2025-08-21T22:30:22Z https://njump.me calcifer :nes_fire: https://njump.me/npub168lnev2r5snj2fay6jn52rjc2n4y6yltjjd0drx0euqcewccszssftqa4r https://cdn.masto.host/mastohackerstown/accounts/avatars/114/325/241/528/133/639/original/85d20eaf641d1c1d.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/mastohackerstown/accounts/avatars/114/325/241/528/133/639/original/85d20eaf641d1c1d.jpeg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs07ecu8q539vuac2gspn6a6nl8gqk7g37u4c8rkx66ng0rp42gwrczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z7daqx7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvmejqdfluqehvuw6clndhzvd8kdpwytnuft5dxxq4apusk2fs3lcc0twgq'>nevent1q…twgq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>their technical lead is an outstanding mentor, and I privately think she may have had a hand in this. But either way I see her “don’t argue with your gut when you can just get data” culture shining through this. <br/><br/>And yes also the kids are alright. 2025-09-12T14:14:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs06mz33yek6zfcnfaexh5n6kqr4m8cal44pmwteencfam62nx9g2czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zeejzap LOL I just found out that one of the other teams here has a very pro-AI manager who said they don’t need to hire junior devs anymore because code assistants are “basically as good and cost far less”<br/><br/>So the juniors had AI code up all their stories for a sprint, but then did their own work without AI in another branch, blinded their senior peers to which branch was which, and had them rate the code. I know who won, by a lot. <br/><br/>Now I’m waiting to see what that lead says 🍿 2025-09-12T13:45:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq8pqkmjxsrhcmdpxtemwmp6xxv73xf3lvw6agfmgc36htxrkqstgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zm6yglm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8cf22guglgwxskxalzml7zxwcmn9w4mhkflmhycmdddkqvptfewgx89m3u'>nevent1q…9m3u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So please, stop beating yourself up for not being able to be happy. It&#39;s almost certainly not because anything is wrong with you. We live in a world that constantly works to make us unhappy.<br/><br/>It&#39;s worth fighting for your happiness. But it&#39;s also important to give yourself some grace when it doesn&#39;t work, because it&#39;s fucking HARD to fight the inertia of culture and society. 2025-08-27T17:36:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8cf22guglgwxskxalzml7zxwcmn9w4mhkflmhycmdddkqvptfewgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z9qzklu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrdy7d245usg97l4zgyfqcv6a4fmghqd6cuswuve9ww2mmhjmx96qlzk8mh'>nevent1q…k8mh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>With occasional exceptions, humans are wired to be happy. Happy is the default. We&#39;re not supposed to have to fight just to be happy.<br/><br/>There are enough things that can just go wrong because of bad luck that can produce barriers to happiness. But we&#39;ve built a society that creates so many artificial barriers on top of those risks. 2025-08-27T17:34:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrdy7d245usg97l4zgyfqcv6a4fmghqd6cuswuve9ww2mmhjmx96qzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z3yks93 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszs8p5gntfd5e39a4s3j8geu6wq2fyx4jmq8jq7napt6gd88p49rqea27mm'>nevent1q…27mm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Even clinical depression usually isn&#39;t just magically *there* -- it&#39;s almost always rooted in some real external force: a trauma, a persistent impediment to getting needs met, etc.<br/><br/>And just like removing a dropped weight doesn&#39;t un-crush your foot, it&#39;s usually not enough to find and remove the cause; we can end up long-term or even permanently broken and need supports. But the cause was still an external one. 2025-08-27T17:33:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszs8p5gntfd5e39a4s3j8geu6wq2fyx4jmq8jq7napt6gd88p49rqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zjlrefm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqnevky8xq72ym432pj2ak7sae0hduhcugceh5a0ntqnmxrcdavccehtafl'>nevent1q…tafl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To the extent that you have to work to be happy, it&#39;s because we collectively have created all kinds of barriers to being happy.<br/><br/>Capitalism drives people to be focused on work, exhausted, and isolated. It makes us have to push ourselves to find joy deliberately, exhaust ourselves trying to find and cultivate community. 2025-08-27T17:30:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqnevky8xq72ym432pj2ak7sae0hduhcugceh5a0ntqnmxrcdavcczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z2xtgja In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdtyx2rz9hakcrfe28pncymptzcsj9alxka84c8ljduk92m6zlq7ch8camz'>nevent1q…camz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As a rule, what people need to be happy is that their basic needs are met and they have emotional and social bonds with a community who they help/benefit and who help/benefit them in return.<br/><br/>So much of modern society is designed to make that harder, either deliberately or as an emergent property of greed or hunger for power. You&#39;re being STOPPED from being happy. 2025-08-27T17:28:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdtyx2rz9hakcrfe28pncymptzcsj9alxka84c8ljduk92m6zlq7czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zvut4zh Have you noticed that people talking about happiness treat *unhappiness* as a default state, and therefore you must work and sacrifice to be happy?<br/><br/>Me too, but it&#39;s complete bullshit. For 99.999% of humans, happiness is the default state and it&#39;s external factors—situation, trauma, etc.—that are creating barriers to happiness. 2025-08-27T17:24:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9wkkmv7226vmjy3asw2sstw0ymdm3hrvjp5k3pq8xkrfl7pqshdqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z4ydvx4 I really wish people would understand that most often, hostile corporate decisions don’t start with someone rubbing their hands together and going for the most greedy cartoon-villain option. I mean that DOES happen, but most of the time evil is so much more banal and base than that. <br/><br/>Mostly it starts with an option floated to solve a genuine problem. And then the greed takes hold and the leaders notice that with a couple of tweaks … hey presto! We make more money. 2025-08-27T02:09:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxsraw66kmdftpnkv5a8r6dtay43xxunn9z7hh2c0uytpp6wt4ckqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zptv49n My child has named her #stardewValley chicken “Hen Solo” and I now have greater confidence I’m parenting correctly 2025-08-26T16:12:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8e2aamnet6erazdc068nfdljyph6sgaurtxunh93pz4vkxfw6ncgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zermy3h I’m currently in trouble for sending the design team a spec related to our “chat support bot” improvements, where I have included a button:<br/><br/>[[✨ask a human]] 2025-08-26T13:43:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst7dsznej0uk4qushsf8hppvu335lgnf3edzh07l77vl4e643gc3szyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zemg6eh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd9lhww560fs0fvtyyptcvewgle5f25l4q3skjl8aau6dpeccx4yqt6324m'>nevent1q…324m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’ve been fighting this type of argument with network and web traffic since the early 00’s. “But we get over a million queries a month!” my friend, there are over 2.6 million seconds in a month and a query per second on average can be served by an old desktop we’ve got lying around. <br/><br/>“We get 100k unique visitors per week!” One every six seconds on average? Yeah we don’t need massive infrastructure for that. 2025-08-21T15:30:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs959y22ha5cc8n9txtum9erxn9dyzwht7n72k7nslrvu0fnzle76czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zvqyx68 Hey if you’re freelancing and trying to figure out rates, remember that you’re responsible for a lot of extra taxes that an employer would normally cover, all your health insurance and retirement, etc. <br/><br/>And also remember that unbillable work exists, and adjust your rate so billable hours cover your unbillable hours 2025-08-07T18:58:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0l2l8pushdvzexnkgre76m39g8rhr9u4h62fhpmzd839usmygw7czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z9z8qdq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstgpknhwf3ywsxhnm77amxnrxugmgfw2qehvzdfs3wv5r5tm83azqurt858'>nevent1q…t858</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>right? It’s not just how the owner acted either. It’s clear from how the manager and cashier acted that they knew they would have support for not tolerating assholes. 2025-07-29T21:36:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd6ldmdrzl5rc06h3w2p0xz72p8pdcvk4pdze4r8mdftxr6r3drqszyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z9qrczc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsys7vd4csn02cpcm8t7xdwuhy2ljjzwjkzj54u2493002jf4gnvmqjc2rsx'>nevent1q…2rsx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>guy refused with “what are you gonna do about it?!”; big tattooed dude at a table gets up and says “get out. Now.”<br/><br/>guy: “stay out of this!!”<br/><br/>dude: “I’m the owner. You’re leaving. Walking or flying.”<br/><br/>guy: “FINE!” (Storms toward the door) “I’m never coming back!”<br/><br/>dude: “tell your friends!”<br/><br/>2/3 2025-07-29T21:24:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9r4lnzss2ucmhjryrlhmwn2f8dkcweukcz58rwu4hug04hw6m8kgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zm0936w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd6ldmdrzl5rc06h3w2p0xz72p8pdcvk4pdze4r8mdftxr6r3drqsqjf5ll'>nevent1q…f5ll</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The place was kind of in quiet awe for a couple minutes, and I saw the manager tell the cashier to go take 5 while he covered cash. The owner dude popped behind the counter to help out for a bit. <br/><br/>Just… full marks. That’s how you do it. No yelling, no coddling, no bullshit just absolute calm defense of your people and refusal to tolerate bad behavior. 3/3 2025-07-29T21:24:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsys7vd4csn02cpcm8t7xdwuhy2ljjzwjkzj54u2493002jf4gnvmqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z235ff5 Tried a new coffee shop. Was good all around but not like exciting. Then someone was a dick to one of the cashiers and the way the place handled it has made me a fan. <br/><br/>manager saw and intervened, tried to deescalate but did not capitulate; guy flew off the handle, manager politely asked him to leave 1/3 2025-07-29T21:24:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdwmjahl3uduhqrqmk9kdxjurlqqmsth3ycdlsjpnp8jnuqcnwdagzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zjhhgg7 Kid2: they have health potions but not mental-health potions <br/><br/>Me: uh, coffee??<br/><br/>Kid1: that’s just haste with a side of anxiety 2025-07-29T20:27:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxz65afv022r9mztu55ahq2f83zhhpg7n9yfcw95kw4j7wyvgk5ngzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zl0nxft Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It&#39;s propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they&#39;d *like that* to be true.<br/><br/>Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby) 2025-07-08T18:26:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstm3gzj2j2r2y7rrf26ugtcdfp79dh63y5h5k6ys42tat87cpq4sqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z5n9m4e Best Linux desktop advocacy strategy I’ve found so far: <br/><br/>1. Help people solve a Windows problem<br/>2. “Hey would you be willing to try a different OS? I’ll put it on a thumb drive and show you how to use it, I think you’d like it; if you don’t, it hasn’t made any changes to your computer at all”<br/>3. Show them how to boot from USB with a drive I hand them, warn them “it’ll be a little slow because it’s running from USB, if you like it, we can put it on your hard drive and it’ll be faster” 2025-07-08T15:35:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswlfjtsgaqsh3uce975qntqufuflfzy9w2xmpeps4d7573xf5j4aszyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z2kg35m To every person who criticizes someone’s coining of a word because “that’s not even in the dictionary”, a question: how do you think new words enter the dictionary?<br/><br/>Someone makes it up. People start using it. It gets used by enough people, with a stable enough meaning, for a broad enough audience, with some longevity. Lexicographers take note, formally define the word, and add it in. <br/><br/>Words don’t start in dictionaries, as a rule 2025-07-01T04:26:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy2m5lhcsp7uqdhcdlfew3rm5u6szyj9cnwj0aa8sf4nk056dm6sszyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zm6pr8k When you order WAY too much shit on Temu<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastohackerstown/media_attachments/files/114/558/868/638/190/504/original/13e5e3c9036c019b.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-23T19:47:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx2zawgv9ych0m2t33kry0j6rus5v7yc3lu2qzuh3520yf5mjrr2czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z466vp7 I swear I think I’m the only Linux user on the planet who doesn’t spend a ton of time managing my installs. So many people complain about how much time it takes and like… I run updates a couple times a week and just use my machines without issues?<br/><br/>Like are people’s problems caused by them tinkering so much at the edge of their knowledge that they’re creating maintenance problems or what? 2025-05-23T13:21:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswumqcnm9dd3zvqh3g7ypuudzxg29mqjfswqu79z7878uavc3f0aczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z5v47hc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfupfns7a2e3xx7dtjjzfrf83l5ethrta5e32dh0cpul328ya402s9xe3hx'>nevent1q…e3hx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had a boss in 1999 who told the whole programming team they were massively overpaid for working on a multisite high-performance mainframe + distributed app because “my son learned to make a program in a month in school”. <br/><br/>No understanding that a very basic calculator app, while a great learning project, is no where near the same scale or complexity. (Also it was actually a year-long course, with the app as a final project that took a month to finish, so…) 2025-05-20T17:19:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv9vtm0u34dl6t3whw7us4mdp7feea4r2urk97fkw8ajsrc2ykq4czyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z7e4zlj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg6wtncrjc466ye73j6amzusyn7j6eejj73vqk78uunzja7c38juq6t8eur'>nevent1q…8eur</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s NOT new. Bosses have always had it in for programmers, because what we do seems too much like magic to them. They don’t believe that doing a good job is hard. They genuinely think programming is for lazy people, and other related nonsense. <br/><br/>We’re seeing it on display more now because they think AI actually can eliminate a bunch of programmers and will soon mean they don’t need them (or product/project managers) at all. 2025-05-20T17:19:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfupfns7a2e3xx7dtjjzfrf83l5ethrta5e32dh0cpul328ya402szyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zq04jcf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfh6wqzve9m4rslsjpa2vxv23k9k3aftq527rfp3carygjjarm7dcu7qph8'>nevent1q…qph8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I nearly got fired in like 2002 because a VP was mad that a thing he asked for took a week because “there’s no way it took 60 hours to type 2500 lines of code” (thankfully my direct manager was good and had my back). 2025-05-20T17:19:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg6wtncrjc466ye73j6amzusyn7j6eejj73vqk78uunzja7c38juqzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z2gp2zf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswumqcnm9dd3zvqh3g7ypuudzxg29mqjfswqu79z7878uavc3f0ac7yfyjl'>nevent1q…fyjl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In 2016, I had a boss who tried to lay off 50% of the dev staff. Took a month of stressful meetings and concerted effort from multiple managers to explain we could *maybe* cut 5% if we had to. <br/><br/>Then he thought the decision was easy: just fire the 5% with the lowest LOC as “low performers”. Half the team leads had to threaten to quit because most of the low-LOC folks were very skilled and therefore spending more time mentoring and architecting than coding 2025-05-20T17:19:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfh6wqzve9m4rslsjpa2vxv23k9k3aftq527rfp3carygjjarm7dczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zgs4rhz Lots of people are shocked that bosses think they can replace competent programmers with AI. But that just means those people haven’t been paying attention. <br/><br/>I’ve been a professional developer for almost 30 years now. Bosses have always been skeptical that programming is more complicated than typing out what we want the computer to do, and have always been uncomfortable with both what they have to pay programmers and how much pushback they get from programmers. 2025-05-20T17:19:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswryxx68dcppt0trp4gn4tgl7n67d4l5h3qjthy5pyprxyr6skdugzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zx9vk2j I know I’m An Old, but it creeps me out when I see couples expect complete access to each other’s lives. Like yes, it’s good to share a lot of things. But also I do not in a million years want or need routine access to my partners’ personal email, phone, location, health data, and so on.<br/><br/>That just seems so weirdly invasive and possessive to me. 2025-05-13T16:49:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswm0g3r4eegrx5s5js8ksasperym0fv756amh352x3pku29kax7wczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2ztr33sz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ueq6s2juk8m78pmgc0me0jqp6e6lcgu3edmt6d5wlhn7lk0lksgucz7fr'>nevent1q…z7fr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>FWIW, Firefox has this mode (HTTPS-only mode) but it is currently off by default. Some organizations push policies that enable it though. 2025-05-06T15:38:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspjwdrgup2h2w63mxusmr8pfj6f5rewg2spn6ux0jse8t9u7297hgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zwz02hs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdafwknj63uunyvwhj0sewu2synegaak8mtf4w943rn5h6c8dcyqs72h3m2'>nevent1q…h3m2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>non-descriptive illustrations for interactive training. We have internal technical illustration folks to do stuff like diagrams and things that actually describe content, but not for “decorative” illustrations because we need them so rarely. 2025-05-04T23:28:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv8yn8p2vu7wadj3gc0rlh7k6xc3592y3y4ex9prqxyydmfa9t4eczyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zxv8yk0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyl0k4gxltc3vp0mrwrnyzhvjx45e3l6fw0z7kp7c9hktjkcx0e5snx7ehn'>nevent1q…7ehn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And control of employee use is somewhat possible from work devices, but it’s essentially impossible to control what employees (e.g.) tell an AI chatbot about from their own devices, especially in distributed workforces. 2025-05-04T23:25:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyl0k4gxltc3vp0mrwrnyzhvjx45e3l6fw0z7kp7c9hktjkcx0e5szyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2z09qayl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf63ktl89er8q9duhvfyhqkj6sa7xnvecn39hclzs9pnqsqyd9fecyjmcnu'>nevent1q…mcnu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don’t think that’s true. AI is a huge umbrella, and not every use is equally risky or problematic. For example, an internal AI summarizer model trained on your company’s wiki is less risky and problematic than, say ChatGPT. 2025-05-04T23:25:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszjj3tzf0k3d7jvfzxvhllsx0jdcyurxr5q3da6eqt9at44a08u9szyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2ze7nzrn I successfully argued against my employer using AI to generate images for a web app we are building on contract, on the basis that hiring artists/designers is both more ethical and will be better quality <br/><br/>After a month and over 200 requests to designers who advertise for this kind of work, I have now lost the fight. More than half simply never replied; others were hostile or had a year plus wait. 2025-05-04T23:07:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstjnxtzxtsxgw9zdn2egyerxe2szmh587x3879zr5pjd9uanez0ggzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2zk0rx7x Please don’t confuse pragmatism about something with support of that thing<br/><br/>There is, for example, a big difference between “look, we can’t really stop employees from using AI for work stuff, so we’re going to provide an approved path for doing so in a less risky way” and “we’re all in on AI”<br/><br/>I see way too many people acting like the former is somehow supportive; acting that way is (IMO) anti-harm-reduction. 2025-05-04T23:01:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrpf63kcxyxc64gdh5z9z0xd6hgnvnqz8mxcnmlrz0ryaqptaxjcgzyrgl7093gwjzwff85n22w3gwtp2w5ngnaw2f4a5vel8srr9mrzq2ztzkzws “Old people don’t have autism so…”<br/><br/>Lemme stop you there, buddy. My grandmother (who would be well over 110 if she were still alive) had a meticulously organized and labeled rock collection that filled a basement, would go on about it for hours if allowed, constantly complained about smells and sounds being too much, had difficulty with social cues so often that she got kicked out of social clubs over it, and sewed her own “comfort blankets” with weights.<br/><br/>Undiagnosed, but COME ON 2025-04-23T17:01:21Z