" is silly and ugly and you're cross about the cute bird...

and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.

Linehan being attached to something isn't a plus these days...

My dad was born in the 30s, and was just as autistic as me. His mother (born 1910) died when I was little, but I remember her being eccentric, and my mother called her "difficult". They both lived perfectly normal lives, they were just very different from the others around them. I'm autistic and so is my nephew; that's four generations, spanning a century.

We have always been here.

I have simple needs, so I'm going to say I'm really excited for news on the upcoming game Persona 5: Tactica.

I expect to be disappointed, but for now the dream is real.

SMS was free on some networks initially. They only even realised they could charge for it later.

I've got to ask, though—how is breathing CO2 pollution? Aren't we just taking in air, removing the oxygen, and exhaling the waste gases? Isn't there the same net CO2 afterwards?

Have I misunderstood something as simple as breathing? Please say no.