Mate, there are so many things that suggest I am on the spectrum now that I have given up keeping track of them all. I’m not sure that at my time of life there’s anything that can be done for me even if I did get a diagnosis.

Yeah, if my memory is correct the flickers stopped completely for me at around 80hz. I’m talking about monitors here rather than TVs.

No, I have very poor hand eye co-ordination. Every time I have tried to play table tennis people have been on the floor laughing at how poor my reactions are. My eyes are just very sensitive to light.

I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I’d ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn’t see it.

Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

Source

Lasagne - I got layers.

If you’re browsing Lemmy, on your phone, in work then really you should be curating your feed a bit better.

Oh boy…

I sure hope so.

Man, fuck that site. Won’t allow you to decline cookies.

Probably not, but they’d definitely patent the method.

Cheetara.

Who has stolen my second big cutting board?

I hadn’t but I have seen that podcast referenced quite a lot.

So you want to blame the street level dealers rather than people making it available wholesale.

In that case you have to say that it was purely accidental that heroin tore through the ghetto while most of white society was unaffected. And then the same thing happened accidentally twenty years later.

And then compare and contrast to the current opioid crisis, which did affect all strata of society because prescription drugs were marketed to doctors as safe.

The Panthers did not hold women in the same regard as men, and thus, their female membership was non-existent.

https://gender.stanford.edu/news/women-were-key-black-panther-party

I dislike how this comment is deliberately vague as to who you’re talking about.

And the CIA pumped a load of heroin into the inner cities to pacify the urban black population as part of their financing of various undeclared wars in the South-East Asian conflict.

Decades later a similar thing would happen with crack cocaine as part of the anti-Sandinista action.