Also installed its own. All power goes both ways.

In any case, even in US history military has been used against US citizens too. Not many things can really be new.

When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.

Oh no. Just yesterday I’ve seen an article about Blackwell PCs and what not.

You’re telling me it’s not ready?

That they lied to me?

How could that happen?

Oh no God no!

OK, I agree that it changed the world. But Nokia getting sabotaged played a role.

I’m still not sure how much different modern processor-building is between ISA’s beyond the decoder and legacy limitations, which are harder on Intel architecture than on ARM.

I suppose M-things are cool, so a milestone, and a welcome one, but, apart from Hackintosh builders, it doesn’t raise the demand for ARM machines a lot. The demand for Apple machines on ARM - yes, since they’ve gotten a new technical cool factor, which hasn’t happened for some time before that transition.

They sometimes do good things which become fashion, and they do bad things which become fashion (I still hate widescreens on personal computers ; you either get distracted by what’s above and below the screen, or get anxious from the sides being in peripheral vision zone ; anyway, we still scroll vertically).

Thank fuck, a simple and clear marking that an average user can understand!

Next thing you know - all the hardware producers just start using some new standard they’ve collectively conceived. Because “simple and clear” is bad for their business.

Usually what’s called simpler as opposed to techy ways makes things, in fact, loads of crap more complex.

The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.

That’s more terrible than great.

Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.

ARM is its own thing.

Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.

Have they ever “invented anything great”?

I guess original iPod was an unexpected shot in the right direction. And PPC Macs were fine, I guess. That opinion is based solely on the appearances and the fact that PPC good, Intel bad, Motorola fossil.

I remember there were plenty of little bitches saying that censorship won’t be turned the other way and that it allows to remove bad people from the Internet. That bad people should be censored, and Reddit\Twitter\Facebook when used for politics will not be abused by bot armies, and that censorship will not be repurposed very easily.

I was being accused of being a right-wing troll, a luddite, a retard, an incel and what not for saying that they were wrong on every point.

Yes, even bad people should not be censored. When they misbehave, they should be barred from the place they harmed, ideally not forever, but for a week or so maximum.

I’ve learned this not just in morals, but in practice, when repeatedly banned on one forum by an admin of directly opposite political views … for 24 hours max each time after multiple warnings, and only once a week or a month (can’t remember) much later when I joked about exploding Muslims. Despite that, I was (I hope) a good enough member of that forum for like 10 years after, till now. Apes waving banhammers today have something to learn from that.

But that’s not the point, the point is that even if you consider centralized censorship good, that’s how it works.

So getting back to little bitches loving censorship - where are they now and do they have anything to say?

And that is why gun rights are human rights. Also intrusion detection sensor rights and automatic turret rights. Automatic flamethrower turret rights, for the smell of burnt flesh to indicate consummation of civil freedoms.

One can hide.

I suppose you don’t really need a girlfriend with such looking skills.

My opinion is that nothing insincere works, and you’d better find that interest inside yourself and allow it to guide you. Even if you won’t manage a lot of eye contact.

But admittedly I have a diagnosis and I don’t have a girlfriend.

It’s not about the rejection I’m facing, its about the fact that my mere approach is seen as an insult. It’s the audacity to ask to be included in something that is considered a normal part of life for others.

Perhaps you are approaching wrong people.

There’s one rule I’ve learned (but haven’t internalized, still a virgin and all that) from my aunts and just today had it reinforced by my therapist.

Do what you want. If you really like a girl you are talking to, offer her to do something. Start small, no “let’s have a date”, just offer something interesting to you that may be interesting to her. To have tea in some pleasant place. To walk in a park. Be honest, if she asks if it’s romantic. Apologize if she dislikes it. Might even be honest that you don’t know anything about relationships. I mean, what do you fear more, shame from saying it or to remain lonely till grave? And that conversation doesn’t define all your further life (most likely).

At least that’s my plan the next time somebody tries to talk to me with a smile. Mostly happens at summer, so there’s time to find all fossilized sandwiches behind furniture and repair all broken closet doors. In theory, in fact some of these are broken for many years.

like there’s something about us that we are unaware of but everybody else picks up on that tells them to keep their distance

Are you sure you don’t have ASD?..

On the other side - I have ASD and, surprisingly, ASD is not the main thing preventing me.

I have found one funny thing - when I cut explicit materials a bit, say, less pr0n and such, and cut stimulants (sugar, caffeine) and eat more meat and dairy, people seem to like me more. But this is not a firm law.

It would make sense, though, that when you are healthier and have fewer outlets for certain kinds of energy, you are physically more attractive in ways hard to notice.

I’m just autistic\BAD and indecisive and had a romantic trauma at school and my environment (mom) is not mentally well at all (right now it’s not worse than hoarding and forgetting everything, but it was).

However, with my looks it’s somehow enough for me to just be kinda clean and shaved and in a public place for very pleasant young women (and I suppose much kinder than that girl from school) to try to talk to me with possible romantic perspective (which I usually realize after the conversation ends).

Except it just doesn’t work, either I don’t understand them, or I’m petrified and don’t know what to do or say, or I postpone interpreting the conversation to somewhere late, or I’m ashamed of the mess where I live and showing my life to that person if it goes somewhere.

So - sometimes it’s just about never having the courage to go forward. Not about other people discarding you.

EDIT: ah, also about BAD - in the mania phase one might slowly build up background dreams about some women one knows, and when trying to make a decision in regards to the woman they are really communicating with, to feel ashamed both before everyone touched by those dreams and before that woman ; I guess some people are fine with that, some even have open relationships, but this is not a common thing.

There are other variables the genie leaves wildcard.

Suppose I’m already very intelligent and attractive (and modest), except I’m also a wimp, myopic, have weird metabolism, autistic and with bipolar.

This, however, is too general.

And before it wasn’t?

They don’t hate gays, they hate honesty, and also having social and legal limitations for various divergent traits allows blackmail and defamation.