I’m nobody’s brother. I would begrudgingly agree to be called sister, but most prefer to be called sibling, and to be addressed with capitalised They/Them pronouns.

Both is good!

Does Lawnchair let you use app icons with different shapes? I hate it when the icons are all the same shape, it makes it impossible to find anything. I like it when the email looks like a letter so then I just look for the letter and I’ve got it. I don’t want to look for a circle with a letter in it, that’s too hard.

Do they have a free option?

See, My trick is that My last phone was even slower and more outdated, so this new one still feels like the future. And when I upgrade to the next model in 2036 I’m gonna be having such a good time. It’s all thanks to the power of being poor

It’s a fair cop

You bought a Fairphone because you care about the environment and don’t like slavery.

I bought a Fairphone because I want to keep using it for the next decade.

We are exactly the same.

I have not lived with ASPD. They have. Thus, they have access to data I will never have. For that reason, I extend a certain amount of trust in their conclusions. I do the same with many other minority stati I will never have.

Additionally, consider all of the political systems in the world that are smaller than states and capital. Like families, recreational clubs, communes. People with ASPD have difficulty participating in those, too.

Both is good

Feeling good feels good, so I decided to make it the foundation of My ethics. I’m trying to make a world where we can all feel really good and don’t have to feel bad.

You’re lucky, that’s a way less serious condition than bird blindness

I’m not convinced that the version of ASPD I believe in is the mainstream one.

The mainstream perception is cunning manipulators worming their way into the echelons of high society so they can abuse people in their secret sex dungeon, after a childhood of burning ants and torturing squirrels. You know, Peter Wiggin.

What I see are working class folks whose ability to trust others has been worn away by parental abuse, such that concepts of working with others for the common benefit seem like some kind of trick to exploit or weaken them, at least on an instinctive level. People who do not feel that natural pull to get along with others around them, to soften disagreements, to drift towards the consensus opinion. People who would look at a cop, and would not instinctively see the weight of all society looming within this person as you and I would, not at first, but would instead see one individual and upon first instinct would use violence to overcome this obstacle, and would need to consciously remind themself that angering this one asshole has consequences. Someone who does not see the invisible fabric of society suffusing everyone around them, not due to a neurological difference, but due to a developmental missed milestone.

Many of the same symptoms as NPD, but where I am hyperaware of group loyalties and see these social bonds as potential threats, people with ASPD are AFAIK hypoaware of group loyalties and see individuals as potential threats. That’s just the impression I have from the few ASPD-identifying people I’ve known.

You can get vitamin A from carrots. That’s one of the reasons the British beat the Germans.

A neighbourhood watch would be way cooler. Daddy Kirk’s neighbour pulling up next to little Kirk and going “Whatcha doing with dad’s car, kiddo?” would be way more Trek but wouldn’t satisfy JJ’s craving for pointless action sequences.

I just tell people to go visit https://soulism.net/ as often as I get the chance

Write good reviews and they’ll get new weights

That’s not a crime. She didn’t even know.

In the 24th century, wine isn’t a lucrative business venture. It’s an ancient cultural tradition. Chateau Picard is a heritage location placed by the government in the custody of the Picard family, as long as they continue to teach the ancient art of winemaking. It’s not for them, it’s for everyone.

I haven’t seen Picard.

And yet wine snobs still insist on working at a vineyard so they can have non-replicated wine, because it “tastes better”.

Truly, I wish I had their problems.

Cold take: Mum Mir did not commit any crime and could not rightfully be sentenced to any kind of rehabilitation.