Baconreader was so good and so beautiful to look at. It still kind of works, mind, you just can't log in.
vashti
joined 1 year ago
I just got a warning for "threatening violence" for telling off a guy who said we should use mob beatings as criminal justice.
Admittedly, I said something like "I agree, we should all be able to beat and murder anyone we like for our own personal gratification", but it was on /r/uk and I thought we understood sarcasm.
I would give my eye teeth for a Persona 5 community on lemmy.
A good one, ideally, which certainly would be a step up from reddit.
So like am I the only one[tm] who felt like time did pass, actually, while I was under? It was like being deeply asleep.
It's so weird to me that you're all put under for wisdom teeth. I've had three out with local and nobody even suggested I might need a general.
Intimidating people is real harm, though. Racism is harm. Not knowing which of your neighbours is a fucking Nazi and what they might do next is a harm.
It's all very well to say "ooh it's just a bit of spraypaint and nobody got hurt" until you're the one wondering if it's going to be a brick through your window next or a boot to your spine. The effect of shit like this is to make people live in fear.
I mean, I'm autistic and I've been diagnosed with several personality disorders, plus I have ADHD which gives me the most astoundingly poor impulse control, and I've still never gone around spraypainting swastikas on things.
Based on my own experience, though, I'd say we need people with specialist experience deradicalising autistic people. I have my doubts about the effectiveness of custodial sentences full stop, but if anyone's getting them, I'd say a kid like this is a good candidate (though he may need protection once he's in there) and we shouldn't be exempt from the consequences of our shit.
We know what we're doing, we know the consequences, and the fact that we're convinced we're right doesn't make us different from... well, anyone very much.
It's not just "shit racist graffiti" though, is it (well, it is)—he defaced a mural celebrating Windrush almost the moment it went up. That's racially intimidating and really fucking unpleasant.
Isn't it because they paralyse you and your lungs stop working?
That was bollocks though—notice how you never hear about it any more, even in countries that still go all-out for artificial colourings?
It was kids with ADHD whose sugar intake wasn't controlled. Source: am adult whose sugar intake isn't controlled.
I don't remember a damn thing. One moment there was a mask over my face and I was being asked to count backwards from ten (I think I got to about 8?), the next I woke up very bleary with a sore throat.
For a long time I thought I woke in a large room with three rows of cots. It wasn't until some years afterwards that I realised I never saw the room I awoke in.
I didn't feel high at any point, but then I have ADHD and even being shot full of morphine by a paramedic (the previous week) didn't get me high. I wuz robbed.
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.