RAS syndrome

When your own soldiers come back to attack you: “Stop hitting yourself”

As a thin veil of excuse, the DCRI incident involved what they considered military secrets rather than defamation charges. Still dumb to do that extrajudicially, of course.

The article on the lawsuit is blocked, which is standard procedure for participants of an ongoing lawsuit: Talk to your lawyer about it, and nobody else, because anything you say without your lawyer’s counsel might jeopardise your legal position. Even if it’s just people editing that article, the foundation will want to protect itself until the matter is settled.

Don’t forget that non-profits, too, are beholden to laws. If they want to continue offering their services in India, they don’t really want to be charged for contempt on top of the other case.

People here prefer the federation of Mastodon

Huh

Bloody hell, from making a joke to actual advice. Sleep quality might be the issue, because I’ve tried various sleep lengths, no caffeine, no hectic stimulation or all the other advice you’ll read online. I’ll have that checked out. Thanks for the tip!

I mean, if it’s a one-off thing, sure, but I’ll suddenly spent an hour of my afternoon fighting off mini-naps at work

Don’t worry. If he gets to power, he’ll take care of that.

I have occasional narcoleptic spells. I’ll just nod off for a few seconds at a time.

But I’m not running for president while pretending that I’m the healthiest person to ever have been healthy.

Broken clock etc.

As long as nobody starts, not playing is the easiest way to avoid defeat. But if one player plays, the rest must follow or lose. And as long as either keeps playing, neither can stop. That is the tragedy of war: Easy to start, hard to end, until the fire runs out of fuel and only ruin is left.

I didn’t take your comment as rude, personally. To me, opening with Akshually indicated that joking intent to parody pedantry and I took no offense. I just felt like expressing my opinion on the term with no particular judgement of your joke because I think that the words we use are worth talking about.

I know I have a habit of replying seriously to jokes, which often comes across as me taking issue with them. I keep forgetting to clarify the tone of my message. If only there was a medical term for that communication deficit 😉

I suspect it’s somewhere in between: They don’t want to immediately throw all the revenue they get from him out the window, but they also need to preserve their image. There may be a concern that they’ll get shit for “cancelling” him if they completely ban him right away, so they want to go the “we’re warning you: get your act in line” route first.

Either way, like I said, going with a milder punishment for large cash cows is hardly surprising.

I do think they want him to stop doing things that threaten their PR, but they’re careful about being heavy handed when enough money is on the line. Mind, a temporary suspension keeps recurring subs automatically renewing, while an indefinite one automatically cancels them all and kills that revenue stream.

The only way to truly win in war is to never fight.

If you have a choice, that is.

Maybe even a cognitive

Half a month’s views, ad revenue, gift subs and bits may be enough for a warning shot, which isn’t super surprising for big cash cows.

I can’t speak for all of us, but I prefer “Autism” as a blanket term (that we hopefully all understand covers a wide spectrum anyway) over “Disorder”. Yes, I get that we deviate from the neurodevelopmental norm, but “Disorder” feels condescending to what I perceive as simply a different way of working.

I also understand that some with higher support needs may differ from that perception. My opinion is not universal.

On the other hand, I’m perfectly fine with calling my ADHD a Disorder. Shit’s chaotic as fuck.

If someone tells you they’re a Nazi, believe them and treat them accordingly.

I’m still in denial about him pulling such a terribly undignified marketing crap. I refuse to believe it. I just can’t accept a world where such satire actually happens.

I love þat you’re trying to bring ðe þ and ð (back) into English.