Helmic [he/him]

He looks autistic because he doesn’t emote how people expect, so people call him a robot and other anti-autistic comparisons. This is aside from the whole “computer ghoul” look mentioned in another thread that’s also very stereotypically associated with autism.

The last thing I think about when I talk about Zuckerberg is his Jewishness lol. Why do you assume these people are autistic? Have you ever considered they’re just spoiled brats who were never taught to act properly because wealth doesn’t care about being decent people? Both Zuckerberg and Musk have demonstrated anti social behavior from their youth, from Zuckerberg scraping pictures of female students for male students to rate without their consent to Musk bullying other children about their dead parents. Maybe it’s autism, but their behavior aligns with run of the mill reactionaries regardless of whatever cognitive functions they have or don’t have. No one is thinking “HAHA AUTISM” when these people open their mouths because the majority of autistic people aren’t doing disturbing shit like them

Sure, but that’s not hte joke in the OP. The joke in the OP is that Zuckerberg looks like a robot, which is a pretty well known anti-autistic trope that we aren’t human because we do not emote how an allistic does. It doesn’t even matter whether he’s diagnosed as autistic or not, that he passes as such and gets shit for not emoting (a thing I don’t do “correctly” either) is still having the effect of stigmatizing autism, just as accusations of Michelle Obama being a man are still transmisogynistic (and racist) even though she’s cis. Nobody should need a diagnosis to not get shit for having a “weird” face or showing what allistics think are “human” emotions. And Musk is very openly autistic.

They do hate them, but also defend them (and Zuckerberg) because they “deserve” their wealth. But that aside, the reason people don’t call Bezos or Gates lizards is because they don’t act so strangely in public. Bezos is walking around flexing fancy silk shirts with his model wife while Gates is pretending to be a benevolent humanitarian while Zuckerberg is pretending to be social on live streams, wearing the same clothes, and talking about virtual worlds. Have you seen the way Bezos text? I don’t see anyone speculating about whether he has autism or whatever lol.

They don’t call them lizards because they aren’t Jewish. Lizard people is a known antisemitic conspiracy theory. That’s the joke. We shouldn’t even be entertaining using “jokes” from Alex Jones types, that he’s Jewish should make calling him a lizard person unacceptable. We shouldn’t really be calling anyone lizard people for the same reason, but especially not a Jewish person. You’re probably right that most people aren’t aware that he’s Jewish, but the people who started calling him a lizard person sure as shit did and are probably quite pleased they got normies parroting their shit.

People don’t call Zuckerberg a pedophile even though that’s a popular slander against anyone remotely liberal or Jewish because there’s no evidence he is unlike Gates.

Yeah, because we’re not defending Zuckerberg as a person. I don’t particularly care if he’s slandered as a pedophile other than wanting people to have an accurate picture of why he’s a piece of shit. We’re defending autistic people from the friendly fire of brocialists doing shitty bits that stigmatize who we are because it manifested in a billionaire we hate.

Also the CEO of Google is Indian American. If you think there’s no vitriol against him then you must be cherry picking your comments.

If we’re gonna focus on who’s overall hated more, yeah. I don’t think the person you responded to should have necessarily made this about XYZ billionaire is hated more because they pass as autistic, but the ways they are attacked view the fact they pass as autistic as a vulnerability that can be freely exploited for cheap dunks, because how autistic comrades feel about it don’t matter to brocialists.

Zuckerberg is about as visibly Jewish as Drake. That is, not at all. The only people in wider society who even remember they’re Jewish are weirdos and reactionaries obsessed with their backgrounds

Again, it doesn’t matter if most people don’t know he’s Jewish. The people who do know push the lizard memes and are very happy that it’s mainstream to call a hated Jew running the world a lizard person, it grants them plenty of cover to be antisemitic in public and get away with it.

They are evil and there’s plenty to back that up, but yeah the lizard and robot “jokes” are socially acceptable ways for supposedly progressive people to get in on reactionary bits. There’s so many ways to attack them for the things they actually do and people want to focus on the fact he literally looks autistic and do the shitty robot bit we all dealt with in school.

And Musk is openly autistic. He at least animates “correctly” so people focus more on his ludicrous billionaire bullshit, but there’s still problematic aspects to how he gets mocked.

No, I’ve pointed this out before how the robot memes are based on mocking these people for seeming autistic. Comparing autistic people to robots ia a whole thing, and while it is more complicated in media than being always unacceptable (ie Data is a beloved autistic icon) in this instance someone’s humanity is being stripped for looking and behaving like me. I blossomed under Covid specifically because wearing a mask means I don’t need to fake emoting how allistics expect me to emote.

There only isn’t more pushback because there’s little faith people will take ableism seriously enough to drop a shitty bit. We already don’t tolerate calling Hillary Clinton a man or whatever other transmisogynistic garbage, the difference is that most of us are tauglht early on that sexism is bad, while transphobia is a central issue in the culture war - everything else follows from that and one can expect a struggle session to ultimately end in the favor of those pushing back against bigoted language, at least in most leftist spaces. Ableism meanwhile is pretty acceptable even on the left, it’s not just chuds doing it so it isn’t as easy to expect leftists to automatically confront it, and so a lot of us just let it slide knowing we are just going to be mocked for saying anything so we might as well play along with it

It is also a serious boon to open source projects because it dramatically limits the damage a PR from someone new might accidentally do. Being able to reasonably expect that this fast, low level code won’t introduce memory leaks is part of why even end users tend to like Rust projects.

fedjacketing rust devs on the funny shaped ursine website

It aleady has been. Anything, anything publicly posted and available will be harvested by, at a minimum, Google spiders. The only privacy benefits of any site can only be promises that they won’t share the information that you don’t publicly list.

And even then,.all it takes is the feds raiding a dipshit Kolektiva admin to get that information illegally anyways.

Do not organize serious actions over social media. At most, hold sensitive discussions over private, E2E encrypted chats like Matrix.

Starting with someone’s dotfiles is a much better way to start with these minimalist window managers. You can see what they did and only tweak the the things you want to work different. Still not as easy as a DE’s unified settings, but if you like that fine grained control it can be worthwhile. My setup is quite basic, but having everything bound to the keys I want lets me do what I want quickly.

my man posted hog

The sugar cookie will be too grainy and brittle as the sugar crystals aren’t all incorporated.

Wouldn’t want bad actors to find privacy respecting software.

More generally, just use Libredirect and avoid using a ton of important but shitty websites. Breezewiki in particular is fantastic, so much faster than Fandom and it’ll redirect you to a game’s actual official wiki since Fandom SEO’s itself to the top even when it has shitty misinformation and isn’t maintained.

I don’t hate my coworkers that much.

64 ounce Stanley water jug. I throw ice in it and I have something cold to drink all day. It’s beautiful.

Bidet has been good though now it feels gross to shit at work and my politics demand I shit at work.

Contact grill, ie a GE brand George Foreman. I can’t fuck up flippimg shit if I’m frying both sides simultaneously. And a food thermometer so my colorblind ass isn’t relying on mom’s shit advice to just cook it until it’s brown.

This battery car starter / tire infator / phone charger. I have used it with some frequency, but more often I can just roll up and fix someone’s car problem super quick. I even get out of work with it a lot when a customer needs someone to jump their car or fix a flat (also keep a tire patch kit obv).

All of this is bought from thrift stores. I can only assume most of my shit was originally shoplifted, it’s fantastic. There is just so much good shit being sold for almost nothing, I am the KING of expired Chips Ahoy.

there is a cure for incontinence and all those people wearing adult diapers are simply cowards

My main reason for buying a 6 refurbished was GrapheneOS. Beyond that, it’s a phone without an SD card slot or an easily replacee battery. When this phone gets an issue I can’t fix, I’ll probably re-evaluate what to get - hopefully still a GrapheneOS phone but more repaiarable and expandable.

Libredirect in general is fantastic, a lot of shit websites become so much more usable. In particular not having to use Fandom is a godsend, that website in particular is just awful.

it uses barely anything. youtube-tui is a TUI not CLI, you can click on shit and it’ll run on hardware that for some reason cannot handle freetube of all things. you will have to set up mpv or something for most leaner alternatives to get video running on hardware that modest.

use youtube-tui then nerd