It’s giving “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

Is this intended to be relatable or scornful?

Only one way to settle this. Every politician in the world has to fight it out in the Thunderdome to see who will be declared the winner.

As I understand it, no. An autism diagnosis is only given if certain criteria are met.

Imagine a swimming pool. There are people swimming in the shallow water, there are people swimming in the medium depth water, and there are people swimming in the deep end of the pool. These can represent the 3 levels of intensity that autism diagnoses are broken down into. However, there are also people outside of the water sunbathing in the pool’s beach chairs. These can represent the allistic (non-autistic) individuals. They are still at the pool but they are not in the water at any depth.

(Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor)

How is “Io” pronounced? That is a capital “i” and not a lowercase “L”, correct?

That will go nicely with a tape measure that uses the Chinese inch (cùn), which is equal to 1.312 imperial inches

Yeah I blame the general masses for not knowing bovine dimorphism, not the artist

The cow needed a pink bow to indicate that she’s feminine since the udders weren’t enough

@rimu@piefed.social (the dev for Piefed and also the admin of OP’s host instance Piefed.social)

Is the reputation filter a built-in part of Piefed or is instead specific to the host instances which opt into it? It seems like the function is getting a lukewarm reception, but I don’t know if it will ultimately be for the better or the worse to have it.

On the subject of Easter Island not being in contact with another part of the world, it is thought that they are one of the few cultures to have independently created written language.

Coke with a capital C? 🥤

Isn’t this Ace erasure?

My three friends are beetles and I get by with a little help from them

Climate change denial and anti-“woke” exaggerated rhetoric

Interesting. I’d like to know more about this if you can provide any further info (ex. what community or instance was the post on, how recently was the bot comment).

I’ve definitely seen a number of sus accounts but they’re usually few and far between, and oftentimes get addressed immediately. There is a problem with how bad actors can join so many different instances or create instances of their own to cause problems.

EDIT: I think I’ve found it. Doesn’t seem to be a full on bot account but the comment is AI slop that a human probably chose to comment for whatever reason

At least on Lemmy people are real

We may be generally in the clear right now, but don’t assume that any particular forum or social medium is immune to being hijacked by astroturfing or botting

I have, but we haven’t been able to find any particular issues with me that would be affecting that. Some of the possible causes seem to be environmental, like capitalism, problematic majority demographics, certain other people being jerks, and just bad luck.

I didn’t mean in the sense of having their approval for your own peace of mind. I meant them consenting to work with you in order for you to achieve an objective.

I mean a lot of my problems can be linked to paternal neglect and derision and Pedro is right there so…