I believe they were accusing you of having pedophelia, not referring to your neurodivergence.

Lots of people have non-con fetishes. Doesn’t make them rapists. Hell, who hasn’t thought about murdering someone, or robbing a bank?

Good fucking thing we don’t punish thought crimes.

Pedophelia is a paraphelia that requires treatment to manage/mitigate/overcome. Many people with pedophelia were young rape victims, themselves.

If we can all agree:

1. People don’t choose to have pedophelia, and,

2. We would like to have less people with pedophelia,

Then we can also agree there should be easy to access treatments for pedophelia.

People trying to destigmatize the paraphelia and promote access to treatment are doing a lot more to make the world better than the ones calling every pedophile a rapist, even if they never act on it.

Reads like he was arrested for being an asshat and they might have found drugs.

Those drugs?

a police search found “half of an orange oval-shaped pill with 3 imprinted on it, consistent with a Schedule II amphetamine”, and three “suspected cannabis cigarettes.”

So… half a dexadrine and three joints, the bare minimum for a night out in Canada.

That look means I’ve scoped a nice place to keep my strap-on.

This generation’s Enumclaw incident.

The article begins with a history of communication and condemnation over differing values, so the author definitely doesn’t say this only applies to the internet. The article just happens to be about the internet.

She doesn’t say to never debate with strangers, either. That whole section was the bookend to her starting primer on violence over ideological differences, the point was that people are more than just a single comment on the internet.

She only mentions bluesky once. The article brings up, multiple times, the underlying motivators keeping people angry and engaged.

One example:

So, which institutions are we being tempted to condemn root-and-branch because of some mistakes and abuses? What large, trying-to-be-helpful-but-sometimes-failing associations would various rulers like to break up and destroy because they represent alternative sources of authority to their own narrative, and also there’s money to be made?

I don’t even know where to start with the Palestinian genocide thing. Where did that come from? This is more about individual experience with the internet.

I can fix him.

If there’s one thing I know about dogs, it’s how much they hate being outside with their favorite people all the time.

Good catch, thank you. I fixed the title.

I’ll never forget the episode of Bojack Horseman where they ban guns after a female shooter, where Diane says “I can’t believe they hate women more than they love guns.”

I’d take a handmade linen shirt over a wool sweater any day.

Except with booties, the crown jewels of my wardrobe are the dinosaur booties a friend knitted for me.

Holy shit I gotta try this oats in spring roll mix thing. Thanks for the tip.

I wrote that over three hours ago, not long after you commented. It was still up when I responded.

You should probably read it. It’s informative.

Yeah, and I just like the texture more. Sometimes I rice up parsnips with the quinoa for a pretty interesting texture/flavor. You can follow sushi rice recipes to prep it. I don’t cook the parsnips.

For filling I matchstick any combo of carrots, cucumbers, SPINACH, beets, peppers, whatever, and let 'em marinate in a tiny splish splash of tamari and sesame oil. Add avocado when rolling. Meat is optional but encouraged, if that’s your thing.

My smoothie:

1 banana

1 handfull of fresh spinach

2 big spoons of greek yogurt

1 big spoon of cashew butter

Squirt of lime juice

Enough almond milk to blend

Ice

optional: protein powder and collagen

Add-ons: berries, matcha, mango, salt, flaxmeal, coconut milk, chia seeds

Ooh good to know. I make a lot of quinoa sushi rolls, too. (also with spinach)

Got it, adding iodine to my smoothie.

I toss in greek yogurt(high in iodine) for that goodness and some citrus to get the iron from the spinach.

I’m not going to validate my right to be compassionate by proving I’ve known shit people and had shit experiences.

More to the point, I believe you’re referring to sociopathy and psychopathy when you talk about a lack of empathy, but that’s old science. Newer research shows improvement, especially with early intervention, in treatment of antisocial personality disorders. Psychiatric treatment of comorbities shows overall improvement in symptoms. And, recent studies on ASPD in neuroscience reveal that cognitive empathy isn’t a sliding scale, it’s a gamut, and it’s not even consistent within an individual. So IF someone has ASPD and we’re not just going to kill them, the best option is still evidence-based care.

It’s difficult to diagnose cognitive empathy disorders at a young age, but it’s possible the kid has a conduct disorder — which, along with ASPD, almost certainly has genetic groundwork but is strongly tied to early cognitive development (how he was raised,) and family history.

Regardless of what he has or where he came from, restorative justice is still more effective across the board socially and economically. I think of the worst people I’ve ever known when I consider my view of justice, and I still believe in restorative measures. I’m not only compassionate because I have empathy, but because evidence shows corporal punishment increases recidivism, exacerbates and often causes mental health disorders, and is ultimately an expensive monolith to an outdated belief in justice that isn’t based in fact.

Do I want every lying, cheating, violent piece of shit to face justice? Hell yeah I do. But I want that justice to be JUST and actually fix society instead of taking the bad and making them worse.

I think he has to live in a regular house with only one butler.